(c) Michelle Yates

David Hughes enjoys whitewater kayaking on Keener Village's ramp.

The goal of the kayak high school was to complete such a thorough job with training, development of systems, and employing fabulous leaders that the school would lead itself. Ownership can create a fabulous dynamic within an organization.

During faculty training we intensely reviewed all school and travel protocols for 8 to 10 hours per day. Faculty worked on syllabi, lessons, exams, discipline examples, and curriculum. I led long sessions teaching the school's educational and leadership theory and practice. And we trained further on all protocol.

After our first day in Canada we had to move and our schedule could not be held consistent. As a matter of fact it was I who held morning orientation meetings lasting two and three hours with students. Yet, I contended during training, "maintain a consistent schedule for the stability of your group and education." Jake Ament made a schedule that allowed for the required orientations.

The orientation and training are vital to the future of the year. Students express their expectactions, their parent's expectations, the school's expectations, and the expectations of their teachers. Once expectations were clear we could proceed with how to operate within a positive environment.

Students and faculty would participate in afternoon team building activities, complete a routine school schedule, and play on the worlds best freestyle kayaking river. Students would take whitewater kayaking photos and whitewater kayaking videos to post to their new blogs. Kyle Dinnel would lead the Photo Media department while Tino Specht led the Video Media class.

Jake Ament set the schedule and taught students the protocol behind our food needs with three goals: nutritional value, no waste, and economic efficiency.

Adam Compton would take over the group and check each faculty for completion of tasks. At first I was pre-occupied as I observed the faculty learning the systems and our schedule being altered by uncontrollable variances. Soon the schedule became routine and the group found stability within it. Soon I became confident in a new faculty.

Adam Compton began to lead the student leadership course with a reading of

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