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Destiny High School

Vision Destiny High School (DHS) in an independent Christian high school, that strives to educate the total person. Our engine for success is to empower students to achieve their lifelong destiny by beginning with the end in mind.

DHS is dedicated to empowering students so they can achieve academic excellence and ultimately fulfill their life’s destiny. The graduates of DHS will become productive citizens and be prepared to succeed in college or in the workforce.

Mission The mission of DHS is to provide an educational experience that will enable students to identify, chart the course to, pursue, and fulfill their life’s destiny via curriculum and in Destiny High School's ICAA Accreditation Manuel 2009 struction geared toward developing the “whole” person- mind, body, and spirit.

Educational Philosophy Our educational philosophy is built upon the premise that all students can achieve success with continuous effort, a strong support system, a sense of self efficacy and quality resources. We realize that students have multiple ways of making meaning and accept that they may arrive at that meeting at different paces. We will put this philosophy into action as we work to implore the practices and ongoing assessments needed to foster quality teaching and learning.

Core Beliefs and School Culture The culture of the school is embodied in six core beliefs that emphasize common focus. These beliefs stress the importance of making choices that will result in a vision accomplished. These core beliefs encourage students to pursue their D.R.E.A.M.S. through:

•	Discipline and Determination •	Respect and Resiliency •	Excellence •	Attitude •	Mastery •	Service

Destiny High School Declaration of Purpose

Today is a new day. I will use this day to the fullest in my quest to know who I am, whose I am, and where I am going. I am a person of vision and I live my life with the end in mind. I am God’s handiwork, designed to do those good works which He prepared for me and live the good life which has been prearranged for me to live. I am fearfully and wonderfully made by God’s Design, with thoughts of good and not of evil. God thought enough of me to create me with an expected end in mind.

I AM DESTINED WITH A PURPOSE AND                                     MY GOAL IS A DESTINY FULFILLED.

My heart is ready and open to receive the Word of God. I make the decision to put the Word of God first place in my place in my life. I determine in advance to believe that I am who the Word says I am. I can have what the Word says I can have because I know the immeasurable and unlimited greatness of His power in me.

I AM DESTINED WITH A PURPOSE AND                                     MY GOAL IS A DESTINY FULFILLED.

I am not awed by the challenges of reality, but believe that I can change the World and establish my legacy. I am tougher than any challenge, stronger than any foe, smart than any enemy, wiser that any opposition. I boldly declare that I am a winner and not a loser. I won’t throw in the towel and quit when it gets hard; instead, I will dig in my heels and refuse to surrender the territory that God has called me to conquer and posses.

I AM DESTINED WITH A PURPOSE AND                                     MY GOAL IS A DESTINY FULFILLED.

Therefore, I commit to walk in the light of God. I will keep my compass focused on my mission possible. There are no shortcuts in my pursuit of purpose. I will surround myself with people that edify me and will not empower others negativity. Names may hurt me but they will not dictate my destiny. I won’t give up, shut up, let up, until I have stayed up, stored up, studied up, paid up, for the cause of Education.

I AM DESTINED WITH A PURPOSE AND MY GOAL IS MY DESTINY.

DESTINY HIGH SCHOOL

STATEMENT OF NON-DISCRIMINATION

Personnel Selection

In the spirit of Christian unity and the love that Christ shows for all humankind, Destiny High Schools does not discriminate in its employment practices against any person because of race, national or ethnic origin, gender, age, or qualified disability. However, Destiny Christian High School does reserve the right to use appropriate selection criteria in fulfillment of its stated goals and objectives.

Student admissions

Destiny Christian High School accepts students for admission to its programs without regard to race, sex, national origin, or physical disability.

Destiny High School History ___________________________________________________________________    Destiny High School is located in the northwest area of Milwaukee. As a new small independent Christian High School, its doors of service to education opened on September 5, 2006 with a total of eighty-nine, ninth and tenth grade students. Destiny is one of two schools under the leadership of Christian Faith Fellowship Church, Bishop Darrell and Pastor Pamela Hines. It is presided over by a Board of Directors. Destiny is also one of sixty new small High Schools under the small high school reform of TALC New Vision, a program funded and sponsored by Bill and Melinda Gates. This program provides a planning grant and three years of coaching to all accepted schools.

Presently, the Destiny community has grown to 203 students consisting of 90 freshmen, 73 sophomores, 40 juniors and 17 employees. The break down of employees consist, of a school office secretary, a financial manager, two maintenance staff, two administrators, an admission director, an athletic director, an IT director, eight teachers and one paraprofessional. Teaching responsibilities are shared with the administrators, athletic director, technology coordinator and teachers. A strong volunteer program that draws from parents of Destiny as well as supporting community partners and church members supports meeting the needs of its student body.

As a small private Christian high school, the population is comprised of 5 percent private paying students and the remaining 95 percent of students are enrolled in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP). The MPCP program is a federally funded program that allows students from low-income families who live in the City of Milwaukee to attend participating private schools, located in the city at no charge if they meet the eligibility criteria (Milwaukee Parental Choice Program Website, 2007). Due to the teen on teen violence in the Milwaukee area and a news broadcast of teens beating a car with bats at a gas station on the corner of 76th and Good Hope Road, exactly 10 blocks from the church facility (ABC News, 2005 ) in November of 2005. This crime event motivated Christian Faith Fellowship Church to make a difference, leading to the purchase of a 5.2 million dollar strip mall renovation project. The overall project was dedicated to providing a positive alternative for the youth of its community from ages 12 through 24 to engage in fellowship without threat of violence.

Destiny High represents just one component of an eighty-seven thousand square foot facility known as Destiny Youth Plaza. Upon completion, the Plaza will provide to the students and the targeted age groups of its surrounding community a job placement center, career placement program, wellness center, recreation center, family resource center and other facility attractions.

Destiny high school’s vision strives to provide an educational experience that will enable students to identify, pursue and fulfill their life’s destiny via curriculum and instruction geared to developing the “whole person:” mind, body, and spirit. Destiny adopted the Core Beliefs and mission of being a place where students are encouraged to pursue their D.R.E.A.M.S (Discipline and Determination, Respect and Resiliency, Excellence, Attitude, Mastery, Service) ( Destiny Brochure, 2006).

In helping each student pursue his/her D.R.E.A.M.S., Destiny espoused the theme of helping each student begin their high school experience with the end in mind by finding the “Pathway to their Destiny”. To accomplish this mission, the Destiny community provides various programs for the students to explore the best path for them.

Those programs include a College Prep Academy, which offers college credits during their junior and senior year; an Entrepreneurial Academy, which teaches how to start a business; a Technology Academy, which teaches computer hardware and software skills and includes certification as a Microsoft Systems Engineer; and a Media/Communication Academy, which teaches students to create and edit audio and video production.

Destiny High School,7210 North 76th Street,Milwaukee, WI 53223 414-353-4430, 414-353-4450Fax, WWW.DESTINYHIGH.COM