{"id":5553,"date":"2026-02-04T17:40:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T17:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thesummitprep.org\/highschool\/?p=5553"},"modified":"2026-02-05T17:16:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T17:16:35","slug":"local-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesummitprep.org\/highschool\/2026\/02\/04\/local-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Curious About Our Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To continue on our dive into understanding and applying logos, students have chosen a local issue they are interested in to collect research on, create a presentation about it, and deliver that information \u2013 in an unbiased way \u2013 to their peers. We welcomed guest speakers from Community Partnership of the Ozarks, Leadership Springfield, and the Chamber of Commerce to further engage with local issues and the organizations and businesses that work to relieve affected populations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5554\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesummitprep.org\/highschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/sites\/43\/2026\/02\/1000013901-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"ELA-PoliSci Guest Speakers\" width=\"800\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thesummitprep.org\/highschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/sites\/43\/2026\/02\/1000013901-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thesummitprep.org\/highschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/sites\/43\/2026\/02\/1000013901-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thesummitprep.org\/highschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/sites\/43\/2026\/02\/1000013901-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thesummitprep.org\/highschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/sites\/43\/2026\/02\/1000013901-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thesummitprep.org\/highschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/sites\/43\/2026\/02\/1000013901-2048x1542.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To engage with your student, you could ask them:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">what issue they researched;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">what issues their peers researched;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">what they learned from our guest speakers; and\/or<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">if they intend to enter any of their work from last semester \u2013 or different work \u2013 into LAD Fair. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To continue on our dive into understanding and applying logos, students have chosen a local issue they are interested in to collect research on, create a presentation about it, and deliver that information \u2013 in an unbiased way \u2013 to their peers. 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