Elemental Details

Embedded School-Wide Leadership Program

Elemental Details

Center for Student Action (CSA) The organization charged with engaging all students in the school’s operation and future.
Open to all. CSA coordinates many of the community based student projects. Every project involves a community mentor who ensures all work meets industry standards.
Projects are highly visible in our community and beyond. Required presentations are made to high-stakes community members and, sometimes, at national conferences.
Members serve as officers on the Community Council, a CTE Advisory Committee composed of community leaders.
(see attached partial list of CSA projects)

Community Service: A foundation to our school’s educational culture. Every student is required to complete a community project. Every element of the project (formulation, research, execution, review, promotion) requires strong leadership skills. Our Learn and Serve grant helps fund needful projects. Every project involves a community mentor who ensures all work meets industry standards.
Community Experience Class
(see attached list of current projects)
Requires public presentation
Experience Foods Connection
Firefighting
Island Rec – candidates interview committee
Senate Page in Olympia
ASK

Band: Leadership is key to this group’s success. Seniors mentor and tutor the younger students and set behavioral standards. First Chair musicians lead others toward industry standards.

Pep Band
Graduation
4th July Parade
Art Walk-About Concert
Lighted Boat Parade
December Concert
March Concert
May Concert

Technology: Our students employ technology to assist community organizations. The professionals that guide these efforts ensure that all industry standards are met.
Silk Screening for non profits
Tech Assistants
Community Event Posters (Photoshop)
Community Computer Loan Program

PE/Sports: Coaches and athletic trainer professionals assist students in their quest to support youth sports.
Varsity teams offer youth clinics
Sports Training Internships

School-Based Businesses: Local businesses and composting experts assist the students in meeting business goals.
Snack Shack
Worm compost bin

Arts: Local artists jury these exhibitions, creating clear professional standards.
Art Walk About
Poetry Slam

Clubs: The advisors to each club ensure that leadership skills are developed and promoted.

Bike Club
Dive Club
Photo Club
Hiking Club
Leo Club
Key Club
Helping Other Teens Society (HOTS)

Dollars for Scholars: This organization provides scholarships to graduates who have consistently provided community service. All non-profits are eligible to work with students in the creation of meaningful community projects. Many projects involve fund raising. All projects create significant leadership and skill development opportunities. Some of the ongoing projects include:

Oktoberfest
Operation Christmas Child
Thanksgiving Dinner
Artisan’s Holiday Market
Lion’s Shopping Spree Raffle
Festival of Trees
Kiwanis Toy Drive
Prevention Coalition New Year’s Party
Dining for Scholars
Earth Day Beach Clean Up
San Juan Celebrity Golf Classic
4th of July Pig War Picnic
San Juan County Fair

Other: Our community provides some very powerful leadership opportunities. We have students sitting on boards of local organizations, learning Robert’s Rules of Order, learning the art of persuasion and compromise, and budgetary constraints.
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
4H
Boys State
Girls State
Local Boards
Public Access TV
Athletic Association
Community Council
Youth Council (underway)

Culinary Arts/Hospitality: These students execute the entire event: promotion, planning, paying, hosting, preparing, and cleaning. Local hospitality professionals guarantee all work meets industry standards.
Community Meals
Thanksgiving
Community Council Celebration
FHHS Open House

Mock Trial: This event, required of all seniors, develops group skills and planning. Local lawyers assist the students in their roles, thus meeting industry standards.

Experiencing the Connection: This group, which organizes cultural trips to Seattle, requires working together, performing research, planning budgets, documenting the experience, and making presentations

Wood Shop: This class is building swallow bird houses for a local nature preserve. This requires the students to research designs, justify the design to the preserve steward, explain the costs, negotiate changes, and build the house.

Drama: The Tech Crew takes the entire stage responsibility for a drama production. The team organizes into functions with a hierarchy of responsibilities and with professionals ensuring industry standards are met.

Tutor: This work requires the student to coordinate with teachers, plan study lessons, deliver lessons, and assess success. With teachers as mentors, all industry standards are met.
Math
Peer to peer
Elementary School

Internship/Work Experience: Students doing internships are required to be ‘hired’ by a mentor, to design an experience with that mentor, to meet all the workplace standards of the mentor’s office, and to accomplish a community project in conjunction with the internship. (list of current projects attached)