Community Assets: BSHS FCCLA trains students in leadership and service
Adviser Kim Root has worked with the student-led chapter for 27 of her 28 years teaching. Fourteen members have become state officers.
During FCCLA Week at Bellevue Senior High School, officers of the 2011-12 chapter held a candlelight ceremony over the lunch hour, explaining the group’s goals as they lit each candle. Adviser Kim Root watched from a corner.
Root said the 23 members meet at lunch because they are so busy after school, and she stressed that the club is run by students, with little adult direction. She has advised the chapter for 27 of her 28 years in teaching and shares the work with teacher Dawn Martin-Shultz.
FCCLA, Family, Career and Community Leaders of America, grew out of the Future Homemakers of America and is part of the family and consumer sciences program. Bellevue’s chapter has sent 14 members to state office over the years, including the 2011-12 state corresponding secretary. Nationally, FCCLA members take part in community service projects and leadership competitions.
More at FCCLA. Related: Bellevue FFA. More in Schools & Sports.