Student Leadership in Action Jed Bowman, Ph.D. Dave Callan March 17, 2009.
-
Upload
evelyn-randall -
Category
Documents
-
view
221 -
download
1
Transcript of Student Leadership in Action Jed Bowman, Ph.D. Dave Callan March 17, 2009.
Agenda
Student Advisory Group (SAG)– Subend 1.5--Leadership
South Elementary– Election Process
Douglas County High School– Nourish Peace
Mountain Ridge Middle School– Student-Led Conferences (SLC)– Service Learning
ThunderRidge High School– Senior Project
Highlands Ranch High School– NASC Conference
Student Advisory Group 2008 - 2009
Chaparral– Derek Whipple– Amanda Williams– Lindsey Wolfgang
Highlands Ranch– Maddie Clark– Lauren Gennaro– Mackenzie Lopez– Georgia Petrides– Chris Tobin
Mountain Vista– Maddie Clark– Carolyn Bavington– Cedar Blazek– Derek Bull– Audrey Paranka– Katie Peters– Laura Rogers– Ross Weistroffer
Student Advisory Group2008 - 2009
Ponderosa– Wendy Bowling– Craig Hirokawa– Emily Wagoner
ThunderRidge– Josh Canter– Miles Dickinson– Michelle Shaffer– Faymie Westmoreland
Rock Canyon– Sarah Classen
Why the Student Advisory Group?
In 2007-2008, the SAG wrote the regulations around the graduation requirement on community service.
Various district groups continue to look at that implementation including service learning.
SAG—The Charge
Assist the BOE in its job of developing future written policies about the End Statement. Include expectations for student performance by providing input on leadership, leadership skills, opportunities for instruction and opportunities for students to demonstrate leadership.
Questions to Think About
Do all students have the potential to lead? Can students recognize “good”
leadership? How does leadership relate to ethics? How does a student learn to be a leader? What opportunities do students have to
lead?
Leadership Defined
The ability to inspire, motivate and influence others to utilize their potential to reach a common goal. (SAG 2008)
Strands of Leadership Skills
Communication Skills Goal Setting Skills Organizational Skills Thinking Skills People Skills
DC Feeder System
South Elementary– Carrie Stephenson, Principal– Election Process
Douglas County High School– Serena Patel, Trishna Patel, Nikki Look– Kelly Heo, Alice Choi, Lauren Koppel– Nourish Peace
DC Feeder System—Nourish Peace
Students– Serena Patel– Trishna Patel– Nikki Look– Kelly Heo– Alice Choi– Lauren Koppel
Leadership at MRMS
Advanced classes, sports, clubs, debate, MathCounts, NJHS, Community Counts…
What DO ALL STUDENTS participate in?– Student-Led Conferences– Service Learning
Leadership at MRMS
87% of parents reported that they agreed or strongly agreed with the statement, “My student has opportunities to develop leadership skills.”
89% of the students reported the same.
Student-Led Conferences
Foundational core value since opening in 2001
Several other middle schools also use SLC
Different than traditional conferences
Student-Led Conferences
Feedback on this format has been positive:– Students take responsibility for learning and
behavior– Parents communicate with the learner about
what is happening in school– Teachers facilitate the discussion between
students and parents
SLC and ePortfolios
Students apply what they have learned. They go beyond merely knowing to using their knowledge and skills productively. (1.4)
Ellie Foust, 8th grade science teacher, implemented ePortfolios for a project in her Information and Learning Technology Masters program.
Using ePortfolios, students reflect on their performance, set goals, and make connections.
ePortfolio Feedback
“Good afternoon to all of you,I am Gabi Capocelli's mom and I just wanted you to know how very impressed I was with your … I am lucky enough to not only be a parent but a teacher of kids in the feeder area. I am so excited to see what the kids that I am teaching will be able to do when they get to middle school... We stress technology and to see how she has taken off with it is a huge celebration for us and especially for all of you. I am also going to try a very scaled down version of the ePortfolio with my second graders in the spring.”
Service Learning Standards
Meaningful Service Link to curriculum Reflection Diversity Youth voice Partnerships Progress Monitoring
Service Learning in Schools
Student Council provided direction (training and theme)
Students explore in RAM Time
OR
Teams attend training and implement in their core curriculum
Service Learning
Identify a problem Research the problem Consider solutions Select and make a plan Implement a solution Reflect and adjust
Students develop and demonstrate Leadership skills. They are influential in creating a vision of what the future can be. (1.4)
Conclusions
At the middle level, students need to develop ownership and responsibility for learning and leading.
Students demonstrate the self-motivation and resourcefulness to continue their learning. (1.3)
Conclusions
Student-led conferences, with an emphasis on ePortfolios, promote 21st century learners and leaders while holding kids accountable for their learning.
Service learning promotes a passion for a cause with the knowledge and resources to create change.
ThunderRidge HS
Denise Orsini, Teacher Katherine Lindauer, Student Chris Miller, Student
– Senior Project
Senior Project Mission
The ThunderRidge High School Senior Project will provide a cumulative evaluation instrument to validate a senior student’s ability to write an analytical paper, design and complete a project, and teach others about the project in a formal presentation.
Senior Project: Fosters growth in all students
BOE Ends Statement 21st Century Skills IB Programme and AP
Curriculum College Expectations Workplace
Competencies
Highlands Ranch HS
Rashaan Davis, Teacher Chris Tobin, Student Channing Andrews, Student
– NASC Conference
Recommendations
Discuss the modification of the End Statement to include student voice and engagement.
Explore opportunities for students at various grade levels across the district to lead conferences around their learning and the district Ends.
Work to integrate student leadership and civic engagement.
Support understanding and opportunities for service learning K – 12.
Explore the role of middle and high school advisement as opportunities to embed service and leadership activities.
Use the work of Highlands Ranch High School around the NASC conference as a template for a leadership academy for Douglas County students.
Develop opportunities with community partners to engage students in acquiring and demonstrating leadership.