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Working with others to achieve a certain goal can be very helpful. For me to successfully work with a work of people I have to know them enough for me to be comfortable. There are times where working with others is a disaster and I don’t get any thing accomplished, but that may be resulted because I didn’t know them enough or I just didn’t get along with them. I can get along with almost everyone but there are just some people that don’t put their part into it. When ever there’s a goal waiting to be achieved and takes team work, it is up to everyone in the group to work together and not slack off. For example at any job you are expected to do your work and finish what was assigned for you to do. Working by your self is good some times to, but when ever I work with others I end up getting new experiences. I love getting new experiences of any type of work because if there is a next time to it I can always make it better. Working with others has its up and downs, you might get things done faster and better or end up with the complete opposite. But what ever the case is, working with others will only make your team work skills stronger.

The Best Community 

To have a great community it must consist of trust, integrity, respect, and responsibility. The only way you could possibly even have a community is if everyone in it has the same basic goals and needs. A community is like a family outside a family. We all have similar aspects in what a family should be, and what the meaning behind family is.

Olde Columbine once was one of the greatest communities you could have ever seen. Every student has come from similar backgrounds which; had lead them to OCHS in the first place. Where, we all have the same goal of graduating and succeeding in life. Therefore we had made the school not just any community but a family in which it has been made easy to reach this goal.

If each and every person had trust, integrity, respect and were responsible you’d always find the best community. Life will always be an adventure traveling from one community to another. Yet, no matter where life shall lead you, just have those couple of things in mind and you could be the start of something great.

 

Creating a successful community consist on several things. One big thing that every community should have is rules and regulations to keep the community up and running. OCHS has a governance meeting once a week, a place where the ones in the community have a right to be heard and have a chance to speak. Having a gathering to talk about what is going on in the community is very important so everyone can get an idea of what is going on around them. Another thing a community should have is to host activities where everyone in the community is expected to put some part into it. That’s important so the community has each other close enough where things can get accomplished successfully. A community will always have people that care enough to volunteer to help the community, and others that just don’t care of what is going on. OCHS also has its “norms” that are expected to be fallowed by everyone. In a community it is great to have some thing similar to the “norms”. Those are certain rules that will jump in to help the community not fall apart.

GOVERNANCE 

Our governance meetings show the perfect democracy in a way that no other democracy can seem to comprehend. We tend to always have everything that a perfect democracy needs. We have the people that don’t really care the ones that are way into it and the people who aren’t happy with what’s going on in the meeting. We also have the leaders of the community so we have people to help keep everyone under control. If we didn’t have leaders to help keep everyone under control there would be udder insanity in every meeting and we would never get anything important done.

In a democracy you do need the people that don’t really care about things because they can have good points about some things. Like what is the point of worrying about this it’s so stupid and crazy. There are things that we worry about that don’t really need to be worried about. The people that aren’t really into it will tell you if it’s really important or not.

In a democracy you also need the people who are way into it because if you didn’t then you would never have anything to talk about and work on. When we do have something to talk about if there isn’t anyone who is way into it then there would be no discussion on what is going on in the community. They can also be the crazy ones who will just get way into a subject and just go crazy about it if it doesn’t go their way.

In a democracy we also have the leaders. If we didn’t have the leaders to run the meetings things will get way out of control and out of hand. We wouldn’t get anything done due to the lack of order. The leaders also help to start a discussion about important items on hand in the community.

All of these things make Olde Columbines governance meetings the perfect democracy. With the ones with a lack of interest, the ones with too much interest and the leaders of the community from which we have created among our selves. When we are all put together we make the perfect democracy and the perfect family in our little school of peace. We are the perfect democracy.

Each Other

Throughout life we all work with others whether we realize it or not. Like at a job you realize that you and coworkers, work together to get things done. Then at school each student kind of works alone at putting something into the school yet in the end it is a team of students and teachers work that has made it functional. Also back at home each and every person does their part and it makes not only a house but a home.

No matter what you shall be doing it fits into something else. It’s like a puzzle, you sit flipping and turning, mixing and matching pieces together. Once you are stuck and all out, you go to someone to see what they got to give and help. Eventually there will be a group of people sitting looking at the big picture saying I helped with that.

 Some of the hardest parts can be working with people you don’t get along with or giving and getting directions. Some like to be leaders and give the directions but have to learn to sit back and take some direction. Others like getting the directions but have to learn to step up to the plate; be a leader and give directions. Also there are always people that don’t get along but to get something done they have to suck it up and work together just to get the project done.

Sometimes a person just wants to give up; build walls and shut out the world. Even when one does that every move they make and lead to someone else doing something. When this happens others will work together to figure out why it has happened and what they can do to tear down the walls. As you can see, even if you are alone your actions lead to others.

All of this is just apart of living and making it through. People have to learn and challenge themselves. Also no one can ever take the easy way out and do the things they like and know they can do. At some point in their life they have to do the complete opposite. All in all, working together with others is all around us and part of life even if we do not recognize it.

Governance  

Governance at Olde Columbine is a whole school meeting in which we have democracy. In fact governance is almost a better and more accurate democracy then America itself. What we vote on comes from the people for the people. When we vote everyone is equal and majority wins the vote. In America for certain things majority wins but with other things it has to be passed through different legislations and offices and then they get to decide. Therefore it’s not for the people by the people.

Everyone one, teachers and students are equal; if all the teachers don’t want something but the students do, the proposal gets passed into the handbook. Governance and its’ democracy is good for OCHS. If someone doesn’t care and doesn’t vote oh well it’s their choice. We believe in individuality, therefore with the democracy part people are able to care or not, to get upset, to invoke in some conversation about something, find out about something.

In America though; people are able to do all that but to only and extent. Lets look at it as if, legislation is the teachers and the citizens are the students. A vote took place, and majority said yes, so it get’s passed to legislation and they don’t think it’s the right thing at least not right now so it gets thrown out. America says it’s by the people for the people, yet it doesn’t feel like it.

As you can see America is mischievous in many ways. They go around certain things. Also they’ll make a law people want, but yet there is another law contradicting that law. At OCHS when they say it’s student lead, run and for the students they are not kidding. All rules are basically made by the students to help students, as long as they abide by state laws. All in all governance is an ideal democracy; granted it can get hectic but what would be democracy without that.

The Olde Columbine norms seem almost pointless. Not many students even know the norms. Also some don’t even know the meaning behind them. The norms are just common courtesy. If you truly think about this is all true. So really, how useful are they?

Most students that go to OCHS; if asked what are the six Olde Columbine norms? They’d probably say I don’t know same with the teachers. The meaning behind some of them aren’t clear; like embrace individuality does it mean be different/be your self, or accept some one no matter what. If you think about it the norms are just what happens to most people when the mature and grow up.

 Owning your actions you have to when you’re an adult. Helping and embracing individuality just happens. Kindness and consideration is something most people do anyway just to get through life. Honestly not many confront wrongdoers, it’s called the cops these days. Strive for knowledge if they want knowledge they will and if they don’t they wont its’ that simple.

After reading this put major thought into it. How much of what has been said true? How much of what has been said false? They are apart of what makes this school. They are great don’t get me wrong, but know one truly knows them or thinks about them when they go through their day. All in all there really are no norms, it’s just common day courtesy.

                                                     Norms                                                   Maritza Duran

 

           The norms at Olde Columbine High School are apart of every student and every staff member within Olde Columbine. Even though they were made years ago, they still are held up to expectations. Norms are what help our school not only to progress into better learning opportunities but to also strive to want to be apart of the OCHS community. I do believe that this school stands out then any other school that I have ever attended. The Olde Columbine norms help every student in their own way to feel comfortable and to reach their goal of getting a high school diploma. Without worry of being excluded, nor discriminated.

 

           The definition of norms is a standard, model or pattern of a general level or also known as average. For example two cars per family is the norm for most suburban communities. Starting off at Olde Columbine I thought it would be like every other school, but after a couple of days I soon comprehended that this school was nothing alike to all my old schools. At Olde Columbine students actually care about each other and don’t judge you for who you are, how you look or for who you hangout with. The Olde Columbine Community understands that we all come from different backgrounds and just because you’re different whether it be that you’re a punk, a geek, a nerd or one of the popular kids.

 

Some of the norms are to own your actions, accept the consequences. This norm teaches you to be responsible for what you do. Help when ever possible helps students and teachers know and feel comfortable to help some one in need. Embrace inviduality lets everyone feel comfortable to be themselves knowing that they do not have to be fearful of being ridiculed for being different. Practice kindness and consideration if some one you see is having a bad day try to help out or another example is smile and try to converse with everyone around you so that no one feels left out. Another norm is to teach to the norms tactfully and to confront wrongdoers this norm helps every one be informed of how Olde Columbine and its students like to be treated and how we as a school like things to go, also not to just point fingers at other peers if there is a problem handle the problem in a mature way were everyone will feel comfortable and safe. The last norm at Olde Columbine is to strive for knowledge, don’t be afraid to learn and gain new experiences.

          

           The Olde Columbine norms are very useful, they teach not just students but visitors and teachers many lessons that can be used in everyday life. The norms are very beneficial for not only the students but also for the teachers and the school in general. Our norms are what make us as a community stand out against disrespect and discrimination. The norms are what keep our school going helping students and teachers get along and learn not just from teachers but from other fellow students. Olde Columbine understands that we all come from different backgrounds and that we all have different history but instead of looking down at us for being different we are welcomed with warm smiles.

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE NORMS

    The norms have been around for a very long time and yet they still are symbols of great importance among the people here at Olde columbine.

• Own your actions. Accept the consequences
• Help whenever possible
• Embrace individuality
• Practice kindness and consideration
• Teach the norms. Tactfully confront wrongdoers
• Strive for knowledge

The norms give examples of the proper ways to act and treat people. With it we are able to set up a foundation on which to welcome new people into our community. With out them we wouldn’t be able to keep actions from normal high schools out of our school but with them we are able to so we don’t have so much trouble with the issues and drama that would other wise be here among us today.      To own your actions and accept the consequences is a good norm to remember. Yet it may be one of the hardest norms to follow because most people will be to afraid to come out and own your actions so how would they be able to accept the consequences. Its best to own your actions that way we could help the person fix what ever went wrong. To help people whenever they may need help will help you feel better about yourself while also befriending someone new which will also help anyone feel good about themselves along with the person that you helped feel good about being able to make a new friend just by the who ever helped them helping them out. To embrace others individuality is to embrace the world. No matter where you go or what school you go to everyone is different weather they like to admit it or not. To be different is a wonderful thing in fact its one of the best things in the world.   Practice kindness and consideration is a great thing to do. Sometimes all someone needs is for a stranger to give them a smile. Kindness and consideration also makes someone feel good about themselves and others. Once people started to show me some kindness and consideration I started to grow into the wonderful person that I am now. I now show everyone I meet the same kindness and consideration that I have received here at Olde columbine. I did not get even the slightest bit of kindness at my middle school. We should all teach the norms to everyone even from people out side of Ochs. If everyone knew the norms the world would be a happier place. Tactfully confront wrong doers will better help the people learn to be a better person. People will better decided to actually stop doing what is wrong because they see that they don’t need to cry out for attention. Strive for knowledge so that you can make the best of yourself at all times.

     I try to always follow all the norms because they have brought me so much happiness and I think the norms should be like the Ten Commandments so that everyone follows them. So many people will be a lot happier if they were like the Ten Commandments. The norms are good rules to follow. I think I will teach them to all my friends and family then they can follow the norms as well. I see it here at Olde columbine all the time peoples life changing so much just because of a few norms.

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Interview about Restorative Justice and Democracy at Olde Columbine

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Leadowers - I'm spending some time this summer thinking about the leadership class curriculum and I need your help.  I'd like to encourage you to change your settings on your posts in this community - please post publicly.  I certainly can't force you, but you're all very bright writers and I plan link this community to my blog.  That's where I'm developing my thinking about the class. I encourage you to engage my thoughts in the blog and help me develop the class. 

If you're reading this, call everyone you know who's been in leadership or thinks they might want to take it next year.  Spread the word. 

I'm talking with some teachers right now about how to use technology in the classroom and don't think there's anyone in the world with better ideas about that than y'all.  I'd like to beef up Creative Writing with technology.  Here're my goals:

I'm talking with some teachers right now about how to use technology in the classroom and don't think there's anyone in the world with better ideas about that than y'all.  I'd like to beef up Creative Writing with technology.  Here're my goals:

- Share what we're doing with the cyber community.  Seems like workshop is pretty useful but we're kind of selfish about it.  How can we share with teachers, students, parents, principals, professors...

- Document what's happening. Surely this hasn't happened to anyone reading this but at some point, some student has actually misplaced his or her readers responses and had some difficulty with the end-of-quarter reflection.  I know that suprises you, but it's happened:)  This'd help y'all see how you grow as readers and as writers.

- Provide more opportunity to write and get feedback about your writing.  One of the biggest complaints about this class is that y'all don't get to do more than one workshop.  Some of you remember when I tried to move the workshop into the moodle - it was a bit of a disaster.  Do you think there is an online format that would allow you to do a traditional readers response?  

So - if you're paying attention, please give me some feedback.  What ideas do you have that can help me meet these goals?

Oh, and check out this poetry blog.  It's authored by Loveland's alternative poets.

She's beautiful, loves dancing and painting too

She works hard, everyday attends to school

She loves the time with her family and friends

And prays for it to never have an end

She adores a boy and falls in love

Always feels as if he's from above

Feeling high never wanting to come down

They talk for hours about the world around

It all seems so perfect without a second guess

Love is all she sees, nothing more, nothing less

As time passes by, day after day

Right before her eyes their love begins to slip away

She feels a difference with the connection between

She is no longer feeling like a royal queen

Where is their love going? She begins to wonder

She doesn't enjoy the feeling of going under

A phone call comes to her from a friend

What she hears she can't comprehend

She feels disgusted as the walls begin to spin

Her control of emotions starts to grow thin

She slowly presses end on her cell phone

Feels the whole time she's been with a clone

"It can't be him, he is against every lie"

She tells herself as she feels an urge to cry

This is why he always slipped away

She sees the games he wants to play

He was unfaithful and betrayed her

The anger within her begins to transfer

Now she understands what she must do

She knows that she can make it through

She forgets his promises and leaves

Respect and truth is what she believes

He disrespected her with what he did

While she was carrying his own kid

He lost the truth that he swore to hold

Withholding truth is just as cold

After all this she puts him behind

She begins new while feeling undefined

She holds her hed up high for she knows

When her child looks at her its strength she shows

Dreams have various meanings but this dream was beyond explainable. I began walking down the narrow stairs; a foggy mist of light led my eyes towards a big metal door at the bottom of the well. I had no idea how I had gotten there, no idea for the purpose. I was confused and scared yet my mind overflowing with curiosity. Hands trembling, I grasped firmly to the rail that was wet an tarnished as if it was worn. By the looks I could tell this abandoned, unknown place had history. It was old and reminded me of a prison.

Every step I took creaked the wooden planks under me. Trying hard to keep my knees from giving in, I kept walking one foot in front of the other. After what had seemed like forever I finally reached the end of the staircase. I looked up and noticed a chain of pipes leading a maze down the perimeter of the wall, sounding as if water were being drained. Once my eyes followed the bronze tubes down they hit the floor. The hard concrete ground was cold and bare. A small flashing light beamed from underneath the door. I observed the engraving and bolts on the outside entrance which would lead to another unfamiliar place. The doorknob was aged and flipped up to unlock. I took and deep breath and pushed the passage open.

The temperature of the air had changed dramatically. Every inhale; a cold breeze, which became painful as it filled my lungs. I looked up to the center of the barren room. My heart dropped, as did I. My cousin was strapped with leather and silver buckles around his ankles and wrists onto a wooden chair. He sat with no words coming through his dry pale lips. Tubes were leading in and out of his body supplying oxygen. Once he looked towards me with his eye lids struggling to raise, I could see he was silently begging for help. I crawled up to release him, but as soon as I got close I was blocked. As if some force was not allowing me to touch him. I began screaming for help as tears rolled constantly down my face. I felt the room begin to shake and noticed a large black shadow in the corner of the room. That's when my body decided to wake from this mesmerizing night. 

Imagine

 

Lying there day by day

Doing nothing

Starring, eyes slightly open

But open to what?

Blankness, more of this word called 'nothing'

Hard to sleep

Hard to dream

The only time for my mind to be distracted

Yet I imagine the same every night

Tubes leading in

Tubes leading out

A cold room

Eyes locked on the center

Ears open but I only hear what  I want

Clock tends to move fast, but body moves s l o w

I pray for something new. . .

I'm sure we all do

They say to give is better than to receive

Well here I am arms open on my knees begging to give

Give my legs, to walk

Give my voice, to talk

Give my lungs, to breathe

No one would want to be in his shoes

Yet here I am willing  to trade it all

 

 

* I love you paul. . .

Their is an overwhelming force pressed upon me to drop out. my reason are im already legal drop out age and i feel if you cant do something right dont do it it at all. i feel like im not ready to be successful in school considering i havent yet been continusly good in school i start off good then slowly decrease in academic performance. and besides its not that big of a deal more than 60% of high school students drop out by their junior year. so what is keeping the rest of the percentage from dropping out is it that they love school is it they are afraid to tell their parents or what?

i try not to think about how the further the generation goes on the more spoiled and rich or drug addicted we get.

these kids seem to learn from ciggarette burns in the way that many parents abuse their children or do illicit drugs around or with them

they also learn from fast cars in the sense of they always need the best newest most biggest extravagant object.

they learn from fast women as if all women are loose and should be treated as an object instead of a person

and cheap drinks like its ok to do grugs alcohol ect.

and my favorite quote "all these asphyxiated self medicated take the white pill youll feel all right."

this is saying kids these days arent afraid to try anything, i would know.

so next time you think about having kids think what moral values are you going to teach them. are you going to be the cigarette burn parent or the good parent that your kid actually didnt die from drug overdose suicide  alcohol consumption. or drunken car crash. or ended up in prison from a gang fight or from selling drugs or killing someone.

we have a thing called governance where we all meet together in one room with the whole school and we have room to breath i mean how cool is that. what other school can u do that at. we vote on things from our schhol such asanything from attendance policies to people who dis obey our laws. but we need a better way of doing things because we always end up not coming to agreement or just tableing the whatever we are agreeing on or not agreeing on its a weird thing but its like a community we all come together as one and control our stuff

 

i love this school its people are sensitive seem to care and always give you a cigarette when you need one but THEY DONT LISTEN. how hard is it to cross the ditch off school property when you need to smoke if you walk all that way to smoke you sure can just hop over the ditch. or how hard is it to put your cigarettes in the ash trays and trash cans. we have two. thats what the school used their money for so you wouldnt messy up the ditch. also if the ditch is such a problem and the school thinks its so dirty then why dont just do the easy thing go to the city and ask for a fire permit and burn out the ditch. Ya sure it will just get dirty again but you can just keep burning it out. and if its still that big of a problem just fill the ditch with cement and close off the ditch its not that hard. THE SCHOOL AND KIDS ARE JUST SITTING HERE AND NOT DOING ANYTHING!!!  like my grandpa said if you dont vote you cant complain i know its not the same thing but it makes sense dont it. im not sitting here on the other side of the computer saying im not guilty of throwing my cig on the ground but i learned i just wanna say if your not evasive action then stop complaining i think you should actually do something be the good person you are and be a part of your school and communtiy

                                                     ANGRY CITIZEN

Like the universe, the community we create around us is ever expanding and shrinking. New people are accepted into it as the old respectfully bow out, and those who remain are left surrounded sometimes by a new sea of faces. At OCHS the community is the school. It is the people we teach and the lives we change. It is something that can last forever.

The way our minds work and how each individual experiences and process the daily events in Olde Columbine is unique and different. But the community I see is not only in the students who attend the school and the teachers who teach here, but the community is also in the walls that surround us and the air we breathe. There are so many memories in the school that not every student will be a party to, but if someone were to take the time to listen, the building will always have a story to tell. After all, as the students and teachers come and leave, and the faces and personalities change the school will still be here. It will be keeping our secrets and remembering the paths we lead through our time here.

To me community is not just a material thing like the students and the staff and the families who have tread our halls, but it is the memories we made in the school that we will carry with us throughout our lives. I do not believe that our community is the people here and now and the bonds we make and break. I believe it is much deeper, it is a feeling we will always have. As long as the feeling of trust and hope and passion and love stays with us, our community will last however long we choose to remember it.