HERstory Curriculum Suite

The Leadership Program

Description

HERstory is a leadership program for middle and high school girls. This preventive intervention program is composed of 50–60 interactive sessions that address social emotional learning, leadership, and Common Core standards and that provide opportunities to link to the school day curriculum. Designed to be facilitated over the course of a school year, the curricular framework is scaffolded by three components:

• • COMMUNITY BUILDING—Team-building establishes trust within the group.
• • WRITING WORKSHOP—Enhances literacy skills and fosters individual identity through writing on seven core themes: Identity, Those We Are Closest To, Body Image, Love & Relationships, Dreams, Heritage or Tradition, Legacy.
• • CREATIVE OUTPUT—A culminating ethnographic theater or artistic literary journal project provides a platform for self-expression within the wider community.

Participants report improvements in key areas targeted by HERstory, including peer connectedness, academic achievement, and a range of protective factors such as future orientation and goal setting.

Sujets

• Writting
• Disciplines
• Language Arts
• Youth leadership
• Community building
• Writing circle
• Youth development
• Interpersonal skills
• Creative writing

Informations

• Publié par: Girl Friday Books
• Date de parution: 27 septembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781959411048
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

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Published by Girl Friday Books TM , Seattle www.girlfridaybooks.com
Produced by Girl Friday Productions
ISBN (print) 978-1-959411-00-0 ISBN (ebook) 978-1-959411-04-8

Contents
Introduction
Part One: Community Building
Objective: Participants will create a cohesive, socially and emotionally safe, positive peer group.
Section Guide
1. Welcome to HERstory!
2. Guess Who I Am
3. R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
4. Human Spectrum
5. The Ties That Bind
6. Lights, Camera, Action!
7. Introduction to Character
8. Ethical Minds Want to Know
9. Personal Values Posters
10. Choices, Decisions, Consequences
11. Free Your Voice
Part Two: Writing Workshop
Objective: Participants will examine and express their responses to and feelings about multiple aspects of girls’ identity development through writing.
Section Guide
1. Who’s the Woman?
2. Lean on Me
3. Body Positive!
4. Make a Connection
5. Great Expectations!
6. Around My Way
7. The Road Less Traveled
Part Three: Creative Output
Objective: Participants will create an ethnographic theater piece or literary journal that synthesizes their responses and presents the group’s writings about identity development as an artistic product.
Section Guide
1. What’s Our Style?
2. What Do I Stand For
3. Literary Journal: The Art of Words
4. Introduction to Acting: Session One
5. Introduction to Acting: Session Two
6. Introduction to Acting: Session Three
7. Introduction to Acting: Session Four
Epilogue
Objective: Participants will identify and demonstrate appreciation for the HERstory group’s accomplishments throughout the year.
Closing Rituals
Reference
1. Creative Output Options Checklist
2. Ethnographic Theater Script Tools
3. The Experiential Learning Cycle
4. Classroom Management Techniques
5. Theoretical Rationale
6. Curricular Framework
7. Credits
8. Bibliography

Introduction
Overview
The Leadership Program: Who We Are
For over twenty years, The Leadership Program has worked to provide educational institutions of all types and sizes with youth development activities, professional development workshops, and curricula that help schools expand and enrich their academic communities.
Based in New York City, we serve more than 250 school administrations and organizations nationwide and internationally; we have worked tirelessly to create innovative and engaging curricula that provide schools assistance with youth engagement, parent involvement, management, organization, educational enrichment, strategic planning, and evaluation of their team.
We are highly regarded in the realm of educational consulting and professional development, and are regularly invited to present at national conferences on topics ranging from social-emotional learning to motivating your staff.
The Leadership Program: works with over 18,000 students, 500 teachers, and 6,000 parents annually created and implements a conflict-resolution project that has been designated the highest-rated leadership-themed universal adolescent violence prevention program in the country by SAMHSA’s National Registry of Evidence-based Programs & Practices (NREPP) created an empirically validated Conflict Resolution Project, one of thirty-five in the country and designated a Promising Program by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention was included in a 2008 Johns Hopkins research study for the Department of Defense as one of five organizations in the United States that significantly enhances positive school culture through professional development, organization, and youth development created two of the seven programs in New York state (two of the seventy-three in the nation) designated to have Promising Practices by the Academy for Educational Development believes that, with the right help, every person has the innate ability to lead the change
HERstory Curriculum Overview
HERstory is a yearlong after-school program for adolescent girls composed of Community Building activities and ethnographic theater to promote healthy identity exploration and positive youth development. HERstory emerged out of one practitioner’s experience at a middle school in New York City where she “saw the deep need for the predominantly female participants to not just learn to perform but to perform their own stories.” The curriculum is based on research on female adolescent development as well as direct classroom experience and application. It has been field tested in urban sites and received accolades from participants, parents, schools, and the after-school field. In 2009, HERstory was one of seven programs in New York state (one of just seventy-three in the United States) designated Promising Practices in Afterschool by the Academy for Educational Development.
This comprehensive curriculum is structured to support both experienced and beginning facilitators in implementing HERstory. Using this manual will help you effectively facilitate the curriculum, ensuring the best possible experience for student participants.
The manual contains twenty-two to twenty-five lessons to be facilitated over thirty-five to thirty-nine sessions, depending on the Creative Output track chosen, and outlines the additional sessions necessary to prepare for the Ethnographic Theater Piece or to create the Literary Journal. All lessons have been designed by The Leadership Program and refined for optimum effectiveness and student engagement. The lessons are organized into three components that engage students in a variety of activities, and are scaffolded to build community and develop trust and cohesiveness within the group, provide avenues for self-reflective writing exercises, and culminate in a full-scale theater production or a literary journal developed from the participants’ writings. The components are:
Component Title
Objective
Community Building
Participants will create a cohesive, socially and emotionally safe, positive peer group.
Writing Workshop Identity Those You Are Closest To Body Image Love and Relationships Dreams Heritage or Tradition Legacy
Participants will examine and express their responses to and feelings about multiple aspects of girls’ identity development through writing.
Creative Output
Participants will create an ethnographic theater piece or literary journal that synthesizes their responses and presents the group’s writings about identity development as an artistic product.
Epilogue
Participants will identify and demonstrate appreciation for the HERstory group’s accomplishments throughout the year.
The Writing Workshop component builds through seven themes, from self-awareness to lasting impact on the community and wider world. Each of these seven themes is addressed through three approaches to writing: lesson activities, theme writing prompts, and themed movies with correlated questions to answer. The seven themes are: Identity Those You Are Closest To Body Image Love and Relationships Dreams Heritage or Tradition Legacy
All lessons follow the same structure to provide a consistent framework for every session. The lessons open with information and tools to help in your facilitation and continue with step-by-step instructions for each activity.
Each lesson begins with the following information: Lesson objective—what students will achieve through the lesson Summary—a brief description of the activities during the lesson Aim—the question to be answered through lesson activities and processing Standards—the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) standards (based on New York State SEL guidelines) that are met when the lesson is facilitated according to instructions Materials—a specific list of the materials to prepare to facilitate each particular lesson, including masters of handouts and worksheets, where applicable Handouts—information and reference pages, available for participants in their Student Writing Companion s Worksheets—activity pages to be filled in by students during lessons, available in the Student Writing Companion s Vocabulary—significant words used in each lesson, to be incorporated throughout the activities Facilitator note—an alert when the lesson requires attention to specific details in preparation for or during the session
The step-by-step instructions are divided into sections within each lesson: Prepare in Advance—instruction that appears at the beginning of lessons where effective facilitation requires some materials or activities to be prepared ahead of time Warm-Up—a short activity that focuses the group on the session topic and serves as an icebreaker Activity—may be divided into two or three parts and includes the activities that go to the heart of the lesson topic Closing—a simple format for inviting each student to reflect on how they can use what they h