{"id":2707,"date":"2014-12-10T12:14:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T16:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/?p=2707"},"modified":"2015-03-11T11:35:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T15:35:22","slug":"elementary-sca-workshop-shines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/elementary-sca-workshop-shines\/","title":{"rendered":"Elementary SCA workshop shines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No matter the age, the school or even the early morning wakeup call on a Saturday, one thing was made resoundingly clear at last month\u2019s Elementary Student Cooperative Association (SCA) Leadership Workshop: Students love getting involved.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of Student Leadership held leadership workshop for elementary school students, and more than 200 delegates from the division\u2019s 56 elementary schools were in attendance. It was the largest turnout for a workshop in the event\u2019s 35 years.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s theme was \u201cRoar for Leadership\u201d and students were divided into eight different groups (called \u201ccouncils\u201d) for the day, each named after a safari park in Africa (Etosha, Garamba, Kalahari, Mombasa, Okavango, Serengeti, Waza and Zambezi). Throughout the day, they learned how to hold effective meetings, the responsibilities of each SCA office and how to be good role models.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2709\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2709\" style=\"width: 1642px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/0521.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2709\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/0521.jpg\" alt=\"The high school staff performed their welcome song for the more than 200 SCA delegates attending the elementary workshop. \" width=\"1642\" height=\"1095\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/0521.jpg 1642w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/0521-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/0521-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/0521-449x300.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1642px) 100vw, 1642px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2709\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The high school staff performed their welcome song for the more than 200 SCA delegates attending the elementary workshop.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To add to the excitement, more than 30 high school students were also in attendance. These student leaders spent six weeks planning and training to be staff members at the workshop. They performed a welcome song and dance, put on instructional skits about group dynamics and decision making and they facilitated instructional sessions for the elementary students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElementary Leadership Workshop is an exciting event for not only our elementary student leaders, but our high school student leaders, too,\u201d said Mike McGee, director of student leadership.\u00a0\u201cOur elementary students come to the realization that there are many like-minded, motivated student leaders across the division.\u00a0And, our high school students gain a sense of pride by planning the workshop and passing along the skills that they have spent years developing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No matter the age, the school or even the early morning wakeup call on a Saturday, one thing was made resoundingly clear at last month\u2019s Elementary Student Cooperative Association (SCA) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-2707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2710,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions\/2710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}