Jami Fluke

School Leader Ambassador

Begin with a beloved educator. Add equal measures of determination and joy, and you have Jami Fluke. Over 25 years, Jami has taught elementary, middle, and alternative school, and most recently led Dayton Oregon’s Junior and High School as Principal. Embracing risk, inspiring innovation, and reimaging what school could be —Jami led Dayton’s teachers, leaders, and students in dismantling and reassembling the systems that had become barriers to learning. 

With the support of Construct and Innovate Oregon, Jami launched design challenges across the school, engaged the broader Dayton community in the education of local youth, and guided her teachers to create new curriculum like Genius Hour for all students.  In just three years, Jami’s passion and collaboration resulted in Dayton High graduating 96.8% of its students--a 14% jump and placing it on the leaderboard in Oregon. Importantly, however, graduation wasn’t her only metric. Joy was just as important. 

Jami’s team used funds from a CTE Revitalization grant awarded by the Oregon Department of Education to renovate their i3 Center, upgrading technical equipment to make CTE-type projects more accessible to students, and ensuring all her students a space at school to have complete creative freedom. The magic that has unfolded on Jami’s campus brought 20 Australian educators to witness the happenings in this small Oregon town, and took Dayton’s varsity invention team to Eurekafest, a four day event at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and organized by the Lemelson-MIT Program.

Jami built a new standard for how to inspire and empower in K-12 education and Construct is thrilled to have her onboard as our School Leader Ambassador.  

Experience joyful support for your vision: jami@constructfoundation.org