As part of an ongoing effort to expose children to different walks of life, students at Girls Preparatory School toured The Howard School on Friday.
The program, called Leadership Exchange, has been five years in the making. Each school’s leadership team members take turns hosting an event at their school. This year, Howard students have exchanged tours with Signal Mountain, Ivy Academy, Maplewood High School in Nashville and GPS.
“It helps our students because we’re showing our pride, showing off our institutes, our best practices that we have here,” Howard Vice Principal Charles Mitchell said in an interview.
Mitchell added that GPS would do the same thing when Howard students visit there. He said the program helps build better citizens for the Chattanooga community.
Girls Preparatory students were greeted by Howard’s choir, marching band and cheer team. They then spent the next hour touring the school’s future-ready institutes and English language learning classrooms and spent time getting to know Howard students.