Home > Office > Main > Young Leaders

Young Leaders

Also Try

1. Conflict Prevention and Mediation
2. Intercultural Communication
3. Learning Community
4. Multicultural Training
5. Risk and Protective Factors
6. Volunteering
7. World Peace

Books

1. Future - 101 Things You Can Do to Help Ours Kids' Future (Benton Foundation)

Lesson Plans

1. -Conflict Resolution Skills (StarkNet)
   Provides exercises to improve conflict resolution skills. Has activities identified with Language Arts, Social Science and Science, but actually the work is appropriate across subjects.
2. Heroes and Heroism (Ima Hero)
   Provides 8 lesson plans exploring heroism. 8-01
3. Propaganda (Donn)
   Provides lessons and resources that show you how to look for hidden messages. Includes worksheets.
4. Propaganda Sources (Donn)
   Provides three dozen sources of lessons on propaganda, media, and public opinion. Helps students look for hidden messages. 2-02

Lists

1. Assistance for Runaways (National Runaway Switchboard)
   Provides support and assistance for youth who have run away from home. 1-02
2. Heroes (www.4Kids.org)
   Provides sources of information on heroes.
3. Nobel Prize Winners - Listed Alphabetically
4. Nobel Prize Winners by Category
5. Service Opportunities for Teens (Google Directory)
   Provides a list of service organizations that want the assistance of teens. 1-02

Materials

1. -Bias, Prejudice and Attitudes (IAT Corp and Tolerance.org - Greenwald and Banaji)
   Provides a test of attitudes regarding age, race, gender, and obesity. Your responses are measured by your speed of associations. Most of us do have biases (preferences) that may conflict with our values. Biases can work invisibly and give us a tendency to treat others unfairly (with prejudice). By uncovering our biases, we can combat our prejudices more effectively.
2. Certificate Maker (Education Connection)
   Provides well-designed certificates of achievement for service to the community, service by the community, academic achievements, sports and music.

Papers

1. Aung Suu Kyi - Interview (Free Burma Coalition)
   Aung San Suu Kyi, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, speaks to youth about issues such as power and freedom.
2. Conversations with History (UC Berkeley - Institute of International Studies)
   Provides transcripts of interviews of international figures regarding key world developments. The interviews are conducted by Harry Kreisler. 8-99
3. Future - Our Future (Awesome Library)
   Awesome Library's challenge to collaboratively develop a future that focuses on our children as our foundation. Provides a forum for discussing our next 50 years.
4. Gandhi's Grandson - An Interview (Adams)
   Provides an interview with Rajmohan Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi's grandson, on how to achieve world peace.
5. Heroines of Peace (The Nobel Foundation)
   Provides the story on nine women who have won the Nobel Peace Prize, including Mother Teresa.
6. Leaders (Tam Communications - GreatKids)
   Provides stories of youth who have already done exceptional things with their lives or for others.
7. Listening Skills (KidSource OnLine - Smith)
   Provides suggestions to improve listening skills.
8. My Hero Stories
9. Outstanding Latino Teens (Latino.com)
   Teen Tuesday provides profiles of teens who have done something outstanding and become role models for other teens. 1-01
10. Steps to Action (WePrevent)
    Provides five steps for taking action in your community.
11. Systemic Assessment for Quality Schools (Kelly)
    Provides key concepts from Deming and others to foster a systemic approach to improvement and self-assessment. Includes a free copy of the book.
12. Teamwork Skills (Birchwood)
    Provides suggestions to improve teamwork skills.
13. Women's History (Information Please)
    Describes the history of various kinds of ascents to power, including revolutions, despots, rulers, leaders. Includes a sample of empires. 2-00

Projects

1. 4H - National 4H Council
   Provides information about the mission of the National 4H Council to work as partners with youth in building our communities.
2. AmeriCorps (CNS)
   Includes two programs - 1) The National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) is "a full-time service program for men and women age 18 through 24. AmeriCorps NCCC members work in teams." 2) Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) is "a full-time service program for men and women age 18 and older. Members generally work individually, rather than in teams."
3. America's Promise - Summit Action Youth for Educators (President's Summit)
   Provides suggestions on way educators can help students become involved with the America's Promise campaign and the Summit in particular.
4. Civitan - Junior Civitan Leadership Opportunities (Junior Civitan International)
   "Generally, Junior Civitans improve their schools and communities through service to others. There are opportunities for fun and fellowship on all levels of Junior Civitan. Junior Civitan provides many leadership opportunities. On the club level, leaders help decide which projects and programs the club will be involved in."
5. Concord Review
   According to The Giraffe Project, "Will Fitzhugh's Concord Review publishes the history research papers of high school scholars. The Review is a one-man effort to honor good students as highly as our school culture honors young athletes."
6. Congressional Youth Leadership Council (CYLC)
   "The Congressional Youth Leadership Council is a non-profit, non-partisan, civic education organization that provides outstanding high school students nationwide an opportunity to study leadership, citizenship and government in the Nation's Capital."
7. Council on International Educational Exchange
   CIEE "seeks to promote educational exchanges and foster international understanding."
8. Creative Writing Projects (About.com - Dobbs)
   Provides projects, such as writing essays and poems, around themes. Dobbs assists the authros and puts the best materials on a Web page for all to see. See, for example, the September 25th project, "Solutions for a Better World."
9. Global Ideas Bank
   "An International Suggestion Box for socially innovative non-technological ideas and projects, with £1,000 UK sterling awards annually for the best ideas or projects submitted." 1-02
10. Homeless Teens (StandUp for Kids)
    Provides opportunities for volunteering to help homeless teens. Listings are by state. 10-99
11. I Have a Dream Foundation 1-01
12. Law-Related Education (Teens, Crime and the Community)
    Provides training and projects for teens to actively lead in reducing crime. Created by the National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) and Street Law, Inc. (formerly the National Institute for Citizen Education in the Law), TCC is a joint initiative currently funded on the national level by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice.
13. Mentors - By Subject (The Chalkboard)
    Provides organizations by subject and location that have mentoring programs.
14. Mentors - Volunteering (Your Time - Their Future)
    Provides organizations by city that have mentoring programs. They also have an activities list and more.
15. Prudential National Honorees (Prudential)
    Describes how to select students who have made a difference.
16. Public Awareness Campaign - Rubrics Creator (Rubistar)
    Provides printable forms and selectable content for creating rubrics to evaluate preparation and presentation. 5-01
17. Role Models - A Life of Exploration and Challenge (Bellingham Schools - McKensie)
    Provides resources and 10 characteristics of those who have chosen a life of exploration, challenge, and discovery.
18. Role Models - Biography Maker (Bellingham Schools - McKensie)
    Provides step by step assistance in writing a biography - or autobiography.
19. Toastmasters Leadership Development Program (Toastmasters)
    Provides leadership training and communication skills development. Must be at least 18 years old to join.
20. UN World Youth Forum Report
    Provides the final report from a forum of youth representing 150 countries.
21. UN World Youth Forum
    Provides information about the forum, the final report, and contact information for the youth representing 150 countries.
22. Upbeat News Stories
    "...Positive, Optimistic, Inspiring News for all ages...."
23. Volunteering Opportunities (Youth Service America)
    Provides ways to volunteer to contribute to your community. 1-01
24. Wilderness-Based Adventures (NOL)
    The National Outdoor Leadership School (NOL) "is a wilderness-based, non-profit school focusing on leadership and skills."
25. WiseSkills
    "WiseSkills is an innovative school program that combines a variety of positive prevention activities into a simple, yet comprehensive, character-building program. These activities include: character education, career awareness, conflict resolution, peer mediation, community service, and parent involvement."