NOTE: This list was current as of the 2003-2004 school year.
Some of these people may have changed positions or schools since this time |
|
Louella Adams, State Auditors Office
Candy Manthany, Northshore District Office
Greg Barker, Marysville Pilchuck High School
Are you just beginning your years in the ASB enchanted castle? This session included the "Knights in Shining Armour" helped delegates to find a way to navigate the castle corridors, deal with the enchanted staff, and gave techniques to help break the enchanted spell.
|
 |
|
Cari Johnson, Cedar Heights Junior High
Need a great leadership lesson plan for a sub? Scrambling for an activity as your leadership class walks in? Movies can be your salvation. Session participants found out about some tried and true lessons they could use to teach or review leadership concepts. The only challenge you'll have is saving them for when you're gone.
|
 |
|
Ruth Anderson, Hunt Middle School
Patricia McDonald, Cascade Leadership Camp
Jeff Sabado, Cascade Leadership Camp
Folks joined this session for classroom lessons and assembly strategies that focused on diversity and sensitivity to others. The happy endings were designed to be schools where students and staff know they belong to something magical.
|
 |
|
Marty Fortin, Cispus Learning Center
"How does environmental and land use law relate to your leadership environment curriculum???Participants previewed an exciting new lesson for high school students that combined leadership and the environment. A multi-media presentation introduced the environmental and land use laws. Then, participants were immersed in a realistic scenario that focused on a controversial development project. Land use decisions involve creative problems solving and social and economical factors that challenge students' creative problem solving and critical thinking skills.
|
 |
|
Christine Avery & Lou Imbesi, Monroe High School
Are you and your students ready for an upcoming change in your school? Using the video "Who Moved My Cheese?" and the accompanying change profile survey, this session showed how to assess your change readiness. In addition, it discussed that survey results will link your change readiness to the four characters from the video providing a common frame of reference and vocabulary when discussion an upcoming change in your school.
|
|
|
|
|
Jeff Cohn, Decatur High School
Marie Lockwood, Evergreen High School
How do you evaluate your Leadership Class students? Assignment by assignment, teacher assessment or self-evaluation (they always get an A!!) How about student driven portfolio assessment! The session discussed how they use Portfolios in our Leadership classes. Come and Participants shared some of their thoughts and experiences with grading and Leadership Class curriculum.
|
 |
|
Sharyn Mehner, Emerald Ridge High School
Many opportunities exist for student leaders to make true impact within their schools and communities. This session focused on ways student leaders can team up with existing community service projects or volunteer on their own. Thoughtful and meaningful service, teamwork, and social awareness are central values common to the concept of service leadership.
|
 |
|
Emory Austin , Public Speaker
Those who teach and lead our youth face overwhelming challenges in helping them build a better world. How to use your skills wisely in positive productive ways? How to light individual fires of potential and build self-esteem that makes sense? Put more fresh air and purpose into your own life and theirs. You have the power to touch the future in ways that no one else can. What an important honor! Participants joined Emory for this inspiring celebration of workable and strength-building possibilities.
|
|
|
Lori Leach, Morgan Middle School
Andrea Fuller, Sultan High School
Need some new ideas to create the team needed to be a successful cheer squad? Participants joined two experienced cheer coaches as they shared what their favorite team building activities are to create success within their teams.
|
 |
|
|
|
Once Upon a Time: Chapter Two, Thursday PM I Sessions |
|
Louella Adams, State Auditors Office
Candy Manthany, Northshore District Office
This session covered information on the best practices in fundraising, how to do an internal audit within your school and best practices for running, maintaining and monitoring student stores
|
|
|
Bryan Demaray, Klahowya Secondary School
Hosting a Jr. High or Middle School fun night and dance at your high school sounds like a fairy tale, but can work great for everyone. This session talked about ways that schools could make money and do a community service at the same time!
|
|
|
Marie Lockwood, Evergreen High School
JoAnne Daughtry, Kentwood High School
Ideas for putting on hassle free dances: Problems with freak dancing, inappropriate attire, inappropriate behavior - participants discussed ideas that are working for other schools. This was a sharing ideas workshop, people brought good ideas and took away even more.
|
 |
|
Kim Stewart, Mountlake Terrace High School
Ever wanted to take your ASB kids away to bond on a retreat but were scared of the time commitment? This session covered a great way to help ASB kid's link with other ASB members, learn new skills, plan for the year and get it all done in "24 Hours." Materials and examples of the packets and activities were presented during the workshop.
|
 |
|
Stephanie Clark, Skyview High School
This workshop provided advisers with techniques, tools and skills to teach students how to organize and plan school wide events. The focus was on improving communication skills and utilizing methods to prioritize and delegate duties.
|
|
|
|
|
Jeff Cohn, Decatur High School
This session presented unique solutions to common problems in leadership programs. PVC pipe can be a fix-all for assemblies, dances, floats, presentations...the list goes on. Participants heard how PVC pipe can open up a whole new world to old world problems. It's cheap and easy to use. It can even support your math curriculum and encourage creative thought by your leadership students. Oh yeah, and it's fun...
|
 |
|
Pam Kinkela, Emerald Ridge High School
Maybe you advise a group that's old and established-and stale as last week's bagel. Or maybe they've "asked" you to "just help out...it won't be much work," advising a new club at your school. Or maybe just have the feeling that you need some new ideas to help your club or class organize and thrive. This session offered ideas-some practical, some a little unusual on advising a club or class.
|
 |
|
Teri Corwin, Tracy Read, & Jeff McGowan, Kellogg Middle School
Keep the Kingdom rockin' with exciting lunch activities and spirit competitions. Brave Knights and Ladies participated in a variety of games guaranteed to lure the most skeptic peasant.
|
 |
|
Roberta Hasstedt, Cascade High School
Greg Barker, Marysville Pilchuck High School
Leanne Donley, Central Valley High School
Tim Templin, Kalles Junior High School
This session provided an overview to a comprehensive leadership program. Examples of topics, instructional activities and assessment tools were provided. A hands-on session, discussion was focused on instructing and evaluating multiple levels of leadership instruction, from beginners to the most advanced learners.
|
 |
|
Lynn Fallows, Mount Si High School
Nancy Garr, Ferndale High School
This session addressed cheer as a sport, sportsmanship, "to stunt or not to stunt," and the Washington State Cheer Coaches Association (WSCCA).
|
|
|
|
|
Once Upon a Time: Chapter Three, Thursday PM II Sessions |
|
Louella Adams, State Auditors Office
Candy Manthany, Northshore District Office
Are your ASB Funds used appropriately? Do you give incentives? Do you work within your parameters? Do you give gifts of public funds? This session helped participants to rate their schools.
|
|
|
Steve Cox, Skyview High School
Gerry Stavney, Columbia River High School
Cathy Sork, Fort Vancouver High School
Want to share leadership ideas, create better interschool relations and provide uniform district information to all ASB leaders? You may want to plan a district-wide student leadership conference. Participants learned how the Vancouver School District organizes its yearly student ASB conference.
|
|
|
Steven Cross, Cedarcrest Middle School
"How many bananas was I supposed to get?" "Who's checking on the DJ?" "Didn't we try this last year?" The answers to these and more challenging questions can be at your fingertips in a few steps if you leave enough bread crumbs along the path to a successful event.
|
 |
Beryl Lenington, Cheryl Gavin, Eisenhower High School
Peer teaching through Link Crew classes. Link Crew students go into the Freshman classes to mentor and teach the Freshman about their school's 4P's program. (Pathway-Plan-Project-Portfolio) and school activities.
|
 |
Barb Goll-DeWitte, Ellensburg High School
Try an old-fashioned, high-tech hometown Veteran's Assembly that connects your students with their community next November! Participants heard about how one small community came together for a successful celebration and learned what other schools are doing to produce Veteran's Day events.
|
 |
John Bittenger, Everett High School
What are the sources of stress for you...at school, ... at home, ... In the rest of your life? More importantly, what can you do about it? In this session, participants discussed "good " and "bad" stress, and the impact of stress also good and bad - in our lives. Lastly, the session investigated techniques to redirect stress, and relaxation strategies. Participates left the session feeling rejuvenated! Plus, remember, the opposite of STRESSED is DESSERTS.
|
 |
Leilani Russell, Evergreen High School
"If you only learn about someone's culture through food and dance, than all you end up with is a lot of fat people that can dance." Cross Cultural Awareness - Beyond Food and Dance.
|
 |
|
Jennifer Cowan, Shuksan Middle School
Sometimes students come to Middle School without knowing the specific skills they will need to use to be academically and socially successful. Our school utilizes a transition curriculum that includes topics such as time management, hallway movement, assignment completion as well as team building activities. Are your transition activities hitting the mark?
|
|
John Coates, Explorer Middle School
Adam Slaght, Harbour Point Middle School
Leslie Ivelia, Olympic View Middle School
Activities and Athletic Directors from Mukilteo do different activities and events at each of their middle schools. This session shared the diversity in each of their programs and how they balance their roles as Activities and Athletic Directors.
|
|
Lynn Fallows, Mount Si High School
Nancy Garr, Ferndale High School
This session addressed such topics as Leadership, Handling Cheer Parents, Organizing a Squad (Constitutions and Rules), Working cooperatively with All-Star programs, Competing, Technical Judging, and Fundraising.
|
 |
|
|
|
Once Upon a Time: Chapter Four, Friday AM Sessions |
Kathy Lech, Pioneer Middle School
This was a networking session especially designated for the ASB Secretary! Participants examined common practices and procedures in the ASB "fish bowls" and how best to handle them.
|
 |
Bob Jones, Auburn High School
Teaching concepts of motivation to ASB officers allows kids to think as their peers think. This was a non-scientific approach to the topic of motivation. This session aided participants to help their students look at what motivates them and what might work with the students they lead. Participants shared stories from their teaching and advising roles to illustrate the importance of inspiring and motivating the student body.
|
|
Dawn Lawrence, Cascade High School
Experienced or novice - this session was for where ever you fit as an election adviser. A veteran advisor shared tested strategies and procedures that work at her school. Participants contributed their creative ideas for energizing and smoothing out election processed at their schools.
|
|
Sherry Sprouse, Donna Harris, Roni Dudley, Gina Sandland, Auburn-Riverside High School
Participants picked up some new ideas for Pep Assemblies, Spirit Weeks, and Graduation. Ideas were showcased for events that work at various levels. This session was about stealing ideas from the rich and giving to the poor.
|
 |
Mary Simeone, Prairie High School
Jason Bergman, Squalicum High School
Mentoring helps to personalize a Freshman's first year of high school, academically and socially. Presenters shared their experiences in introducing mentor programs in their high schools. They addressed start-up, organization, activities both in and out of school, academic support for students, and student buy-in.
|
|
|
|
Barb Pearson,
The new legislation is in place. Are you wondering where all the anti-bullying programming is going to fit?..Well of course, give it to the activities advisor. This workshop gave participants a number of ideas and strategies for your castle. There is no reason to reinvent the wheel.
|
 |
Cathy Sork, Fort Vancouver High School
The quality of an event is often only as good as the quality of its promotion. Participants learned tips , hints, and simple steps to help even the most artistically challenged create exciting posters and other promotional materials. Participants left with strategies and ready-to-go lessons that can be taught to students.
|
 |
Tim Templin & Kim Bombader, Kalles Junior High School
Do you work for a staff that is cohesive? are you doing all you can to build classroom team but realize your staff is missing out? Building a staff team that is cohesive is essential. What is built at the staff level will most always pour down into your students. This session was about team building. The presentation included activities, ideas and information that has worked in one school. Participants that went to this sessions were interested in helping to create a work environment that is more than just a place where they work.
|
 |
Nick Angelos, Mariner High School
This session focused on all of the necessary ingredients in making your life better and in keeping your administrators happy with a step-by-step guide to successful dances. Presenters included: decorating, getting chaperones, securing a DJ, photos, themes, purchase orders, security, clean-up, money accountability, and much more!!!
|
|
|
|
