Student Leadership

Benefits of Student Council

• Leadership training
• Public speaking opportunities
• Increases school spirit
• Enhances peer working relationships
• Convention process teaches civic responsibility and the democratic process
• Involves students in school decisions
• Teaches time management and organization skills
• Motivates students to work hard in academics and citizenship

Benefits of Peer Mediation

• Empowers students and promotes student generated resolutions
• Assists students in identifying conflicts and in developing skills to resolve them
• Helps students in developing better relationships
• Develops leaderships skills in an increasingly diverse and complex world

The Peer Mediator program is a component of our Building a Caring and Respectful Community Plan. The program teaches students that there are methods for resolving disputes whereby all parties to a conflict can emerge as respected and affirmed. Peer mediators are 7th and 8th graders who have been selected by their peers. One day of training is held where mediators are taught many skills including:

• How to analyze and understand conflict,
• Improve listening skills, and
• Improve verbal communication skills.