Issue #3
October 22nd, 2013

IN MEDIA RES

Welcome to In Media Res, a newsletter about De La Salle High School's mission and vision for our students, our families, our alumni, and our community.

 

In this newsletter, published twice a month during the school year, we share some thoughts about the core values of a Lasallian school and our work in preparing young people for college, career, and life.

 

In Media Res is Latin for "in the middle of things." I think that sums up high school pretty well. Secondary education in the United States is about readiness and transition. At De La Salle, we seem to be in the middle of a paradox - holding on to timeless values that should never change and adapting to an era of rapid change. Maneuvering this landscape is the heart of what we do.


 capstone

THE CAPSTONE PROJECT

 

At De La Salle, we are charged with preparing young people for college, career, and life. That's a fairly tall order. As we dug deeper into seeking our answers, we thought first about the purpose of school in the first place. In general, until the rise of the internet and the personal computer, schools (and libraries) were the repositories of information. You had to go to school to get access to this information - and you had to learn to memorize a great deal of it for ready retrieval.

 

Not so anymore. Any personal device will give you direct and immediate access to the information of the world. So...the future of great schools is not in dispensing information; it is in teaching our students how "to use" information and turn it into knowledge (and maybe even wisdom).   

 

With that, the Capstone Project was born - a way for us to know how we are doing with our students in developing the skills they will need for their future as well as making sure we sustain a curriculum that prepares them well for college success. Check out the video for a brief overview:  

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Video: De La Salle - Capstone




De La Salle - Lead On!

 

Michael Guillot, President  



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