Middle Level Team Retreats
There is still space available at the Middle Level Team Retreats.
Chewelah Peak, October
19-21
Cispus, October
26-28
Photo: Morgan Middle School ASB Officers at summer leadership camp in August.
GREETINGS
Thanks
to Cascade Middle Level Leadership Camp staff member Brian Lawrence, Washington
Student Leadership is starting the journey to create a strategic plan.
At a recent meeting, he asked us: "What are the questions we need to be
asking to which audiences to gather the data we will need to make the
decisions regarding the future of our programs?" I had to write the
question down on paper before my brain could process an answer. In our
worlds of do, do, do and go, go, go it was refreshing to just
sit and think. Perhaps you might find a way to use Brian's question to
slow down and ponder what you are doing, why you
are doing it and how asking the right questions might lead you to doing it even better.
In the Loop, Editor: Joe Fenbert
In this issue...
ASB Legal Issues Workshops
Middle Level Team Retreat
ESD 189 (Anacortes) Student Leadership Workshops
RSVP Trainings
WASC Membership
Application/Renewal
A Year of
Looking
at Inclusion
PROGRAMS AND
EVENTS
ESD 189 (Anacortes) Student Leadership Workshops
Washington Student Leadership partners annually with ESD 189
to facilitate student leadership workshops designed both for high school and middle level student
leaders. Gain the confidence to lead your school or club by enhancing your
leadership skills. Topics will include decision-making strategies, communication
skills, idea generation, action planning and effective meeting skills including
an introduction to parliamentary procedure.
ESD 189 Registration
Raising Student Voice and Participation (RSVP)
Fall Training for High Schools
Raising
Student Voice & Participation (RSVP)is
a student engagement program that uses dialogue to give students a chance to speak out and take action. This program
is sponsored by Washington Student Leadership and the National Association
of Student Councils. To schedule a RSVP training,
contact Director of Washington Student Leadership, Susan Fortin, 360-497-5323.
RSVP Trainings
October 29, Cispus Learning Center
October 30, Seattle Area
Contact Karen Johnson at Washington Student
Leadership for registration materials. 360.497.5323
ASB Legal Issues Workshop
Join ASB law authority Marty Fortin, director of AWSP learning centers,
for the ASB Legal Issues workshop. ASB funds are unique in that the law requires students, advisers and
administrators to collaborate on the use of funds for extra-curricular
activities.
Registration October 7, Ballard High, Seattle
Middle Level Team
Retreat
The Chewelah Peak and Cispus Learning Centers
The Middle Level Team Retreat is designed to increase the effectiveness of a
school's student leadership team. Each participating school comes to the
leadership training with unique goals. Staff
members from our popular middle level summer
leadership camps facilitate the retreat.
Chewelah Peak Learning Center, October
19-21
Cispus Learning
Center, October
26-28
WASC Membership 2008-09
Open Enrollment Until December
By Joining the
Washington
Association of
Student Councils (WASC), your school becomes a part of the student leadership
team. Benefits include:
- the semi-monthly electronic newsletter,
In the Loop
- the issue-driven print publication, The
Leader
- discounts on programs and
publications
- eligibility for recognition and award
programs
RESOURCES &
ACTIVITIES
A Year of Looking at
Inclusion
The
WASC Board has selected the topic of inclusion as a theme for the
2008/09 school year. They plan to incorporate some aspect of inclusion
into each of their local association meetings this year. Inclusion is a
broad, complex topic with many layers. We hope you choose to explore it
this year along with the WASC Board.
Washington Student Leadership Creates a PBwiki on Inclusion
Invite Key: inclusion
URL: http://everyone.pbwiki.com/
Our goal for this year is to produce a spring issue of The Leader
on the topic of inclusion. We have created a PBwiki on
inclusion to
document success stories, share activities, list resources, store
documents and pose questions. We hope you visit our PBwiki throughout the year to add to our collective wisdom.
What is a PBwiki?
A PBwiki
is a free, interactive, web-based resource originally designed for
teachers leading online courses. They allow any user with the invite
key (password) to connect to the PBwiki to add or change text, create
pages or store documents.
October is National Disability Awareness Month
Each October is National Disability Awareness Month
by congressional designation. The Labor Department's Office of Disability
Employment Policy leads the nation's activities and produces materials to
increase the public's awareness of the contributions and skills of American
workers with disabilities. Typically, private sector, state and local
governments, schools and advocacy groups piggyback on the same theme to plan
events and programs. The statistics show that between 15 and 20 percent of US
citizens have some disability and more than 7 million use devices to compensate.
Almost everyone will develop physical and other disabilities at some point in
their life.
Resources
QUOTE
"This year we plan to look at
the
topic of inclusion
not limiting the focus to people who have cognitive disabilities but rather looking to serve all
people of any of the diverse backgrounds and abilities that can be found in
Washington schools."
Alex Honjiyo
WASC Board Vice-President
Woodinville High
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