Leadership IMPACT: Jackson Mann School Work Plan

As part of our service delivery there are some elements that our standard. They are as follows:

1. 1:1 intakes of our students, assessing current needs, strengths and leadership interests
2. School meeting forums and individual consultations w/ administrators, faculty or staff
3. Crisis intervention on behalf of any Leaders student (not seen by other clinical programs) as well as general support in this regard to the building
4. Due diligence – which includes continuous monitoring w/ administrators, faculty or staff of our students grades, attendance, class behavior, work output, suspension or expulsion hearings, health issues, family experiences etc.
5. Facilitating events that provide opportunities for our students to demonstrate their skills

Orientation to Leaders

Engage all of the interested 5th grade classes in ~ 4 encounters geared towards introducing these students to the Leaders program. This includes an opening and closing meeting with staff, as well as 2 forums where 5th grade students meet and engage in activities with high school students.

Expansive Middle School Project – Leadership Impact

First ˝ of the year – attends to issues of Leadership Development

2nd ˝ of the year – attends to making Impact

All participants are looking to create change or facilitate improvement in some area of concern or need. Within this, there are three components:

First Component

1) 6th Graders are looking at improving their school community through relationship building - Via Mentoring, developing a Student Handbook

7th Graders are looking to address concerns in their local communities. In so doing students became aware of the larger world as well as the applicability of the academic skills. Projects have included fundraising for a target cause, developing educational skits for younger grades on topics such as violence prevention and staying away from drugs, offering a performance or lunch for the a Elder Senior Center.

Second Component

2) Knights of the Round Table and Women’s Circle

Beginning Peer Mentoring forums where 6th & 7th grade students may have an opportunity to meet with groups of students from Brighton High School to discuss the prevalence of high risk behaviors and learn some resistance skills.

Third Component

3) 8th Graders

At the 8th grade level Leadership IMPACT features an evidence based practice of a cross age peer mentoring program – called Youth2. The program aims to support the development of the student’s healthy social and emotional coping strategies, to increase the student’s academic motivation and engagement, and to foster the student’s ability to create a vision for their future.

The program will pair the 8th graders at the Jackson Mann middle school with the 11th and 12th graders at Brighton High school. The primarily group mentoring experience would support two themes; 1) the education of 8th graders by high school students on the statistics and prevalence of high risk behaviors, and resistance skills from these behaviors and temptations, as well as 2) education on how chosen positive outlets can be good forums for dealing with the confusing, challenging and even exciting feelings that adolescents have at times.

Leaders further proposes the following detail:

1. There will be an orientation meeting for each 8th grade class
2. 8th grade Students will meet every week
3. First week: Advisory and Team Building
4. Second week: Outlet Activities – high school students join 8th graders
5. Third week: Advisory and Team Building
6. Fourth week: Peer-Led Workshops - high school students join 8th graders