On Student Led Student Leadership at Reload 1.2.3

Posted on June 21, 2010 - Filed Under best practices, case studies, events, matrix, reload, reload 123, student leadership, trainings, uywi | Leave a Comment

Those familiar with 20/20 Vision for Schools’ Transformation Matrix know that empowering student leaders as change agents within schools is a pillar of our paradigm for transforming public education within a single generation of students. In summary, it goes something like this:

Stop viewing students as consumers of education, buying a product from teachers
Instead empower them [...]

Goliaths Fall When Students Lead

Posted on September 14, 2009 - Filed Under kickin it, student leadership, trainings | Leave a Comment

Goliaths fall when adults like Saul get out of David’s way.
The Biblical character David was an untested teenager, a shepherd boy with no military training, when he simultaneously proved to be the only man among soldiers courageous enough to confront the giant Goliath.
For 40 days, Goliath’s taunts paralyzed Israel’s army with [...]

Kickin’ It Tweets

Posted on September 14, 2009 - Filed Under concerts, events, kickin it, student leadership, trainings, twitter | Leave a Comment

For the first time, a 20/20 event was covered real time via Twitter. Some of the highlights.
Via @jlopez219

// “Death was mine to face but You took my place in Love…” -Beyond Barriers twitpic.com/hiz7t
// Now on Stage at “Kickin it old Skool” in NYC… Beyond Barriers! twitpic.com/hivhq
// “Mercy & Grace” from Sunset Park Bklyn are [...]

The ONLY student led, student leadership conference in NYC?

Posted on August 25, 2009 - Filed Under events, kickin it, lpac, student leadership, trainings | Leave a Comment

All of us in youth development aspire to empowering students to actually lead. Rhetorically, it’s why we do what we do. Jesus called it making disciples and put it in his Great Commission speech right before he left his own disciples to run things. History records the advantages as every major social [...]