building community

Building a community where everyone belongs is essential to a meangful education.
In College Prep’s collaborative environment, students take risks, engage deeply, and appreciate the gifts of others. Through spirited all school gatherings, clubs focused on shared interests, and affinity groups, College Prep creates space for students to authentically express themselves. The school encourages community members to act on their beliefs, collectively creating an inclusive environment that lives its commitment to equity, empathy, cultural competence, and respect.

spirit

College Prep is infused with school spirit through weekly student-led assemblies and more than 60 clubs on campus. Fun and play are a core part of College Prep’s culture, helping students embrace the elements of a balanced life. The Spirit Committee is a group of students elected by their peers to organize special theme days and spirit weeks during which students discover the joy and meaning that makes College Prep not just a school, but a community. Whether they’re representing our school on the field or cheering on our athletes from the stands, athletics are central to student life. We take pride in our athletic teams through assembly announcements, packing our gym with cheering supporters, and providing fan vans to away games. Go Cougars!   

Diversity, Equity, and Belonging

College Prep commits energy and resources to creating a transformative learning environment where each student is cared for, supported, and prepared to participate in the creation of a more racially just world. The School’s Dean of Equity and Belonging mentors student leaders, spearheads the effort to infuse the curriculum with diverse perspectives, and creates opportunities for education and reflection within our community. 

Students engage in awareness raising, advocacy, and meaningful action for social justice and service leadership. Student equity leaders serve as guides and facilitators who design and plan a wide range of programs, including affinity groups, an annual equity conference, service days, and community-wide initiatives. Two students are elected to student council to represent the cohort of affinity and identity-based clubs. 
The School’s community partners include A Better Chance, the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network, Leadership Oakland, the League of Women Voters, The Partners Program, People of Color in Independent Schools, Rock the Vote, Showing Up for Racial Justice, and Learning For Justice.

Affinity and Activism Student Clubs

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  • Association Asie-Amérique

    L'AAA favorise une présence asiatique active dans le cadre de la préparation aux études supérieures. Nous célébrons les fêtes, regardons des films, apprenons des recettes, organisons des discussions et mangeons ensemble des plats délicieux. Notre club a pour but de réunir la communauté asiatique à College Prep, tout en partageant notre culture avec les autres. Tout le monde, asiatique ou non, est le bienvenu.
  • Union des étudiants noirs

    La BSU de l'université est un espace de célébration, d'examen et de discussion des peuples noirs et afro-américains du passé et du présent. Notre objectif est de créer et de maintenir une communauté où les étudiants noirs ne se sentent pas seuls et peuvent être fiers de leur identité :
    • Renforcer les capacités des leaders étudiants
    • Sensibilisation aux faits entourant les questions clés
    • Défendre efficacement les besoins des étudiants  
    • Agir efficacement pour mettre fin aux brimades, discriminations, harcèlements et autres actes de violence 

    Nous nous engageons dans les actions suivantes pour démontrer notre engagement en faveur d'une pratique d'équité et d'inclusion : 
    • Collaborer avec des partenaires tels que la Ligue antidiffamation (ADL) afin de garantir une communauté joyeuse, aimable, diverse et créative pour tous
    • Créer des programmes qui inspirent les gens et leur donnent les moyens de construire des communautés aimables, créatives, diverses et joyeuses
    • Aiguiser nos connaissances, nos pratiques et nos compétences grâce à une formation spécifique sur l'équité et l'inclusion
  • Bring Change 2 Mind

    Our mission is to end the stigma and discrimination surrounding mental illness.
  • Club de la culture chinoise

    To share Chinese history and culture and promote greater understanding and inclusivity within the CPS community. To inform the community on pressing issues facing Chinese Americans, especially those that aren’t represented in the media, and encourage dialogue.
  • Climate Crew

    Climate crew is a club devoted to hindering the effects of climate change through local service work. We focus on making climate and environmental-related volunteering opportunities more accessible to the College Prep community by partnering with local organizations. Get involved! Your planet needs you!
  • Équipe d'action communautaire : Justice alimentaire

    The mission of Community Action Team (CAT): Food Justice is to spread awareness about issues of food (in)justice and to promote volunteering within our community. Students work alongside organizations like Planting Justice that center marginalized communities in their efforts to cultivate food justice.
  • CPS contre la traite des êtres humains

    CPS Against Human Trafficking se concentre sur la lutte contre la traite des êtres humains dans la communauté au sens large par le biais d'événements planifiés et de collectes de fonds, notamment à l'occasion de la Journée de ma liberté chaque année. Notre objectif est de sensibiliser les gens à la question de la traite des êtres humains, en leur fournissant des moyens de rester conscients des prédateurs potentiels et de chercher de l'aide afin de diminuer l'occurrence de la traite.
  • Union féministe

    The Feminist Union at College Prep is a space for the discussion of sexism and how it has both currently and historically affected different groups of people and their daily lives. Our goal is to establish a community where those who misogyny has historically marginalized can take pride in their identities. We aim to explore the history of feminism and its applications to contemporary issues including intersectionality. We also aim to provide a space where students feel supported and heard, while seeking opportunities for activism within College Prep and the broader community.
  • Filipino Student Association

    Filipino Student Association aims to introduce Filipino culture to non-Filipino students and cultivate a safe and fun space for Filipino students to bond and learn about our own culture. We will also discuss Filipino history and its effects on present Filipino society and culture.
  • Club de sensibilisation à la sexualité de genre

    Le club de sensibilisation au genre et à la sexualité (GSA) s'efforce de créer un espace sûr pour les étudiants et les autres personnes afin d'explorer l'identité et l'expression en toute sécurité d'une manière qui nourrit et enrichit tout le monde. Nous visons à éduquer et à sensibiliser la communauté élargie de la préparation au collège, en favorisant un environnement inclusif pour les étudiants de tous les sexes et de toutes les sexualités.
  • L'équipe verte

    Venez célébrer et sauver l'environnement avec l'Équipe verte ! L'équipe verte rassemble les étudiants de la préparation au collège par le biais d'événements amusants afin de sensibiliser les gens aux questions environnementales et à leur pertinence pour nos vies, et de prendre des mesures pour aider à atténuer ces problèmes.
  • Humanitarian Club

    A coalition of students interested in bettering our communities through a variety of volunteering opportunities and welfare contributions.
  • International Club

    The International Club seeks to provide a safe space for all members of the international community. Be it as an immigrant, first second or even third generation, the club creates and environment where your culture can be celebrated and appreciated. The International Club seeks to be a rainbow coalition where people hailing from all countries can seek information regarding other cultures as well as international news and events that are not reported domestically in the United States. Furthermore, the International Club encourages students to bring pieces of their heritage to all of our meetings, and allows for students to present and share the cultures and traditions of their homelands.
  • Jewish Student Union

    The Jewish Student Union aims to create spaces where Jews at College Prep can connect with each other, have discussions, and celebrate being Jewish while also sharing our values and culture with the wider College Prep community.
  • Club coréen

    Le Korean Club s'efforce non seulement de célébrer la culture coréenne à travers la nourriture, les films et les jeux, mais aussi de sensibiliser à l'histoire et aux questions sociales de la Corée. De l'organisation d'un atelier de fabrication de kimbap à la présentation d'un diaporama sur le thème des femmes de réconfort, le Korean Club est un lieu de partage des passe-temps favoris ainsi qu'un lieu de discussion des questions importantes.
  • Club LatinX

    Our mission is to foster a safe and welcoming environment for members of the College Prep community who are LatinX. We aim to do this by offering affinity spaces for LatinX students and offering meetings open to the whole campus that celebrate LatinX cultures.
  • Association des étudiants musulmans

    The Muslim Student Association is a student body dedicated to providing a space for College Prep Muslim students to practice their faith comfortably. We provide a space for prayer and a space for discussions involving the Muslim community and other intersectional communities, as well as discussions regarding elements of the Islamic faith and its history.
  • Pas de place pour la coalition de la haine

    La coalition No Place for Hate (NPHC) de l'université s'efforce d'éradiquer la haine au sein des communautés par le biais d'activités et de dialogues. Nous collaborons avec le L'institut "A World of Difference" de la Ligue contre la diffamationLes écoles primaires et les collèges :
    • Renforcer les capacités des leaders étudiants
    • Sensibiliser aux faits entourant les questions clés
    • Défendre efficacement leurs intérêts et ceux des autres 
    • Agir efficacement pour mettre fin aux brimades, à la discrimination et au harcèlement
  • PERIOD @ College Prep

    The goals of this club are to destigmatize periods in our community, combat period poverty, and advocate for proactive period policy. Through community discussions, documentary viewings, informative presentation and affinity spaces we hope to interrogate the systems in our community and the larger world that stigmatize periods. Periods are a bodily function and should be thought of as so, and not something to be quieted or feel ashamed about. The second part of this clubs mission is to combat period poverty, the inability to access menstrual products due to economic or social barriers. Menstruators should have access to period products. We hope to address this issue through menstrual hygiene drives, fundraisers, and other inventive ideas. The last facet of this club is to advocate for period policy. This will take the form of working with other schools and like-minded youth to pressure lawmakers into implementing policy that supports menstruators.
  • Side by Side

    At Side by Side, we aim to build community between high school students with and without learning differences. We meet weekly to chat, socialize, and have fun, and it's a great opportunity to build friendships with other students from another high school.
  • Alliance sud-asiatique

    The South Asian Alliance serves as a space to celebrate and discuss South Asian culture at College Prep by doing work which ranges from festival celebrations to discussions about racism to fundraisers. The goal of the club is to create and sustain an environment which allows South Asian students to feel comfortable in their skin and heritage, and foster a community which is accepting of all cultural traditions, not just those belonging to South Asia. We aim to represent both those from all South Asian countries and their diasporas.
  • Student with Disabilities Club

    This is a community space for students with physical, medical, or mental disability.
  • Étudiants ayant une vie interraciale

    Our mission is to provide a space for and about mixed race students to discuss what being mixed means to them, and how it affects their lives. We wanted to provide this space because the very real and visible reality of race in America is important to address not just through a binary lens. Although spaces where multi-ethnic and cultural people can meet, race has a political significance that is often talked about in terms of one single group, and only identified with that group. We believe that race is a social construct set up to enforce a white supremacist system, but we also need to function within a system before we can change it.
  • World Humanitarian Rights Club

    The World Humanitarian Rights Club seeks to shed light on human rights violations across the world, without a special focus on those that are not represented in mainstream media. The information is spread with the aim of not only bringing the state of the world into our view, but also inspiring future activists to take charge and end these atrocities.
I’ve been a part of GSA since my ninth grade year and it’s given me an opportunity to explore who I am, express myself, meet lots and lots of people, and discuss things that are interesting and important to me.”  

L'école préparatoire du collège

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