Finding Genius: RIASEC Rooms Being Designed at Sunnyside
One of my favorite quotes is borrowed from a basketball coach, Taylor Allan: “Find your art and make it your life. Then make it your service to the world.” This quote speaks to finding the unique spark and the genius within each of us and to dedicating the time and energy necessary to ignite that spark in service to others.
When I walk the halls of Sunnyside Education Center, this quote comes to mind often. In addition to our professional learning and event spaces, we have six classrooms, and each classroom is focused on a different RIASEC theme. For those who may be new to this acronym, Holland Codes, or RIASEC, are used widely in discussion of personal strengths and career interests. The RIASEC model is an invitation for students (and adults!) to develop self-awareness in relation to their strengths, their interests, and what they value in the world of work.
Our classrooms are inspired by visits to Cajon Valley Schools, and as mentioned above, each room aligns with a RIASEC theme:
Realistic Careers - The “Doers”
Investigative Careers - The “Thinkers”
Artistic Careers - The “Creators”
Social Careers - The “Helpers”
Enterprising Careers - The “Persuaders”
Conventional Careers - The “Organizers”
This semester, we are working diligently to design experiences that will inspire students to think about how their strengths, interests, and values can align with a future career path. The pictures below provide a sneak peek into our RIASEC rooms, and we look forward to sharing these rooms and these career exploration activities with the educators and students in East Central Indiana!
“The RIASEC framework . . . creates a connective tissue among everyone in your system, so everyone can be speaking a common language of self and the world, so every child can know there is a place in the world for them.”
–Ed Hidalgo
Pat Haney
Executive Director
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