Here is a listing of all of our amazing and informative sessions! Please take a look, and don't forget to register as soon as possible!
CSLA and CSLC – You, Your Students and Your School
The Masks We Wear: Using Masks to Explore Stereotypes
Claiming Your Crown in a Tiny Kingdom: Effective Student Councils in a Small School Setting
Be Yourself – Magic & Improv
Opportunity Through Guitar
Zumba
Holiday Hijinks
Special Olympics – Everyone’s a Winner
Whole School Games
Keeping Food Waste on the Menu!
Camp Eclipse – Planned Parenthood’s Leadership retreat for LGBTQ+ youth and their allies.
Using Teamwork to Claim Your Crown
Cooperative Games
Teacher Session: GAFE with a Special Emphasis on Google Classroom (Through Skype)
From Royals to Reality – What next?
Life is Like a Cup of Tea – It’s all in how you make it!
Adjusting Your Crown by 1 Degree
Be Your Own Boss – Creatives
Double the Leadership, Double the Fun
Leaders for Tomorrow
Teacher Session: Engage Activate and Empower: Building Student Activity Councils
Understanding Wellness: The Role of the Leader
I am Moving out on my Own!
Financial Literacy for Youth
Show up, Shut Up, Step Up
Leaders Need Followers
Love What You Do
Tie Dye Fun
You can Lead from Anywhere in the World!
Don’t let the Communication on Domestic Abuse go Silent
CSLA and CSLC – You, Your Students and Your School
- Presenter: John Dennison (NL CASL Director)
- Advisors will be introduced to the Canadian Student Leadership Association (CSLA), what it is, why it exists, who it is and what it has to offer Newfoundland schools. As well as the Canadian Student Leadership Conference (CSLC), what it is, where it is, and how to get your school to attend, as well as the benefits of attending.
The Masks We Wear: Using Masks to Explore Stereotypes
- Presenter: Marc Warren
- We will use improvisation to create situations in order to explore stereotypes and how we judge others. The topic of stereotypes and how we judge others is critically important to building personal leadership skills. Hopefully this session will open minds and allow students to gain a healthier perspective.
Claiming Your Crown in a Tiny Kingdom: Effective Student Councils in a Small School Setting
- Presenters: April Poole, Abigail Poole, Taya Poole
- Students will learn how to effectively run a student council, organize events and keep school spirit high in a small school.
- Best for students from small school settings.
Be Yourself – Magic & Improv
- Presenters: David Patrick Coffey & Jay McGrath
- People in our session will learn how to lie, cheat, steal and deceive people. Hey – I’m a magician… that’s a joke. We will talk about how we, through always being ourselves, have moved our lives to where they are today. We will talk about how magic and improv have helped us in our lives and led us to this point.
Opportunity Through Guitar
- Presenters: Shane Morrissey & Emily Morrissey
- This session will give an introduction to guitar playing. Students will be given the opportunity to explore guitar playing and will be informed of the many opportunities that music offers to us all.
Zumba
- Presenter: Ashley Keating
- Zumba is a workout in disguise! Spend an hour dancing, smiling, laughing and being carefree! A chance to dance and have fun – physical and mental wellness all rolled into one. Join the dance party J
Holiday Hijinks
- Presenter: Valerie Abbott
- Looking for holiday fun? Swing by for seasonal fun and games! We’ll talk about assembly activities, out-of-class fun, and easy ways for students to get involved. Come ready to play games – and be warned, sometimes they’re more than a little messy.
Special Olympics – Everyone’s a Winner
- Presenters: Gord Pike & Scott Batten
- Come prepared to play! We will talk about how to organize a Special Olympics in your area, how Special Olympics are organized at a Provincial, National and International level. We will also touch on opportunities for athletes and coaches, different yearly events and unified sport.
Whole School Games
- Presenter: Shaun Galloway
- This is a physically active session that teaches students how to prepare and run a two-hour activity that involves the entire school. The activities can build spirit and teach cooperation.
Keeping Food Waste on the Menu!
- Presenter: Julia Canning – Marketing and Public Education Officer with MMSB
- MMSB will be screening “Just Eat It”, a film about food waste and where our food is going. This film will inspire you, our student leaders to “ReThink your Waste” and empower your fellow peers to take environmental action within your schools and communities.
- Presenters: Yvonne Steiner (leader) & St. Pat’s Dancers including Courtney Walsh
- Student tap dancers will share their experience with tap dancing and how they share their talents with others through performing and teaching. All participants will learn basic tap dancing steps during the presentation.
Camp Eclipse – Planned Parenthood’s Leadership retreat for LGBTQ+ youth and their allies.
- Presenter: Mallary McGrath, Executive Director of Planned Parenthood – NLSHC
- Students will learn about the annual leadership retreat that Planned Parenthood-NLSHC organizes each year called “Camp Eclipse.” This camp is for youth who identify as LGBTQ+ and their allies. The camp presents workshops, facilitated by mentors and camp leaders, on leadership, personal growth, community activism and advocacy. Our presentation will inform youth about camp, the application process, what happens during camp, and the lasting impact camp has had on past attendees.
Using Teamwork to Claim Your Crown
- Presenters: Maggie Careen and Hayleigh McGrath
- Students will learn how teamwork leads to being leaders. They will participate in various games in the topics of icebreakers, trust and cooperation.
Cooperative Games
- Presenters: Kyle Careen, Braedan McGrath, Jonathon Morrissey
- Students will participate in a variety of games focusing on: how to work tougher in a variety of environments, how to take others opinions into account and incorporate all group members, how to think in a face-paced situation, and how to communicate non-verbally.
Teacher Session: GAFE with a Special Emphasis on Google Classroom (Through Skype)
- Presenter: Robbie Leaman
- This will be a hands-on oriented session whereby teachers will learn through experience. It will touch on an introduction to Google Mail, Google apps for education purposes, creating contacts, sharing, Google Drive, creating labels, organization of files. It will also include an introduction to Google Classroom: creating and joining the classroom; sharing announcements/assignments/asking a question; mass email to students; sharing files; etc.
From Royals to Reality – What next?
- Presenter: Jill McCarthy
- From this session, students will learn that it’s okay not to have their life plan laid out. Ideas and goals change as your life evolves. However, what you do now is important! Being involved at a school and community level will make future goals more attainable. We all need to work on building your own, unique path to success!
Life is Like a Cup of Tea – It’s all in how you make it!
- Presenter: Mercia Conway Harris
- Being a leader is easy when you find your passion! Experiencing, doing and taking yourself outside your comfort zone will enable you to discover what your passion truly is. Don’t limit yourself in your career or life goals or choices. Take care of yourself, indulge in the little things that make you happy, make you smile, or peek your curiosity. These little things will lead to the big a-ha moments.
Adjusting Your Crown by 1 Degree
- Presenter: Bev Power
- This interactive session will explore leadership through goal setting, leading with values and how giving an extra degree of effort will help young people claim their crown. I will also share some of the experiences I have had along the pathway to claiming my crown (including achieving one of my biggest personal goals: to be a member of the leadership team at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games).
Be Your Own Boss – Creatives
- Presenter: Jessica Careen
- This session will help students think about ways to create profitable business by doing something they love! Explore online platforms for creative entrepreneurs, and discover the demand for social media mangers, virtual assistants, graphic designers, and more. Learn ways to market your skills to gain clients, and become your own boss.
Double the Leadership, Double the Fun
- Presenters: Shania Griffiths and Shilah Griffiths
- In our session students will have the opportunity to learn and build on leadership and social skills such as: communication, teamwork, and creative thinking. They will develop positive traits such as self-confidence and independence. Double the Leadership, Double the Fun will consist of many team-building games that will get students thinking on their feet.
Leaders for Tomorrow
- Presenter: Senator Fabian Manning
- I hope to be able to pass on lessons I have learned about what it takes to be a leader in your school and in your community at large. The session aims to make students aware that anything is possible if you possess the willingness to go outside your comfort zone.
Teacher Session: Engage Activate and Empower: Building Student Activity Councils
- Presenter: Trisha Boyer, SchoolSportNL
- This is a teacher only session. The presentation will outline the program proposal Engage Activate and Empower. This proposal will harness the energy of students and lead the way to healthier school environments through recreational activities. We will share with teachers our future plans and invite valuable input in a focus group environment. Is there an appetite to setting up a separate athletic council or could it exist within the already established student council as a sub-committee? What are the obvious rewards and the challenges that teachers foresee?
Understanding Wellness: The Role of the Leader
- Presenter: David Constantine
- The purpose of this session is to provide student leaders with information and resources that can help them promote “wellness” in their schools, in their workplace, and in their personal lives.
I am Moving out on my Own!
- Presenter: Ann Marie Drohan
- This presentation will focus on personal development. There will be a couple of interactive activities to help students appreciate the budgeting process. These activities will give students the perspective of what living on their own financially will mean.
Financial Literacy for Youth
- Presenter: Grant Maddigan & Lloyd Nash
- This session will focus on money management, savings, and price and value.
Show up, Shut Up, Step Up
- Presenter: Mark Black
- In this session students will discover how to make a positive difference in their lives, their school and their community, how to eliminate excuses and entitlement, how to take responsibility for their attitudes and their actions, and why their mindset and motives matter.
Leaders Need Followers
- Presenter: Eugene G. Manning
- Students will learn through illustrative examples and interaction with the presenter, the available power through social media to influence policy and social change. A direct line to the powerful, youth leaders are at a distinct advantage in the world of social media due to their knowledge and proficiency in the medium. Presenter will work with participants to develop sample social media “campaigns” (@mentions, #hashtags) that they can champion moving forward from the weekend.
Love What You Do
- Presenters: Ashley McCarthy & Brittany Penney
- Our session will be focused on entrepreneurship and how being passionate about what you do will bring out the leader within you. In small groups, students will be asked to create a business from something they are passionate about. The groups will then be asked to explain their business and success to give back to the community. Being a leader within your business is important but it’s also important to give back to the community in which your business is growing.
Tie Dye Fun
- Presenter: Tania Ramm
- Students will work together and be creative in designing their own t-shirt designs. Students in this session should bring their own t-shirts.
You can Lead from Anywhere in the World!
- Presenter: Josh Nash
- Students will learn that it doesn’t matter where you are in the world; you can lead from anywhere. Often, in places like Newfoundland and Labrador, we don’t’ feel like we can make an impact at a global scale but my session will show examples of people from rural areas around the world who have made huge impacts on the globe, right from the rural areas they started in. I’ll include an example of a fast growing company from St. John’s who is doing just that. Students will then come up with ideas about different ways they can lead projects from their own communities that specifically have a global impact as opposed to just having an impact on their community.
- It’s going to be lots of fun!
Don’t let the Communication on Domestic Abuse go Silent
- Presenter: Georgina McGrath
- Students will learn about healthy and unhealthy relationships. We will discuss the importance of not keeping abuse silent. I will talk about my personal experiences with domestic abuse and suicide attempt because of this. I will also talk about changes that need to occur for people especially women to be safe. We will also cover what to do if you find yourself in a bad situation.
- This can be a very emotional session.