professional panels. Justin’s participation on the professional panel prompted a personal desire to reconnect with CCS students. The outcome is what we now call FLBL. The goal of this club is to equip and inspire students to become future business leaders. The club has beenmeeting sinceSeptember. At the meetings they have been working on public speaking skills. The goals for this year are to bring in guest speakers thatwill continue to sharpen and inspire business skillswithin our students, aswell as begin to establish a network between current students and our CCS alumni. The student leaders, JosephFlynn&BlakeMcCoy, havebeen involved in theprocess of creating this club experience alongside of Justin Salemy andMrs. Gibson. They have plans for an off-campus field trip in the second semester. Additionally, plans are underway to seek student internships for summer 2020. The mission for FLBL is as follows, “The Future Lancer Business Leaders is a club designed to provide opportunities for paid internships, connecting students with successful business leaders, and learning the ways of business.” Our prayer is that through this club opportunity our young future business leaders will continue to discover and develop their God-given passions and talents for business. HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT COUNCIL Our High School Student Council is taking it up a notch this year. The newly elected council officers began the year coming together at anoff-campus leadership retreat designed just for them. At the retreat, Mr. Campbell, Coach Layman, and Mrs. Gibson challenged them to lead differently this year in order to engage the student community. The topics discussedwere personal leadership strengths &weaknesses, howpersonal values affect leadership, communication skills, value of teamwork, and understanding vision and action planning – transformational leadership. The Council is made up of executive officers and class officers. The class officers work together collaboratively; there are no distinctions of rank. This is a new leadership strategy we are teaching our student leaders. The first item on the agenda for the Council every year is homecoming week. This year the theme for homecoming was Arabian nights, and the officers all did an amazing job of successfully coordinating another awesome CCS HOCO. What happens beyond homecoming week? Each group of officers has identified a passion project towards which they will begin to work. These passion projects are service oriented and grade level focused. Each group of officers will formulate an action plan and carry it out over the course of the year. Additionally, the Council will also identify focus areas to enhance student life on campus. We are excited to host a special evening in the spring where each group of officers
will present their journey to their parents. This leadership summit will allow the students to reflect on what they’ve accomplished as they prepare their presentations in which they will communicate their highs and lows from their leadership journey. PROFESSIONAL PANELS The Advisory Planning Committee coordinates student activities during theweekly high school advisory period. One of the activities the committee creates for students is the Professional Panel meetings. Thesemeetings occur several times throughout the year. In 2018-2019, three professional panels were organized by the committee. These panels are themed and guided by student feedback. The goal is to provide students access to professionalswithin the careers they are interested in pursuing. In 18-19, the panel themesweremental health careers, sports related careers, and business and legal careers. One of the goals of the committee, whichworks alongside ofMrs. Gibson, is to invite professionals fromwithin
the CCS community, including alumni, as well as local community leaders. These panels are mutually beneficial for both the professionals and the students as businesses can meet potential talent, and students can develop relationships with potential employerswhile learning valuable leadership skills. Through pro-
In 19-20, our professional panels will include creative, engineering, medical, and business careers.
fessional panels, we are able to partner with our community and allow themto invest and encourage our students as they explore their future career opportunities. GRACE COUNCIL GRACECouncil was founded in 2018-2019, and it launched officially this year. The council was founded by a group of student leaders led by Mikal Willeke, Noah Kent, Ariana Valdez, and KeniaBatista. We nowhave a core group of about 20 students that meet monthly to continue to develop the vision and scope of GRACE Council. Currently, the vision for is to cultivate a healthy environment among our students that seeks to create bridges that unite us. GRACE aims to celebrate diversity. GRACE is an acronym for gender, race, age & ability, culture, and economic status. We believe the place to begin drawing students together has to be focused on the message of Jesus. GRACE now leads efforts to encourage the student body through student written devotions distributed through the VOICE email. It is also leading the weekly prayer focus on Instagram. GRACE members are creating scripture notes that are placed in each of the girls’ bathrooms. Agroup of students is organizing an event to recruit and inform our international students
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