Describes a program at a North Carolina high school in which students from the leadership class share an entire workday with a civic or government official. (SR)

All adolescents have leadership potential. There are three stages of youth leadership development: awareness, interaction, and mastery. Transactional and transformational leadership provide a bridge between youth leadership development and character education. Therein lie the qualities that all parents and educators want to instill in youngsters.…

Describes the process of conducting a leadership audit, which is a systematic, comprehensive and objective process to identify all the experiences by which students may develop leadership abilities. Proposes that the results of this process create organizational awareness about leadership opportunities, form the basis of evaluation and planning,…

Explores the relationship between college student leadership and alcohol use in low-use student organizations. Results reveal that students with two leadership positions reported drinking three times as much as other students, and twice the national average. Suggests that leadership itself may be a risk factor for alcohol abuse, particularly for…

Drawing on 3 years of qualitative data, this article broadens the concept of distributed leadership to include "student voice" in school decision making. Specifically, the article focuses on how adults can foster youth participation and leadership in school reform efforts. In this research, adults needed to work in partnership with youth…

The purpose of this study was to assess the leadership practices or behaviors of FFA members participating in a leadership development workshop known as the Success Conference in Georgia. Leadership practices were determined using the "Student Leadership Practices Inventory" (LPI) (Kouzes & Posner, 1998). While success conference…

Peer tutoring is essentially peers teaching each other. Many teachers already incorporate this idea into their classrooms in other curricular areas and appreciate the benefits that come from this type of teaching. Teachers can implement peer tutoring by teaching a small group of students a subject, or using a group that already understands the…

In communities all over the United States, issues of mistrust, anger, harassment, and bias often accompany the task of cultures learning to live together, and Lewiston, Maine, is no exception. Lewiston High School has recognized the potential conflict and addressed it in a forthright manner. The students have helped lead the way. This article…

Recent literature debates the effectiveness of the senior year, stating that it is an unproductive and unrealistic time for many students--either because they are, by that point in their school careers, disengaged and waiting to graduate, or because they are so stressed from taking Advanced Placement (AP) exams and writing college essays that they…

When thinking of leaders, people usually think of those in positions of power, such as political leaders, religious leaders, or student leaders. Yet, leaders can be found in all spheres of life, and leadership behaviors can be learned particularly in a small-group format (Hellriegel, Jackson, & Slocum, 2005). This article presents ideas and…

With budgets and staff stretched thin, schools are turning tech-savvy students into technology leaders and a popular, important source of IT support. Providing professional tech support is a very expensive a proposition, so districts from Tupelo to Greenville, and from Hattiesburg to Columbia, are enlisting students to fill the gaps. This article…

Roberts and Ullom (1989) theorized that leadership programs should consist of training, education, and development programs. Their model has gained widespread acceptance since its inception, but has not evolved to reflect contemporary conceptualizations of leadership. This paper demonstrates a new conceptualization of the model updated for modern…

This study undertook to determine (1) the dominant personality types of students participating in student activities, (2) the personality differences between student leaders at a state university and at a junior college, and (3) the personality differences between male and female student leaders. Twenty-eight student leaders from Flint Community…

In order to evaluate the Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges program at the University of South Carolina, a brief opinionnaire was developed to sample student opinions concerning the program. During early March 1974, the opinionnaire was sent along with a self-addressed, campus-return envelope to the leaders of all 161…