Comments on: I-Poly Mission

By: Isabel Huerta

Isabel Huerta — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:34:46 +0000

(5) have learned how to communicate in a variety of ways, including formal and
informal presentations
I can honestly say that before I-Poly, I would not go in front of a big or small
group to give a presentation. I was always terrified and would never be loud
enough for other people to hear me. It changed quickly after a month at I-Poly.
We learned not to be so nervous around people and to have eye contact with your
audience, and even if you are scared don’t let it show. I even speak up more
when I present to make sure that anyone who is there listening, can hear me. I’m
not saying that I’m the best presenter or the worst, but I have learned a lot
from freshman year on how to present. I’m sure for senior year you can’t be
nervous to give your two hour presentation.
(9) have acquired knowledge and skills to responsibly and effectively use
technology
Before I-Poly, I have never used a Mac before. At first I loathed them, but of
course those are the only computers available at school. In a way we were forced
to use them. After having to use them for almost everything you do at I-Poly,
you begin to like them. They might be a little slow, but it’s okay. I have
learned how to edit movies and how to import videos from cameras, using imovie
was fun. Learning all the different transitions, sounds, and colors was cool to
mess around with, but at the same time I was learning. I also learned how to
make a PowerPoint, that was something that I had no idea how to make until I sat
there and learned how to make one. I have learned more in technology, and there
is still a lot more that I can learn.

It wasn’t posting earlier.

By: Angie Montero

Angie Montero — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:34:08 +0000

When I first heard about I-Poly I thought it was a stupid school. I hated it and didn’t want to go there. Now that I am here I don’t think I could leave and survive in a regular public high school. Before I-Poly I was a person that hated talking in front of big audiences and presenting things. I think I-Poly has helped me in this very much which is its # 5 on the mission statement:

I have learned how to communicate in a variety of ways, including formal and informal presentations, teaching lessons, and writing papers

I may not be the best at this but i feel confident when i am doing it and I don’t find it hard for me to do this. Everytime we have presentations i do get a little nervous but i get over it and i do my best and almost all the time i have ended up getting the best grade.

However one of the things that i feel i should improve on is #6:

-be able to collaboratively reach individual and group related goals

Even after 3 yrs of attending this school i still find myself at times being more independent than i should. I don’t like to rely on people too much because i would rather get it done myself. This is a good thing that i find about my personality but in something like ASB where i have to be the leader of working as a group it sometime is a bit challenging to me. I love working in groups but sometimes i do too much work and end making people feel left out and that is something i must work on.

By: Mandie Leon

Mandie Leon — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 04:08:12 +0000

Omg my blog has a lot of typos and repetitive snetences :/ sorry

By: Mandie Leon

Mandie Leon — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:02:37 +0000

Honestly, IPoly wasn’t the school for me but i don’t regret it. I learned about pro activeness and how to use my left brain. I am still bad at the whole group thing. I also learned the polite head nod. Honestly everything i learned came from junior year. I think the presentation that taught me the most was the one we did in front of investors. It was professional and an interesting experience. It was the year in which I learned more about what I was capable of doing and matured. I took upon more responsibility but I also made a ton of life changing mistakes. I don’t regret any of them since they got me to where i am now…and i am still alive ;] There fore the mission statement that I like I was taught at IPoly was apply the knowledge and skills they have acquired to solve problems.

be able to collaboratively reach individual and group related goals is something IPoly should improve on. Even thought Ipoly is a project based school and did teach us the fundamentals of being in a team and working as a group. I don’t think we were really taught what it took to fully be in a group. For example there were times when somebody would request to be moved from a group to another because of personal conflicts with the other group members. Now let me ask you how does this prepares us for the real world when the request is granted. I dont think that when it comes to group work because when we asked to move out a group it would be granted. How does this prepare us for the real world? we cant always get out of working with someone we dont like.

By: Joe Diaz

Joe Diaz — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:00:08 +0000

(4) have learned to mediate and reach solutions through research, knowledge, and critical thinking skills

Ever since Freshman year, we have had to do a lot of presentations about topics that most of us have never even thought about before. For example, during the Olympics project Sophomore year, we had to present the science of a sport of our choice. My sport was snowboarding. I had no clue where to begin, so i began by doing some research. It turns out that the body system that is used most in snowboarding is the nervous system. From there, I researched what the nervous system exactly was and what it did, it’s functions, etc. That was probably the most research i had done in my life. Thanks to all that research though, the science of a sport presentation was great and my group got a good grade. Long story short, that experience helped me by teaching me that when a problem comes up, chances are that it isn’t the first time that someone had a problem. That means that doing a little research could help. Sadly though, I do not take the time to do this and do not so that is one thing that i would like to do- reach a solution through research.

By: Raul Retana

Raul Retana — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:03:18 +0000

Ipoly’s misson statement has 9 goals. i feel like Ipoly has help me meet goal #6. Ipoly helped me meet this goal by giving by giving us all the presentations. Most presentations are done as a group and the teacher gives us an assignment, or a common goal. The group has to overcome this goal together. Sometimes we get individual goals but the group helps complete this goal. For example in 9th grade we had to create an award ceremony. The producer’s goal was to make it happen. As a group, all the 9th graders collaborate to make this awards show happened with out any problems. Personally this mission statement #6 does not need to be improved because it is effective at what it does, teach students to collaborate and reach individual and group related goals.
Ipoly’s mission statement has 9 goal like I said before. As a senior I feel like I have to work on goal #1 before the year ends. Goal #1 says “apply knowledge and skills they have acquired to solve problems” this means to actually take things I have been taught and use them in the real world. I have not done this because most of the time I get lazy and just don’t bother with the problem. We were told by all of our teachers time after time to finish your work ahead of time incase anything happened but just like this doing this blog I get lazy and wait till the last min. to finish. I will try my best to commit to goal #1 and not do that.

By: Andrew Martinez

Andrew Martinez — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:36:08 +0000

Throughout my years at I-Poly I have improved on a lot of my academic knowledge. I have learned to mediate and reach solutions through research, knowledge, and critical thinking skills. Why in this school I have learned how to think outside the box and have become more flexible and creative with ideas. Since the start of the freshman year we have had to become more flexible. Wether it was because ideas didn’t turn out the way we wanted the to or because there were people in our group we would not get along with but we became flexible and compromised to make things work. I remember one time at I-Poly, it was the second semester of freshman year. I was given the job of assistant producer, where i was supposed to help the producer. Towards the middle of the of the semester the producer stopped doing his his job to pursue his acting career on the show. So the only way to make things flow was to do both jobs and not even get as much credit but i became flexible for the good of the show and the class.

Why at I-Poly I have done project that affect the world. But i never really gave it any significance. So i believe that i need to improve more on learning about global significance of a variety events on disciplines.

By: Sumedha Sagar

Sumedha Sagar — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:34:45 +0000

I started I-Poly in 10th grade, not knowing exactly what to expect. There were a lot of difficult tasks that I had to go through but through these tasks I learnt so much. With everything I learned in the past two years the one thing that comes to my mind that I have learned the most about is to be a lifelong learner who adapts to an ever-changing world by viewing society from multiple perspectives, which is I-Poly’s second mission statement. During sophomore year, I really learned why and how important it is to look at society from different perspectives. One time we had to represent a country and find their perspective on things. After doing research I realized that everything was totally different there, from right and wrong to things that I took for granted were what some people worked really hard for. Since then, I always try to look at things from different views because what I think is right or wrong isn’t always the true answer.

The goal that I would like to improve on is I-Poly’s fifth mission statement, to have learned how to communicate in a variety of ways, including formal and informal presentations, teaching lessons, and writing papers. Even though I have tremendously gotten better at these things I feel that there could be a little more room for improvements to be made. The improvements that I am hoping I will overcome are not to be extremely nervous and be confident about presentations. I plan to achieve this goal through the presentations this year and especially through senior project.

By: Samantha

Samantha — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:19:55 +0000

At my years at I-Poly I have learned many things that in a normal high school i would not even think about learning. During my sophomore year at I-Poly I practiced #5 “have learned how to communicate in a variety of ways, including formal and informal presentations, teaching lessons, and writing papers” of the eI-Poly mission statement. An example is my group Serbia gave a presentation of teaching a lesson on crimes is the country of Serbia. This not only helped my teaching, or presentation skills, but also taught me new things about the crimes in other countries.
As a senior and it being my last year at I-Poly I want to improve #4 “have learned to mediate and reach solutions through research, knowledge, and critical thinking skills” by understanding everything I learn on my senior project and being able to understand and come up with solutions to problems, in my project area using research, and what I already know.

By: Becky Ruelas

Becky Ruelas — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:19:22 +0000

Since I heard about I-Poly I knew it was not a regular high school. I entered I-Poly 10th grade and everything was differnt from where I attended freshman year. Have learned how to communicate in a variety of ways, including formal and informal presentations, teaching lessons, and writing papers thats the best mission statement that fits me. When my first presentation sophemore year I didnt know much how to react and didnt know much about formal presentations, now I got better and I know what are the more important thing of the topic that I can speak about. Now every presentation that had passed I get more confident and I do it better.
I remember the first presentation I did I was really scared and nervous. I memorize exactly what I was going to say word by word. When me and my group went up my mind went blank and I didnt know what to say and I had to looked back at the Power Point. My last presentation junior year I was nervous but I didnt memorized all exactly what I had found for my reaserch. I just said what it was more important and the most important things about my topic.