Leadership at FHHS

Embedded School-Wide Leadership Program

Summary & Competencies

Our leadership program is built upon our student leadership organization, the Center for Student Action (CSA). This group of students, which is open to all students and into which new students are continually recruited, creates ACTION! Action means community projects. Action means leadership. Action means personal growth. CSA is leading a cultural shift at FHHS toward student empowerment.

CSA students are learning how to lead. CSA students run the CTE Advisory Committee, which we call our Community Council! They also lead other students in community projects and they lead in communications to the entire student body.

While CSA is the organizational foundation to our leadership program, student projects are the bricks. Every student must complete at least one community project before graduation and this accomplishment is often declared to be the penultimate experience. Our community projects all involve professional mentors who ensure that appropriate industry standards are met. Finally, a myriad of classroom activities, extracurricular activities, and community activities form the mortar for our leadership program. All these activities are summarized on the attachment “elemental details”.

Thus, CSA and FHHS staff have blended a variety of classroom, our counseling office, extracurricular activities, and our community into a comprehensive leadership program. These elements, some of which are summarized below, are itemized under the competency section further below.

While many community projects are managed by CSA, many other projects are completed in our required Community Experience Class, or in Internships, in both cases where every student must complete a project. Here too, professionals from our community are recruited by the students to serve as mentors, providing work place experiences and skill development.

The identification and selection of a student’s project involves extensive self awareness, career planning and educational requirements. Each student receives counseling and guidance with both school staff and community professionals during this process. Each student must be interviewed by their proposed mentors and ‘hired’. Some projects and mentors don’t work out and therefore students learn how ‘resign’ from a position.

We showcase the most successful projects in a variety of ways. We have a CSA bulletin board on which weekly and monthly accomplishments are noted. And at the beginning of each year we often showcase the most successful projects in our Commons. There is great competition among the students for this ‘showcase’ designation.

• Leadership Competencies: Individual Skills

1.1 The student will analyze, refine, and apply
decision-making skills through classroom, family,
community, and business and industry (work related)
experiences.
Participation in the Center for Student Action (organizing meetings, reviewing proposals, and negotiating with mentors)
Community Service and Service Learning (negotiating with mentors and promoting service learning projects)
Band, Technology, PE/Sports, School-Based Businesses, Arts, Clubs, Dollars for Scholars, Local Boards, Hospitality Class, Mock Trial, Experiencing the Connection, Wood Shop, Drama, Tutoring, Internship & Work Experience

1.2 The student will identify and analyze the
characteristics of family, community, business, and
industry leaders.
Participation in the Center for Student Action through interaction with mentors and community leaders
Community Experience Class: interviews of community leaders

1.3 The student will demonstrate oral, interpersonal,
written, and electronic communication and
presentation skills and understands how to apply
those skills.
Community Experience Class: community presentation
Completion of Senior Exhibition’s presentation

1.4 The student will be involved in activities that
require applying theory, problem-solving, and using
critical and creative thinking skills while
understanding outcomes of related decisions.
Center for Student Action: organizing real-world projects
Band, Technology, PE/Sports, School-Based Businesses, Arts, Clubs, Dollars for Scholars, Local Boards, Hospitality Class, Mock Trial, Experiencing the Connection, Wood Shop, Drama, Tutoring, Internship & Work Experience

1.5 The student will demonstrate self-advocacy skills
by achieving planned, individual goals.
Center for Student Action: organizing meetings and individual projects

1.6 The student will conduct self in a professional
manner in practical career applications,
organizational forums, and decision-making
bodies.
Participation in the Center for Student Action, especially as an officer

• Leadership Competencies: Group Skills

2.1 The student will communicate, participate, and
advocate effectively in pairs, small groups, teams,
and large groups in order to reach common goals.
Center for Student Action: working to improve the school and organizing empowerment projects
Band, Technology, PE/Sports, School-Based Businesses, Arts, Clubs, Dollars for Scholars, Local Boards, Hospitality Class, Mock Trial, Experiencing the Connection, Wood Shop, Drama, Tutoring, Internship & Work Experience

2.2 The student will demonstrate knowledge of conflict
resolution and challenge management.
Participation in the Center for Student Action in dealing with students, staff and administrators
Band, Technology, PE/Sports, School-Based Businesses, Arts, Clubs, Dollars for Scholars, Local Boards, Hospitality Class, Mock Trial, Experiencing the Connection, Wood Shop, Drama, Tutoring, Internship & Work Experience

2.3 The student will analyze the complex
responsibilities of the leader and follower and
demonstrate the ability to both lead and follow.
Participation in the Center for Student Action
Attending Community Council meetings
Completing Community Experience Class and participation with guest speakers

2.4 The student will demonstrate skills that assist in
understanding and accepting responsibility to
family, community, and business and industry.
Participation in the Center for Student Action and Community Council
Completing Community Experience Class and participation with guest speakers
Band, Technology, PE/Sports, School-Based Businesses, Arts, Clubs, Dollars for Scholars, Local Boards, Hospitality Class, Mock Trial, Experiencing the Connection, Wood Shop, Drama, Tutoring, Internship & Work Experience

2.5 The student will demonstrate a working knowledge
of parliamentary procedure.
Participation in the Center for Student Action’s meetings and the Community Council’s meetings

2.6 The student will use knowledge, build interest,
guide and influence decisions, organize efforts,
and involve members of a group to assure that a
pre-planned group activity is completed.
Organizing the Center for Student Action’s projects

2.7 The student will demonstrate the ability to train
others to understand the established rules and
expectations, rationale, and consequences and to
follow those rules and expectations.
Recruiting and training students for Center for Student Action’s projects
Tutoring Programs

2.8 The student will demonstrate the ability to
incorporate and utilize the principles of group
dynamics in a variety of settings.
Participation in the Center for Student Action’s meetings and Community Council’s meetings

• Leadership Competencies: Community and Career Skills

3.1 The student will analyze the roles and
responsibilities of citizenship.
Working with the community leaders on the Community Council through the Center for Student Action
Mock Trial
Current Events Class

3.2 The student will demonstrate social responsibility in
family, community, and business and industry.
Completion of the Community Experience Class self-awareness unit

3.3 The student will understand their role, participate in
and evaluate community service and service
learning activities.
Completion of the Community Service Class
Internships & Work Experience
Service Learning Projects
Participation in the Center for Student Action

3.4 The student will understand the organizational skills
necessary to be a successful leader and citizen and
practices those skills in real-life.
Participation in the Center for Student Action and the Community Council

3.5 The student will understand and utilize
organizational systems to advocate for issues on
the local, state, and international level.
Participation in the Center for Student Action’s advocacy projects like affordable housing and environmental issues

3.6 The student will understand the importance of and
utilize the components and structure of community based
organizations.
Participation with the Community Council (composed of community leaders whose officers are from CSA)
Band, Technology, PE/Sports, School-Based Businesses, Arts, Clubs, Dollars for Scholars, Local Boards, Hospitality Class, Mock Trial, Experiencing the Connection, Wood Shop, Drama, Tutoring, Internship & Work Experience

3.7 The student will participate in the development of a
program of work or strategic plan and will work to
implement the organization’s goals.
Promoting and expanding the role of the Center for Student Action