Plainfield Community School Corporation

3 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 8 THE PLAINFI ELD COMMUNI T Y SCHOOL CORPORAT ION Superintendent for 15 years now, Olinger informed that the Plainfield Community School Corporation is a suburban school district of just fewer than 6,000 students. It has a high school, a middle school, five elementary schools and its Imagination Lab, all serving Plainfield, a Town of some 36,000 residents that is located about 13 miles outside of Indianapolis. “Over the last few years,” said Olinger, “we have changed our mission statement, and that’s how we’ve approached things. Our mission is to bring joy to learning. That would be our mantra and our mission statement.” Tutterow concurred. “Bringing joy to learning is a guiding view for our middle school,” she said. “We try to think of many ways to make learning authentic and to give students a voice and a choice over what they are learning so what they’re learning becomes meaningful.” WE ARE CELEBRATING 100 YEARS IN BUSINESS! CONSTRUCTION MANAGER DESIGN-BUILDER GENERAL CONTRACTOR G A R M O N G . N E T