Student Leadership & Participation

This means significant input to rules and procedures, establishing learning goals and tasks, deciding how to work.

This means investigating and responding to issues of survival and quality of life, solving real problems, creating real products.

This means cooperative and collaborative learning, peer support, community linkages, and mutual respect.

Involving students in leadership activities and participation is one of the most practical and helpful strategies for gaining the cooperation of students and increasing the value that they and their families place on schooling