C.R.E.S.T(Career Research Exploration & Successful Transitions)

Stranahan High School’s 9th Grade BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Where We Were, Where We Are,

Where We Are Going.

Every student must be known, valued, and inspired

by multiple adults. – Bill Daggett

C.R.E.S.T.Mission Statement

The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

- Stephen R. Covey

The mission of the Community of Career Research, Exploration and Successful Transition (CREST) will be to provide incoming ninth-graders with a personalized learning environment that introduces them to careers and postsecondary education as well as provides them with the skills necessary for success in high school and beyond.

Stranahan High SchoolA journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. – Lao Tsu

Fully accredited Public Urban High School In the woods, by the river Second oldest High School in Ft. Lauderdale Became fully accredited high school during 1958-59 Serves one of the more diverse populations in Broward

District The school has undergone rapid demographic change in

the past ten years becoming increasingly multi-ethnic Home of the Might Dragons

Where We WereTo climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

- Shakespeare

Ninth Grade Academy Program Choosing the Team Designing the Curriculum Connecting to the Feeder Schools Selecting the Students

Connecting to the Community Community Projects Service Projects Field Experiences

Where We AreNothing is predestined:

The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.

- Ralph Blum

“School Within a School” Approach Rigor, Relevance, Relationships

Increase Intellectual Focus School-based Career Learning Create Personalization 5 Communities SOLID BOARD OF DIRECTORS

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Never allow a person to tell you No who doesn't have the power to say Yes.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

The Board of Directors (BOD) is a group developed to emphasize and create student satisfaction and teamwork; provide adult advocates in the school that will help students find the support they need; put a larger focus on career education; encourage interdisciplinary curriculum that promotes rigor and relevance; reinforce core values, and strategic goals; and increase student achievement. The BOD is made up of an Administrator, a Guidance Counselor, an Academy Coordinator, a Special Events Coordinator, a District Liaison, a Community Liaison, an Institute of Higher Learning Liaison, a Leadership Team, and a Parent Liaison.

Where We Are – C.R.E.S.T.The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of

each individual. - Vincent Lombardi

Why? Students become more informed about opportunities for post-

secondary education through various annual student-centered activities.

Differentiated Learning opportunities. Enhance our graduation rate by teaming and having a

personalized approach to theca the “whole student.” Exposure to a considerable amount of avenues a student may

take upon advancing to the next high school level, post-secondary training, and into the workforce after graduation.

How? Buy-In! The buy-in was solicited by inviting teachers to

participate and inviting higher education and community members that saw the need to enhance our students’ education and well being to a forum in our Media Center. They became integral stakeholders due to the personalization they were afforded with our students.

Monthly meetings – formal and informal Open communication via email or phone.

Benefits! Since the inception of the BOD, students have been actively engaged in differentiated learning and have become more aware of their plethora of

post-secondary choices. Students have been afforded the opportunity to partake in a Human Resource Day where Stranahan High School invites representatives from

different companies to speak to our 9th graders about human resources, job interview, resumes, professional dress, and information about post-secondary choices including colleges and careers.

The students have become privy to Career Days which are table based set-ups of different represented careers in the gymnasium, where the students would not have been a part of before the BOD was developed.

Students have additional resources within the community to fulfill their 40 community service hours they must complete for high school graduation. Once they transition to tenth grade, they have internship and mentorship opportunities that were not abundant before the community outreach and

stakeholders were developed and influenced by the BOD.

Board of DirectorsThe country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players.

- Don Coryell

Principal – Deborah J. Owens Academy Coordinator – Jennifer Hamilton Administrator – Elvin Hazell Guidance Counselor – Tracey Walton House Leaders – Sandra Andrews, Tabitha Holt, Nancy Speed Community Liaison – Dr. Devin Avery (South Florida

Economic Foundation) Institute of Higher Learning – Dr. Teresa Justice (Broward

College) Curriculum Support – Bob Usefof Special events Coordinator – Debbie Perry Parent – (changes yearly) Student (s) – Leadership Team

Board of Director’sWhen spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.

- Ethiopian Proverb

Dr. Teresa Justice – B.C. Administrator

Dr. Devin Avery – S.F.E.F. President

Bob Usefof - BCPS Curriculum Specialist

LEADERSHIP TEAM"Bloom where you have been planted.“

- Joel Osteen

Selecting the C.R.E.S.T.Leadership Students

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.Aristotle

Students are selected by teachers within their house. Not Student Government or Freshman Class Club. All students are eligible to be nominated. Voice of the Freshman Class. Meetings are held weekly. Community Service Hours. HR Day and Career Day. Students dismissal if necessary.

Leadership Team2011-2012

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Jim Rohn

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OPPORTUNITIESPeople seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

- Oliver Goldsmith

OPPORTUNITIESTell me and I’ll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I’ll understand.

– Native American Saying

Guest Speakers No one can whistle a symphony.  It takes a whole orchestra to play it.  ~H.E. Luccock

Guest SpeakersTeaching is not always about passing on what you know, it is about passing on who you are.

- Julia Loggins

Purpose of Human Resource DayIf we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

- Lord Chesterfield

Human Resource Day is where Stranahan High School invites representatives from different companies to speak to our 9th graders about human resources, job interviews, resumes, professional dress, and information about postsecondary opportunities - including colleges and careers.

To convey information pertinent to the students’ immediate and future successes.

To effectively transition the students through their academic and developmental goals and aide in the selection of their upper-class “house.”

Hidden ResourcesWhen it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.

       - Anonymous

Principal Assistant Principals Board of Directors Networking Guidance Counselors Teachers Newsletter Parents / Students Retired Teachers Alumni CTACE (Career, Technical and

Adult/Community Education) Community Partners

The Dynamics of C.R.E.S.T’s HUMAN RESOURCE DAY

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

       - Kahlil Gibran

Student Survey Invitation Email B.O.D. Dress for Success Altered Bell Schedule Classroom / Auditorium Leadership Team Guest Speaker Lunch

Student SurveysThe strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

– George Eliot

Human Resource DayThe greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.

       - Benjamin Disraeli 

Leadership Team Assisting H.R. Day

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.       - Ralph Nader

WHERE WE ARE GOINGThe future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Students will select which House they would like to join for their Sophomore, Junior, and Senior Year.

Within these years, students will attend their “House Specific” Career Days.

Increase Graduation Rate. All Seniors will be put in an Internship, Mentorship or OJT

Program. Successful Transition to Post Secondary Education or

Vocational Sector.

ScholarshipsBroward College - First Generation Scholars

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.- Abbie Hoffman

WHERE WE ARE GOING

Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts. -Winston Churchill

Johns Hopkins University'sHomewood Institutional Review Board (HIRB) and MDRC Institutional Board - Evaluation of Ninth Grade Academies in Broward County Public Schools

BCPS Best Practice Ninth Grade Academy Engage in collaborative development Assist in training teachers and administrators at other

flagship schools.