Challenge Success recently announced a new set of student-run sessions that seek to gather student input on Challenge Success issues. The discussion-based sessions will take place during JLC and 8th periods, starting in Jan. 2020. The first will occur during JLC on Monday, Jan. 13, focusing on workload. Others will focus on sleep and stress; there will be multiple sessions on the same topic. They will continue at least through Wednesday, Feb. 26.
Students on the Challenge Success committee have been pursuing the idea of these forums since October.
“It’s been a long time coming. After our fall challenge success conference where we listened to professionals and other schools talk about their experience, we really started to push for these to get set up,” sophomore Lauren Delwiche, a Challenge Success student representative, said.
These sessions will be completely student-directed, as the Challenge Success committee wants to hear students’ opinions.
“I want to stress that these were planned by us students as well. The only adult in the room (for legal purposes) will be instructed to sit in the back and do whatever on their computer,” Delwiche said.
The committee hopes to gather both ideas and feedback from students how to improve the school environment as it relates to Challenge Success.
“We will give out ideas that we have come up with to make the school better and ask students to tell us if they are good, okay, or absolutely terrible. We are open to all new ideas as well,” Delwiche said.
The Challenge Success committee wants to improve transparency with such opportunities for direct student communication. Challenge Success is meant to benefit students, but it is a school-wide effort.
“The teachers are doing their part by committing to one thing, the parents are starting to be asked to commit to pledges and come in for info sessions, and the students are being asked to share their ideas for bettering the school,” Delwiche said.