NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2015
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Middle School Honors Veterans On November 11, Middle School Student Council officers honored the veterans at Spring River Christian village during their Veteran’s Day program. Each student presented a retired member of our military with a certificate and letters our students had written to them.
Thank you to all our Veterans!
Accreditation and Continuous Improvement
NOTE FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT
As many of you know, CHCS is heavily involved this year in a regular self-assessment and review process with NCA, our regional accrediting agency. If you are familiar with this type of thing, you know that it involves many meetings, surveys, collecting and compiling evidential data, analyzing data, and much writing! The process will culminate with an external review team visiting in February to examine and verify our self-study, then make a recommendation regarding the renewal of our accreditation for the next five years. Thank you to everyone who has given of your time to complete surveys, serve on work groups or help in other ways. This process of self-assessment and receiving constructive feedback from students, staff, parents, and from educators outside CHCS requires much time and effort. However, it helps us remain true to our mission statement which begins with the words “CHCS glorifies God through excellence…” There is no excuse for doing anything for God that is shoddy. He gave His best and deserves no less than our best. Although very important in the world of education, accreditation with a human agency does not guarantee excellence. It can merely represent conformity or show that we have met a set of minimum standards. As a Christian school with a bold mission, our continuous improvement goals must address more than educational practices, resources and curriculum. We aspire to be the kind of school that God, when He reviews our work, calls “good.” Although we invite honest critique and aim for excellence in the eyes of our community, it is still excellence from His perspective that we desire most deeply. The end goal is that faculty, staff and students will love Christ and be equipped to please Him by living lives of servant leadership that exemplify His good, perfect and acceptable will (Romans 12:1-2; Ephesians 5:10). May the Spirit of Christ permeate College Heights Christian School enabling us to glorify Him through excellence!
CHCS glorifies God through excellence as a Christ-centered learning environment that produces servant-leaders with a Biblical worldview.