Emerging Leaders

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Emerging Leaders

• A Partnership Between
• Hanover County Public Schools and
• The University of Richmond
• 2006

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Emerging Leaders Summer InstituteOVERVIEW

• University of Richmond expertise to build a solid
  foundation of leadership knowledge
• Dr. Thomas J. Shields, Ph.D.
• Eric Leopp, UR junior from Oregon
• Jessica Sale, UR junior from Florida
• Betsy Reid, G/T Teacher
• Challenge Discovery
• Challenge Discovery Staff
• Debbie Munchel, GT Teacher
• Conference and Socratic seminar, Carousel Style
• Whole group and break out sessions
• Nightly Readings
• Blackboard

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Challenge Discovery
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Leadership Topics

• What is Leadership?
• Service and Leadership
• Leadership in Action
• Ethical Leadership

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Blackboard and Discussions

• Blackboard Highlights
• Definition of Leadership
• Followers as Leaders
• Servant Leaders
• Discussion Topics
• How do we create more servant leaders in our
  society?
• When is it a good idea to be a follower rather
  than a leader?
• How do you create relationships with people who
  are different from you?
• How do leaders handle ethical dilemmas?
• Panel Discussion on Leadership in College

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Activities
Illustrating the Importance of Followers
Agreeing upon the Perfect Leader
Getting to Know Each Others Differences with
Diversity Bingo
Drawing a Picture of Leadership
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And More Activities
Processing each group activity
Watching parts of Sister Act and Remember the
Titans
Enjoying the Fruits of Their Labor after the
Lunch Activity
Self-Letter of goals for the year
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Volunteer Panel
Hanover Community Resources Comfort Zone
Camp Richmond SPCA Hanover Habitat for Humanity
Westminster Canterbury
Make-A-Wish
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Principals Panel
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Yearlong Project

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Student Survey Results

• Students asked to rate four components of the
  program
• 38 Respondents
• Many additional comments given

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How would you rate the Challenge Discovery
experience?

• 1 Needs Improvement
• 3 Okay, but not great
• 34 Great!

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Sample of Additional Comments

• It was a great way to first meet the other EL
  students from the other schools
• Great but WAY too hot. I could have done more if
  it werent so hot
• Fun! Do more intense climbing activities.
• Great team building
• It really helped me learn about other EL members
• Good experience to get to know the kids from the
  other schools
• I wish we didnt do it the first day. It was fun
  for me.
• More time in other rope courses
• I couldnt do everything bc of my broken arm, but
  was grateful for the support of the group. I
  still at least tried most of the activities
• I loved doing that, It made me trust my teammates
  and gave me confidence
• Enjoyed meeting new people
• Awesome!!
• I really enjoy stuff like that
• It was fun getting to know others before learning
  with them
• Im glad we were split from our high school
  groups
• I love doing rope course but dont get many
  chances to do them

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How would you rate the readings and Blackboard
assignments that were given for each day?

• 5 Needs Improvement
• 30 Okay, but not great
• 3 Great!

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Sample of Additional Comments

• I enjoyed the reading about Thomas Cannon but
  some of the other readings dragged along
• Informative but hard to read since it is summer
• The readings were a bit boring but the Bb
  discussions were a good idea, but a bit much for
  summer HW
• Very enlightening
• Not my favorite but a learning experience
• The discussions were very interesting
• Some of the questions didnt seem very
  thought-provoking. I did like how the staff
  sometimes commented
• I loved the Bb and the readings about people, not
  so much the textbook readings
• Enjoyed the readings, not Bb
• Kind of boring and no one wants HW in the summer
• Similar answers made it uninteresting
• It was a good way to communicate and discuss
  after class
• Im a slow readerIll try to improve though!!
• Didnt enjoy having homework over the summer
• Readings were great! Bb discussion slowly
  declined
• I wasnt home enough to do them
• Great discussions/ Very informing
• I learned how to use Bb
• Forgot to keep up with it

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How would you rate the Schedule/Agenda for each
day?

• 14 Okay, but not great
• 24 Great!

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Sample of Additional Comments

• I liked being put into different groups because
  it allowed up to get to know everyone
• Pretty open, which is good!
• Some lectures seemed too long
• More hands-on activities would have been nice
• I liked the routine that we followed each day
• It was a good mixture of lectures and games
• Some of the activities seemed a little
  repetitive, but I enjoyed the discussions
• We kept moving form one thing to anotherit was
  really organized
• Glad to have structure, not just chaos
• Mostly fun, interactive, interesting discussion
• Every day was awesome
• The breaks worked wellmoving from one room to
  the next. Different activities, etc.
• Lunch scheduling was hectic
• It was structured
• Good schedule
• Hard to commit to
• Kept on schedule
• Never got to spend time with some people because
  we were split up a lot
• We were there for a long time

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How would you rate the instruction given by the
EL staff?

• 2 Okay, but not great
• 36 Great!

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Sample of Additional Comments

• They connected with us very well and could relate
  the ideas to real life
• They all worked so hard and were never boring
• Everyone was really great, I felt lucky to have
  Dr. Shields and Jessica and Eric were great
  people!
• Excellent!
• Everyone was very nice!
• The students were great as well as the teachers
• It was excellent
• I enjoyed learning from the EL staff and I felt
  they were enthusiastic. I enjoyed getting to know
  them.
• What they said was always related to the topic,
  it was more like a Socratic Seminar with us
  participating
• Enjoyed every minute of itreally learned a lot
• The teachers were greatDr. Shields have me great
  new ideas, Mrs. Reid kept things fun, Jessica was
  really nice and I like talking to her and Eric
  was pretty cool and thought up good points
• Everyone was really great
• Eric and Jessica were a lot of help
• Informative
• They were very informative and interesting
• It worked well. All of us learned a LOT
• Great! I loved the college classroom environment
• Interesting and helpful
• Awesome

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Please add any other general comments on the
program

• I really enjoyed it. The program has motivated
  and inspired me to do more to help and lead
  others
• I loved having Jessica and Eric bc they brought
  a younger vibe and easily made what could have
  been something boring exciting
• Thanks!!
• It was great!
• This is a great program and I felt lucky to
  participate!
• I loved getting to know everyone from the other
  schools
• Thank you for your time, time is precious.
• I really enjoyed the experience and I am glad did
  it.
• Itd be nice to have more organizations come to
  present on the different service activities in
  the area
• Well organized and executed
• Have the days not so dragged out. Dr. Shields was
  a great speaker. Jessica and Eric were awesome
  people
• Everything was excellent
• This was a great experience, and it was well
  thought out
• I loved this week and U of R is amazing
• WOOOO!!
• Good program, good staff, good times!
• Thanks for all of your advice and guidance
• I felt like we could have done everything in
  three days instead of five
• More time needed top be given to develop the
  year-long project. More leadership activities
  like the lunch or other tasks/missions that
  require leadership

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The program has motivated and inspired me to do
more to help and lead othersEL student