Developing Student Leadership
Nurturing Leaders for Tomorrow’s World
Colorado Academy, Denver, Colorado
Friday, April 17th, 4:30 - 9pm &
Saturday, April 18th, 8:30am - 4pm
Representatives from four schools with exemplary student leadership programs will present their curriculum and share ideas. Participants and presenters will note what all leadership programs have in common, and how leadership development might differ depending on school climate, school population and other factors. Our goal is to help schools identify those qualities that are essential to school leadership programs, and which qualities help but are dependent on the kinds of schools fostering leadership.
Our program in 2009 will feature three high schools and one middle school. Two of the schools are urban day schools, one a suburban day school, and one a rural boarding school. One is a Catholic school and the others are secular. All have programs that have been thought through carefully and are based on solid principles. All show evidence of success, and yet we all have things to learn.
School programs featured:
Culver Academies, Culver, IN
De LaSalle High School, Concord, CA
The Rivers School, Weston, MA
Flintridge Preparatory Academy, La Cañada, CA
Tentative Schedule
Friday, April 17
4-5pm
Registration
5-6pm
Welcome, Opening Remarks
6-7pm
Dinner at Colorado Academy
7:15-8:45pm
Leadership Presentation 1: Culver Academies, John Yeager
Saturday, April 18
8:45-10:15am
Leadership Presentation 2: Dina Levi, De LaSalle High School
10:15-10:30am
Break
10:30-12
Leadership Presentation 3: Susie McGee and Clinton Howarth, Rivers School
12-1pm
Lunch
1:15 - 2:45pm
Leadership Presentation 4: Michael Roffina, Flintridge Preparatory School
2:45pm- 3pm
Break
3-4pm
Panel Discussion: Essentials of Leadership and School Differences
4-4:30pm
Concluding Remarks, Evaluations
Culver Academies
Presented by John Yeager
The aim of good education is to provide students with the experiences and means to live well. At Culver, this is accomplished through the tireless efforts of dedicated instructional faculty, counselors and coaches that help guide students as they chart their courses through childhood and adolescence to adulthood. By promoting a strengths-based approach to academic, leadership, the arts, wellness/health and athletic programs; educators make an explicit connection between the mind, body and spirit come alive in their students. A systems approach in the schools integrates the experiences of well-being, contentment and satisfaction, along with hope and optimism, in contributing to students’ living a flourishing life. It also supports the opportunities for teachers and students to leverage their own and other’s strengths to become servant leaders and bring out the best in themselves and others.
De LaSalle High School
Presented by Dina Levi
Through the Student Coalition on Respectful Education (SCORE), upperclass students at De LaSalle High School learn to become leaders within the school through a series of workshops on diversity that they first participate in, and then lead for younger students. While SCORE’s primary focus is to create a more understanding and inclusive community, it also aims to develop leadership within the student body. Students involved in the program learn effective techniques to engage younger students in difficult conversations, learn skills to work effectively as a team, and most importantly they learn the value of modeling the behavior they teach in the community.
The Rivers School
Presented by Susie McGee and Clinton Howarth
The Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts is now in its 9th year of an initiative to help all middle school students develop leadership skills. One foundational question is "How are you leading yourself every day?" All faculty members are involved with the leadership training program, and they continue to focus on how they can make it better. The program is deeply integrated into the middle school curriculum, but includes an overnight session for 8th graders and three days of activities for all students at the beginning of each school year.
Flintridge Preparatory Academy
Presented by Michael Roffina
Flintridge Preparatory School’s approach to the development of ethical leaders links academic excellence and rigor with a soulful affirmation of personal and communal values. Teachers, students, and families are all given responsibility for accomplishing the school’s goals, specifically by modeling the four values that inform everything done at Prep—honesty, respectfulness, kindness and generosity. In addition to general school culture, the development of ethical leaders is woven into extra-curricular programs that help in the endeavor: peer counseling, community service, student mentoring and tutoring, coaching, outdoor education, and one-on-one conferences.
Accommodations
CSEE has reserved a block of rooms at the Holiday Inn Lakewood. For reservations, call 303.980.9200.