How ASB supports the CASL Mission Statement

Bellflower Middle/High School Associated Student Body Change Agents support the CASL Mission Statement of ethical, responsible, and servant leaders by modeling the characteristics of Buc P.R.I.D.E., positivity, respect, integrity, dedication, and excellence all day every day.

Before our year began, our Change Agents connected, bonded, and outlined our roadmap for the school year, keeping the eleven CADA/CASL checkpoints in mind. Over the course of four days and three nights in a Wrightwood Lion’s Camp, our ASB leaders worked in small groups and whole group to discuss what the ideal school would look like, sound like, and feel like if we successfully executed all of our ideas. Then we created plans for how to meet those goals.

This year, our leaders have worked together to introduce new ideas to BMHS, while improving long-standing traditions at our school, all for the purpose of demonstrating what it means to be ethical, responsible, and servant leaders. We understand the responsibility we have to improve school culture and we know we have to act as role models. Our goal is to be the nicest kids on campus in order to make the school a safe, welcoming, and desirable place to be for all students and staffulty.

Our Bucs have attended leadership conferences this year that have inspired ideas that they have brought back to our campus. Our Change Agents attended the local California Association of Directors of Activities Area E Conference in Pasadena in September, as well as the regional Renaissance Conference in Irvine in December. Our advisors will be attending the CADA Conference in Reno this year as presenters, and many of our students will be attending the CASL State Conference in Ontario that same month. These conferences, along with the networking our students have done with students from other campuses, have equipped our students to be effective future leaders of the world.

In addition to what we learn at these conferences, we LISTEN to our student body and staffulty and from their feedback we incorporate ideas they suggest. This year’s focus is on increasing the amount of student and staffulty recognition. In addition, our student leaders work hard to be effective leaders and we continually encourage them to serve our school and community by getting them involved in different initiatives and projects. One project that stands out, is the success of our annual Fall Festival, which was bigger and better than ever this year due to the involvement of several campus clubs and organizations. Over the past few years we have been involved in CASL, our ASB has evolved into an organization that prioritizes and encourages diversity, building character, creating connections with our community, and helping build Change Agents into the global leaders of tomorrow.