Then the girls in each group considered how their strengths could make them both effective leaders and contributing team members. Then they need to learn how to work with others and confront conflict constructively. Finally, they need to make the connection between what they can offer and what the community needs. The students keep journals to reflect upon classroom discussions, readings, and assignments. They also meet weekly with the school's peer leaders at Friday seated lunches.
Life skills are an important part of the course's content.
For their next class project, students will choose a place they'd like to live and a job they'd like to have. They then will research potential salaries and costs of living, and determine the monthly income they will need to support their chosen lifestyle. By the end of the trimester, some of these girls may go on to become school leaders. Others may find their leadership niche after graduation, in their professional, civic, or church communities. But all of them will know more about themselves, and how they can make a difference in the world.