MIDDLE SCHOOL CTE PROGRAMS

Exploring Foundations of Leadership (6th grade)

Exploring Foundations of Leadership is an introductory course that will develop leadership skills in an interactive atmosphere. Students will learn personal responsibility for their own actions, attitudes, and behaviors through role play, creative activities, and daily discussions. They will learn that leadership is about being your personal best and supporting others.

Leadership (7th & 8th grade)

Students will develop leadership skills in an interactive atmosphere. They will learn personal responsibility for their own actions, attitudes, and behaviors through role play, creative activities, and daily discussions. Students will also develop communication and public speaking skills, and they will be directly involved in community service projects. They will learn that leadership is about being your personal best and supporting others. Students may only take this course one time.

Advanced Leadership (8th grade)

Prerequisite: Exploring Foundation of Leadership or Leadership

Advanced Leadership provides students the opportunity to apply leadership knowledge and skills learned in Exploring Foundations of Leadership and Leadership. These skills include, but are not limited to: decision making skills, problem solving techniques, communication skills, leadership roles, human relations skills, and understanding the need for social intelligence and civic responsibility. Student enrollment form may be required for placement in Advanced Leadership.

Leadership: Leadworthy the Course (8th grade)

Leadworthy The Course is a curriculum designed to develop personal responsibility, leadership, and professional skills through explicit social-emotional participatory learning experiences. The course provides students the opportunity to develop an awareness of personal image, a healthy self-concept, and healthy relationships. Students learn the concepts of consequential thinking and principle-based decision making. Students examine their awareness of social media, the effects of peer pressure and bullying, along with effective strategies to counteract those effects. This course will provide students opportunities to improve their public speaking and communication skills and their personal vision, mission statement, and goals. They will develop an understanding of what it means to be an effective member of the community through community service.

*Students successfully completing Leadership: Leadworthy The Course will receive .5 high school elective credit, but the course grades will be excluded from the student’s high school grade point average (GPA).