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The Civic Leadership Academy at Matawan Regional High School seeks to transform the lives of students and develop exemplary leaders that transcend the classroom into the community. This Leadership program will collaborate with other schools, university partners, and community-based agencies to develop deepened self-awareness, responsible decision-making, teamwork, and leadership skills. The program scope and sequence strives to foster a future in which the students can manage adversity with resilience and compassion, develop skills that allows them to embrace opportunities, and cultivate a belief that motivates positive change within their school and communities.
Values of the Civic Leadership Academy
Empowerment: The Leadership Academy believes that providing students with the ability to nurture change in their school and community will establish a fundamental transformation that generates a foundation for students to strive for limitless possibilities.
Credence: The Leadership Academy promotes beliefs that endorse effective work in order to generate positive changes desired by the student body and school community.
Relationships: The Leadership Academy believes that peer collaboration is a key component to forming successful partnerships with the community and maintaining a network that encourages civic duty among the student body. Civic Leaders create monthly lessons for the freshman class and teach study skills, positivity, goal-setting, organization, time management, and other relative peer topics.
Civic Leadership is a course that empowers high school seniors to become more active members of their community and school. These students learn how to motivate and inspire others while overcoming obstacles together. Here students focus on growth and learn how to grow from a variety of diverse perspectives.
Leadership Academy Scope and Sequence:
Junior Year- Civic Leadership I: Foundations of a Leader (2.5 credits) half year elective - Open to ALL STUDENTS- Junior students will learn the foundation of Civic Leadership. This course will supply the junior civic leaders with the foundation of theoretical practices and application of various leadership styles and methodologies to apprenticeships. The students will acquire an understanding of effective leadership and learn to apply these skills to the world around them. Students will apply to Civic Leadership II: Senior Apprenticeship at the conclusion of the course.
Senior Year- Civic Leadership II: Senior Apprenticeship (5 credits) full year elective- Selected students will continue on in the Leadership Academy to engage in school-wide activities like Week of Respect, School Violence Awareness Week, Red Ribbon Week, Food Drive, Season of Giving. The second half of the year, students will work on creating their own Social Activist Projects that will directly impact their school and communicate and put their ideas into action.
*Civic Leadership students will be given priority placement in Challenger PE gym class should they choose to take it*
Samples of some of our Projects:
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