Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Sharon Young Educational Travel Scholarship Fund

Please join us to celebrate Concord principal, Ms. Sharon Young on Thursday afternoon May 23rd from 3:45-5:00.  All parents, children, and community members are welcome to join us for light refreshments in the Alcott cafeteria to say best wishes to Sharon on her retirement.

In lieu of gifts, we will be collecting funds to start the Sharon Young Scholarship Fund. Sharon travels extensively with her family each summer and the fund is being established to help CCHS students in need of financial support travel on school trips.  


Please pass along to any friends, neighbors, teachers or community members.  If you are not able to attend and would like to donate you can send a check made payable to Concord Carlisle Regional School District with the Sharon Young Scholarship Fund in the memo line and send into the Alcott office, or you can donate online by clicking the link below.


CCHS Student  Educational Travel

Educational travel focused on cultural and language immersion, leadership summits, global environmental issues, international exchange programs, performing arts, and service, allows us to transform globalization from classroom rhetoric to reality. These incredible, life-altering educational travel opportunities not only allow students to cross borders, but they also enable students to foster bonds with new groups of students and staff as the seemingly rigid walls of curriculum level and grade level dissipate with the shared travel experience. Educational travel enhances learning, and when traveling with students in my role as principal, I have witnessed first-hand how it can alter students’ course in life for the better.  

CCHS  believes that in our shared, interconnected world, all students benefit from learning experiences that foster critical 21st-century skills and a global mindset.  By exploring, and learning other cultures, we are preparing students to participate in, and contribute to, an increasingly globalized society.  Educational travel, linguistic /cultural exchanges and volunteering in multicultural settings are some of the venues through which we can achieve these learning goals. Through immersive educational travel, students gain new ways of thinking and develop a greater appreciation for perspectives beyond the walls of CCHS.  

We seek to increase the quality and number of international experiences for all CCHS  students to promote a global mindset and enhance our cultural competence.  These strengths will empower students to think, communicate, and positively contribute across linguistic and geographic divides. As ambassadors of their school, state, and country, students are challenged to reflect on their own culture and values and become better citizens of their country and of the world. 

Our hope is this scholarship fund will allow these amazing opportunities to be extended to a broad range of students.



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