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record this session and I'm I'm going to go ahead and handed over to miss Olson good morning everyone my name is Katie Olson I work as an assistant principal Christ the King I'm going to be starting or whole group presentation and just a moment before we do I wanted to introduce you to the faculty and staff that we have here on this call and we have mrs. Templeton who is our school principal mr. Daniels on Del Sol SI college counselor I miss diarrhea Ocotillo and Sharon Ellis from our work study program we also have Miss Cheryl Khalid who's our director of campus ministry mr. Marcus Whittlesey suicide Gina students Father Day Mastrangelo cuz I director of mission and identity and you known Miss Center prison you and Miss Gail Clark you working are admissions office I'm from the cartoon give me hosting duties and then I'll share the presentation I'm going to turn it over to our principal mrs. Temple pain thank you miss out good morning family thank you so much for joining us today for this open house my name is Temple paying on the principal at Christ the King this is my tenth year I have the pleasure of serving as the principal death of Christ I want to welcome you today to learn a little bit more about CPK so we are a Jesuit college prep school on the westside of Chicago and we're part of the Cristo Rey network we have a network of 37 schools around the country that share the college prep and work-study model that we have and our goal is really to challenge and Inspire our students through the academic program through their work experience and through their extracurricular activities to really lead lives of servant leadership and integrity for God's glory and so we are Catholic School Aliso and but our students do not have to be Catholic nor do we you no desire to try to make them Catholic in order to be a student here but we do want to help deepen their faith and their relationship with Christ very proud to boast that we have had 100% College acceptance for all of our graduating classes and we offer rigorous curriculum Faith formation in October work study program is probably the most distinctive part of breath our students work in corporate internships that help to pay a portion of their tuition and so through that program students game for years of work experience graduated from high school so they enter college with marks. He's been some college we also offer extracurricular activities and sports I'm even during Colby Community Services a very big part of our school culture and we have a very nurturing at faculty and staff that offer support to we have a profile of our graduates that we call the grad at grad and these are the characteristics that we work to form in our students so of course we want to form ice to make sure that they are intellectually competent so that they have academic success but we're also very concerned about the person that they become and so our program is designed to help form and shape them and we want our students to be open to growth are going to experience. I just knew things religious loving committed to Justice and then that work experience is also very big part of our students formation big curriculum at Christ the King offers four years of Encore courses which for us includes the traditional core as well as religious studies and their corporate work-study program they will have credits also in foreign language Fine Arts and wellness in an elective students can apply to participate in AP courses advanced placement courses for which they can earn college credit I'm at the end of their sophomore year and so our program has higher fixations for our students it's not easy to ask a fourteen-year-old to come into a real work environment and Excel there as well as excelling in their academics what we offer High support to help our students get there and so we really want to welcome you to learn more about our school and hopefully to join our school Community to take on this unique challenge or your high school career I am going to pass it over to Judy Whittlesey who was our students and he'll talk read about our days office in our discipline program all right. Morning every one of my name is Marcus Whittlesey IMDb new student here Christ the King so I wanted to start off by talking about a culture of Peace in Excel pure Christ the King we we strive for academic achievement academically but we also want them to be well-rounded and so we know don't just focus on I'm academic weekly ad a lot of returns of you know Behavior expectations and things of that nature has have a responsibility to behave in a certain way are we ask that and doing that we do that dude building relationships with students and also just focusing on community love being one of our grad at grad values and so we really just want to welcome to the family and just make make them comfortable we Foster we want them to Foster Marley and Me for respect for all one thing about maximum learning that I really want to bring to your attention as we have high expectations around attendance and so it's in this is really important in order for them to maximize their learning all respect for the process and if so I just being focused in class and giving 100% effort every day and so we do ask that of about Scholars and then assuming accountability for one's own learning and behavior and so again we do have high expectations I asked a lot of you. A lot in return and so a part of you knows something accountability is doing the work but then also I can restore the practices we reflect on their behavior so they can hard for me to not repeat those mistakes and going inside restorative-practices some of the things that we do we have a sort of conversation that's usually between teacher-student I may be myself Community Circle that's typically with larger groups Grey Bubbles and things like that or maybe even advisories peace circles in the event that there are some issues we asked the students sit down and we talked and we figure things out on a mediation which is more of a one-on-one I would you are having anger issues with that said we do have a decimal system students I have to follow the student code of conduct any infractions that a student may have or do they will receive demerits for which could lead to a community which is similar to like a but with the restorative a reflective piece included and then also parent conferences if we notice that a student is struggling with it as he was attending or behavioral issues we will reach out to work with you so we can get them back on track and then outside of the discipline system we do recognize the achievements and behaviors and so we have things like student of the month for each grade level perfect attendance Raffles quarterly Awards Dean's List obviously for students that are really excelling academically and so again we just want to make sure that your students develop not only academically but as a whole person because at the end of the day that's what matters the most pink Yugi Moto Z I'm not going to turn it over to mr. zendala college counselor good morning everyone so great to see your faces this morning Runnings I always tell our admissions counselors that we really should be talking about our couch counseling program and shouting from the rooftops cuz I think what you'll find among the many things that makes Christ King unique compared to perhaps somebody else places that you might have is our College counseling program and so we really approach this from a four-year + College formation plan until we get in their freshman year from the first week they're here with us on campus were there summer business training we College counseling team is there to talk about you know what do you want to do with your future and what how does Conn's play a role in that and then we continue that formation through advisory advisory system where will Poppa and we'll talk you must have GPS tracking on academics and in various pieces like that so we really try to in a role in our College counseling in from from the first moment that your student will be with us and then we really set up Junior and Senior year all of our students take Junior SAT prep in the spring and have a college prep class so we begin really preparing for those college applications in their college prep class and will do career duration and will do interview practice skills and then the senior year is really highly structured so all of our students will write a personal statement it'll be read and approve read multiple times by various people I know apply to at least eight colleges we provide scholarship application support fast and financial aid support and then we don't end it there so we'll continue that in the second semester we're all of our students will take consumer economics and that for Sazon I like to call Life 101 how do I how do we become how do we adult in the world from a financial perspective what is saving and credit and Banking and investing what is all that look like and we tie that into our College 101 which is our College transition support so how do we enroll what is a College schedule look like what is it like to have a roommate how do we navigate different issues we might face in college and then we have a robust alumni counseling programs Arlen my counselor has regular check-ins with our graduates all the way through their college graduation we have support workshops living alumni assistance fund so we have a lot of various components that we've invested the time the energy into ensuring that our students have the opportunity and all the resources they need to be successful in accessing and rolling and graduating from college so yep that is who's my piece and feel free to come ask me questions in the breakout session thank you mr. Sunda McCain will use their information about a co-curricular activities and sports absolutely thank you Miss Alston so at Christ the King one of the benefits of us being a small school is that we're able to respond to student needs an interest and so in terms of our co-curricular activities and Athletics what is it that you want to do we have a variety of clubs and activities and most of them were actually started by our students so we want to Foster that student leadership so we have a process for students to start those clubs that most inter and so if we don't offer something that already meets your interest then you have an opportunity to start a new life activity that could be your interest I'm in terms of Athletics for this year we are following is just a guideline for so some sports are being allowed on during fall and some will be allowed during spring that minimize on the risk of a cobra transmission or that kind of contact and so we will continue to follow bad and have various offerings and so on the next slide you see just a sample of some of the activities that we offer but again we open that up to students and give them that opportunity to shape those activities to meet their interest thank you mrs. pain I'm Father's Day if I miss College will not talk about our service program and her campus ministry program I'm on muted and misses College isn't so I think I will go for a good morning everybody it's good to have you with us parents and help a lot of future Gladiators as does pain said we're really out to educate the whole person here obviously academically and socially but we want to educate the whole person and their faith formation and Faith formation of ctk I Has the three components cuz I would say one of the academic students are in class they take religion classes for years starting with scripture which is a very good way for students to enter into the religious studies curriculum and then campus ministry prayer services Retreat and Lodge will say a word about that but also the Third Leg of the stool so to speak would be in the Christian service and our feeling is that we have gotten to where we are at whatever age we are but by the grace of God and other people have helped us get where we are and we want to make it part of our program to help students learn to give back now many of them are doing that already it's not like this is a brand-new thing for them a brand new idea but we really encourage students to give back to the community and they can do it in a number of ways they could do it at their church or congregation local community organizations or Miss more rocks who was the director of of Chris and service is coming up with a lot of creative ways to do this virtually and there is so ways that kids can be of service at home or the community by not be physically present and so there is a a requirement and every and every year about Christian service and sometimes kids will say well if it's volunteer worker service how can I be a requirement as well it is a requirement sense of we consider this really important and it's going to be part end and it is a wonderful opportunity for kids during the air and sometimes summer programs it fills out their education and really gives them a sense of purpose that helps an overall formation of the person so now I will turn it over to my wonderful colleagues talk about campus ministry thank you Father Dave like you said my name is Miss Cheryl Catholic and I am the director of the campus ministry program here at Christ the King thank you all for being here is so wonderful to see you and have you as our guest this morning my role here at the school to be actually a spiritual advisor to our students and to work with them to enhance their spiritual life of the school throughout their four years here at Christ the King the mission of campus ministry is to occur We Are Young students and they encounter and follow Jesus Christ and also to provide opportunities of prayer worship and also enhance their relationship with God the ways we do that is we provide various worship Services throughout the year of recently those worship Services have been online and that has been working well another thing we do is we provide Retreat opportunities each student at Christ the King they will have to attend a retreat with their class the once-a-year the four years here that they are at Christ the King so these are ways we do we along with our Christian service director misses rocks We join together and provide opportunities of service and also times that they can attend events outside of the school and also participate in events outside of the school as well so that's basically my role here at Christ the King as a spiritual advisor I do accompany the students if they're going through like for example bereavement issues if someone is sick in the family or someone who is passed away in the family I work really close with the families and offer any type of prayer or service that I can so I look forward to answering any questions that you have when we go to the breakout session and I'm happy to turn this over to our work study program good morning my name is Mrs Rockets hello and I'm the vice president of corporate work-study program Christ the King would you for your interest in the ball and we're excited to talk to you a little bit about our corporate work-study program and then answer any questions you may have in the breakout session as on the slide to say we are principal part of the school we help we are apart of the Greta Craig polities of of making sure that our students are work experience would do this with a wonderful team of Sharon Ellis art director of operations play sellers art director for relations and three wonderful relationship managers who act as liaison between the students and our work Partners Miss Haines this just met them is Adam I'm going to turn it over now to Miss Alice Archer operations to go into a little bit more of the detail thank you and welcome everyone our goal in the corporate work-study program is to develop a diverse Workforce for the future and we're very happy to all I have your Newton's to mold them into that group as well now how do we do it cwsp is made up of multiple components we go through a job placement process as well as professional development and mentoring and we working currently in in a pandemic of course. We have a number of changes that will working on highlighting the professional development and mentoring with some of our partners next not traditionally ctk a student's work it over 117 greater Chicagoland businesses and nonprofit organization they have an opportunity to gain valuable skills needed for college career we have an opportunity to meet career-oriented professionals build their own personal resume and they also are given opportunities to be hired to pay during holidays and on during their summer breaks typical work day begins at 9 a.m. and ends at 5 p.m. our students are the workday is actually determined by their grade level on Tuesdays are seniors work on Wednesday are freshmen Thursday are sophomores and Fridays are Juniors and each grade level rotate Mondays during the school year students are expected to be at the school on there where they at 7:30 30 to 7:40 they will check in with the CWC staff at 7:40 a.m. when will have prayer and announcements at 8 a.m. 8 a.m. students take the CPK transportation to work at 6 p.m. your student Hulu. to the school now it's important to understand is he wsp is a graded class so students are required to complete their time cards each day at that particular time we asked our supervisor was actually gray them for that particular work day but they are also evaluated twice a year by their supervisors all incoming freshmen students they learn work Readiness skills which close Microsoft Office first impressions telephone etiquette communication professionalism dress code in office services summer business training takes place over two week. In July Monday through Friday each week and is required for enrollment thank you and we would look forward to answering any questions you may have during the breakout session thank you mr. Allen I miss Clark and mr. Sunday clematis Peak about our admissions process alrighty hello everybody I'm just going to take a quick moment to walk through a little bit about our early application deadline so December 7th is our early application deadline do you know I do send me your school presentation we are doing it early application Ralph also any students who finish and complete the application before November 20th I'm working to host some early interview session so that you'll have a disc right around December 7th on so keep that in mind applications will be accepted until our classes are full so we do do rolling admissions if there are a limited number of seats so make sure that you don't wait application process family interview days typically start after the new year so January 30th March 6th and April 3rd I'm with the exception of those early application so any of those applications that come in by November 20th I'm working to go ahead and schedule those interviews for the end of November and beginning of December so that we can have those decisions out before the end of the school year I'm so if you want to ensure that you have a seat at Christ the King you want to make sure that you start that application processed sooner I'm going to turn it over to miss miss Daniel as she can let you know a little bit more about the application process and what you need I'm so with our admissions process that I do want to highlight that we do not do any testing so we do not do the Catholic entrance exam like all our other parochial schools within the Archdiocese of Chicago if you decide to that did you want to apply to be a gladiator at Christ the King that you have to apply directly on our website mrs. Clark has added in the chat box the direct link to our application you'll create a profile and in that profile you'll start the application process we do I just take a little bit of time for us to get a decision because we do a host an interview for both the student and the Pea a guardian and we also take a look at report cards as well as test scores and recommendation letters so start thinking about what teachers you want to ask recommendation letters from this year we are having different requirements so for example with a little slightly so this year we will be looking at 6 through 8th grade report cards as well as test and you can always reach out to mrs. Clark or to myself if you have any questions more specifically about the application and what documents we are looking for a we take a look at all of that well as the interview because again we don't just want to base our decisions on academics we want to make sure that we have well-rounded individuals that are ready to go out into the workplace show a little bit about rxr financial aid Christ the King has their own financial aid program you'll receive an application once you register where is the Once you receive your acceptance you'll get a registration packet and in that registration packet you'll get the application to apply for financial aid we do not offer any additional scholarships but we do have our financial aid based on the income of the family in the number of individuals in the household we have a grade Financial 18 that works really closely with our families to ensure that the financial portion of attending Christ the King is not a reason why you decided not to attend our school these on the presentation or a list of external scholarships that you can begin doing your research on we do not again we're not part of the committee that decides whether or not your student gets the scholarship these are separate organizations that you need to reach out to you directly if you have any questions about their application process thank you Mr senyo I'm almost turning over to mr. scooter or CF boat speak about financial aid in the cost of Education of Christ the King X-Men is awesome good morning everyone thank you for your interest in CPK and thank you for joining us this morning I'm always struck by the enthusiasm of buddy all of my colleagues everyone associated with the school and hopefully that's something that our future Gladiators listening are starting to feel themselves parents and Guardians are probably asking the normal adult this sounds pretty good how do I afford it can I afford if we were to charge families the full cost of what it takes to pay teachers to keep the lights on to keep the place clean to run the all the utilities it would be $16,800 a year that's kind of in line with what a lot of private college-prep schools it's not what we charge nobody that we know could even think about affording that one of the brilliant things about Christ the King is that the work-study program was originally envisioned to give our young men and women a chance to get exposed to and learn how to work and to see their work and have that work respected in the workplace one of the Fantastic side effects of it is is that sponsors recognize the value of that and they pay your students over $9,000 a year which comes to the school don't get to see it unfortunately but it comes to the school to defray that $16,800 cost they are the most important contributors to the education and their future we have other people who are also very enthusiastic about your and their future their foundations their corporations are individuals who believe in the school and believe in the student they contribute to the school and that translates into almost $5,000 of need-blind scholarship every young man and young woman with him at the school now we've come a fair distance to paying that 16800 does boys and girls young men and young women are are earning most of it we have donors who were Pro remember scholarship assistance the maximum amount that any family will contribute to their child's their students education in a year is $2,600 most families pay significant how does that happen apply for and depending on where you live in your eligibility you may receive an Illinois tax credit scholarship that covers the full costume education of the school whisper senyo just mention it just talked about outside scholarships that you can apply for and hopefully we can win fight the king as resources to provide $1,000 no-questions-asked scholarship any student who graduates from a Catholic parochial school in Chicago and then after that we have need need-based financial aid again miss briceno mention that our school awards that based on the household size and household income in partially objectively and equitably to All Families on average family pay $1,200 a year after all the that's an average family pay as little as $680 others pay the entire $2,600 we want to make it as Fair as possible to everyone considering your resources and considering their expenditures we have never had a family say I can't afford this is the right school for my young man or my young woman but I can't afford to send them there if this is the right school will make it work financially thank you for your time thank you mister skoda I know we'll invite our faculty and staff to leave our main meeting so that they can begin their break out room and I'll turn over the hosting duties back to miss Park so she can facilitate the start of the breakout rooms and before she does that I miss briceno has an X and stuff for all of us everyone again so I will be at delete to the inquiry form so that you could please the fill that out before you go into your break out room this will ensure that by the end of the day today you will have password and your username to log back into our application portal and start the application process if that is what you decide Rite Aid and then anybody who has questions around financial aid mr. scooters going to stay here in this may session for for a few moments I'm so we can go ahead once you're done with the inquiry you can go ahead and ask any questions if you want to type in the chat and we can take him from there or you could feel free to unmute your mic and go ahead and ask your question and if you don't have questions around financial aid once you're done with your Inquirer now I'll we are going to go ahead and invite you to follow the links that you received in your email last night and this morning do you need me to go ahead and post them in the chat again yeah okay for the academic link is going to be okay to put it in it'll say the department and then the link that you need okay sorry give you a little more information that you need I'm the first thing there is for the academics Department the second link is for Ardennes Department the third link is for our athletics department to get copy that and put it in in a window and on another form sportslink is for RC wsp and then Christian Services and then after that we have our College counseling and then our parenting back so our parent ambassadors we have a group of our parents that are going to be in a room and to answer any questions parent to parent or student if you have questions on that maybe their students might have been able to answer for you I'm so they'll be able to we have some parents who have been with us for four years and have graduating students already and then some as early as freshman this year and last year so you'll be able to get a good perspective from them and they're as well so feel free to and work your way around you could log in and out of those meetings I will be here in this main room so if you get locked out or you get lost on feelfree it back to the store I ready you're free to go fly thank you so much for joining us today okay we have a question about financial aid assistance financial aid did I hear that there is an automatic thousand-dollar scholarship apply for a child who's coming from a Catholic Elementary School Yes you heard that correctly so Mister lies mr. scooter said any student was coming from Catholic elementary schools on WE automatically will apply the thousand dollars to the $2,600 what brings your total down to 1600 any other questions around financial aid and then do we have any latecomers to the meeting today great okay give me one second I'll get you that passcode for the parent room okay NBA topics Etsy I went ahead and added the meeting ID and the passcode did anybody else have a hard time with that I'm sorry I thought it was with everyone I'll go ahead and put that way okay that's the parents the fact wanted to parents I have a question about is a Christian Schools also count as no unfortunately I wished it I wish that the the source of the week happened to to apply that assistance would also allow us to Extended to students who graduated from Christian schools that are part of the Archdiocese Sears me archdiocese in the system that it only applies to graduates of Catholic elementary schools and I'm really sorry about that I wish we had the money to to make it more widely available there's a question about the eyepiece I'm so we do we do accept students who have IEPs and 504s we ask that you of course informants upfront and because it is a lot of longer process we what we do is we have three different departments you look at those forms we have our academics Department our counseling department as well as our corporate work-study program the important really important part about that is not only do we want to make sure that we could support your in-house but we need to be able to support your student when we to work in the third place with the proper working environment so short answer yes we do long answer there's a larger process to it each department will come through every page in every aspect VIP of the 504 and we're very transparent in the communication so as we get information will be sharing that information with you I'm to let you know overall you'll make that decision for your student with the best environment is work for and we will let you know what we can do to support your student absolutely any other questions around admissions or financial aid a group is getting smaller mr. scooter so as far as the interviews so right now what alarms are interviews are being conducted virtually so via zumar Google meats and then we we do we all of our interviews are done in person at the school but with the Cova can science we're not we're not allowing any outside individuals into the school that don't have to be in the school even admissions we work one week in the building other than that we're we're working from home remotely So eventually yes in person interviews but for right now for the safety of the students and staff the faculty and all the families perspective family we are doing it Berkeley I also see that mr. Glenn has asked a question about the sports and I'll just take a stab at that we are part of the Illinois High School Athletic Association they really set the rules for all of the sports teams that we have and you might have noticed on a slide I think we've got nine varsity and JV sports teams at the school so this fall because of social distancing and outdoor Etc the only sport that competed was cross-country so we had a squad of young men and women who actually they did very very well with the cross country season but we weren't allowed how to have other sports which would have been in door and had much closer physical contact because of what the State athletic association require we are doing conditioning under the rules that they have tablets for winter sports and it'll depend on what happens with the pandemic whether we are able to have a season or not right now men's basketball women's basketball I bust you in conditioning as is I believe women's volleyball don't quote me on that but we're doing everything that we can under the state guidelines to do conditioning to do practices and eventually to have a c's but it'll depend on what the State Board of Education State athletics location permit I have some emails coming in Linksys whilst I'm trying to send those out while we're in the chat I am just putting the deck in the document that lists every single one of the breakout room links thank you can reference pose and yes I'll put also put in the link to the application I'm in a separate window and because I'm recording it won't let me minimize it to go to the other one so it was all that back and forth I apologize I'm insulting just share the link for the application below Mexican. 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