High School Overview CheyAnne Fant, 21 st CCLC Director for Barren County Schools

1. High School Overview CheyAnne Fant, 21st CCLC Director for Barren County Schools

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f8liieRepk

3. Quiz for you: • I can read a menu in French, English, and another language. • I have several favorite restaurants in different countries of the world. • During the holidays, I know how to hire a decorator to identify the appropriate themes and items with which to decorate the house. • I know who my preferred financial advisory, legal service, designer, domestic-employment service, and hairdresser are. • I have at least two residences that are staffed and maintained. • I have at least two or three “screens” that keep people whom I do not wish to see away from me. • I fly in my own plane, the company plane, or the Concorde. • I know how to enroll my children in the preferred private school. • I support or buy the work of a particular artist. • I am on the boards of at least two charities. • I know the hidden rules of the Junior League.

4. Quiz for you: • I know how to get my children into Little League, piano lessons, soccer, etc. • I know how to properly set a table. • I know which stores are most likely to carry the clothing brands my family wears. • My children know the best name brands in clothing. • I know how to use a credit card, checking account, and savings account. • I have life insurance, home insurance, flood insurance, and/or car insurance. • I talk to my children about going to college. • I understand the difference among the principle, interest, and escrow statements on my house payment. • I know how to help my children with their homework or call the school if I need additional help. • I know how to get a library card.

5. Quiz for you: • I know which churches and sections of town have the best rummage sales. • I know which grocery stores’ garbage bins can be accessed for thrown-away food. • I know how to get someone out of jail. • I know how to physically fight and defend myself physically. • I know how to get a gun, even if I have a police record. • I know how to keep my clothes from being stolen at the Laundromat. • I know how to live without a checking account, electricity, or a phone. • I know what to do if I don’t have money to pay the bills. • I know how to move in half a day. • I can get by without a car. • I can entertain a group of friends with my personality and my stories.

6. School customer service:Who is your customer?Who are the stakeholders?

7. Characteristics of Generational Poverty • Background noise & significance of entertainment • Importance of personality, sense of humor, relationships • Matriarchal structure • Survival orientation (relationships, job) • Importance of non-verbal communication • Ownership of people • Discipline – penance/forgiveness • Belief in fate • Polarized thinking • Time – present only; flexible and not measured • Lack of organization • Lives in the moment

8. Think about your worse memory in school

9. Think about your best memory in school

10. So, what can we do?

11. Make school inviting… • Provide background noise – music, kids playing • Make events “family friendly” • Be approachable • be funny, but not degrading • build relationships • “own” the children • provide customer service • dress “appropriately” • Value the parents’ time, even if they don’t value yours • Validate their contributions • showing up • supporting role as a parent • Explain the hidden rules • (EOC, KPrep, RTI, where’s the restroom, call to make an appointment, how detention works) • Make your events entertaining, then surprise with information • Think of hosting events at comfortable places

12. #1 Rule of etiquette:Make everyone feel comfortable

13. How to communicate Instant contact One Call System Email Thru entertainment Facebook Twitter Convenient times Already there for play, ballgame, etc. Work schedule Feel Special Invitations Candy greetings Tickets to hospitality room Walmart Greetings

14. Feel special Make them feel special

15. Our Model: • Families on Campus Uplifting Students – send home in 1st day folder • Trojan Ambassadors – Plan it…Own It!!! • Freshmen Orientation Centered Upon Success • Meet the parents in a positive way before school even starts • Make it important to the kids, and the “family” will follow (social event, free shirt, recruit the kids, get schedule early) • Socials- Paint Up, Sophomore S’mores, Junior Mints, Senior Sundaes • Career and Technical Education Night – at the local ATC • Asked alumni to come back to talk about themselves • Pink Out & Gold Rush (combined with homecoming) – Hospitality room open to all families – counselors there to talk about ACT, senior info, FAFSA forms, career planning, etc. • Afterschool awards night – family friendly, everyone recognized • Show their students in a slideshow…They are a part

16. Family Nights

18. Hidden Rules Among Classes

19. Hidden Rules Among Classes

20. Get in FOCUS • Finding Our Careers Using STEM • Fun Opportunities Centered Upon Success • Fitness Opportunities Centered Upon Success • Fifth Opportunity Centered Upon Success • Freely Offering Communities Unconditional Service • Families On Campus Uplifting Students • Freshmen Orientation Centered Upon Success • Focusing On Career and University Success

21. Get in FOCUS

22. Academic Team - enhanced Laying the Foundation Staff PD – Help to plan activities from Middle to High School Program Finding Our Careers Using STEM Writing and Layout with technology Scientific Method

23. Finding Our Careers Using STEM Alpha Sigma Chi (Applied Science Club) Academic Team Breakfast Club Reading Concepts Mass Media Math Tutoring and Gaming Science Tutoring and Gaming

24. Fun Opportunities Centered Upon Success Broadcasting – Student run radio station with co-applicant Commonwealth Broadcasting Live broadcasts of news and announcements each morning and afternoon Live play by play broadcasts of Freshmen and JV sporting and other events

25. Drama Production -Skills Based Learning -For High School Credit How to Sustain: Ticket Sales Volunteers Partners One SET Transforms University Visitors On-loan Actors/Supplies More Fun Opportunities Centered Upon Success

26. I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

27. More Fun Orchestra Program Collaborates with Drama program Performed for retired teachers to recruit volunteers Share resources with our middle school 21st CCLC program

28. Trojan Threads Connection to the School Day: FACS/FCCLA Business/FBLA Sustainability Projects –Trojan Threads Speakers - Free through Junior Achievement Hands-on design experience Work experience Operations of business Advertising Planning for business growth Money skills Focusing on Career and University Success

29. Fifth Opportunity Centered Upon Success Credit Recovery (Added Acceleration this year) Barren Academy of Virtual and Extending Learning –Curriculum online with or without teachers Students who need to graduate Students who wish to earn credits for needed classes to increase options during the school year

30. Fitness Opportunities Centered Upon Success BC Stride – Couch to 5K, health, nutrition, Fuel Up to Play 60, Zumba, student directed activities Bass Fishing – KHSAA, regional and state qualifiers Bowling – regional qualifiers, scholarship to Campbellsville University Train and Tumble – gymnastics Train and Lift – weightlifting JROTC Off Season Training

31. Freshmen Orientation Centered Upon Success Trojan Ambassador Training (plan for day, business etiquette, customer service training, school history, tours, leadership/ropes training) Student Day and Family Night (schedule pick up, meet teachers, study habits, folders, games planned by Trojan Ambassadors –all student lead and teacher supervised) Parent education

32. Fun Opportunities Centered Upon STEM – Mythbusters Multimedia Science Writing, Photography, Scientific Method, Lab Report, Video Production, Engineering, QR Codes, Communication, College and Career Readiness – Speakers, Problem Solving with Minute to Win It Games/Experiments