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Casey Reason; Brandon J. Larson – Solution Tree, 2025
Authors Casey Reason and Brandon J. Larson advocate for the strategic design and development of impactful activities and athletics to enhance school culture. Their Rally model provides strategies for aligning extracurricular programs with academic goals, fostering leadership, and boosting participation and engagement. The Rally approach improves…
Descriptors: Athletics, Extracurricular Activities, Program Effectiveness, Program Design
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Porfirio, Laura; Chavarín, Ana; Linzy, Megan; Lopez, Haziel; Montiel, Arnold – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2023
Ambassador training is an exemplary leadership development program for adult education students, staff, and administrators that creates networks of diverse learners who use their voices, stories, and skills for advocacy and social change. Student engagement and leadership development help learners expand their identities and horizons, define…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Diversity, Inclusion, Student Participation
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Peggy Lockyer; Deidre Le Fevre; Mark Vickers – Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 2024
Purpose: This study sets out to investigate the elements of the collaborative culture required for the successful implementation and sustainability of programs in schools. It draws on a case study of a student peer-led physical activity (PA) program implemented within the complex and dynamic environment of school communities in New Zealand. The…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Sustainability, Physical Activities, Peer Teaching
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Ezinne D. Ofoegbu; Briana A. Savage – Journal of College Student Development, 2024
Black College athletes mobilized in significant ways in 2020. One noticeable way Black college athletes mobilized was by creating Black student-athlete organizations (BSAOs). Given college athletics' long-standing relationship to racism, capitalism, and exploitation, it is important to understand how BSAOs function within the athletic subculture…
Descriptors: African American Students, Student Athletes, College Athletics, Student Organizations
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Soria, Krista M.; Kaste, Karl; Diekemper, Kelly M.; Blamo, Milpha; Belrose, Maddie R.; Brazelton, G. Blue – Journal of Leadership Education, 2020
The purpose of this study was to examine whether undergraduates' participation in 12 different leadership trainings, workshops, conferences, or programs was associated with students' leadership efficacy. We used data from the Multi-Institutional Study of Leadership survey, which eight of the Big 10 institutions administered to students in spring…
Descriptors: Student Leadership, Student Participation, Undergraduate Students, Student Characteristics
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Ruby, Maureen F.; Davila, Ernesto – School-University Partnerships, 2022
This paper discusses the opportunity for universities and Professional Development Schools (PDSs) to engage with Future Teachers of America (FTA) clubs and similar groups in secondary schools to ensure the future of the profession. Student leaders and their mentor from an active high school FTA club share their perspectives on the benefits of…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, College School Cooperation, Clubs, Secondary School Students
Soutter, Madora – ProQuest LLC, 2018
"The Leader in Me" (Covey, 2008) is an approach to fostering social and emotional learning that has been adopted by more than 3,000 schools across the globe, but which has received relatively little empirical attention. Grounded in the seven habits from Stephen Covey's (1989)" The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", the…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Student Leadership, Elementary School Students
Truong, Nhan L.; Clark, Caitlin M.; Rosenbach, Sarah; Kosciw, Joseph G. – Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), 2021
GSAs, originally known as Gay-Straight Alliances and now commonly known as Gender and Sexuality Alliances, were first started over 30 years ago in the United States. These school clubs focus on providing LGBTQ students a safe and affirming space within a school environment that they may otherwise experience as hostile. In that GSAs are an…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Clubs, Educational Environment, Student Characteristics
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Smist, Jennifer A.; Rosch, David M. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2019
Existing leadership research focuses more on single experiences than the sustained application of skills beyond the formal leadership program. Using data from 124 college students who participated in a six-day leadership development program, this study used a four-phase longitudinal approach to examine influences on students' leadership capacity…
Descriptors: Family Income, Predictor Variables, Campuses, Student Participation
Nellie Mae Education Foundation, 2020
This evaluation report explores the evolution of the Youth Leadership Institute (YLI), an annual convening of youth leaders, youth organizers, adult allies, and educators from across New England. The report closely examines the first several years of YLI, tracking its growth and challenges through the eyes of youth, adult allies, and Nellie Mae…
Descriptors: Youth Leaders, Leadership Training, Student Centered Learning, Competency Based Education
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Bowers, Maureen E.; Tobin, Leah K.; Lee, Jessica; Skendall, Kristan C.; Coale, Frank J. – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2020
Gemstone seeks to develop students' research and collaboration skills, foster leadership opportunities, and provide a sense of belonging on a large campus utilizing the Best Practices Model (BPM) and a variety of high impact practices (HIPs), like a Gemstone-specific orientation program called Gems Camp. While studies have demonstrated that LLCs…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Communities of Practice, Skill Development, Research Skills
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Dunn, Allison L.; Odom, Summer F.; Moore, Lori L.; Rotter, Craig – Journal of Leadership Education, 2016
First-year college students in a leadership-themed living-learning community (N= 60) at Texas A&M University were surveyed to examine if participation in the learning community influenced their leadership mindset using hierarchical and systemic thinking preferences. Utilizing a pre-test and post-test methodology, significant differences for…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Living Learning Centers, Student Attitudes, Student Surveys
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Walsh, Lucas; Black, Rosalyn; Zyngier, David; Fernandes, Venesser – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2019
Despite growing scholarly interest in student voice and leadership over the past two decades, both terms continue to be used with little consensus about their meaning. They are also often evoked without much clarity or agreement as to how they should be enabled or enacted, for what purposes they should be fostered, or what conditions are necessary…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Student Leadership, Indigenous Populations, Pacific Islanders
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Anagnos, Thalia; Lyman-Holt, Alicia; Marin-Artieda, Claudia; Momsen, Ellen – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2014
This study highlights the positive impact of participation in an engineering ambassador program on students from two universities: Oregon State University which is a large public university in a college town with a 13% minority student body, and Howard University, a medium sized private university with a relatively small engineering program in an…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Engineering Education, Urban Schools, Minority Group Students
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Griebler, Ursula; Nowak, Peter – Health Education, 2012
Purpose: Participation is a core value for health promoting schools. Student participation at schools is often implemented in various forms of councils. The aims of this article are to summarise the effects of student participation in student councils, to show who benefits most and to discuss characteristics that make student councils effective.…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Student Participation, Student Government, Social Environment
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