"Make a Gift for Your Family" Leadership Challenge

Beyond the math and science and literacy that students are learning this year, we have put an emphasis on leadership. Leaders are change-makers. Great leaders inspire others to lead. Our goal is to become great leaders.

"Make a Gift for Your Family Day" was inspired by an idea brought forward by Student Council to have every student in the school create a decoration for their family.

The intermediate classes took on this challenge to develop their leadership skills. They taught themselves how to create origami stars. We determined that a successful "outcome" was that every student at DeWitt Carter would complete a decoration.

Afterwards, students reflected on the experience from two perspectives: their own leadership, and characteristics of good learners. Listening to students describe "the ideal learner" and see awareness dawning about their own behaviour as a learner was an incredibly important part of the process. Now the challenge is to use these reflections to be "always better".

You are all "stars"!