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DYNAMICALLY ENGAGED >><br />
CHCA Upper Elementary Students<br />
Find Their Passion in Operation Impact<br />
Operation Impact came to light after Grade 5 Science Teacher, Ms. Jaime Robbins, heard about the<br />
idea at the ISACS conference in the fall of 2016.<br />
It was originally developed between Emerson School in Ann<br />
Arbor, MI, and DistinguishMe, an organization that works to<br />
develop students, helping them find their passion and acting<br />
on that passion in order to make them “stand out” to potential<br />
colleges and employers. Robbins was so excited about the idea<br />
that she brought Emerson School’s Middle School Director,<br />
Mr. Andy Zimmer, to share this idea with CHCA faculty at an<br />
in-service training. The excitement grew and Robbins, along with<br />
Grade 6 teacher, Mrs. Kristen Woock, worked together to create<br />
“Operation Impact” for Grades 4-6.<br />
The Operation Impact week began with the students being asked,<br />
“What makes you pound your fist on the table? What are you not<br />
okay with in your world?” They were asked to go from there and<br />
figure out how they could use their unique passion to help make<br />
an impact.<br />
The entire week was built around giving students space, time, and<br />
a framework in which to develop their own God-given passions,<br />
using those gifts to impact their world. Students explored how they<br />
could make the world a better place through one of their interest<br />
areas-sports/fitness, art or music, creating a business, engineering or<br />
science, baking, computers...whatever made them excited. The goal<br />
was to help the students with the following:<br />
• Gain awareness of passions and interests<br />
• Gain confidence to make an impact on the world<br />
• Learn how to give and receive productive feedback<br />
• Learn how to bring ideas to life<br />
• Learn how to fail and grow from it<br />
• Learn to market an idea to others<br />
• Influence the world!<br />
Students began by writing down their passions. They asked<br />
themselves, “What can you not stop doing? What do you do when<br />
you have complete free time? What do you want to be when you<br />
get older? What do you love to learn about on your own? What do<br />
people tell you that you are good at? What are you good at without<br />
even trying? What are you good at because you care and try really<br />
hard? What good memories or experiences do you have?”<br />
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