WHAT DOES C.L.A.S.S. STAND FOR?

 

Character is:

• HAVING IDENTITY: Knowing who you are, what you do, and what you represent

• HAVING INTEGRITY: Standing your ground and persevering

• MAKING A MARK: Expressing your identity, making your mark

  • Setting goals

  • Being a good influence   

  • Being a problem-solving hero

  • Expressing yourself with compassion and understanding

  • Being open to different/new experiences and being willing to change

• SO THAT: Someone, including you, can describe you the way YOU want     

 

Leadership is:

• REPRESENTING a group, sometimes because you’re asked, sometimes because you stick your neck out

• MAKING A WAY for others by helping them move along toward achievable goals

• CONNECTING with others and being open to all new ideas

• BEING RESPONSIBLE to the group and ACCOUNTABLE for one’s actions

 

Accountability is:

• Different from “responsibility,” which is KNOWING you have a role and a task to achieve.

• “Accountability” is DOING

  • Not just assuming responsibility for decisions, actions, and products/results, but also BEING ABLE TO EXPLAIN (or ACCOUNT FOR) and be ANSWERABLE for the consequences, good or bad.  In other words, you should be able to say what you’ve accomplished, what you haven’t, and why (including what YOUR role in the accomplishment or failure was).

  • INTEGRITY: Holding true to your commitments, being dependable, being trustworthy, someone that people can “COUNT” on

  • DOING WHAT IS HARD (“Sucking it up”--Connor)

  • WANTING TO DO IT (willingness and openness to participate)

  • NO EXCUSES

 

Sustainability is:

• Different from “maintaining,” which is FIXING SOMETHING, like you would maintain plumbing in your house and fix leaky faucets, cracked valves, etc.

• “Sustainability” is LOOKING AFTER SOMETHING YOU VALUE

  • This could be the environment, a culture, a community, a project, ourselves...

  • Keeping that something going by

    • energizing it

    • healing it

    • replenishing it

    • protecting it

    • resisting negative influences on it

    • persevering alongside it

 

Service is:

• Different from “charity,” which is BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR OTHERS.

• Service is JUSTICE, or BEING RESPONSIBLE TO OTHERS

  • It’s a RELATIONSHIP, not just a maintenance

  • It’s helping, assisting, working with kindness and courage

  • It’s also TEACHING and SHARING through knowledge and experience, transferring that through the relationship from one to the other so that it can be sustained

  • It's in the giving back without expectation of someone or something to reward you