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Leadership Training


Overnight Retreat
Submitted by the Regina H.S. Student Council
The Regina Student Council is known for doing our annual summer overnight retreat. The Student Council along with the moderator spends the night at the school by pitching up tents in the courtyard. We begin the day at 10am and end the retreat the next day at 11am. At this retreat we plan for major events for the beginning of the school year, and it also provides a time for council members to bond and feel comfortable in their assigned commitees.

Future Leaders Training
Submitted by the Henry Ford II H.S. Student Council, 586-797-1780
As an outgrowth of our program where members of our student council visit our elementaries to make spirit banners with the younger students that they then carry in our homecoming parade we have been invitied by the Elementary Student Council advisors to return to their elementaries and do several leadership building exercises with their council members.
Any and all of our members who have attended MASC Summer camp or previous regionals or the State Conference are asked to develop several brief activities involving teamwork, decision making, brainstorming, cooperation, project planning etc. that they then scale down and simplify for an elementary aged student. We keep the activities brief and fun. We do one activity with hula hoops to teach group cooperation, We do another activity involving rubber balls as an ice breake etc. Basically taking activities our students did at MASC summer camp that,if simplified, could be used with a group of elementary students. We keep it very simple, often dividing the elementary kids into small groups. We only do this for 1 hour. Our kids debrief after each activity. Talk about the purpose of the activity and how it develops them as a leader.
We set up 6-8 member teams from our student council. They have to come up with the activities. Try them out first with other members of our council and then use it with the younger children.
While it is not a radically new idea, It seems very important to us to maintain this contact with our feeder schools and it really helps our H.S. students to practice what they have learned. Our students find it challenging to play the role of teacher if even for an hour. It really helps them to clarify what they have experienced when they share it with others, especially younger kids.