Leadership
National Young Leaders Conference: Skills in Leadership for Change is an annual youth conference for high school students. The conference provides students with experiences and strategies to succeed and prepare in college. Through the interactive program, students gain hands-on experience and are also given the opportunity to earn college credit through George Mason University.
Youth Service America (YSA) supports a culture of youth committed to service learning by promoting campaigns, resources and projects on their website. YSA works hard in order to ensure that kids from diverse backgrounds have the tool to serve in their communities.
This Ed Week article describes to teachers how they can aid their students in understanding their role in leadership.
This lesson plan helps students to understand leaders and why they do what they do.
The Leadership Challenge shows students that they are all leaders in their own way and pushes them to embrace a leadership role in their lives.
A lesson in Social Studies as well as a leadership lesson, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom highlights important leadership strategies for high schoolers.
Here are some useful leadership activities for students to get moving and employ leadership skills.
5 Inspiring Lessons in Leadership from Simon Sinek, shares the main pronciples od Simon Sinek’s, a leading TED Talk speaker and keynote speaker at the 2015 BOOST Conference, successful leadership methods.
Here is a curriculum model for youth professionals to address culture and leadership.
Here are worksheets and activities to teach leadership within the classroom.
This website has multiple activities to use in the classroom to show students how to be good leaders and find their leadership style.
Students can apply to be leaders for UNICEF and join or start different chapters in their own areas.