The Ultimate A-Team
Give ‘em pumpkin to talk about!
On Thurs., Oct. 10 during all HATS periods, A-Team hosted their first social of the school year. The fall themed social included toilet paper mummy wrapping, pumpkin painting contests, face painting, guess how much the pumpkin weighs, corn hole and KanJam.
A-Team is an administrator-run club made up of students and teachers. They are a diverse group of people “created for the school by people in the school” said A-Team member and junior Justice Johnson. Making connections between students and teachers is the main goal of A-Team.
A-Team, created by Principal Dennis Williams, stands for Advisory Team. “We [the administration] wanted to hear from students about things that are going well and areas we need to grow and improve on, so we came up with the idea of the Advisory Team,” said Mr. Williams. A-Team wants to bring “unity in the school [so the] school is more tightly together. Before the school was not a family, we are trying to make it more like one,” said Johnson.
The A-Team meets once or twice a month to discuss issues and how they can encourage more participation and strong bonds. A-Team has created the fall and spring socials to help do so. “The purpose of the social in the fall was to bring all the students together in the beginning of the year and to show the new freshman what A-Team is and to make some connections with students and teachers,” said A-Team member and senior, Isabel Falguera.
When A-Team was created last spring, an assembly was hosted by Mr. Williams and A-Team “to show that everyone is different, but together we make up an amazing school,” said Falguera.
“I think it’s a good start, it’s a good step. I do not think you are ever going to have one fix or one cure for trying to build strong relationships,” said Mr. Williams about A-Team.
Mr. Williams believes that when the students build strong relationships, they feel safer. The administration wants students to feel “physically safe and feel emotionally safe [to] have a better experience [at school and learning],” said Mr. Williams.
