Overview of Roadtrip

• Seeing Possibilities: using resources available in your own backyard to make learning come alive

• Creating Connections: connecting to colleagues, school classroom, content, HSPS community, and Harbor Springs community to provide a unique learning opportunity

• Discovering New Directions: identifying what staff is willing to try between now and February 2022

Outcomes & Deep Impact

• Stronger connection between HSPS staff and the Harbor Springs community at large

• Staff commitments to try one new thing in their classrooms based on their take aways from the Road Trip

• Sparked new teaching ideas: bring students to the community to enrich the curriculum

• Direct opportunity for Harbor Springs to play a role in HSPS K-12 curriculum

• Greater understanding of the TOPO way of learning

75 Participants

Collaboration

The benefit of this collaboration between Harbor Springs Public Schools and TOPOnexus was successful on multiple levels. We worked together to:

• Use the Harbor Springs community as a classroom 

• Make connections between HSPS staff and Harbor Springs community members

• Invite the community to play a role in HSPS curriculum

• Bring HSPS staff together as cross-curricular team members and individuals

• Share new teaching strategies and ideas

WONDER & WHOA!
This is a springboard for the school year and coming years. So exciting to see and hear staff inspired by what they learned on their adventure around town, who they met, and how they shared their learning with one another.

What is Wonder & Whoa?

Without wonder, we cannot gain new perspectives or innovate. With wonder, we become lifelong learners. We are full of wonder. Whoa is something that stops you in your tracks and inspires, surprises, or shocks you. Together, wonder and whoa have the transformative power to create meaningful personalized learning.