November 22, 2019
Jackie's Corner
God’s blessings on you as we approach Thanksgiving! What a wonderful time of the year as we begin to wrap up our programs and enjoy time with family and friends.
Do you know that each year we have about 2,000 students join us in January? As we continue this semester and look toward 2020, we can serve families through community even if they haven’t joined us yet this school year. We can add students, programs and even communities in January. If only they knew about your wonderful program, I know there are more families in your area that would join CC in the new year. Have you set up and invited families to a fall Information Meeting or Open House? Even if your program is done for this semester, you can work with your SR and host an Information Meeting between now and the New Year and then host an Open House in January. Many families could be blessed.
Remember internal Open Houses, too. Ensure that your masters parents in Foundations are invited to check out Challenge A, and other Challenge parents can visit the next Challenge level, whether in your community or nearby. Those extra weeks when Challenge meets without Foundations are a great time for parents of younger children to visit Challenge A.
Be proactively blessing families this Thanksgiving season with insight into the next program for their students and consider the needs for new programs and communities in your area for January. Some of those annual 2,000 students are right near where you live and are just waiting to be blessed by a CC community, just as you and I have been blessed.
We are GHIDEd by our CORE VALUES with grace in speech, humility of mind, integrity in action, diligence in work, and excellence in results.
Huge shout out to an unnamed Challenge III Director for being the lead humble learner who doesn’t have all the answers and allows students to integrate to the max!
“Last week in community, my students were working on Experiment 5.2. It was a quick and simple experiment that allowed for more discussion time and a faster cleanup. This made me happy! I’ve done this experiment with numerous groups before—the salt dissolves in the water not in the oil. No surprises, right? All my students knew what would happen.
National Number Knockout
National Memory Master
Timely Business Reminders
Success Checklist for December –
- Begin second-semester Challenge tuition collection
- Host a Window into Challenge event to begin promoting your Challenge program
- Hold an Information Meeting and Open House for potential families (see Jackie’s Corner)
- Challenge A Directors should schedule science fair, arrange judges, and communicate to parents
- Directors will be able to send family applications through the portal and app beginning in January 2020.
Portal Reminders from our Portal Administrator Chris Cieri
- The second-semester Challenge licensing payment due date is January 25, 2020. Challenge Directors may want to send invoices during the final seminar week of the fall semester. Remember that payments can be made electronically using our ACH online payment process.
- Foundations and Essentials Directors should pay for any new families who are joining their program for the second semester. Please remember, if you add students to your program, you should send in the licensing payment for those students within two weeks of their registration.
- 2020 Catalogs: The new 2020 Classical Conversations catalogs can be used for your Information Meetings and Open House events. Catalogs will be ordered by your Support Representative. Connect with your SR to find out where they will be shipped!
- Check the Portal Calendar for important dates specific to your role: Director Portal Calendar
- If you run into any questions while using the Portal, please remember the Walk Me Through menu and Classical Portal help site provide step-by-step instructions on each administrative process you will complete in the Portal.
Marketing
What's the skinny on social media?
Watch this video for great social media tips from Noble!
The Power of Communicati
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Last month we shared the WHY. This month, we would like to share HOW this will help you recruit families and spread the good news.
- The tip sheets, templates and resources will help you gain maximum exposure in the media and target your homeschool audience. Our creative assistance will assist you to develop fresh ideas and recruit new families.
- “Dealing with the media” will help you foster relationships to get stories published and spread the good news of CC. We’ve got you covered with information on dress, contact and more.
- For example, if you or one of your tutors is hosting an AB&CC event this winter, use the sample press release to share it with the media and the other homeschoolers in your area.
- To find all of our press release templates and the tip sheets on how to use them, go to the LP dashboard, click the little search icon and hit Enter. On the next page, drill down through the categories on the left to Business Resources > Marketing & PR. For assistance, please email Customer Service.
"I'm super impressed with the bookstore this year!! I have placed two orders this fall, and I have been shocked by how quickly the items arrived at my house and by the wonderful email communication from both CC and UPS as to when my package would arrive. Thank you!!! I'm sure this has taken a lot of diligent work to have such promptness on customer orders, and I'm very impressed and thankful!!! The customer service is more impressive than Amazon, which we order stuff from weekly (if not daily at times). Thanks for being excellent at serving through the bookstore!!!" Beth Prewitt, SR
Share what God is doing in your area.
International Update
We are in the middle of Practicum season for our Southern Hemisphere! Please pray for Practicums scheduled in Brazil, China and Chile November through January.
News You Can Use
- The National Latin Exam is not endorsed by Classical Conversations. However, we recognize that many Classical Conversations communities have participated in the National Latin Exam as a way of celebrating student accomplishments in Latin. The National Latin Exam has issued a new statement on diversity and inclusion. You can read it HERE. The National Latin Exam has not released any details defining what they will or will not include in their exams in pursuit of diversity and inclusion at this time. As an exclusive alternative to the National Latin Exam for CC families, CC Plus offers Latin for Challenge II and III. CC Plus Latin is a classically aligned way for families to see the high level of Latin achievement for their Challenge II or III student.
Celebrations
