INTRODUCING OUR NEWSLETTER! |
As Pewaukee School District's Insight program continues to grow,
we want to share the incredible opportunities and experiences
that our students have within the program. Additionally, we are
excited to feature some of our business partners and mentors.
Please read on for some recent highlights!
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ATTORNEY JASON ABRAHAM
VICE PRESIDENT
HUPY AND ABRAHAM, S.C
Insight is incredibly fortunate to welcome Attorney Jason Abraham to our team of mentors! Attorney Jason F. Abraham graduated with a degree in psychology from the University of Wisconsin in 1989, and received his law degree from Marquette University in 1992. In 1993, he began with Michael F. Hupy and Associates and was promoted to shareholder in 1999. The firm became Hupy and Abraham, S.C. in 2006. Licensed to practice in the states of Wisconsin and Missouri, and with clientele across the country, Attorney Abraham has settled and tried personal injury cases with a combined value of approximately $350 million, resolving multiple cases for over one million dollars each.
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Even through managing the hurdles of combining virtual and in-person learning, the Global Business Insight Students have been pushed to see where their strengths and weaknesses lie and how they interact within a group, setting the stage for projects with real world clients they will be working on for the rest of the year. Already, the class has gone through two smaller projects, learning specifically about the stages of project management and the development of psychological safety in a group setting to encourage better collaboration, helping aid transition into these projects.
These business principles heavily interconnect with the economic and communication aspects of the class as well. Instead of focusing only on specific equations and graphs, the economics curriculum has been teaching students to connect these principles to fiscal issues going in businesses and governments internationally. The English portion of the course is also integrated greatly with the relationships students are building with their mentors.
Additionally, the virtual discussions with guest speakers have been very productive and a great way to get an inside perspective of those working in the workforce of how business principles apply to real jobs out there. The level of interest and amount of questions is something truly unparalleled to any other class at Pewaukee. This kind of learning will only continue to blossom as the year goes on.
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DR. ANDREW KLEIN
CHIEF OF NEURORADIOLOGY
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF RADIOLOGY
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN
Insight is thrilled to share that veteran mentor Dr. Andrew Klein is Dr. Klein is a Board-certified Associate Professor of Radiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Section Chief of Neuroradiology. His clinical and research interests include functional brain mapping, traumatic brain injury, cognitive neuroimaging, and 7 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging. He has received federal, industry, and institutional grant funding for his research projects and was Co-Principal Investigator for a study funded by GE Healthcare and the NFL investigating advanced magnetic resonance imaging applications for mild traumatic brain injury.
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ELEMENTS OF HEALTH AND MEDICINE
Students in the Elements of Health & Medicine strand have been working towards their Nursing Assistant Certification at WCTC. Students wrapped up the lecture and lab portion of the training with the month of October. They will finish the CNA program by Thanksgiving with their clinical rotations.
In our first case study in the Medical Interventions course, students used DNA sequencing to identify a case of bacterial meningitis on a college campus. They performed contact tracing and an ELISA test to diagnose other patients who are symptomatic. We were also able to apply our knowledge of disease outbreaks to study the current pandemic, treatment, and prevention. Then they learned about bacterial structure and function, how antibiotics are used to treat disease, and the increased prevalence of antibiotic resistance.
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INNOVATIONS: BIOMEDICAL, BUSINESS & ENGINEERING
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Innovations students had the exciting opportunity to engage in a mentor panel discussion on October 23. Veteran mentors Terry Frett and Jim Martinson offered great insights and pointers for students looking to maximize their mentorship experiences this year. Based on their advice, many students are setting out to read books with their mentors and seeking opportunities for new experiences like job shadows. New mentor and former PHS student Megan Murray expressed how beneficial and time-saving the mentorship experience could have been if she had the opportunity as a high schooler. Building on that, former PHS student Kyle Niebler shared thoughts about his positive experiences as a mentee in the Global Business program last year. Students overwhelmingly reported positive feedback about the panel and expressed the desire to have more experiences like this in the future. We appreciate the panel's time in supporting our students as they refine their post-secondary plans!
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TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT INTERNSHIP (TSI) |
Our newest addition to Insight, our Technology Support Internship (TSI) combines hands-on application of IT skills with industry certifications. TSI students receive training from our IT department, and then run our technology help desk, assisting students and staff with troubleshooting issues on multiples kinds of devices throughout the district. Additionally, students are working towards earning critical industry certifications.
Below, a student is working on troubleshooting issues with a device during training.
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ADVANCED WRITING AND COMMUNICATIONS
INTRODUCING "THE CATCH"
The Hook team has been busy getting a variety of our publications up and running for the year!
Twice per month we publish The Catch, a video news program starring our Design Editor, Jake Koch. Below are our two October episodes featuring information about the youngest PHS athlete to make it to state, creative solutions different programs have had to make to operate through COVID-19, and a few guest appearances from PHS staff and students!
We’re also currently designing a new studio for The Catch in our new media center, which we moved into just this year. We’re hoping our November or December episodes will come to you from the new studio! Stay tuned for more!
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The students in Pathways to Teaching have been hard at work learning all different types of best practice and teaching strategies through classroom discussions, mentor meetings, guest speakers, and classroom observations.
A critical component of the Pathways to Teaching experience is the classroom observations. This year, changes needed to occur in order to ensure that all students remain safe. There are procedures in place for the Pathways students to follow prior to and during in-person observations in order to keep everyone healthy. The observations have been going very well, all of the students really enjoy them and gain so much knowledge. In addition, students have been able to observe intervention classes as well as how education is delivered in hybrid and virtual models!
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