c.r.e.s.t.

1. c.r.e.s.t. Community of "Career Research Exploration & Successful Transitions"

2. 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.

3. Every student must be known, valued, and inspired by multiple adults. – Bill Daggett

4. C.R.E.S.T.Mission StatementThe 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.

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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

11. 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

12. LEADERSHIP TEAM"Bloom where you have been planted.“- Joel Osteen

13. Selecting the C.R.E.S.T.Leadership StudentsWe 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.

14. 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 RohnRead more:

15. OPPORTUNITIESPeople seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.- Oliver Goldsmith

16. OPPORTUNITIESTell me and I’ll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I’ll understand. – Native American Saying

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

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

19. 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.”

20. 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

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

22. Student SurveysThe strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. – George Eliot

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

24. Leadership Team Assisting H.R. DayThe function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.       - Ralph Nader

25. 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.

26. ScholarshipsBroward College - First Generation ScholarsToday is the first day of the rest of your life.- Abbie Hoffman

27. WHERE WE ARE GOINGSuccess 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.