![]() ![]() Students begin to think formally about what they want in the future. Having a goal and creating plans to achieve those goals are an important aspect of what IJ Holton does as a STEAM school. They come up and talk to me via email, or via hallways. Schara?’ It has become an easy conversation topic and a personal one. “Students would ask ‘what’s the school today, Mr. “I have yet to get a negative comment, and the project has really blossomed,” he said. IJ Holton Principal Dewey Schara holds up lanyards from Riverland Community College. The lanyards were an easy conversation piece to segue into those kinds of dialogue. Whether that’d be going to a two-year or four-year college, or even a trade school. When he started working at IJ Holton last June as the new principal of an AVID school, Schara wanted to prepare students for their post-secondary education. It started out with simply representing the college Schara attended. ![]() Photos by Hannah IJ Holton Intermediate School students see their principal Dewey Schara in the hallways, it’s a safe bet that he’s sporting a lanyard.Ī different one each day, Schara has 99 lanyards as of Thursday from different colleges, universities, vocational schools and more displayed in his office. ![]() He has goals to reach 180 lanyards so he can wear one each day and highlight a different college, vocational school or occupation as a possible post-secondary educational opportunity for students. IJ Holton Principal Dewey Schara proudly displays a part of his lanyard collection. ![]()
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