School Night Training for Cub Scout Unit Leadership

1. School Night Training for Cub Scout Unit Leadership

2. Preparing for a Successful School Night • Conduct leadership inventory to assess needs for next program year. • Have all current leadership in attendance to: • Greet people as they arrive making them feel welcome • Set up pack displays • Game/activity for youth during breakouts • Show new parents that if they get involved, they are not alone.

3. Preparing for a Successful School Night • Pack displays for school night • Pinewood Derby track • Picture boards from camp • Craft projects from 2004-2005 program year • Copies of pack calendar • List of unit leader contact information

4. Flyers Posters Yard Signs Boy Fact surveys & follow up calls My Best Friend is a Scout Hand out flyers at school open houses Church bulletins Boy Talks in Schools Boy Talks in Sunday Schools Mom-to-Mom Recruiting Press Releases Other? Promotion of School Night

5. School Night Personnel Duties and Responsibilities

6. School Night Coordinator • Attend school night training. • Conduct Leadership inventory with Cubmaster to verify returning leadership and accesses recruitment needs • Coordinate with unit leadership, unit commissioner, den organizer, and tiger organizer to assure school night is fully staffed.

7. School Night Coordinator • Serve as coordinator for 3 – 5 schools and ensure schools have a successful school night. • Preside at the school night for assigned schools. • Collect applications and registration fees at school night. Complete school night report envelope and turn in to your district executive.

8. School Night Coordinator • Coach unit leader on their role and responsibility at the school night. • Work with unit leaders to develop and implement a promotion plan for school night for every school.

9. School Night Commissioner • Attend school night training. • Attend school nights for assigned units. • Have parents complete attendance roster upon arrival to school night. • Assist in the organization of new dens. • Assist with set up and clean up of school night, and help the coordinator with the collection of applications and fees. • Assist with den leader orientation follow up meeting 1 week after school night.

10. Den Organizer • Attends School nights for assigned schools • Attends School night training • Good public speaker • Responsible for recruiting parents as leaders into the Scouting program either as Den Leaders, Assistant Den Leaders, or committee members using the motivational items in the school night script.

11. Tiger Den Organizer • Attend school night training. • Attend school nights for assigned schools. • Become familiar with tiger cub materials and gain a thorough understanding of the Tiger Cub program.

12. Tiger Den Organizer • Preside at the Tiger Cub den organization meeting during the school night. • Register Tiger Cub dens during school night and turn applications and fees in to the coordinator for inclusion in the school night report envelope. • Follow up with new Tiger Cub dens to assure their success.

13. Boy Scout Recruiter • Attends School nights for assigned schools • Conducts opening flag ceremonies • Conducts breakout meeting for all youth over the age of 11 to inform about Boy Scouts and invite to join their troop.

14. Unit Leadership • Attend unit leader school night training at your district’s program kickoff in August. • Coordinate the selection of the school night date with your unit, district school night chairman, and school. • Identify existing leadership and leadership needs in your unit. Communicate this information to the school night coordinator.

15. Unit Leadership • Identify returning unit members and den assignments. Communicate this information to the school night coordinator. • Recruit enough unit leaders to help with the school night as needed – set up, decorations, displays, refreshments, etc.

16. Unit Leadership • Recruit enough unit leaders to help with the school night as needed – set up, decorations, displays, refreshments, etc. • Organize phone call reminders about school night to parents of all youth who completed an interest survey. Make these calls the evening before the school night.

17. Unit Leadership • Provide interesting displays of activities your unit has done in the past for the school night pre-opening. • Encourage all unit members to wear their uniforms to school the day of the school night. • Follow up with all new leaders and boys to make them feel welcome and a part of your unit.

18. Unit Leadership • Arrange for “Fast Start” training the week following the school night for all new leaders, and invite them to attend an upcoming basic training.

19. ConductingLeadership Inventories • School nights are to recruit LEADERSHIP! The membership is recruited at the BOY TALK • So teams know “who they need” going into the School Night • Don’t ignore committee positions. “Boys or Books”

20. Review Video and Script

21. Reporting • Cubmaster signs all adult applications • Pack treasurer writes 1 check to cover all that have paid • Adult applications are signed to CR and CC • All applications and $ is given to School Coordinator that eventing

22. Joining Incentive • Box for new youth that join. Will be given to CM after applications and payment is received. • Collectors car for recruiters

23. My Best Friend is a Scout • Brainstorming for new members to recruit • Sell “sizzle of Scouting” • Postcards and business card reminders • Promote school night • Fill dens after school night

24. Unit Kickoff • September Pack Meeting • Share your units annual program plan and budget • Kick off your annual popcorn sale • Power point presentation online at www.crossroadsbsa.org