On Thursday, our morning began with Dr. Bracey's session, 'The Importance of Service Learning', a project tied to lessons and components, also to help someone while doing it.  We learned about the law in Mississippi regarding the homeless, that its illegal, one can be jailed for being homeless in our state. Educators need to be keenly aware of needed ways  to benefit the 1.3 million students in MS that are homeless. I look forward to reading and analyzing the new booklet we received on Service projects to use in lesson planning.   Kenya Horn presented 'Integrating College and Career Readiness Skills into Daily Instruction'.  We learned that by the year 2020, 65% of jobs will require a college education.  Consultant is a job market on the rise.  We were given career readiness websites  that give activities  and videos to use with our students.  Teachers must encourage students to create a dream, expose kids to careers, alumni, employer guest speakers, have students conduct interviews, highlight a college & career of the (week/month), review case studies and do projects.   Teachers should demand proper grammar and proper email etiquette from students.  This session was both  educational and interesting. Next, we worked in our assigned group on our musical presentations and testimonial presentations and then completed several more steps on our art project with Mrs. Latham these are due for tomorrow.  Mr. Johnson and Mrs. Green model ways to teach vocabulary with games and role-play that involves whole class participation.  I learned  much valuable information today