3200 East Raymond St. Indianapolis, IN 46203

We are calling upon you to participate in a study being conducted by Dr. Christine Kunkel.  The survey title is: Investigating Indicators of Success in Graduates of a Progressive, Urban Public High School."  We need YOU to log on and complete the survey.  It won't take long, and your participation will bring us important information as we study outcomes of Key Learning Community.  Please let us know what you thought of your experiences at Key, and how you are doing today by completing the survey.  Just click on this link to begin:  http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CNSVC73 

On Thursday, February 16th at 5:30 pm, all parents and staff are invited to discuss Key’s future, as we consider the state’s rating of our school based on test scores and possible state actions to change Key. To improve our K-12 learning community, what changes would you recommend? What should stay the same? This will be a pitch-in dinner. Mrs. Counts will provide a science club time for students from 4:10-5:30 which parents need to make arrangements with the child's homeroom teacher. Key seniors will supervise children as they watch a movie. For more information, call 226-4992. 

PLEASE FILL OUT THE ATTACHED FORM AND RETURN TO MS. LANGSTON OR EMAIL HER AT: langstmo(at)ips.k12.in.us 

KEY LEARNING COMMUNITY MEETING ATTENDANCE RSVP

Go to http://www.keyseniors.ips.k12.in.us to view the progress of the senior digital portfolios.  They have made quite a bit of effort this semester in finishing up the first round of their digital portfolios and we are looking forward to their finished portfolio this spring.  On this web site, you will also find current information about our seniors as well as information about their current fundraisers and their upcoming service trip to Costa Rica.  

Our Key Learning Community Senior Class of 2012 were featured in the Indianapolis Star in the Sunday, December 4th edition.  Matthew Tully spent some time with our senior class learning about their upcoming service trip to Costa Rica.  The article is a wonderful insight into our Seniors hopes, fear, and dreams for this service trip, and is a wonderful opportunity to inform our Indianapolis community how they can financially support our Seniors in order to achieve their goal of $22,000 to make this trip.  They have currently raised $5,000 and hope that the feature article will raise awareness of what this trip means to our students and The Key Learning Community.  Read the article here:  Indianapolis Star Feature Article on KLC Seniors

One of our current seniors recently took advantage of a once in a lifetime opportunity during summer break. He became an alumnus of the Junior Executive Institute program at the Kelley School of Business at IU Bloomington. Emmanuel Hermosillo (Manny) believes that his opportunity of getting closer to the business world was being a member of the Junior Executive Institute. Here is what Manny thinks about this great program:

“As I was sitting at home switching channels on the TV, I started to think that this was going to be what I was going to do during my summer break. I knew that my summer break would be really boring if I didn’t find something to do. I told my advisory teacher how I felt about my summer break and she gave me this awesome idea to look into. She told me about the Junior Executive Institute Program (JEI) at the Kelley School of Business at IU Bloomington. JEI was what made my summer break a once in a life time experience. This program helped me get more involved in the business industry and let me get a step closer to IU Bloomington. JEI is a program that teaches you in a really fun way about the business world. You take classes that IU students take at the Kelley School of Business, and meet people who are interested in business.  You also become more familiar with the wide variety of people who are involved in business in Indiana.  If you are a high school junior, and you are interested in the business world, I really encourage you to apply for this awesome opportunity that will be offered to you only once. This is the one opportunity that you will not want to miss. I am really grateful that I was part of the JEI program this past session. I thank the Kelley School of Business and their staff for giving me this opportunity that I will never forget. If you need any more information about the program, please stop me in the halls and let me know. I’ll be more than happy to help you get a step closer to the business world. Please visit a quick website I created about more information related to the Junior Executive Institute at:  http://www.wix.com/emmanuelhermosillo/jei

Check here for supply lists needed for classrooms for the 2011-2012 school year.  Click on each link below to access the lists.  If you have any questions regarding the required supply lists for this year, please call 226-4992.  

• Kindergarten Supplies

• Grades 1/2 Supplies

• Grades 3/4 with additional supplies for VanDuzer's class

• Grades 5/6 Supplies

• Elementary Music and Flow Classes Supplies

• Secondary Supplies List

• Secondary Science Supplies

Our annual Winter Culminating Event was held on December 15th and was a wonderful representation of the Elementary students work during the Cultures theme and the Secondary students work during the shared commonality of Membership in Groups.  This annual event allows our entire learning community to share the many things we have learned so far.  On this day we had presentations of cultural foods, African myths, A Day of Shawnee Life, a Poetry Slam, and we learned the Haka Dance from New Zealand!  In addition, there were weather explorations, business projects, sketchup workshops and a talking wax museum.  Join us in the spring for our annual Key Chautauqua where our students will once again showcase their work for our themes and commonalities of Explorations and Producing and Consuming

Sarah Zuckerman, a Visual Arts teacher at the Key Learning Community, has been invited to participate in the NBC Education Summit, a four-day event in New York City.  While portions of the summit will be broadcast throughout the week, the segment featuring teacher and political leader discussions will be broadcast at noon on Sunday, September 26th on local NBC station, WTHR.  The purpose of the summit is to bring top educators, political leaders, students and parents together to discuss education reform.  Zuckerman is one of 40 teachers nationwide to be selected to participate in the discussion.  She will also teach sample lessons to the public at Rockefeller Plaza in New York.  For more information, go to http://www.educationnation.com  You may view the local story about two of our IPS teachers participating in this event at WTHR. 

On August 27th, seventeen Key Learning Community students assisted Habitat for Humanity in the building of two homes in the Indianapolis area.  The students worked closely with other builders and they were very pleased with the seniors' work ethic.  Students used power equipment and did alot of the heavy work that is usually only done by the builders themselves due to the maturity level of our Key seniors.  It was an awesome experience for our seniors and IPS and Key Learning Community are proud of the service our students are providing our community. 

The Key Learning Community has partnered with the downtown Hilton Indianapolis in their efforts to clean and rebuild homes for families in need.  The Hilton, along with several other hotels in the Indianapolis area worked collaboratively with six familes with the remodeling of the child's bedroom, light landscaping, and deep cleaning of the home.  Eighteen KLC students assisted the Hyatt and Omni with outside clean up and landscaping on August 20th.  The Key Learning Community understands the importance of service and gives back to their community. 
This is the second year that Key has been honored as the leading school in the country for their service in the community and abroad.  Their desire is to help others and to live their lives by their motto:  Discover Your Strengths-Change the World!  This is Key's fourth year participating in the Extreme Dream Project.