Today I had the pleasure of connecting 100 EPISD fifth graders with former and active duty military personnel. My distinguished guests included: Lt. Mullins, Sergant Major Kiel (served in Iraq), Sergant 1st Class Sperbeck (Korean War Vet POW), CPC Davis (Korean War Vet), Staff Sergant Stuart (3 tours in Iraq) and Specialist Singels. First the gentleman introduced themselves and told the students a little big about themselves, then for the next forty five minutes they took questions. The students questions were very engaging and some of the
answers brought tears to my eyes. I am so proud of these men for serving our country!
Some of the questions included: Is it exciting or scary to be in war? How do you communicate with your family while you are away? What inspired you to join the army? Great questions!
We ended with a flag folding demonstration.
The entire teleconference was taped by Fort Bliss and will be shown on the Pentagon Channel. Thank you to Janine Lim through her staff development and with her Lest We Not Forget Series for encouraging me to connect our students with military personnel. These soldiers have so much great advice to share! I look forward to coordinating similar events for more schools.
3 comments:
Awesome! I have not had time to pull this together here. I am working on starting our project here.
Our local PBS station actually created a local documentary that is 30 minutes long and aired in conjunction with the Ken Burns documentary. I am hoping I can get copies to distribute to our schools.
You are doing a great job! Thanks for sharing.
Great work Ashton - thanks for writing it up. I learned a tip from the pictures too - you had signs with the names & titles of the veterans. I need to implement that idea!! :) And so the learning continue to flow back & forth between VC buddies!
What a terific post -- I'm touched, and I didn't even see the video!
Thanks for visiting my blog, and for your kind comment.
Mary
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