Designing Student Leadership Programs: Transforming the Leadership Potential of Youth

Designing Student Leadership Programs arose as a result of an ongoing effort to prepare adults who work with educating youth leaders. It is set up as a "guidebook" to be used within staffs or as part of focus groups or discussions as a program/school evaluates or establishes their youth leadership program. This guidebook is based on the belief that youth deserve as much attention, preparation, celebration, and the resources to become leaders, as are dedicated to preparing business, political, and community leaders. As a guidebook, there are pages which consist of lists of ideas and/or statements which have been gathered and tested in various youth leadership programs. There are also pages which consist of provocative questions to consider when establishing a program or evaluating existing efforts. The most effective use of this book is using it with groups of people (adults and youth) rather than having only one person design a program in a vacuum. Throughout the book...