CAS: Oh, All The Things That We Do!

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By Rosie O’Brien Vojtek

Adapted from Oh, The Places You’ll Go” by Dr. Seuss]!

Welcome to CAS! Today is your day.

CAS is a Great Place!

You’re off and away!

You have

brains in your head.

You have feet in your shoes.

You can steer yourself

any directions you choose.

You’re on your own.

And you know

what you know.

And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go.

Look on the CAS CIAC website to see what you’ll find.

CAS News and Announcements…

ONE of a kind.

Full of people and places and up-to-date news, To help you decide which activity you’ll choose.

There’s so much to choose from You’ll want to do ALL! Keeping you busy summer, winter, spring, fall.

Learning and Playing, Recognition and Sports.

Executive Coaching, Networking, Cohorts.

At CAS CIAC things can happen.

And frequently do.

To people as brainy and footsy as you.

And when things start to happen, Don’t worry.

Don’t stew.

CAS Responds to

Hurricane Relief Effort Just go right along.

You’ll start happening, too!

I OH ALL THE THAT

THINGS I WE DO

You’ll be on your way up!

You’ll be seeing great sights!

You’ll join CAS high fliers Who soar to high heights.

Celebrations of Leaders,

and Outstanding Schools,

Exemplary Educators, Connecticut Jewels.

Connecticut Schools have something to cheer‌

Great Assistants

Administrators

and Principals of the Year!

And, what about students?

As you might have guessed, our Connecticut Students are the BEST of the BEST!

Athletes, Artists, and bright Scholars, too, We are so impressed!

We’re so PROUD of you!

So, what got CAS started?

CAS_CIAC TIMELINE

We came to be,

HOW?

1921

established,

Look at CIAC now!

A place you could sprain both your elbow and chin!

Do you dare to stay out?

Do you dare to go in?

How much can you lose? How much can you win?

Get up and get started. It’s time to begin!

There’s all kinds of sports for a sports-minded soul.

With fair play established

by CIAC Board of Control.

You can get so confused with all the things you can choose.

Be you athlete or coach grab your sneakers or shoes.

Will it be Hockey,

Football,

or Cross Country, this fall?

Or Basketball, Gymnastics, or Wrestling y’all?

Or Swimming,

Track,

or even Baseball?

Lacrosse,

Or Tennis,

or Volleyball?

What is your

call?

And always remember to just do your BEST.

Your BEST is your BEST, your BEST is your QUEST!

We play in the sun and we play in the rain.

We play, and we play, and we never complain.

Unified Sports, Kids Marathon, too.

Y’all can be champs.

It’s all up to YOU!

So, get up and get going.

Today is

your day!

Hip-Hip Hooray!

It’s the CIAC way!

But, wait! There’s more.

There’s

so-o-o-o much to do!

There’s a menu of options just waiting for you.

There’s not a dull moment with‌

I OH ALL THE THAT

THINGS I WE DO

You don’t need to go far down long wiggled roads.

Or, grind on for miles.

CAS has made great inroads.

The Center for Leadership and Innovation

ALWAYS open for business.

There is no vacation!

The learning is endless…

For a curious mind.

Who wants to know more.

Look no further you’ll find…

Critical Issues, Coalitions, and Affiliations,

Ad Hoc Committees, Partnerships with Organizations.

For New Leaders or Veterans, there’s lots of support,

Be it Executive Coaching, Leadership Academies,

or a UCAPP Cohort.

There are always HOT topics, new research, best practice.

We have to keep current, no time for malpractice.

Workshops, Training, and the Leadership Series, full of research-based and latest educational theories.

The Innovative ideas are truly trailblazing.

CAS and CIAC podcasts… always AMAZING!

And students, have we got something for

YOU!

Something exciting, always something to do.

Debating, Robotics, Cheerleading, Dance,

Student Advisory Council,

Give CAS a chance…

To take you to great heights UP, UP, and away.

Finding your voice,

You’ve got something to say!

So, bring your voice

to the table!

Take action. Take stance.

You’re making a difference, ‘cuz you took a chance!

And it’s not just our students who have something to say.

Advocacy and influence are, huge by the way!

Be it city or state, Hartford or Capitol Hill.

There’s so much to say, there’s no time to be still.

Neither rain, snow, or sleet will stop advocation for quality schools, for a

GREAT education.

And, we have to say, CAS has lots to purport.

Working collaboratively with others, there’s lots of support.

From State Representatives and Senators, too.

They listen.

Take action.

We THANK them.

WE DO!

But, HEY! Wait a minute.

There’s no way to spin-it!

CAS wouldn’t be CAS Without key sponsorships.

We are grateful and thankful for our corporate relationships!

So, to our wonderful sponsors we appreciatively say, Hip-Hip Hooray!

For making our DAY!

And, for making CAS special It’s ALL ‘cuz of you,

That CAS CIAC does

I OH ALL THE THAT

THINGS I WE DO

With CAS CIAC banners flip flapping we know we’ll ride high!

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We are ready for anything under the sky, Be you currently working or active alumni.

And we know this is true, From the things that we do.

But those things wouldn’t happen If it weren’t for

YOU!

Or, for you, CAS Board of Directors…

…CIAC Board of Control.

Or for you, Committees

and CAS Boards of Control.

It’s our volunteers that make CAS such a GREAT place to be.

Thanks to you, you, and you…

Together, we’re

WE!

And last but not least, we wouldn’t be us.

We just have to do it,

we’ll make a

BIG FUSS!

So, from everyone here, and on their behalf

KUDOS and THAN

CAS CIAC Dire

K YOU, to everyone,

ectors and Staff!

For all that you do in your own special way,

CAS

CIAC

You make CAS CIAC extraordinary DAY AFTER DAY!

From the very tip top,

Karissa’s the BEST! There aren’t enough words for us to express,

How much we appreciate all that you’ve done.

Your passion and leadership, second to none!

And, Karissa, as you move forward,

We wish you the BEST!

Wherever life takes you, North, South, East or West

So… Be your name Buxbaum or Bixby

or Bray

or Mordecai Ali Van Allen O’Shea,

CAS is a great place, With colleagues and friends.

Come join in the action, A

BEST recommend!

Jump in and get started, It can happen for YOU!

THANKS to CAS CIAC

because together,

I OH ALL THE THAT

THINGS I WE DO

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