Building Connections The houses of Cockrell do service projects, inclusive activities, and focus on the Cockrell Essentials.
Please. Excuse me. Thank you! These are some of the phrases that Cockrell Elementary students are learning the importance of every day through a new concept the campus instituted last year. Members of the Cockrell teaching and administration staff were granted the opportunity to attend the coveted Ron Clark Academy for observation and learning. The visit proved to be enlightening to the educational professionals who visited. The Prosper teachers and administrators came up with a goal of refocusing students through a focus on learning citizenship daily with their academics and building community within the school. Based upon the Ron Clark Academy and his renowned book The Essential 55, the campus developed Houses. All Cockrell students and staff, as well as some volunteers and district employees who come to visit, are sorted into houses. The Cockrell houses are a reinforcement of the 54
district REACH program with adding an extra I for IREACH. The houses are: I R E A C H
Integritas (Latin) - Integrity Heshima (Swahili) - Respect Khuthaza (Zulu) - Encourage Prashansa (Hindi) - Appreciate Palapala (Hawaiian) - Communicate Meiyo (Japanese) - Honor
To celebrate the district’s growing cultural diversity, the teams took on the names from different cultures. Each House is a family of students grades K-5 as well as staff with a variety of responsibilities on campus. Together the houses do service projects, communication and inclusive activities, and focus on the Cockrell Essentials, life lessons that build good, productive, kind citizens. Principal, Glenda Dophied, explained that part of the goal of the mixed grades in houses was to “foster a way to help build community within our school.” “The
