CRAIG HOCKENBERRY:
Parental Involvement Christ Church Cathedral
For several decades Oyler
School and Christ Church
Cathedral has had a remarkable partnership that focused on involving
parents with their child’s education. The
partnership started many years before I became the
principal of Oyler,
but I certainly kept the long standing partnership together and carried out
their mission through a large grant we received every year. We had many great friends from Christ Church
Cathedral that served as mentors to our kids, donors, and contributed to our
social needs through all types of donations.
We also had very important people such as Al Hampton,
Cathy Crain, Pat Doyle, and Bob Lashell who did amazing things to support
Oyler. Mr. Lashell served on the
outreach committee and he made sure our application for $20,000.00 always made
it to the top of the list. Pat Doyle
served for many years on our LSDMC
as a member representing school partnerships and Al Hampton was one of the most
influential mentors to ever work with our children. After Al passed away we named the mentoring
program after him. Christ
Church had a very strong focus on involving urban parents into the
fabric of the schools. They gave us
money to accomplish this every year. We
spent the funds to enhance open houses, parent conferences, theme nights, plays,
and more to make these events filled with food, fun and games. This connected the parents and the community
to the school and the result was a huge opportunity to build remarkable
relationship through an amazing partnership with Christ Church
Cathedral.
I look back at this partnership and always enjoyed
fostering it and making it stronger so that we could continue to serve the
students of our city at the highest level.
Partnerships are equally as important as academics in an urban
school.
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