Growing Leaders. In Community.
At Gap Year, we pride ourselves on growing leaders, and we always seem to start with a great foundation. Each year, we are blessed with a great group of students who were –more often than not—the best and the brightest in their high schools, and they come to us eager to learn and grow as…
Critical Thinking
Last week Dr. Wingard came on Monday. The students read “God is not Great” which was a challenging read for them as a class because it was very counter what we believe and think. It was difficult to read also because Hitchens the writer seemed to base a lot of arguments on false or skewed…
Leadership coaching from Chick-fil-A
Monday morning we had the privilege of hearing from Chick-fil-A Operator, Matt Thompson (he operates a Chick-fil-A Spartanburg, SC). He spoke to us in-depth about two specific letters in the acronym S.E.R.V.E- the R which stands for reinventing continuously and the V which stands for value results and relationships. In order to reinvent continuously, he…