Capturing Credit 

If your teen just finished their first year, it may not look like much. That’s okay!  Over time, their transcript will be full of their body of learning, skills, and experience gained during the high school years or at the high school level.

Today’s Prompt is to Gather the Low-Hanging Fruit – those easy to identify, more conventionally earned credits like co-op, classes, courses, and workshops.

Credits are earned when they are completed. It does not matter if it takes a few weeks, a few months, or a few years to accumulate the learning, knowledge, and skills that make up the credit.

Having this information not only helps you gather the data for the transcript, but also provides you with fodder if and when you need to don your “high school counselor” hat to fill out counselor letters, recommendations, and informational forms for other special programs and college admissions.

They are building their research skills…
Their critical thinking skills…
Their information literacy skills…
Their vocabulary skills…
Their “reading for information” skills…
And probably even their communication skills…

Any and all of which is possible fodder for an English credit.

If our goal is to embrace a value of always learning, always growing… we need to allow roots to grow, to allow leaves to unfurl, and life to radiate from within.