Description
Book SynopsisThe Student Leadership Challenge Activities Book includes more than 50 activities that give educators a bridge between teachingThe Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership modeland helping students learn to apply the practices to their lives. The activities map to each of The Five Practices and are designed to be flexible, appropriate for high school and college students, and greatly improve students' understanding of The Five Practices model through action. The activities include facilitator tips for use in a variety of settings and with various age groups.
Table of ContentsModule 1: Introduction 1 An Overview of The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® 2
What Is in This Book 5
How to Use This Book 6
Guidance on Selecting and Facilitating Activities with Students 7
Module 2: Orienteering 9
A Student’s Personal Journey toward Exemplary Leadership 10
The Importance of Orienteering for Students 10
Activity: Personal-Best Leadership Experience 11
Module 3: Model the Way 19
Practice Overview 20
Why students Should Model the Way 20
Activities
Values on Display 21
Modeling the Way in Current Events 25
The Hefferlump 27
You Want What? 32
You Can Lead Anywhere 34
This We Believe 36
Legacy Day 38
Vault of Values 40
Module 4: Inspire a Shared Vision 47
Practice Overview 48
Why Students Should Inspire a Shared Vision 48
Activities
Going Up 49
Word Pictures—Articulating Your Vision 51
Giving Life to Your Vision by Reframing from What to Why 54
Visualize Yourself 58
Snapshots of Success 60
Vision, Values, and Rock and Roll 63
Sum It All Up 65
Finish the Story 68
Module 5: Challenge the Process 73
Practice Overview 74
Why Students Should Challenge the Process 74
Activities
House of Cards 75
“Orientation: The Time of Your Life”—A Skit 77
Going, Going, Gone 83
This Is How We’ve Always Done It . . . But Let’s Try Something Else 86
Turning Big Challenges into Incremental Action Steps 90
Brick Walls Don’t Have to Stop You 95
Planning with the End in Mind 99
The Six Thinking Hats 103
Module 6: Enable Others to Act 109
Practice Overview 110
Why Students Should Enable Others to Act 110
Activities
The Walk of Peril (or “Indiana Jones’s Walk”) 111
The Captains’ Dilemma 113
Tennis Ball Madness 119
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words 124
Populating a New Planet 127
A Leader’s Walk of Trust 130
Capture the Dragon 132
Help Is on the Way 137
Module 7: Encourage the Heart 143
Practice Overview 144
Why Students Should Encourage the Heart 144
Activities
Compliment Swap 145
Praise 148
Identifying Individual Recognition Tactics 151
Encourage the Heart Party Time with Your Group 155
Recognition Car Wash 158
Recognition Speed Dating 160
Good Vibrations 163
Web of Yarn 167
Module 8: Leadership Lessons from the Movies 171
Activities 172
Lincoln 173
Soul Surfer 177
Moneyball 181
Amazing Grace 184
The Great Debaters 186
Coach Carter 190
the Lion King 193
Gandhi 195
Module 9: Commitment 199
Activities
Values-in-Action Log 200
My Year of Leadership 203
My Next Personal-Best leadership Experience 204
Other Resources 206
The Student Leadership Challenge, Second Edition 206
The Student Leadership Practices Inventory 206
The Student Leadership Challenge: Facilitation and Activity Guide and The Student Leadership Challenge: Student Workbook and Personal Leadership Journal 206
The Leadership Challenge Mobile Tool App 207
LPI Action Cards 207
The Leadership Challenge Values Cards 207
The Student Leadership Challenge Website 207
Appendix: Activities Mapped to the Student Leadership Practices Inventory Behaviors 209
Acknowledgments 217
Authors and Contributors 219
