A School Teacher Who Gets It...

Our students, in order to earn rank, must turn in an Intent to Promote form to their school teachers. The Intent to Promote is used to show that the martial arts student is exemplifying their student tenets in the academic classroom as well as at home.  (Parents complete another section of the form)

Teacher Kara LaBella was compelled to not only fill out the intent to promote form for Hasitha Tatineni, but to also write a page letter to our academy about her! (See Below) We could use more teachers like Kara Labella in our children's lives. Imagine what our young people could accomplish with the encouragement from teachers such as this. Of course, some credit should go toward Hasitha. Her "Black Belt" behavior off the mat is what prompted the letter in the first place. Great Job Hasitha, and Thank You Ms. Kara LaBella.

 

Young Martial Artist Lives a Day Mute

This young student lives a day mute as part of his martial arts rank test in Cary, North Carolina. This is an example of empathy training.

Martial Arts Students Give 1,000 Acts of Kindness to the Cary Community for the Holidays!

Johnson's Martial Arts students will be giving 1,000 acts of kindness to the Cary community for the holidays. The academy staff has developed a website that will serve as a social experiment of sorts where they will hopefully be able to show to their students that kindness is contagious. The website can be found at flavors.me/trackyouract

Here is how it works:

1.) The student will look for ways to go out of their way to be kind to another person.

2.) They will hand the kindness card to them.

3.) The person will then pay the act of kindness forward and hand them their kindness card.

Meanwhile, whoever receives the card will presumably go to the kindness website above and track the act. What we are trying to show to the student is that our behaviour, our kindness is contagious.