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Empower yourself with this personalized textbook to track your goals, data, and writing samples, fostering accountability and creativity in learning. Organize your academic journey, express ideas, and capture your reflections to achieve your goals effectively. Decorate your notebook cover, set up structured pages, and create a personal mission statement to guide your path. Become proactive in your learning with this practical tool for success!
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Have you ever heard yourself say… I can’t find my test scores, homework, old quizzes… I’m sure it is in my locker….my book bag…my room I was absent last week, did I miss anything????? I can’t remember what we did in class yesterday!?!?
Help is on the Way Get it together with your Interactive Student Leadership Notebook
The Leadership Notebook • Everyone will have their own personal leadership notebook. • Definition: A personalized textbook! A working portfolio-all of your DE scores, goals, data tracking, writing samples- in one convenient spot.
Purpose • KNOW YOUR NUMBERS!!!! • Leadership notebooks empower you to become accountable for your learning. • You write Goals/objectives to capture short-term gains to motivate you to achieve long-range goals.. • Express your own ideas and process and apply the information and skills learned in this class.
Expectations • When will be updating • Quarterly data chats with students
CoverThis is “Your” Life • Using photos, magazines, markers, glue, paper and scissors, etc. decorate the cover of your Interactive Student Leadership Notebook as if it were the “cover” to the book that tells the story of YOUR life. • Use your artistic talent and sketch or draw. Use your imagination!!!! • Be creative and have fun!
Let’s Set Up Our Notebooks! Step 1: Number Pages 1-200 Step 2: Put tabs on pages and label Page 1: Table of Contents Page 5: Personal Mission Statement Page 7: Covey Goal Page 11: State/FCAT Data Page 13: DE Data Tracking Page 21: Math Learning Goals Page 41: Science Learning Goals Page 61: Social Studies Learning Goals Page 81: Language Arts Learning Goals Page 101: Reading Page 121: DBQ Writing Samples Page 131: Lead2Feed Page 161: Interventions Page 181: Personal Victories Page 185: Read 2 Succeed Log Page 191: Reflections
Right Side • Date • Learning Goal • Data collecting • Other relevant information
Examples of Right Side Assignments • Journal Entries • Vocabulary • Notes • Graphic Organizers/ Thinking Maps • DBQ writing samples (leadership focus) • Recording Sheets/ Worksheets
Left Side • Left side is to record your thinking, reflections, questions, thoughts, impressions, connections and wonderings. • The “Left Side” belongs to YOU! • Apply skills you have learned in class. • Make connections between “new” learning and “old” learning.
Left Side • Use graphs, charts, Venn diagrams, research from internet • Questions • Thinking Maps • Poems • Songs • Homework • Brainstorming • Sketches related to learning • Advertisements
More Left Side Activities • Illustrated Outlines • Concept Maps • Acrostics
Important Information • Every individual right side page (even for many pages of the same assignment) must have an accompanying left side activity.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR • Decorate front cover (artist’s discretion) • About the author back inside cover Author’s page About the Author Front Cover
About the Author/Author’s Page • On the back inside cover, create an about the Author page. • Must include picture of author, if no photo is available, you may use an artist’s rendering (drawing).
Materials • A photo of YOU • Glue • Stickers • Colorful paper • Magazine images • Things you can glue to the inside or outside cover of a notebook that hold meaning for YOU • Stencils • Markers/Crayons/Colored Pencils
INSIDE FRONT COVER INSIDE BACK COVER Book Blurb: Give a short summary of book Be persuasive and create interest About the Author: Provide something interesting about the you From the newspapers: Think of imaginary names of newspapers and write a sentence about the book Sample headline Your Favorite Quote: Give an overview of the “pilot”- your story Write something about the main character in the book.. You Write something about the setting of the book (SSMS, home, neighborhood, etc).
Please open your leadership notebook to the “personal mission statement” tab During this class period, you will be creating your own personal mission statement.
What is a Personal Mission Statement? • Reflects your Key: • Values • Principles • Sense of purpose and meaning for your life. Your Personal Mission Statement in a sense becomes your “personal constitution” that gives you meaning and direction to life.
Steps for Writing Personal Mission Statement 1. Reflect on the key values and principles you want to use as a guide for your life. Values may vary among us, but correct principles are shared by all people of good will.
Steps for Writing Personal Mission Statement 2. Ponder questions like: What do you want your life to be about in order to give it purpose and meaning? Think about how much better this world would be if each person were dedicated to lifting the lives of everyone we touch.
Steps for Writing Personal Mission Statement 3. “Brainstorm” with yourself, parents, relatives, teachers,, counselors and friends about your strengths, talents, deep-felt values and principles which are most important to you. Read biographies of people you admire. Take personality/aptitude/vocational tests.
Steps for Writing Personal Mission Statement 4. View your personal Mission Statement as your “Personal Constitution” Like the Constitution of a country, your Personal Mission Statement can be amended over time if so inspired. It will always reflect your fundamental values, purposes and principles which will guide you through the thousands of decisions you will make in your lifetime.
Steps for Writing Personal Mission Statement • 5. Find a quiet place, inside or outside where you can spend some quality uninterrupted time pondering and reflecting in order to write your Personal Mission Statement. It need not be too long - no more than a page or a few paragraphs. It should inspire you and cause you to stretch but not break.
Steps for Writing Personal Mission Statement • 6. Ask, “Does this statement inspire me?” While it does not totally reflect where you are today, it helps you to stretch to become better and is a guide as you make it difficult decision. Write in the “present tense” as if you are doing it. You will enjoy the “power of purpose” as a result of getting a vision of what you want your life to be.
STEPHEN COVEY said… • “We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.”
Click on the link below to watch a fantastic video that will help you to prepare for your mission statement Student Video
Maintaining the Interactive Student Leadership Notebook • No ripped out pages or torn corners • No doodling that doesn’t relate to notes • Date, title and number each page • Work must be neat and readable. Do your best at all times.
How long should it take to work on my notebook? • Normally class time is given to work on the right side assignments and sometimes this includes time to work on a left side. The expectation is that you will revisit your right side or the next day review the material by completing a left side leadership activity. Once you have a good understanding of the kinds of left side activities that can be done, it should take you about 15 minutes to complete a left side.
Incentives • Each time the notebook is reviewed you will have the opportunity to win a “STORM” Buck • Notebook checks are unannounced and can occur at any random time during the school year. If you are absent, please make plans to attend tutorials. You may use teachers notebook to complete your missed leadership assignment. Ask for help when needed.
NOTES • Students will have 8th period on Friday to complete mission statements and setting up Leadership Notebook