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Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School. Student Ambassador Training. The Student Ambassador Program… What is it? . Student Leadership Through Service Student Created Organization Lead by Students Students Working With All Communities Related to MLWGSGIS
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Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School Student Ambassador Training
The Student Ambassador Program… What is it? • Student Leadership Through Service • Student Created Organization • Lead by Students • Students Working With All Communities Related to MLWGSGIS • “ Life is a place of service. Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.” - Leo Tolstoy
Student Created Organization • Class of 1999 – Jesse Sultzer & Chris Joseph, Piloted Concept • Class of 2000 – Elizabeth Biney-Amissah, Developed Formal Structure and Presented it to the Regional Board for Approval
Student Lead Organization • Senior Coordinators • John Ziegler • Andrew Tynes • Junior Coordinators • Daisy Banta • Catesby Wolski • “We are here to add what we can to, not get what we can from life.” - Sir William Osler
Student Leadership Through Service • Assist with Day-to-Day School Operations • Greet and Host Visitors to MLWGS • Represent MLWGS Students at Community Events • Host and Assume Responsibility for Preparation and Hosting Major Events • Assist Foundation with Alumni and Community Events • “Servant-leadership is more than a concept, it is a fact. Any great leader, by which I also mean an ethical leader of any group, will see herself or himself as a servant of that group and will act accordingly.” - M. Scott Peck
Personal Stewardship • Maintain Own Grades & Attendance • Accept Responsibility • Confidentiality • Represent School Community Well • Lead through Action • Know “Audience” for Each Event or Activity
Know “Audience” for Each Event or Activity • Actively Involved Community Beyond with MLWGS: Current MLWGS: • Student Body *MWHS Alumni • Faculty & Staff *GSGIS & MLWGS Alumni • Parents *Prospective Students
THANK YOUfor volunteering to serve your school this year! • Dr. Ellis “The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve the leader, but the number of people served by the leader.” - Adapted from a quote by John C. Maxwell