Disclosure :: Many readers indicated via the Reader Survey that they crave more content geared to the school years. Today we are excited bring you this sponsored post via Saint Stanislaus on how religion integrated to education can prepare your child for college readiness.
What is College Readiness?
College readiness is not just academic.
When high schools talk about getting their students ready for college, they usually mean readiness for academic content and advanced skills. Saint Stanislaus has a highly successful academic readiness program that has shown steady annual increases in ACT scores. But we know that getting ready for college means a lot more than that.
Read what Carlos, a college freshman, said in a recen
Carlos went on to say that it was his high school campus ministry program that gave him the resources and values to resist the negative pressures of campus life and to find healthy ways to relax. As at his school, Saint Stanislaus involves students of all ages in various required and optional retreats so they can strengthen their relationship with God and learn more about themselves. Through these retreats, student ministers emerge as leaders and models and even as directors and group
moderators at younger students’ retreats.
Faith and College Readiness
Deepening his relationship with God in high school helped Carlos to turn to God when he experienced rough times and to find consolation in the friendship he had
“The friends I made also helped me to surround myself with a feeling of consolation. I felt encouraged to be myself and live my faith, despite the challenge that the culture of drinking posed.” Besides retreats, Saint Stanislaus’ campus ministry program touches every student on a daily basis by surrounding them with classroom and school prayer, including school-wide liturgies. It calls together a regular group for Monday night prayer and personal sharing. It organizes days of sacramental reconciliation. It provides service opportunities and mission weeks on the Navajo reservation and in local cities, and it invites them to fast in order to enable students in Mozambique to eat better.
As Carlos’ experience shows, Saint Stanislaus’ campus ministry activities take college readiness to a higher level.