Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 2: It's time now for our community connection right here on
Speaker 2: Kay one Bill one you trust. It is eight thirty
Speaker 2: two in our program today being brought to you by
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Speaker 2: Camp Funeral Home and Tall Grass Motors. And we have
Speaker 2: our folks from Cornerstone in here today. First of all,
Speaker 2: I'm going to refer to Todale here because Dale and
Speaker 2: I spoke last time.
Speaker 1: How are you doing, young man? I'm doing great well.
Speaker 1: You brought friends today, didn't you.
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 1: I brought the real deal today. Bring us up to speed.
Speaker 1: Who we got in here, and it is the ladies.
Speaker 1: This is Heather Deal on the closest to you.
Speaker 4: She is the director at Cornerstone, has been for several years.
Speaker 4: This is Emily Call who is new to our staff
Speaker 4: but is doing amazing things for us in the community
Speaker 4: and with some administration and marketing aspects of what we're doing.
Speaker 4: And it's been great to be able to meet with
Speaker 4: them through the summer and get the staying down the road.
Speaker 1: Well, let's start things up. We got school starting knowing Yeah,
Speaker 1: next week, next week exactly what day we're going to
Speaker 1: go on Monday Tuesday. There you go. You got to
Speaker 1: start off right with.
Speaker 5: A two weeks and Thursday.
Speaker 2: Okay, there you go. That's because you have a different schedule.
Speaker 2: It's kind of a blended thing.
Speaker 5: Isn't Yes, we have a hybrid model. So we meet
Speaker 5: Tuesdays and Thursdays on campus. Our teachers instruct and give
Speaker 5: instruction to our students, and then on Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
Speaker 5: our students are at home working with their families, their parents.
Speaker 2: Very very good. Now you know this is bringing a
Speaker 2: lot of excitement in for.
Speaker 1: You, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Absolutely? We're so excited for the school year to start.
Speaker 2: And what are you going to be doing here? You're
Speaker 2: going to be getting just kind of directions point where
Speaker 2: to go.
Speaker 3: Aren't you. So part of what I'll be doing is
Speaker 3: helping the school with some fundraising, and I'll be helping volunteer,
Speaker 3: getting the parents who are there to help with volunteering
Speaker 3: for the school, and then also with our leadership program.
Speaker 1: So you are kind of directing a little bit of
Speaker 1: traffic a little bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's all fun.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, very good. Now what do we have? But
Speaker 2: coming up this year. Are we doing anything a little
Speaker 2: bit different?
Speaker 3: We are.
Speaker 5: We are having a leadership program for students in high
Speaker 5: school ninth through twelfth grades, not just for the students
Speaker 5: at our Hybrid, but any student that has availability to
Speaker 5: meet on Wednesday afternoons. They could be a virtual student
Speaker 5: in public schools, they could be regular homeschool not attending Cornerstone,
Speaker 5: anyone that's available to come, We're going to be for
Speaker 5: writing leadership class. And what that means our goal is
Speaker 5: really to have students learn about great leaders in our community,
Speaker 5: in our town, our state, throughout history, because we want
Speaker 5: to teach these students and equip them to become great leaders,
Speaker 5: and not just in the future, but now, what kind
Speaker 5: of skills do they need now to be leaders in
Speaker 5: their lives where they're at. And so we're going to
Speaker 5: go over and teach skills such as writing a resume,
Speaker 5: presenting themselves in an interview, public speaking, creative reasoning skills.
Speaker 5: But not just skills, we want also for them to
Speaker 5: go into the community and meet with business owners and
Speaker 5: others to show them to lead them and guide them
Speaker 5: and learn from them.
Speaker 3: And so that's part of what I'll be working on,
Speaker 3: is coordinating with businesses, local companies, nonprofits, even trade just
Speaker 3: to get our kids out in the community so that
Speaker 3: they can tour these companies. We want them to be
Speaker 3: able to talk to the leaders of the companies the businesses,
Speaker 3: find out what kind of degrees that these companies are hiring,
Speaker 3: what skills they're looking for, and just what types of
Speaker 3: employees that they're hiring right now, just to give just
Speaker 3: to give these students a wide view of what all
Speaker 3: different opportunities there are right here in Bartlesville.
Speaker 2: You know, it all starts with a question, doesn't it, Hey,
Speaker 2: how are you doing what you need?
Speaker 1: How can we help you?
Speaker 2: And next thing you know, a conversation has started, and
Speaker 2: leadership kind of picks up after the conversation starts. Sometimes
Speaker 2: leadership begins with leading the conversation. But this is really
Speaker 2: important because students are really taught to follow instruction for
Speaker 2: a good long time and it's not till they get
Speaker 2: to this stage where you know, you start identifying that
Speaker 2: you might be a leader, or someone identifies in the
Speaker 2: pupil that they could become a good leader.
Speaker 1: Is very important because we need them.
Speaker 4: We do.
Speaker 1: Especially with a perspective.
Speaker 5: The cornerstone offers yes, yes, we definitely do. And we're
Speaker 5: excited for these kids to become great leaders. We know
Speaker 5: that anyone can. We just want to equip them with
Speaker 5: the tools they need and give them experiences that will
Speaker 5: help shape that.
Speaker 2: Now, Emily, like you said, you're going to be scheduling
Speaker 2: a lot of speakers and tours and things like that. Now,
Speaker 2: tell us a little bit what can we expect on
Speaker 2: a tour?
Speaker 3: Well, I think one, for instance, we're going to be
Speaker 3: going into Chevron Phillips, and so we're really excited for
Speaker 3: that one. I know there's a safety training that goes
Speaker 3: it's involved with that before you can even enter, and
Speaker 3: they'll be taking us all around their plastics department, I believe.
Speaker 3: And then we'll get to talk to the leaders of
Speaker 3: that company when we're finished with the tour and find
Speaker 3: out what types of degrees that they're hiring and what
Speaker 3: they look for in an employee.
Speaker 2: This is great, this is very important, you know. And
Speaker 2: now all of a sudden, here are these kids getting
Speaker 2: ready to go to school tomorrow. I like, Mom, why
Speaker 2: didn't sign up over here?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: And that's that's actually kind of a twofold perk for
Speaker 3: these businesses is that we're showing these students different opportunities
Speaker 3: that we have here, and we're hoping that maybe they'll
Speaker 3: come choose to come back and work right here in
Speaker 3: Bartlesville when they see what all is available.
Speaker 2: That's great because, yeah, you know, I grew up in
Speaker 2: a small town and the hardest thing to do is
Speaker 2: get the kids to come back home after after college
Speaker 2: or even after after high school.
Speaker 1: They've got to go see the world.
Speaker 2: And usually what happens here in Bartlesville, what I've seen
Speaker 2: in five years I've been here, they'll go off to college,
Speaker 2: but they come back here to raise.
Speaker 1: The family start all over again.
Speaker 3: And that's that's exactly our hope now Dale again.
Speaker 2: You you were talking about the Leadership Academy the last
Speaker 2: time we were in here.
Speaker 1: Where are we going to be meeting with kids?
Speaker 4: We're going to be a Grace Community Church on Wednesday afternoons.
Speaker 4: This will still be under the Cornerstone umbrella, but Grace
Speaker 4: has a lot of new space over there that I
Speaker 4: kind of was a part of before I retired from Grace,
Speaker 4: and they've been wonderful to allow us some of their
Speaker 4: new space to do this in and we're really pumped
Speaker 4: about that.
Speaker 2: Well, that is great. You know something, Dale ad the
Speaker 2: same week. We don't really retire.
Speaker 1: We keep on going. You might have you might have
Speaker 1: cheese a little bit, keep up watch him.
Speaker 2: He's a speech strip in that he gets things done.
Speaker 1: That's great. That it's great, And I understand you're looking
Speaker 1: for interns.
Speaker 3: Yes, we are looking for companies that might be interested
Speaker 3: in having an intern Like Heather said that, we will
Speaker 3: have high school in this program, and so they'll be
Speaker 3: high schoolers. They do somewhat have a flexible schedule. A
Speaker 3: lot of them are homeschooled, not all of them, but
Speaker 3: a lot of them are, and so their schedules have
Speaker 3: availability for being able to come and work a little bit.
Speaker 3: So we're looking for any companies that might be interested
Speaker 3: in having an internship or even a job shadowing opportunity.
Speaker 3: Any of those would be wonderful. And if there's a
Speaker 3: company listening and they're like, oh, yeah, that sounds like
Speaker 3: something we want to be a part of, they can
Speaker 3: email us at Cornerstone Classical Academy at gmail dot com
Speaker 3: and we would love to talk to them and find
Speaker 3: out what opportunities.
Speaker 1: They might have and you will get a response. Absolutely, Yes,
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 2: Want to talk to you a little bit about the
Speaker 2: school in general. What grades do you encompass?
Speaker 5: We have pre K through twelfth grade this year, the
Speaker 5: whole deal we do. It's so exciting. We've added a
Speaker 5: high school this year, so to be our first year
Speaker 5: offering high school, and we have our middle school is
Speaker 5: a pretty big group this year also, but we have
Speaker 5: even the little bitties all the way to pre K.
Speaker 2: Now, for folks who are hearing this right now who
Speaker 2: might not have been aware of a cornerstone class school academy,
Speaker 2: when do you accept a new students do they decide
Speaker 2: that maybe this is a course of education they want
Speaker 2: to bring.
Speaker 1: To their kids.
Speaker 5: We've been enrolling all summer, but if you're interested in
Speaker 5: learning more, definitely reach out to us by Facebook email.
Speaker 5: We'd love to talk to families that are interested in
Speaker 5: coming alongside us and partnering. It is really a partnership
Speaker 5: with families, which is exciting because it's part homeschool and
Speaker 5: part private school.
Speaker 2: So everybody's involved in this one, all hands on deck.
Speaker 1: You know. I like that, you know.
Speaker 2: Because sometimes parents are kind of looking at the homework
Speaker 2: and thinking, well, and now you get to be a
Speaker 2: part of the the experience. It's not that the parents
Speaker 2: don't know the material or whatever, but they might be
Speaker 2: just a little bit confused on how it's being taught
Speaker 2: and or how it's being presented. And in this way,
Speaker 2: you know, everybody gets to participate.
Speaker 4: Right, they may just be too busy, yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: and with with this, with this model. But as Heather
Speaker 4: said that the parents are partners with us and they're
Speaker 4: provided with all the curriculum and all the tools they
Speaker 4: need to teach this at home. And I hear last
Speaker 4: year was my first year at Cornerstone, but I heard
Speaker 4: parents throughout the year talk about what they were learning
Speaker 4: as they went through the curriculum as well. And when
Speaker 4: you make that a team effort within your the walls
Speaker 4: of your home, it just gives it a depth and
Speaker 4: a dimension that's very very special and uh and makes
Speaker 4: the kid the student look forward to the next you know,
Speaker 4: set down with mom or dad and what are we
Speaker 4: studying today?
Speaker 1: And it's a great model. Now you're still educating folks too.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, I'm teaching on Tuesday and Thursday Cornerstone
Speaker 4: Excellent Teacher.
Speaker 1: And then on Wednesdays.
Speaker 4: On Wednesdays at the excuse me, the Leadership Academy only.
Speaker 4: So it's a great week.
Speaker 1: Very good, very full. I like that.
Speaker 2: And the thing is with this hybrids, it's easy for
Speaker 2: the parents to carry on and keep along because they're
Speaker 2: doing it every day. So it's not like they're going
Speaker 2: to get a surprise at any time too, because of
Speaker 2: the level of closeness and.
Speaker 5: Participart right communication with their teacher and the students communicating
Speaker 5: with the teacher. And in high school. Something I wanted
Speaker 5: to mention was high schoolers night through twelfth grade can
Speaker 5: come in for one class, two classes. They don't have
Speaker 5: to come for every class.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, all of yeah.
Speaker 3: And it's not too late to enroll. We are still
Speaker 3: accepting enrollments right now. And I think Heathery already mentioned
Speaker 3: that the high school Leadership program is available for anyone.
Speaker 3: They don't have to necessarily be homeschooled because it's in
Speaker 3: the afternoon. It's twelve thirty to three thirty one day
Speaker 3: a week on Wednesdays at Grace Community Church, And so
Speaker 3: we want to open that up for any high schooler
Speaker 3: that has the availability to be a part of it
Speaker 3: to contact us and come.
Speaker 1: Very good, Dale, do you want to add some to that.
Speaker 4: I was just going to say, we've already developed some
Speaker 4: really great relationships with entities within the community Tri County,
Speaker 4: for example, Career Tech.
Speaker 1: We've met with them.
Speaker 4: We're going to be able to kind of share some
Speaker 4: kids back and forth on a few things with some
Speaker 4: guest maeakers and come over and maybe set in on
Speaker 4: some classes in some areas that our students have a
Speaker 4: specific interest in. We're very, very thankful for that partnership
Speaker 4: and looking forward to see.
Speaker 1: What it's going to bring to us. This is a
Speaker 1: whole lot of partnerships.
Speaker 2: This isn't just like one little think bubble and you
Speaker 2: take it home a little bit and come back a
Speaker 2: little bit. This is a whole lot of hands and
Speaker 2: hearts and minds and souls getting together, isn't it.
Speaker 5: Yes, it definitely is. We're hoping to bring the community
Speaker 5: and really work together.
Speaker 2: All Righty, I appreciate that where can you be found
Speaker 2: on the world wide Web?
Speaker 5: But Cornerstone Classical academyokay dot com?
Speaker 3: Not okay, just corner Cornerstone Classical Academy dot com.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Part of our readjusting and adding the high school
Speaker 3: as we have a brand new website, and it's allowing.
Speaker 3: It's a it's a twofold. It's a great website. But
Speaker 3: also it's a portal for our parents to be able
Speaker 3: to use too when they're helping their students with doing homework.
Speaker 3: And so that's why you've got.
Speaker 5: Anyone And you can register and roll online.
Speaker 3: Yes, everything can be done online.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And if somebody wants to make a phone call, that
Speaker 2: phone still works, does Yes, they.
Speaker 3: Can reach out to me or to Heather.
Speaker 4: I don't know how there's.
Speaker 1: Spin off a message, it's okay, but that's fine.
Speaker 2: And if somebody's got to, like, say, a thousand dollars
Speaker 2: in their pocket and they're itch and to spend it
Speaker 2: someplace and they just know they're going to do something stupid,
Speaker 2: can you direct them on how they can make a
Speaker 2: donation to keep Cornerstone going.
Speaker 1: On in.
Speaker 3: We actually have a donation link on our website and
Speaker 3: so anyone is able to donate. We are a nonprofit
Speaker 3: and so those are tax detectable donations.
Speaker 2: Okay, So whoever's walking around with one hundred dollar bill
Speaker 2: or a thousand bucks in the pocket thing and you
Speaker 2: might do something silly, it's be responsible.
Speaker 1: Let's make a nice charitable donation and tax people.
Speaker 3: Like to I'm sorrying a student. Yes, all of those
Speaker 3: things are very much appreciated.
Speaker 1: Very good deal.
Speaker 4: You want something, there's just going to say a lot
Speaker 4: of school models across the country have offers for for
Speaker 4: what you just described. They could sponsor a student, like
Speaker 4: Emily said, but some have also stepped up and said, well,
Speaker 4: I'd like to sponsor a teacher. Sweet and that takes
Speaker 4: a financial load off the school. Is just a wonderful
Speaker 4: partnership as well.
Speaker 1: Well, this is great.
Speaker 2: Anything that we might have missed it, We need to
Speaker 2: get out to the word out to anyone.
Speaker 4: We get started at Cornerstone on Tuesday Thursdays next week
Speaker 4: and at the Leadership Academy over at Grace on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: We're ready to come and join us. All right.
Speaker 2: I want to thank you all for coming in, and
Speaker 2: you're welcome any old time you want to drop by. Okay,
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