We believe that through a coherent, well-organised program that is adapted to the needs of modern times, we create a generation of learned, brave and sensitive people.
We create our community based on three values:
Science | Leadership | Culture
Through education we support our students in forging and reinforcing traits related to these values.
We want Columbus High School graduates to be mature young people, who knowingly choose their university courses and set up businesses; who develop professionally and take up the role of a leader in their environment with courage and confidence.
This is why we decided to utilize the experience and solutions designed by an international program Leader in Me based on a bestselling book ,,7 Habits of Highly Effective People” written by Stephen Covey.
We create our community based on three values:
Science | Leadership | Culture
Through education we support our students in forging and reinforcing traits related to these values.
We want Columbus High School graduates to be mature young people, who knowingly choose their university courses and set up businesses; who develop professionally and take up the role of a leader in their environment with courage and confidence.
This is why we decided to utilize the experience and solutions designed by an international program Leader in Me based on a bestselling book ,,7 Habits of Highly Effective People” written by Stephen Covey.
METHODOLOGY
by FranklinCovey Education
Leader in Me is a full-featured model of improvement prepared for students attending high school, that empowers them with leadership abilities and inspires them on their way towards obtaining qualities essential in the XXI century.
Model
Leader in me Model is a unique combination of time-transcendent paradigms and guidelines that allow the school and it’s students to achieve measurable results.
Process
Leader in Me means constant development and improvement. It’s something more than yet another program – Leader in Me is a basic operational system enhancing all your procedures and initiatives.
GLOBAL COMMUNITY
Community brought together by the Leader in Me program has been created for teachers by teachers. Both the model and the process keep evolving based on collective results of schools using Leader in Me all over the world and change according to the needs of modern education standards.
Everyone is born a leader
The change starts within myself
Everyone is a genius
Teachers forge a sense of responsibility for one's development in their pupils
Columbus High School
Sailing Academy
Within Columbus High School runs Sailing Academy. During classes in the Academy students learn the basics of seamanship and get to know the marine culture.
RECRUITMENT
Recruitment
Open
The process of granting admission begins with an informative meeting for future pupils and their parents.
We care to build a healthy trust-based relationship since the first contact.
Fill in the contact form and learn more about the principles on which the High School operates.
Dare to be wise
Sapere Aude
Courage and striving towards wisdom – defined as a combination of knowledge, skill and experience – is the substance of didactic methods to which we are faithful in the Columbus High School.
We support and strengthen our pupils in building a sense of responsibility for their education.
We strive to create an environment that inspires cooperation and curiosity.
We work based on the results of latest research in the field of neuroscience. We append them into our didactic process process so that it becomes an adventure for the student, allowing him to discover and learn how the world works and not fall into the trap of high-effort low-result ,,Learn, Pass and Forget”.
What makes us special?
- NLeadership oriented learning
- NUnique atmosphere of friendship and trust among the teachers, parents and students
- NSailing Academy – including a once-in-a-lifetime adventure of ,,blue school” – a sailing bootcamp
- NUpbringing in the spirit of Christian vision of man
- NAccess to sports infrastructure and qualified coaches
- NAs the first school in Poland we operate based on the Leader in Me program (FranklinCovey Foundation)
- NIntroduction of a financial intelligence course created in cooperation with the University of Gdańsk and National Bank of Poland experts
- NSupport of individual development with personal tutoring
State school
- En masse, overfilled classes
- Rare tours and events
- Rewards and penalties to ,,motivate” for study
- Marks as a system to repress and force to learn
- Homework being the material unfinished during classes
Liceum Columbus
- Individual support and tutoring
- Day of the Discoverer - monthly tours out into the world to learn and study
- Forging an individual drive for learning
- Marks as a feedback on the level of possessed knowledge
- Optional homework to deepen and revise the knowledge gained at school
“Learining in school should be conducted in such a way that students perceive it as a gift and not an unwelcome duty.”
– Albert Einstein
Get to know us better
Learn our
Values
Let’s set common
Goals
1. Courage
,,The world belongs to God, but He rents it to the brave”
In our school we dream of bringing up people to be brave, independent thinkers, who know how to defend express and defend their ideas. People, who follow their dreams and are followed by others. Those, that aim and reach higher than the ordinary.
2. Sincerity
“Sincerity is rarely seen nowadays. People either don’t know who they are or fear to show their true self to the world.”
~ Kim Holden
In Columbus High School we set personal development of students as our priority. Particular emphasis is put on increasing self-awareness, finding one’s life path and the ability to express oneself in a healthy, harmless manner. We are deeply convinced that living a true, cohesive life, close to others and the world, as well as oneself brings joy to every person.
3. Service
“Serving others without the feeling of humility is only a means to fulfill one’s egoistic, selfish needs.”
~ Gandhi Mahatma
In a world where egocentrism is omnipresent, we want our students to learn sympathy, responsiveness and how to open up to others – traits so indispensable when building modern social competence. The ability to coexist as a part of a group and in relation with other people will give them the tools to cope in any profession and in every stage of life.
In Columbus High School we go by values and guidelines deriving from Christian anthropology.
Safe harbour
Columbus High School is a safe space. It’s an environment, where:
- Students will not be vulnerable to the dangers of drugs, aggression or violence,
- Students are not afraid of going to school and expressing their opinions, for they know their views will be respected,
- Sensitivity and unique traits are protected and supported,
- Students feel like business partners, who are treated seriously and given responsibilities.
Operating in accordance to said values and guidelines is to transform our students through the process of education into natural leaders in any environment they end up in. People, who are brave, responsible, aware of their strengths and weaknesses, setting their goals and following their dreams, constantly striving to develop and work on themselves. Most importantly, people who keep their mind open to the world and the people around them – people, who will gladly serve others.
1. Education
Our first goal is to prepare students for the Matura exam(Polish counterpart of the A Levels exam) and let them achieve the desired number of points that will allow them to continue their learning paths aboard any chosen university across the world. We will accomplish this through:
- Hiring the best professionals – teachers with vocation, who think out of the box and encourage their students to deeply understand the solution, not just remember it
- Allowing students to participate in a students’ exchange programs, as well as others national and international initiatives
- Close cooperation with Tricity’s universities
- Creation of a modern didactic foundation that includes access to innovative multimedia solutions and educational platforms
2. Development
We strive to build soft skills and interpersonal abilities as well as the ability to set and follow goals for as long as intended. We will achieve it through:
- Leader in Me – the implementation of the program “Leader in me” by CoveyFoundation. As the first school in Poland we introduce the holistic scheme of raising the level of students’ and teachers’ competences based on the experience of Stephen R. Covey, acclaimed bestselling author of books covering leadership and personal development in the world of business
- Tutoring – personalized approach to individual students based on tutor-student type of relationship. Each of our pupils will have a tutor assigned, with whom he will cooperate in setting goals, changing habits, seeking his lifelong passions and gifts.
- Voluntary work – taking part in volunteer programs that help develop willingness and ability to serve and help other people will be a compulsory part of the learning process.
3. Entrepreneurship
Forging enterpreneur’s traits through focus on encouraging a proactive stance, taking responsibility and respecting for hard and persistent work alongside practical learning of management and business. We want to achieve this with:
- Career coaching – allowing the students to take part in work placements in Tricity’s companies since the first grade. Every year students will ,,shadow” – accompany – chosen employees in their work, learning the ropes of corporate environment.
- Work placements – active help coming from school with identifying, discovering and planning student’s career path
- Meetings – Maintaining contact with multiple professionals and specialists in various domains, thanks to whom the students will be able to learn practical aspects of operation in certain company or branch.
4. Commitment
Parents’ engagement in the schools community. Apart from it’s academic function, the school will also serve a much broader role – bringing together a society, where parents will play an essential part. We will achieve this through:
- Individual consultations – When parents and appointed tutor would be able to exchange their observations regarding the student’s personal and academic development
- Columbus Family Academy – Where parents could perfect their own parenting skills
- Parent’s involvement – into meetings and developmental trips of the student.
5. The Crew
Constant, all-round development of teachers. We care to form a supportive and caring team of tutors; professionals, that work on their skills and personal traits so as to not only tell students how things should be, but also show them with them being the best example.
Learn our
Values
1. Courage
,,The world belongs to God, but He rents it to the brave”
In our school we dream of bringing up people to be brave, independent thinkers, who know how to defend express and defend their ideas. People, who follow their dreams and are followed by others. Those, that aim and reach higher than the ordinary.
2. Sincerity
“Sincerity is rarely seen nowadays. People either don’t know who they are or fear to show their true self to the world.”
~ Kim Holden
In Columbus High School we set personal development of students as our priority. Particular emphasis is put on increasing self-awareness, finding one’s life path and the ability to express oneself in a healthy, harmless manner. We are deeply convinced that living a true, cohesive life, close to others and the world, as well as oneself brings joy to every person.
3. Service
“Serving others without the feeling of humility is only a means to fulfill one’s egoistic, selfish needs.”
~ Gandhi Mahatma
In a world where egocentrism is omnipresent, we want our students to learn sympathy, responsiveness and how to open up to others – traits so indispensable when building modern social competence. The ability to coexist as a part of a group and in relation with other people will give them the tools to cope in any profession and in every stage of life.
In Columbus High School we go by values and guidelines deriving from Christian anthropology.
Safe harbour
Columbus High School is a safe space. It’s an environment, where:
- Students will not be vulnerable for the dangers of drugs, aggression or violence,
- Students are not afraid of going to school and expressing their opinions, for they know their views will be respected,
- Sensitivity and unique traits are protected and supported,
- Students feel like business partners, who are treated seriously and given responsibilities.
Operating in accordance to said values and guidelines is to transform our students through the process of education into natural leaders in any environment they end up in. People, who are brave, responsible, aware of their strengths and weaknesses, setting their goals and following their dreams, constantly striving to develop and work on themselves. Most importantly, people who keep their mind open to the world and the people around them – people, who will gladly serve others.
Let’s set common
Goals
1. Education
Our first goal is to prepare students for the Matura exam(Polish counterpart of the A Levels exam) and let them achieve the desired number of points that will allow them to continue their learning paths aboard any chosen university across the world. We will accomplish this through:
- Hiring the best professionals – teachers with vocation, who think out of the box and encourage their students to deeply understand the solution, not just remember it
- Allowing students to participate in a students’ exchange programs, as well as others national and international initiatives
- Close cooperation with Tricity’s universities
- Creation of a modern didactic foundation that includes access to innovative multimedia solutions and educational platforms
2. Development
We strive to build soft skills and interpersonal abilities as well as the ability to set and follow goals for as long as intended. We will achieve it through:
- Leader in Me – the implementation of the program “Leader in me” by CoveyFoundation. As the first school in Poland we introduce the holistic scheme of raising the level of students’ and teachers’ competences based on the experience of Stephen R. Covey, acclaimed bestselling author of books covering leadership and personal development in the world of business
- Tutoring – personalized approach to individual students based on tutor-student type of relationship. Each of our pupils will have a tutor assigned, with whom he will cooperate in setting goals, changing habits, seeking his lifelong passions and gifts.
- Voluntary work – taking part in volunteer programs that help develop willingness and ability to serve and help other people will be a compulsory part of the learning process.
3. Entrepreneurship
Forging enterpreneur’s traits through focus on encouraging a proactive stance, taking responsibility and respecting for hard and persistent work alongside practical learning of management and business. We want to achieve this with:
- Work placements – allowing the students to take part in work placements in Tricity’s companies since the first grade. Every year students will ,,shadow” – accompany – chosen employees in their work, learning the ropes of corporate environment.
- Career coaching – Active help coming from school with identifying, discovering and planning student’s career path
- Meetings – Maintaining contact with multiple professionals and specialists in various domains, thanks to whom the students will be able to learn practical aspects of operation in certain company or branch.
4. Commitment
Parents’ engagement in the schools community. Apart from it’s academic function, the school will also serve a much broader role – bringing together a society, where parents will play an essential part. We will achieve this through:
- Individual consultations – When parents and appointed tutor would be able to exchange their observations regarding the student’s personal and academic development
- Columbus Family Academy – Where parents could perfect their own parenting skills
- Parent’s involvement – into meetings and developmental trips of the student.
5. The Crew
Constant, all-round development of teachers. We care to form a supportive and caring team of tutors; professionals, that work on their skills and personal traits so as to not only tell students how things should be, but also show them with them being the best example.
“Supportive teacher means one who knows me well and who cares about me. Who sets high, clear and measurable requirements. Who is just.”
– K.R. Wentzel – research- 1997 i 2001
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WHY US?
Our experience
Columbus High School operation is based on a long-term activity of the Columbus Foundation and its’ child initiatives: Personal Development Academy Columbus, The Grade and The Avenue. In said initiatives the development of young people, forming it’s maturity and responsible character is our target and passion. We believe that through coherent, well-organised and tuned to modern educational requirements educative program we are able to bring out a generation of learned, bold, sympathetic and dream-following people. We care for our school to be a safe, friendly place that enables comprehensive development of adolescents’ passions and interests.
Unique vision
We strive to create a high school based on values and rules as well as practical skills from the field of entrepreneurship and soft social skills. Thoroughly thought-through and rationally put together program based on the best available educational solutions and social development expiriences coming from other youth initiatives (Leader in Me, The Grade/The Avenue)
Sailing academy
Uczniowie nabywają praktycznych umiejętności żeglarskich uczestnicząc systematycznie w rejsach szkoleniowych jachtu Atlanta – pozostającego do dyspozycji szkoły, na Zatoce Gdańskiej.
Jednocześnie przygotowujemy dzięki temu uczniów do zdobywania uprawnień i patentów żeglarskich
Współpracujemy z partnerami organizującymi takie kursy.
Raz w ciągu czteroletniego etapu edukacyjnego każdy uczeń ma okazję uczestniczyć w “szkole pod żaglami” – ponad miesięcznym rejsie wykonywanym na żaglowcu szkoleniowym.
The students gain practical sailing skills by regularly taking part in training cruises aboard Atlanta yacht – being at school’s disposal in the Gdańsk Bay.
Simultaneously, the students are being prepared to take the exam for sailing license. We cooperate with partners organizing such courses.
Once during a four-year course of education, every student is enabled to join the ,,under sail” course” – a month-long cruise carried out on a training vessel.
The Columbus Foundation
Along the years of sharing knowledge and experience we have provided support for many young people who cared about their future. Networks and relationships they have built while attending the projects started by the Columbus Foundation benefit them already on their way of development.
The Grade graduates say:
Columbus High School
The Founders
Based on our experience from creating Columbus Personal Development Academy and youth programs – The Grade and The Avenue, we desire to create a school, where we continue to follow our values. Sharing knowledge and experience, support in personal development and career choice based on solid academic foundations is a mission of the Columbus High School.
Lidia Witkowska
A happy wife and mother of three. She likes to socialize and do volunteer work, using her abilities for the betterment of others. While at work, she is enthusiastic and passionate about what she does.
Mikołaj Kopernik University of Toruń graduate. She also finished a course in Management of Human Resources at the Polytechnic University of Gdańsk Management Department. For over sixteen years she had been professionally connected to the medical branch, where she worked as a Healthcare Specialist in pharmaceutical companies such as Schering-Plough, Sanofi-Synthelabo, GSK, Amgen.
The experience she gained was useful in a company she set up with her husband – Med&Care, specialized in the distribution of innovative medical products and educational training organisation. Initially working as a HR Manager, she currently is a vice-chairman of the company’s board. Commonly run company is now responsible for delivering it’s products and innovative technology to over 400 hospitals in Poland.
Bartłomiej Glinka
University of Gdańsk faculty of Economics graduate, he finished his studies with a Masters Degree in Marine Trade. Postgraduate student at the Marine Academy and Gdańsk Politechnic University, doing a course in Management. Graduate of MBA and WSB as well as the prestigious Advanced Management Program at IESE Business School in Barcelona.
Former employee at Evergreen Marine Corporation. Former department director at Rohlig Suus Logistics Company. Currently one of the co-founders of Omida Group, a logistics company employing over 500 people across the entire country and surpassing 500 million in sales every year. Winner of awards such as the Forbes Diamond, Economic Griffin and Super Gazelle of Business
Founder of Columbus Foundation, a mother-initiative overseeing: Academy of Personal Development Columbus, The Grade and Avenue. Chairman in the council of University of Gdańsk, lecturer at the Technical Department of the University. Multi-sportsman, marathon runner, happy husband and proud father of three.
Paweł Korzenecki
And educator and a teacher. History, mnemotechnic and neurosciences enthusiast. Has a Masters Degree in History. He finished postgraduate courses at WSB in marketing and management.
For 6 years of his professional life he taught history at a FF. An avid admirer of history of Gdynia – co-author of ,,Wandering through history of Gdynia” part II directed by professor Tadeusz Stegner.
Long-term scout instructor in the Scouts Association of Poland. Former active sailor with a yacht helmsman rank. Skipper of a racer “Dobosz”, sailing under the Navy Yacht Club “Kotwica”
Waldemar Fijołek
He began his professional career at ACNielsen (currently Nielsen), a company specialized in FMCG market analysis.
He worked at the Marketing Department of Jutrzenka SA(currently Colian), where later he took the post of press spokesman and strategic management manager. Former marketing and PR director at Fota JSC and the president of supervision council of Fota Hungary in Budapest.
Currently he runs VEDIC Estate Management company, where he administrates buildings of over 400 000 square meters in area. His company employs almost 40 people and support 12 property developers.
Marek Rostkowski
Gdynia Marine Academy graduate(course: Commodity and Cargo Science) as well as MBA Banking College in Gdańsk.
He finished courses conducted by Harvard Business Review. A member of the Expert Council of University of Gdańsk. Since 2002 involved in the TSL branch. Co-founder of Omida Group. His professional as well as life philosophy puts people as a priority.
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