Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome idiots.
Speaker 1: Time now for our community connection right here on K one,
Speaker 1: the one you trusted. He is eight thirty three sixty
Speaker 1: two degrees and we've got some rains of sunshining here.
Speaker 1: Courtesy of Cornerstone Classical Academy. Dale willis you brought friends?
Speaker 1: I did tell us about our friends here today.
Speaker 2: There are two of our nine students that we have
Speaker 2: in our Leadership Academy. We have Gracie Call, who is
Speaker 2: a freshman, and Zane Deal, who is a senior and
Speaker 2: is also doing a little work for you guys around here.
Speaker 1: We see Zine every day.
Speaker 2: Cool.
Speaker 1: This is really neat. So I'm going to start out
Speaker 1: first of all with Zane. Tell us about your experience
Speaker 1: here with the leadership program.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, it's been great, it's been great.
Speaker 4: It's it made me realize how much work goes into
Speaker 4: like broadcasting and radio stations. Recently, Like I've been working
Speaker 4: with Joe a lot. He's been teaching me about voiceovers
Speaker 4: and it's so interesting how you can record something then
Speaker 4: it sounds like it's live on the radio and then yeah,
Speaker 4: it's just so interesting.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, there's there's a lot of different facets. Again,
Speaker 1: you're picking up on them pretty quick, and you're getting
Speaker 1: it from a seasoned professional. Yeah, that's that's kind of
Speaker 1: where this is all about, to get in some mentorship
Speaker 1: with folks who've been around the workplace a little bit.
Speaker 2: We're making a really strong effort at the Leadership School
Speaker 2: to get our students out into the community and see
Speaker 2: how things really work on the ground level and what
Speaker 2: what good leaders look like. I'm sure we'll eventually bump
Speaker 2: into what bad leaders look like, but we haven't yet.
Speaker 1: We're good.
Speaker 5: We started here with you guys, so we did it right.
Speaker 2: But now we're trying to be really active in the
Speaker 2: community and find out make those connections and just get
Speaker 2: our kids integrated, turning kind of turned knowledge into action
Speaker 2: and get them out there.
Speaker 1: That's great, Gracie, tell us a little bit about your story.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so, I'm loving the Leadership Academy.
Speaker 6: It really shows me, like how like what a good
Speaker 6: leader looks like and what makes a good leader and
Speaker 6: the attributes that past leaders have that we can apply
Speaker 6: in our own lives to make us better leaders in
Speaker 6: the future.
Speaker 1: Gate what are some of the things to make a
Speaker 1: good leader? A good leader.
Speaker 6: Well, like humility. That's a big thing that we've been
Speaker 6: looking at. Like with George Washington, we've been looking at
Speaker 6: him in the past, and a big thing that he
Speaker 6: had was.
Speaker 3: Humility, like to not take all of.
Speaker 6: His success for himself, but he really just like lifted
Speaker 6: others up and was like, well it wasn't just me
Speaker 6: who did this, it was all my other team as well.
Speaker 1: Wow, man, that's good. You do it right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're doing a deep dive into biographies of leaders
Speaker 2: in the past that have really done it the right way.
Speaker 2: We just finished George Washington. We're going to discuss Joan
Speaker 2: of Arc in class this week. That was our second
Speaker 2: biography that we've done, and we've got a really long
Speaker 2: list of leadership components and just great examples of doing
Speaker 2: it in a way that not only lifts your team up,
Speaker 2: like Gracie said, but also honors God and a strong
Speaker 2: effort to do thing the right way.
Speaker 1: Now, I understand that there have been some field drips
Speaker 1: just the short time you folks have been going to
Speaker 1: school police and firing it. Am I correct tell us
Speaker 1: about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So on nine to eleven, we did a tour of
Speaker 6: the Bartisville Fire Department and the Bartisville Police Department and
Speaker 6: kind of went over like what they do there and
Speaker 6: also kind of like how to get a job there.
Speaker 3: If like one of the students in leadership wanted to like.
Speaker 6: Go that career path, but really just what they do
Speaker 6: there and what makes them a special.
Speaker 1: Wow, you know, leadership and camaraderie and everything else. You know,
Speaker 1: the teamwork. You know, we're.
Speaker 2: Focusing in our ass on servant leadership and there's not
Speaker 2: a better example that in our police department, in our
Speaker 2: fur department of servant leadership, and we really got to
Speaker 2: see that blows up.
Speaker 1: Now, you're a senior this year, you've spent off for
Speaker 1: at the Cornerstone. Not exactly, not exactly, but how's your
Speaker 1: experience been at Cornerstone.
Speaker 5: At Cornerston, It's been great.
Speaker 4: It's taught me a lot, and it's taught me a
Speaker 4: lot of real world applications.
Speaker 1: Well that's good because you know, if you just get
Speaker 1: the hypothetical in the classroom and all of a sudden
Speaker 1: get out in the real world, that's like stepping on
Speaker 1: a racing getting that sulp right there. You know, it's
Speaker 1: not a good thing.
Speaker 5: When we started our year. This year, we haven't.
Speaker 2: There's a heavy infas on history studying earlier leaders in
Speaker 2: our in our program, and I promised our kids that
Speaker 2: we were not going to memorize dates this year, but
Speaker 2: we're going to look going to go a little deeper
Speaker 2: than that. We're going to see what made this leader
Speaker 2: make this decision. We're going to see how the culture
Speaker 2: influenced his decisions and his leadership. We're going to be
Speaker 2: more concerned with why they did what they did instead
Speaker 2: of when they did what they did.
Speaker 5: And I think that.
Speaker 2: Really that puts a lot more meat on the bone
Speaker 2: for what were study.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, there's a lot more to think about when
Speaker 1: you examined the thinking that's right that went into an action.
Speaker 1: And you know, when we go back to history, they
Speaker 1: say it's often written by the victors. Sometimes it's not.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's a combination of everything right. And once you
Speaker 1: get into that, I mean, you can probably see why
Speaker 1: some decisions are really really good. Now there's really really bad.
Speaker 1: Not going to make anything about mister Custer here, but
Speaker 1: you know things, but that was a bad decision. But anyway,
Speaker 1: it's great to know that you're in a great place
Speaker 1: with Cornerstone Academy. You're liking it so far, aren't you.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's been so fun. It's probably the highlight of
Speaker 3: my week.
Speaker 1: All right, very good and of course your experience you
Speaker 1: told us you really like this too. We have such
Speaker 1: a nice format because it's a blended format. It's a
Speaker 1: little bit about.
Speaker 5: This well, the Cornerstone Academy itself.
Speaker 2: We have the Leadership Academy that these guys are in
Speaker 2: that I teach, and then we also have just a
Speaker 2: Tuesday Thursday school at Cornerstone, which is a hybrid model
Speaker 2: of classroom on Tuesday Thursday and homeschool Monday, Wednesday Friday.
Speaker 5: And that's pre K through high school.
Speaker 2: We added high school classes this year and that's really
Speaker 2: really gone.
Speaker 1: Well, there you go. That's why you answered the way
Speaker 1: you did, because you knew, and you knew that I
Speaker 1: didn't know. Isn't he good? He's going to be a
Speaker 1: good leader.
Speaker 5: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: We've got nine kids in this class that have all
Speaker 2: proven that they're there for the right reasons. They're looking
Speaker 2: for ways to improve themselves, and they have their future.
Speaker 2: You know, they're thinking about what's next. And I'm not
Speaker 2: sure I did that when I was in High School.
Speaker 2: I was thinking about what was for lunch, and.
Speaker 1: I'm with you there, Dale.
Speaker 2: It's really impressive and just a blessing to me to
Speaker 2: get spend time with these guys.
Speaker 1: Now, how can parents find out more about this so
Speaker 1: that when they're looking ahead next semester or next year.
Speaker 5: You go to our Facebook page. What's our Facebook page?
Speaker 5: Comercial Classical Academy.
Speaker 2: I was confusing that with the website Corsal Classical Academy
Speaker 2: and go there, find all you need there and we
Speaker 2: can get connected with you and show you how to
Speaker 2: get plugged in.
Speaker 1: Well that's great. Plus, if you go to the website,
Speaker 1: just put it on the Google It'll get you there.
Speaker 1: You'll find out a little bit more about the history
Speaker 1: of the school and a little bit about everything else
Speaker 1: that goes on. I have been going on for a
Speaker 1: few years down and been doing quite well. Matter.
Speaker 2: This is the eleventh year of Cornerstone. We actually had
Speaker 2: a Chamber of Commerce ribbon cutting just this past week.
Speaker 2: We joined the Chamber and that's a really cool stepe.
Speaker 2: We really enjoyed that.
Speaker 1: All right, well, great, you know are you are you
Speaker 1: going to keep this a secret? You're going to let
Speaker 1: some of your friends know about this. Crazy.
Speaker 6: Oh, we're definitely telling everybody. We always are accepting new
Speaker 6: people and we always want to expand it so everybody
Speaker 6: can come and join.
Speaker 1: All right, So it's not the Bicket's kept secret anymore.
Speaker 1: It's getting out there.
Speaker 5: We're doing our best.
Speaker 1: Are we overworking you here, Zane?
Speaker 4: Oh no, no, I'm loving it.
Speaker 1: Okay. I just wanted to make sure because you know,
Speaker 1: when you're young, sometimes people say, well they can do it,
Speaker 1: I'll just sit here and watch. I'm hoping we're not
Speaker 1: doing that too. Yeah, Okay, good, good, Dale. This has
Speaker 1: got to be something really special for you. I know
Speaker 1: this is something you've wanted to do for a while.
Speaker 2: We've talked about this with various people in the community
Speaker 2: for about five years now, and it's just really you know,
Speaker 2: you never know when you pull something together what God's
Speaker 2: going to do with it.
Speaker 5: You just kind of count on that, and here we are.
Speaker 1: Well, you know something, in just a few short weeks
Speaker 1: after five years of putting it together, you folks have
Speaker 1: really caught fire.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of great conversation around our community right
Speaker 2: now that we're doing and that that just really really
Speaker 2: blesses all of us.
Speaker 1: It's pretty much one of the talks with the town,
Speaker 1: as they say.
Speaker 5: I think it is.
Speaker 1: I tell you what, you guys are no strangers, and
Speaker 1: I really hope you had a good time conversing with
Speaker 1: the police and fire because I got to tell you
Speaker 1: they're more than just people with sharp uniforms, and they've
Speaker 1: got sharp minds, right, and when it comes to just
Speaker 1: kind of figuring things out and working it all together,
Speaker 1: they do this on a day to day basis. Maybe
Speaker 1: if the rest of society would kind of figure that out,
Speaker 1: that we've got to do this all together, we might
Speaker 1: be in a better spot all the way resolutely. And
Speaker 1: maybe that's what this leadership is all about. I think.
Speaker 1: All right, once again, how can they get a hold
Speaker 1: of you?
Speaker 5: Can they just get a Hoostone Classical academy and take
Speaker 5: it from there?
Speaker 1: Alrighty, hey, thank you for bringing in the pair of
Speaker 1: the brightest.
Speaker 5: I'm really proud of both of them.
Speaker 1: We ought to be. I know they're my the dads
Speaker 1: are they are and we are too. Thank you very
Speaker 1: much and thank you every day. All right, all right,
Speaker 1: we've got more coming up.