2017 GRIP Leadership STAFF Magazine

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STUDENT LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE

TOP TIPS FOR TEACHERS WHO WORK WITH STUDENT LEADERS Page 8

SERVANT LEADERSHIP Page 16

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DESIRABLE QUALITIES...

THE OUTCOME OF TEACHING? CONFERENCE GUIDE FOR SCHOOL STAFF Conference Information Page 2

Latest Leadership Resources Page 10

How to Follow-Up the Conference Page 20

CONFERENCE INFORMATION WHERE TO SIT

MORNING TEA

Where possible, school staff and accompanying adults are encouraged to sit with their students in the seats allocated by our ushers.

Morning tea is provided for adults only. The GRIP Leadership team will inform you where this will be served.

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RESOURCES

We will give general guidelines from the stage, however, at the commencement of each break please advise your students where you would like them to go (or not go). Please note students are asked to stay away from the stage area during breaks. We will conclude the conference ten minutes earlier than the scheduled finish time to allow school groups ample time to have photos at the front of the room.

GRIP Leadership is constantly producing new resources to follow-up the conference, to explore different leadership topics and to provide tools for students and teachers. These resources, as well as badges, can be viewed and purchased at the Information Desk. An invoice can be sent to the school if you prefer.

ASSISTANCE The GRIP Leadership team members are here to assist you with anything you require. Team members can be identified by the silver GRIP Leadership badges.

REVIEW FORM

ABOUT GRIP LEADERSHIP WHO IS GRIP LEADERSHIP?

OUR CORE VALUES

GRIP Leadership exists to train and develop leaders with a special focus on school students and the educational sector. Most known for the ‘GRIP Student Leadership Conferences,’ the team also presents tailored seminars for schools and continually publishes student leadership resources. GRIP Leadership programs are fresh, practical, interactive, student focused and enjoyed by tens of thousands of people each year.

Generosity Willingness to use what we have been given (time and resources) on behalf of those we seek to influence.

OUR TEAM Instead of utilising guest speakers we have trained and developed our own team of specialists in the area of student leadership.

Our team are youthful in nature and also hold significant tertiary qualifications in areas relevant to education and leadership. Whilst being able to share from personal experience our team members have worked across thousands of schools exploring what works, what is current, and what is possible in the area of student leadership.

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Responsibility Accepting the duty to contribute to others and follow through on expectation.

Please see pages 21-22 for the ‘School Staff Review Form’. Your feedback on today’s conference would be greatly appreciated. You can hand this form to the GRIP Leadership team members at the Information Desk or leave this on your seat at the conclusion of the conference as they will be collected promptly afterwards.

CERTIFICATES FOR STUDENTS We have set up an easy online method for you to issue personalised certificates to students who have participated in the conference. You can obtain these yourself, or email online copies direct to students by following the easy instructions at: www.gripleadership.com/certificate

Integrity A commitment to truth and honesty in dealings.

People Every human being is of great significance, and has a purpose to fulfill.

WHO FUNDS GRIP LEADERSHIP? GRIP Leadership is an independent organisation and does not promote any particular religious or political view but rather presents accepted leadership values that are transcendent of religion, race and culture. We are funded through the fees paid by schools for conferences, seminars and resources, as well as contributions from event sponsors.

FOR MORE DETAILS ABOUT GRIP LEADERSHIP VISIT WWW.GRIPLEADERSHIP.COM

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CONTENTS

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RESOURCES CATALOGUE

15 RESOURCE ORDER FORM 18 GRIP GOLD MEMBERSHIP 21 STAFF REVIEW FORM

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DESIRABLE QUALITIES - THE OUTCOME OF TEACHING?

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TOP TIPS FOR TEACHERS WHO WORK WITH STUDENT LEADERS

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SERVANT LEADERSHIP

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SHARING YOUR CONFERENCE EXPERIENCE WITH YOUR COMMUNITY

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HOW TO FOLLOW-UP THE CONFERENCE BACK AT SCHOOL

CONTACT INFO Visit www.gripleadership.com to select our specific website for your country, where you will find contact details of the local office.

Alternatively you can contact worldwide: info@gripleadership.com

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‘DESIRABLE QUALITIES’...

the Outcome of Teaching?

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n a recent series of articles on teaching outcomes several education researchers, Professor Yong Zhao among them, have suggested there is a need to “…..look at the purpose of education”.

Professor Zhao goes further and suggests that the main purpose of education should be to produce students ‘….with desirable qualities that will help them become successful in life’ (as against the ability to do well in examinations).

The importance of literacy and numeracy is well understood, however, knowledge without the ability to understand and use that knowledge is not sufficient to enable students to deal with the increasing complexities of life.

The Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues at the University of Birmingham UK has undertaken a project funded by the UK Department for Education (DIE) entitled ‘Teaching Character Through and Within the Curriculum’. This project has sought to identify how character education might become part of the everyday teaching within a school.

Whilst character education is far from new there is currently a growth in societal awareness over the importance and relevance of understanding character in education particularly how such education helps students make life all it can be.

Current events in our own country and around the world are clear evidence of the need for a framework of character education in schools.

Professor Zhao in his article suggests that ‘… the time has now come to review the traditional stated outcomes of education’ and suggests that ‘….human talents and attributes are becoming visibly valuable and cannot remain excluded from the realms of outcomes in any education worth pursuing’.

Many centuries ago the Greek philosophers argued that good character is the foundation for improved attainment and human flourishing.

Professor Robert Stenberg argues that it is not knowledge that is important but teaching a student how to use that knowledge creating a commitment to use that knowledge for the good of others.

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The DIE funded project has as its stated purpose ‘To give all children the chance to fulfil their potential and to achieve their high aspirations’. It suggests that character education is ‘…a form of moral education focussing on the development of virtues and stable development of character with the aim of human flourishing’.

The DIE project identified four areas of virtue, they are:• • • •

Civic Moral Performance, and Intellectual

Civic Character Values

Moral Character Values

Performance Character Values

Character virtues and skills that are necessary for engaged and responsible citizenship.

Character habits that enable us to respond well to situations in any area of experience.

Examples: Service, Citizenship, Volunteering.

Examples: Courage, Selfdiscipline, Compassion, Gratitude, Justice, Humility, Honesty.

Behavioural skills & psychological capacities that while they can be used for both good & bad ends - enable us to put our character habits into practice.

Examples: Resilience, Determination, Creativity.

Moral Character Values Knowing what you want and what not to want when the demands of two or more virtues collide.

Good sense presupposes the possession of other intellectual virtues such as curiosity and critical thinking

Flourishing Individuals and Society Figure 1 – A Framework for Character Education in Schools. University of Birmingham 2015

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CHARACTER is the foundation for improved attainment, better behaviour and increased employability.

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CHARACTER should be developed in partnership with parents, employers and other community organisations.

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CHARACTER results in academic gains for students such as higher grades.

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CHARACTER empowers students and is liberating.

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CHARACTER demonstrates a readiness to learn from others.

Schools, and indeed teachers, have a responsibility to cultivate virtues they consider important. It is imperative that these be defined and listed as those they wish to prioritise and indeed create within the school the individual teacher within all of their teaching.

Teachers are character educators. To do this well the goals of character education need to be clearly stated for both the school and the teacher. The DIE project suggests that ‘character virtues should be reinforced on the playing fields, in classrooms, corridors, interactions between teachers and students, in assemblies, posters, principal messages, staff training and in relationship with parents’.

Figure 1 (see page 6) identifies how these virtues interrelate and how they might be identified in the school curriculum and the resultant ‘desirable qualities’.

The Project found that in a wider sense character education can permeate all subjects.

A curriculum should articulate the virtues of character associated with common morality and develops the students understanding of what is excellent.

To flourish is not only to be happy but to fulfil our potential – flourishing is therefore the aim of character education and development.

Character development involves caring for and respecting others as well as caring for and respecting oneself.

The project research enumerated several key principles which are:1.

CHARACTER is educable and its practice can be measured holistically.

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CHARACTER is important – it contributes to human and societal flourishing.

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Good teaching is under pinned by an ethos of language that enables a public discussion of character within the school community so that good character permeates all subject teaching and learning.

ADDRESSING CHARACTER IN THE CLASSROOM The DIE project research is clear. When values are driven home and high expectations are communicated there is clear academic success.

Schools, and indeed teachers, must decide for themselves what are the virtues that are important and are priority for the school and the teacher. There are great many virtues concerned with particular activities and potential spheres of human experience which may be more relevant to one school than another. Particular schools might decide to prioritise certain virtues over another in light of the school history, ethos, location or specific student population. The

research in unequivocal, demonstrating that schools that have developed such priorities have greater success in developing well rounded students.

The DIE Project suggests that the table below, (see Figure 2) whilst not exhaustive, highlights most of the virtues which resonate well with current efforts in character education in schools: Below is the complete list of the key character qualities identified by the DIE showing where they relate to civic (C), moral (M), performance (P) and intellectual (I) virtues, they are:• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Perseverance (P) Confidence (P) Resilience (P) Optimism (V) Grit (P) Neighbourliness (C) Motivation (P) Community Spirit (C) Ambition (P) Honesty (M) Drive (P) Integrity (M) Tolerance (M) Dignity (M) Respect (M) Conscientiousness (I) Curiosity (I) Focus (I)

If we are serious about character education an interesting exercise is to review this list against your schools or your own commitment to teaching character.

Some questions to ask as you review the list:• • •

How do we audit performance? – ie how do we measure character development?

How might we make what is implicitly happening explicit?

Where might we grow opportunities for these qualities in our own lessons and the wider curriculum in our school?

Whilst there is a general acknowledgement and assent to the need for these ‘virtues’ often little is being done to actually teach them or make them part of a school’s curriculum.

For further information on Character Education please contact geoff@gripleadership.com

VIRTUE

DEFINITION

COURAGE

Acting with bravery in fearful situations

CHARACTER is largely caught through role modelling, school culture and ethos.

JUSTICE

Acting with fairness towards others by honouring rights and responsibilities

HONESTY & COMPASSION FOR OTHERS

Being truthful and sincere

CHARACTER should also be taught: direct teaching of character provides rationale, language and tools to use in developing character elsewhere in and out of school.

SELF-DISCIPLINE

Acting well in the presence of tempting pleasures

GRATITUDE

Feeling and expressing thanks for benefits

HUMILITY/MODEST

Estimating oneself with reasonable limits Figure 2 – DIE Project Virtues

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Top Tips for

Teachers Who Work With Student Leaders

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ow many years did you spend studying to receive your teaching qualification? How many of these units were directly related to the role of working with student leaders? Even those who have extended their study by specialising in educational leadership usually admit that none of their study related to the unique role of working with a student leadership team.

Most teachers who have worked with student leaders have had to develop their own models, strategies, and processes. There are many teachers who have excelled in their work with student leaders, although there is not really a natural forum for passing around the stories of their success. A high school history teacher will likely share any successful strategies they have with their colleagues in the history faculty office.

A teacher who is teaching multiplication to younger children will likely share any successful strategies with fellow early childhood teachers in the school staff room. What does the equivalent ‘sharing of wisdom’ look like in the context of student leadership, if there is only one teacher in the school who holds this responsibility? It usually only lives inside the mind of the teacher who takes on this role.

Our GRIP Leadership team sits in the unique position of meeting teachers who work with student leaders on a daily basis. We have thousands of conversations each year with teachers who have stumbled across all kinds of effective strategies. In an effort to share this wisdom with other school leaders, we have written a book that captures 101 of the tips that have been shared with us. These 101 very practical tips have been grouped into eight chapters, which in themselves become broad tips for teachers who work with student leaders.

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‘There are many teachers who have excelled in their work with student leaders, although there is not really a natural forum for passing around the stories of their success’.

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Tip 1: Lead the Way All schools want their student leaders to be role models for their fellow students. Seeing as these leaders will have plenty of interaction with their coordinating teacher, much can be achieved by simply demonstrating the desired qualities and skills in an overt way.

Tip 2: Help Make Meetings Effective Meetings are the engine room for an effective student leadership team. Similarly, if the engine is not operating efficiently, this will have a direct effect on the success of the team. Time that a teacher spends in helping set students up for effective meetings is a genuine investment that has an exponential influence on the success of the team.

Tip 3: Make Students Less Reliant on You Students are used to being totally responsive to their teachers in a classroom setting, but this can be counterproductive in a student leadership context. Teachers already juggle multiple duties, so it bears great fruit to implement strategies that allow students to operate with an appropriate degree of independence.

Tip 4: Be Strategic About Assembling the Ideal Student Leadership Team

Tip 5: Help Students Tip 8: Involve Run Events Many Students in Leadership A student leadership group should be much more than a group of event organisers. If, however, a team holds a successful event, then it gives much energy and momentum to the entire team. By playing key roles in ensuring the success of an event, a teacher will have an influence on students that is far bigger than the specific event.

Tip 6: Train and Develop Student Leaders

Often enthusiastic student leaders will hold their opportunities close to their chest with a sense of pride. Wise teachers know that things are not always as easy as they seem, and that leaders will benefit from having many others who are also contributing to the aim of the team. Much can be achieved when a teachers implements strategies to involve a wider group of students at different levels of leadership.

A teacher would never do a student’s mathematics homework for them, so why is it that many teachers drift towards carrying out the role of a student leadership team themselves?

Training and developing students is what a teacher does best, so applying this focus to student leaders will always be better than carrying out regular tasks personally.

Tip 7: Raise the Profile of Student Leadership in Your School In some schools, the student leadership team operates in relative secrecy. Worse still, some schools experience a culture where student leaders are ostracised by their peers.

Implementing strategies to raise the profile of the team will allow the group to operate in a positive environment and also attract more students to leadership roles in the future.

Many schools will implement the same process for selecting a group of leaders each year.

This makes sense if there is a clear strategy and intention behind the methodology used.

Reviewing this process continually, and adapting it if and when necessary will ensure that the ideal group of students are assembled for the specific purpose of the team.

GRIP Leadership has recently released a new resource called ‘101 Tips For Teachers Working With Student Leaders’. This resource uses the main points of this article as chapter headings, with dozens of practical tips outlined in each chapter.

Available today at the resource display.

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ne of the key themes that we regularly highlight at our conferences and in our leadership resources is that leadership should never be about meeting the needs of the leader, the leader should be leading in a way that meets the needs of those people who are following them.

A simple mantra for students to follow in order to be servant leaders is:

Help others, no matter whom, no matter what, no matter when. Be invested in others’ success.

HOW TO PUT SERVANT LEADERSHIP INTO ACTION: 1. TAKE OPPORTUNITIES The best thing about the concept of servant leadership is that you don’t have to have a position to implement its practices. A servant leader knows that a position is nothing; students follow positions because they have to - they follow servant leaders because they want to.

Opportunities to lead are everywhere for students, but so often these opportunities are not grasped because the students are either worried about what might happen if they step out of their comfort zone, or the ‘right’ people are not watching so they allow the opportunity to pass them by.

This statement may seem very basic to some; it may even seem quite simple to apply - but the challenge comes when students step outside their comfort zone, when they have to help someone they know nothing about, or assist with a task, even if they really don’t want to.

Students need to be encouraged that if they see something that needs to be done, they do it, regardless of who is watching. They also need to learn that making mistakes is okay, and that letting an opportunity pass by because they are worried about failing is worse than having a go and falling short.

Servant leaders are invested in the success of others even if it means not receiving acknowledgement for their effective leadership.

2. BE OBSERVANT

Most people hope that their leader’s focus is on the people following them, and not on themselves. However, many people strive for leadership positions because they believe they can get some personal gain out of it. Self-interest should not motivate servant leadership; rather, it should ascend to a higher plane of motivation. The servant leader’s primary objective is to serve and meet the needs of others, which ideally should be the prime motivation for leadership. Servant leaders develop people, helping them to strive and flourish.

SERVANT

Servant leaders are effective because they pay attention to people. They pay attention to other students so they can help them to grow, so they can understand what the students need, and can provide it to them.

By listening effectively, servant leaders are able to identify the needs of other students, which puts them in a prime position to meet those needs.

When they do, the school is more successful.

A servant leader must be aware about struggles that the people around them face so that they can help others through them. Leaders have to be personable and aware so that they can help, no matter the situation.

LEADERSHIP Leaders who put other people’s needs before their own.

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3. SET GOALS Servant leaders don’t just sit back and wait for opportunities to come their way, they set goals so that they know what it is they are aiming for.

If a leader is not exercising foresight in the form of goal-setting, then they aren’t really leading, they are just reacting. And if a leader is just reacting, they will eventually run out of options, and start making bad decisions.

Servant leaders set goals for their followers in order to inspire them and provide a vision for where they need to go. Once a leader knows the goal, it is so much easier for them to lead other students in a way that meets the student’s specific needs.

4. MOVE FORWARD Servant leadership is not about getting a badge or leadership position, but it is about moving forward and getting the job done.

Servant leaders have ideas and gather support from other students, but they don’t wait for the crowd. If they receive little or no support, a servant leader knows what is right and is prepared to go alone if necessary to meet the needs of others. Servant leaders view the meeting of others’ needs as more important than waiting for others to join their cause.

5. INFLUENCE OTHERS The best test of your influence on others is: Do those served grow?

While servant leadership is a timeless concept, the phrase “servant leadership” was coined by Robert K. Greenleaf in The Servant as Leader, an essay that he first published in 1970. In that essay, Greenleaf said that the best test of the servant leader is this:

“Do those served grow as persons? Do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants?”

Developing other students includes education, training, new experiences and new responsibilities. A servant leader brings out the best in people by engaging, inspiring, coaching, and mentoring them. The only way that this can be done is for the leader to spend time with other students.

A servant leader must be committed to the journey; the journey of the development of other individuals. They can’t simply take someone half of the way on their journey; if they do that person may never achieve their potential. Student leaders need encouragement to be committed to the long-term growth and development of others.

A servant leader can have such a lasting influence on the people they serve and nurture that those people in turn become leaders themselves. Servant leaders equip the people around them with the tools to become effective servant leaders; they lead by example so that the people they influence will one day do the same because of the example that was set for them.

GRIP Leadership has recently released a new resource for students called ‘Servant Leadership’. This resource includes numerous videos, templates and a printable manual.

Available today at the conference resource display.

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Sharing Your Conference EXPERIENCE with Your Community Why not write a short report about your conference experience to share in your school newsletter or local community newspaper?

The following information is designed to help you write your article.

THE PURPOSE OF THE CONFERENCE...

The GRIP Student Leadership Conference was an opportunity for students from a wide variety of schools to gather together and gain new leadership skills and ideas. The discussions and activities enabled students to learn from leaders at other schools and the interactive presentations allowed everyone to learn practical strategies to contribute to a school community.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE CONFERENCE...

• The ‘Loud Noises’ segments designed to break up the day and have fun with others.

• Meeting leaders from different schools.

• Watching video clips with helpful ideas.

• Seeing students on stage in various activities to represent their school.

• Being given a conference booklet to write down practical ideas to take back to school .

HOW THE CONFERENCE CAME ABOUT...

The first GRIP Student Leadership Conference was held 10 years ago, and it has grown to now become an annual event in over 60 towns and cities in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

Schools attending their local event are part of a much larger group of over 2000 schools who participate in the exact same program.

The name, GRIP Leadership, stands for the four core values of the team and the conference: Generosity, Responsibility, Integrity and People.

SOME QUOTES FROM THE TEAM...

“The conference is not designed to make students wait until they are adults to be great leaders, it is focused on what someone can do tomorrow back at school.”

Andrew Strong, GRIP Leadership Director “It’s a privilege for us to see the faces of student leaders light up as they discover new ways they can contribute positively to their school. In just a few hours we watch students make the shift in their mind that leadership is not about their position, but rather about an opportunity.”

Ronan McGinniss, GRIP Leadership Director Feel free to email info@gripleadership.com if you would like photos, a list of schools who attended, or comments from the team about the specific event.

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How to FOLLOW-UP the Conference BACK AT SCHOOL tudents often tell us that the conference has helped them significantly in their development as a leader and that they now have great ideas and expectations of what they are going to achieve when they get back to school.

It is important to make sure that this expectation is transformed into ongoing activity and does not fade after the experience of the conference. This is why GRIP Leadership is committed to offering support to schools in the area of conference follow-up.

HAVE A DEBRIEF MEETING Within a week of attending the conference it is important to have a meeting with all members of your leadership team. This meeting should have three parts to it.

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Have each student fill out the ‘Moving Forward’ page (for secondary students) or go over the ‘One Thing I Have Learned So Far’ page (for primary students) that is near the back of their conference booklet. These answers can then be shared with the whole leadership team.

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Revisit any unfinished discussions that occurred during the conference sessions. Look back through the booklet to identify these.

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Have the whole team develop a list of goals (between two and five) that you will collectively aim to achieve.

SHARE YOUR CONFERENCE EXPERIENCE WITH OTHERS While the students are excited and energised from being at the conference it is a good idea for them to share what they have experienced with the rest of the school community so their excitement can rub off on others. Have the students give a presentation in assembly or write an article in the school newsletter about their experience at the conference and what they are going to achieve because of what they have learnt.

STAY CONNECTED WITH GRIP LEADERSHIP THROUGH GRIPSOCIAL.COM.AU Our team continually creates articles, blogs and videos with tips and ideas to help student leaders. We have developed a dedicated online

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community especially for this. It is totally free and can be thought of as an educational ‘Leadership Facebook.’ We encourage you and each of your leaders to stay connected with GRIP Leadership so that you can have access to these great follow-up tools.

GET STARTED ON A SHORT TERM PROJECT Decide on an event or project that will be possible for the student leaders to complete within the next two weeks. Do not try and achieve something challenging to start with, make the project something that does not require too much organisation, but will still draw student involvement. This gives the student leaders a chance to use their new skills straight away.

Resist the urge to put off the project until ‘after the holidays’ as it is better to hold an event straight away and keep momentum going post conference (even if it is not perfect). At the completion of the project, undertake a thorough debrief as to why it was successful or why it was not successful. You will find that this event will energise the leaders to become even more active, and it will give you a real context to discuss leadership without having to rely solely on referring to the theory presented at the conference.

UTILISE ADDITIONAL LEADERSHIP RESOURCES It goes without saying that teachers rely on a variety of classroom resources when teaching maths, science, art... the list goes on. For this reason we have developed a wide variety of leadership resources targeted specifically at students and teachers involved in student leadership. These resources are practical, user friendly and based on the needs of teachers just like you. In the centre of this magazine there are a number of pages that provide an overview of the resources available. All ‘GRIP Gold’ schools receive a 20 percent discount off resources. For more about this see page 18.

PARTICIPATE IN THE GRIP NATIONAL LEADERSHIP CAMP (Years 10-12 only) This is an opportunity to extend the conference experience and interact with students from all over Australia and New Zealand! It is a four day camp held in Brisbane which will help the students identify the influence they can have individually, as a school and in the community. For more information see www.gripleadership.com. Registrations for the camp are now open and space is limited.

School Staff Review Form Name:_____________________________________ Position:_______________________________ Date: ___________________________________ School:_____________________________________________________________ Conference Location:___________________________________ Email:____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ **Add your email address here and we will email you a link to download classroom posters that relate to today’s topics as well as other useful resources.** How did you hear about this conference? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ What did you enjoy most about this conference? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ What could be improved with this conference? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Are you considering registering students for next year’s conference? Yes

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If No, please explain why. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Please circle one number in each row below to rate the following aspects of the event:

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For any category above that you scored 3 or lower, please indicate any ways we can do this better: _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Do you have any suggestions of topics for future conference sessions or workshops? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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