The Renaissance program was introduced last year by Principle Ed West as a way to recognize students for things that would normally be passed by. Things like academic achievements and art accomplishments are the things that the Renaissance committee is trying to recognize with their program. While introduced by West, Student Council sponsor Jason Springer actually leads the program. The program is driven by both students and faculty.
“The Renaissance program really works best when you have both voices,” Springer said.
Though its name might not be known, the program continues to accomplish what it set out to do.
”The biggest difference I’m probably seeing is the student of the week program. I hear students talk about it quite a bit. I’ve seen students really appreciate when teachers nominate them,” Springer said.
“A lot of my friends and students I don’t know came up to me and said congratulations, I felt really good about that,” said sophomore student of the month winner T.J. Cobbs.
The Renaissance committee has many new ideas on the way. So far they have taken down the academic posters in the commons and will be adding some color in the commons and halls. A teacher of the month is also on the way. This will give students an opportunity to give their input on what they think about teachers.
“That would be really good,” Junior Jevan Bremby said. “Because we do appreciate them [teachers].”
”We also have just gotten the green light to take a big family group photo of everyone in the building, all students, all faculty members. We’re going to do that in the spring, we have a date set for that,” Springer said. “That way we get a photo that represents not just a certain class or certain group of people but everybody that makes up this building as our community”.
