GETTING INVOLVED IN COMMUNITY-BASED OUTREACH INITIATIVES

  1. Rationale: Positive Student Leadership – A Successful Action-Based Research Project

    2. This article provides useful background for educators and counselors who wish to support students’ growth in the areas of citizenship, leadership and community service.

  2. The "Kids Who Care" Project – Developing Positive Student Leaders for the New Millenium

    3. Part One is a "hands on" section which explains at a basic level, how to pave the path to teamwork. It is the original of the document entitled "Learning the Joy of Giving – Building Bridges of Understanding Through Community Partnerships". This was the cover page and feature article written by Yvonne G. Dufault and published in November/ December, 1997 edition of the FWTAO Newsletter, a magazine published for eighty years by the former gender-based Federation of Women Teachers Associations of Ontario. That organization is now defunct, being replaced by the inclusive Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario. For P.D. call ETF0 toll-free at 1-888-836-ETFO or visit their Web site at www.etfo.on.ca.

    Part Two is a copy of a major research paper entitled Sustaining teacher inquiry: The "Kids Who Care" Leadership Development Curriculum Action Research Project." looking at transformational leadership used as a tool to develop and empower positive student leaders. This paper examines the impact of action-based research on all stakeholders - teacher/researchers working as "guides on the side" and youths. It recognizes how participants comes to define themselves in the process.

  3. Student Leader of the Year

    4. Each year, beginning in 1999, a top KWC/JA leader is honoured here for outstanding contributions. Our members collectively bear in mind that leadership is activity, not title-based. Success is contributing to the group vision through selfless service, in real, tangible ways both locally and globally. We are all essential parts of the whole. Read about 1999’s Herman Wong, graduate of Bayview Secondary School, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada.

  4. Food for Thought from Past and Current Presidents (see below for links)

Some see the world as it is and ask "Why?" Others see the world as it could be and ask "Why not?" Our members believe in the power of the voice and the pen. Our members believe also in "teamwork" – "the unstoppable dynamic of individuals with a common purpose in sync with one another." What is our purpose? To spread peace around the world through loving, kind acts. We choose to live purposefully and optimistically in faith, hope and charity. We walk our talk as part of the White Buffalo Prophecy as members of the human family striving for world peace and global healing.

1998-1999 award-winning literary entries are from co-presidents ALEX SHUM AND JESSICA VAN DER VOOREN, now students at Markham District High School. Their main theme is peace versus war. Alex speaks about "La guerre" in French. He won many awards for this speech at public speaking contests. Jessica writes about "The Holocaust" in English – A national essay winner, Jessica is being honored for her writing at the Holocaust Centre in Washington D.C. on September 25and 26, 1999. Jessica also placed first in October 1998 in the Royal Canadian Legion’s annual Remembrance Day Literary Contest for her aptly-titled essay, Remembrance Day. Chung-Yi Ling placed second in the same contest with his Holocaust Essay.Past Vice-President and current Web Site administrator, Monique Dufault has also placed with her thought-provoking written work. Her 1997 Remembrance Day poem "What is War?" placed second in the Royal Canadian Legion’s aforementioned-contest. Her poem was then later published in the National Library of Poetry’s anthology, The Sands of Time. All four of these thoughtful written works are insightful examples of critical thinking about the actions of the human race.