Staff from the Methodist Children’s Home School (MCHS) have
been preparing all summer to lead students through challenges as they begin
another school year. On June 5, school staff took on a different challenge as
they tackled the Alpine Tower course at the Boys Ranch.
School staff were invited for the second year to the Boys
Ranch to spend the morning testing their skills on the ropes course. Cristy Cunningham,
principal at MCHS, wanted her staff to participate after she said her previous
school did a ropes course as an exercise to “work together as a professional
learning community.” She said it creates an opportunity for staff to learn each
other’s strengths and fears.
The MCH recreation department led the school staff through the
ropes course training in the morning. After the training, staff were invited to
eat lunch at the Ranch with the boys and visit their homes. Cunningham said the
day was a great experience for her staff.
“New staff are supported by returning staff,” she said. “Leaders
and ‘outside the box thinkers’ are identified immediately. The greatest goal
of the ropes training is that we come together as one team cheering each
other on to accomplish a task that may seem overwhelming to an individual, but
as a team there is victory.”
MCHS, located on the MCH Waco campus, was established in
2003 and is operated in partnership with the University of Texas – University
Charter School.
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