CCRA
What does CCRA stand for?
College Career Readiness Academy
What is a motto?
A short, memorable phrase representing an organization's values or beliefs.
Giving everyone the same resources or support is called what?
Equality
What does accountability mean?
Taking responsibility for your actions, decisions, and their consequences.
What does HIB stand for?
Harassment, Intimidation, and Bullying
Name one area of life that CCRA is designed to prepare students for.
High School, college, trade, entrepreneur, military.
Describe a mission statement.
An organization's current purpose.
Providing people with the specific support they need for a fair opportunity to succeed is called what?
Equity
Describe bias.
Bias is a preference, belief, or judgment that favors or is against one person, thing or group.
Describe an upstander.
Someone who takes appropriate action to help or support others instead of ignoring harmful behavior
Name a skill or behavior that can help a student become college and career ready.
Responsibility, organization, communication, respect, following expectations, or appropriate technology use.
Describe a vision statement.
What an organization hopes to achieve in the future.
What is the difference between diversity and inclusion?
Diversity means having people with different backgrounds, identities, experiences, and perspectives represented. Inclusion means creating an environment where people feel welcomed, respected, supported, and able to participate.
What are the Six Pillars of Character?
Trustworthiness, Respect, Responsibility, Fairness, Caring, and Citizenship.
What is an Energy Vampire?
A person who brings negativity to a group and can drain the positive energy of others.
A student has good grades but regularly misses deadlines and forgets important responsibilities. What CCRA skills should this student improve?
Responsibility, time management, and organization
Why do schools have rules and policies?
To keep the school safe, organized, fair, respectful, or productive.
Three students are taking the same test. One receives extra time based on their needs while the other two do not need additional time. Why is this an example of equity rather than equality?
The students are receiving support based on their individual needs rather than everyone receiving exactly the same support.
A student hears someone making an unfair assumption about a classmate because of their race or identity. Which two Pillars of Character could the student use to respond appropriately? Explain.
Respect, Fairness, Caring, or Citizenship.
You witness a student repeatedly being targeted with disrespectful comments. Give two appropriate actions you could take as an upstander.
Report the behavior to an appropriate adult, support the targeted student, refuse to participate, or appropriately speak against the behavior.
Explain how following expectations in high school can prepare someone for expectations they may face in college or a future career.
Students learn responsibility, time management, organization, appropriate behavior, meeting deadlines, and other skills that are expected in college and workplaces.
A school's vision says it wants students to become responsible citizens who positively contribute to society. Explain ways the students could help accomplish this vision.
Students could discuss responsibility, respectful behavior, community service, teamwork, character education, following expectations, etc.
A school has students from many different backgrounds, so it has diversity. However, some students feel that their ideas are ignored and they do not feel comfortable participating. What is missing, and what could the school do to improve it?
Inclusion is missing. The school could create opportunities for all students to participate, listen to different perspectives, encourage respect, and make students feel welcomed and supported.
List all Six Pillars of Character and the color assigned to each pillar.
Trustworthiness – Blue, Respect – Yellow, Responsibility – Green, Fairness – Orange, Caring – Red, Citizenship – Purple
Students begin making jokes based on stereotypes. Other students laugh, and no one addresses the behavior. Over time, the comments become more harmful and targeted. Explain how this situation connects to the Pyramid of Hate and what could have been done earlier to prevent escalation.
The Pyramid of Hate shows that smaller acts of prejudice or intolerance can escalate when they are accepted or ignored. Students could have challenged the inappropriate behavior, refused to participate, supported those being targeted, or reported the behavior to an appropriate adult.