JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2016
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CHCS News
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CHCS is now a Certified Best Christian Workplace!
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NOTE FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT by Nelson Horton
There is important news to share related to an initiative that the administration, faculty, and staff has been working on diligently since October 2014! As you know, our mission statement reads, CHCS glorifies God through excellence as a Christ-centered learning environment that produces servant leaders with a Biblical worldview. In harmony with our mission, CHCS strives for excellence by seeking continuous improvement in all areas, not only related to student services and academic offerings, but also to grow as a flourishing workplace to strengthen our faculty and staff team. Our desire is that the learning environment here at CHCS will be Christ-centered and consistently characterized by the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) within our faculty and staff for the benefit of our students, staff, and school family as a whole. To be more intentional about continued growth as a team, we connected with Best Christian Workplaces Institute in 2014 and used their BCWI Staff Engagement Survey tool to determine how we were doing. The first year’s results helped us identify three target areas for growth, and the reports helped us benchmark our results with other Christian schools and Christian organizations, and form an action plan for the following year. Our staff completed the second annual engagement survey in December 2015 and the results are in. The first line of the email we received from BCWI reads, “Congratulations, College Heights Christian School is certified as a 2016 Best Christian Workplace!!! We are thrilled to achieve this goal as a team! Our consultant was very complimentary and stated that he has not seen such progress before in just one year. You can see our listing among the 2016 Certified Best Christian Workplaces at www.bcwinstitute.org by selecting LISTS. I’m pleased to commend our great faculty and staff team.
Christy Baca Leads Second Family Connections Event On January 13th, College Heights continued its Family Connections Event series with Christy Baca as the guest speaker. Christy has more than ten years of speaking and curriculum writing experience in private schools. She spoke on the subject of Teens and Social Media Awareness. Those who attended were encouraged to be proactive in the ever-changing landscape of social media and the many avenues teens have to express themselves digitally. Christy also spoke to our students the following day in chapel and special sessions. We appreciate her insights, encouragement and teaching. If you were unable to attend, you may view a replay of the session on TheCube.com (search for College Heights Christian). Her book, Saying Yes! To Saying No (a parent’s guide to values based abstinence), may be purchased on Amazon and other major booksellers.