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Sarah’s Chalkboard: 21st Century Skills

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Welcome to The Chalkboard, a column devoted to the ins and outs of CFK’s education programs. For the next few months, Education Director Sarah Stevens will be tackling a five-part mini-series on 21st Century Skills – a set of competencies that guide CFK’s program development. First up…Creativity!

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Our mission at CFK is to help students develop the confidence to achieve their fullest potential by offering a wide range of opportunities where they can discover their unique talents. An inquisitive brain will constantly want more, and we know developing that thirst for knowledge is the first hurdle in preventing future drop outs. We also want to be sure our students are developing the skills they need to be successful in the 21st century – Creativity, Critical Thinking, Communication, Collaboration, and Commitment.
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Springtime School Visits

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Here’s the thing about the CFK office: people who stop by, even on simple errands with very specific goals, often end up staying a while. Months, years sometimes.

In the CFK office: Caitlin, Luis (with Kona), Colin and Mike

Luis Morales, new Managing Director at Fortress Investments, arrived to us through the volunteering site Catchafire with a plan to get our office systems into some semblance of order. He promptly went about the business of scrapping our horribly outdated technology and filling the room with enough monitors to look like a Wall Street trading floor. Needless to say, he’s done more to bring the CFK office into the 21st-century than any other individual (read more about the project here).

But the real benefit of all his hard work has been having Luis involved in all things CFK for the last few months, including recent school visits to check out our freshly expanded music programs.

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Bowl for Kids

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The wild success of last week’s Bowl for Kids event left us with quite a conundrum here in the office. Is there a bowling metaphor, we wondered, that would accurately convey how ecstatic we were with the turnout and energy at Thursday’s event? Call it a strike, turkey, kingpin or a smorgasbord of spares; whatever the (cheesy) metaphor, it doesn’t do justice to the final count:

$145,605

That’s enough for comprehensive programming at two of our partner schools: field trips, music lessons, literacy tutoring, Story Pirates, art education, early reading, and school supplies for 1,400 students. PLUS, enough left over to add tutoring sessions on Saturdays, expand fitness and nutrition programming, and ramp up our music program to include more students than we’ve ever been able to serve.

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Year-End Violin and Piano Recitals

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Ms. Ai’s and Mr. Majid’s musical instruction throughout the year have given the young musicians of P.S. 154 and P.S. 73 a great deal of confidence, which the students exuded on stage at both schools’ final recitals. It was clear that their practicing had paid off. Everyone in the audience could tell that each student had put significant time and effort into preparing for these concerts. If the kids were nervous, they did not show it. The performances were seamless and the programs ended this school year on a high note.

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