For anyone who may be curious, not much has changed around
the school. The hallways in Ireland still smell like freshmen and lunch
offerings are still eh. However, spending my project on campus is a littler
eerie considering there are only about 5 seniors around, and juniors have started
taking over the benches and pronto room.
Anyway, for those of you who don’t know, I will be spending
my project working closely with Ms. Post to create new bylaws and brainstorm
improvements for the house system. Some of the task’s Ms. Post assigned me to
work on yesterday included reaching out to other schools with successful house
systems via email, write up questions to ask them, begin an itinerary for the
August House Leader Retreat, Write Job Descriptions for house leaders and faculty
leaders, work on the giant relay and eventually start diving into statistical
analysis of the survey data we gathered from a survey we sent out earlier in
the year.
Yesterday, I got a really promising response back from one
of the other school’s with a house system! Hopefully Ms. Post and I will be
heading to Lake Ridge Academy sometime next week to talk to them about the
success of their house system!
Till next time,
Ali Gole
Wow, it is so great that you are trying to improve the house system! It is a really great idea to unite different parts of the community, but unfortunately it has had a rough couple of years.
ReplyDeleteHave you identified what needs to be changed in order to improve the system? I know schools like US have more houses so less kids which puts more (good) pressure on students to participate, I think that sort of change could positively impact Hawken's house system.
Will the community service aspects of the house system change? There are so many different routes that can be taken in that regard. I think the unfortunate lack of enthusiasm for the house system really affects our service days in a negative way, so that could be an interesting aspect of the system to explore.
This is a great project and I really would like to see the long term affects this project because the house system could really encourage school spirit and that is something Hawken is lacking. Please continue to update us because I think this project could really revive Alex Dobay's dream and unite our community in a way it has not been together in a number of years. Let us know how your meeting with Lake Ridge Academy goes!