NatStuCo Update: Spring 2020
As you approach your school’s awards season and year-end ceremonies, it’s time to look back at how your young leaders have grown and how you can celebrate their accomplishments. Have your student council members demonstrated their commitment to growing as leaders? If so, they may qualify as Emerging Student Leaders or Distinguished Student Leaders—two student...
Advise, Advise: Volume 48 (2019-2020)
Empowering Student Voice and Advocacy
An engaged, well-spoken, informed student leader is all it takes to motivate the masses into civic action. Traditionally, our school sees the most student activism when a passionate upperclassman leads the charge. While educators can educate and then ask, influence, or motivate students into participation, it really is those age-alike peers who model civic engagement...
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Active Voices: Spring 2020
What is toxic masculinity, exactly? Toxic masculinity “is what can come of teaching boys that they can’t express emotion openly; that they have to be ‘tough all the time’; that anything other than that makes them ‘feminine’ or weak,” notes Maya Salam in The New York Times article “What Is Toxic Masculinity?” Cultural expectations make...
Advise, Advise: Volume 48 (2019-2020)
The Middle Ground: Spring 2020
In my 12 years of working with middle level student council leaders, I have experienced many lessons learned by my students, and they have taught me countless lessons in return. One of the hardest to teach—and learn—is responsibility. Middle level leaders are faced with many trials that shape their character. Responsibility is a lesson that...
Advise, Advise: Volume 48 (2019-2020)
Collaboration Space: Spring 2020
Bonkers for Books School in San Marcos, CA, collected gently used children’s books to donate to their local elementary school, La Mirada Academy. Adult books were either added to their own collection or donated to other local libraries. Once the children’s books were collected, high school students visited the sister school and read some stories...
Advise, Advise: Volume 48 (2019-2020)
Create Fun and Funds With Four Diamonds Mini-THONs®
An estimated 16,000 children in the United States are diagnosed with cancer each year, according to www.cancer.gov—which means a child is diagnosed every 36 minutes. The organization Four Diamonds (www.fourdiamonds.org/mini-thon) is on a mission to change that by engaging students in the fight to conquer childhood cancer. During the 2018–19 school year, 90,000 students in...
Advise, Advise: Volume 48 (2019-2020)
A Conversation With… Amy Krueger
Amy Krueger has earned the 2019 Rynearson NJHS Adviser of the Year award. Krueger has served as an adviser of Rockwood South Middle School’s NJHS chapter in Fenton, MO, for more than seven years. Through this role, she has motivated, inspired, and supported hundreds of student leaders in making a difference for one another and...
Advise, Advise: Volume 48 (2019-2020)
Take 10: Spring 2020
Empower Student Voice Julie Kasper, assistant principal at Century High School in Hillsboro, OR, and former student activities director, encourages her students to rise up and be heard by: Running nonpartisan social media accounts to inform classmates of events at which they can use their voices and share their opinions, such as town halls Encouraging...
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Advise: Winter 2020
One cannot deny that school is a busy place. With classes, new learning initiatives, sports, clubs, celebrations, and of course, National Honor Society, National Junior Honor Society, and student council meetings, students and staff are constantly juggling multiple commitments. Features Working Toward Equity Shari Benites Ethics on Display Jeff Sherrill Inclusive Leadership Nara Lee Unified...
Advise, Advise: Volume 48 (2019-2020)
Take 10: Winter 2020
Break Down Barriers Shari Benites, coordinator of Equity and Excellence and director of the Center for Leadership and Public Service at Yorktown High School in Arlington, VA, says the following barriers can limit the access and participation of students in your program: A lack of knowledge of NHS and the benefits of membership A lack...
Advise, Advise: Volume 48 (2019-2020)