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Ways to Improve your StuCo
One way to improve your StuCo is to hold an end of year banquet for your StuCo members! This is a great way to show appreciation for the hardworking, determined and inspiring leaders towards the end of the year. It’s also a fun, memorable meeting and gives a chance for the members to meet and talk one last time in StuCo. Usually, banquets have games, food and awards. You can start the event with a fun energizer followed by some games and dinner (or breakfast). Another idea is to have some members, for instance the presidents, to write and present a recap or leadership speech about the year. Then most importantly, the awards! Some award ideas are; member with most points in each grade and best member in each committee. To add on, some awards given out can appreciate the extraordinary members that went the extra step. For example, an award for the executive board to recognize their hard work throughout the year in supporting the whole student council. Another idea is to recognize the members that stayed in StuCo throughout all the years (3 years in middle school and 4 years in highschool). Although these are all great award ideas, you can add more awards depending on your student council. We highly suggest holding a banquet, because it leaves members with long lasting memories and leads them to apply for student council the next year!
Workshop Ideas
The Cards You’ve Been Dealt
Supplies Needed: One deck of cards
This is an easy workshop that teaches a great lesson! First start by dealing everyone participating in the workshop one card, but don’t let them see what that card is. Set a timer for five minutes and when that timer starts tell the students to lift up their card and hold it to their forehead. For five minutes students will go around and treat others based on what the card on the other student’s forehead is. For example, if someone had a king, you would treat them as a king. Ace would be the highest card, and 2 would be the lowest. After 5 minutes, tell students to flip their card over and reset the timer. Everyone will now treat everybody else based on the card they have (everyone’s should be the same). When time is up, have students look at their card and explain that these were the cards they had been dealt. Some were more fortunate than others, but that doesn’t mean you should treat someone different because of it. Explain that the first simulation is exactly what you DO NOT want students to do. Let students explain their interpretation of the workshop so you can get different perspectives on the simulation.
A few things you should consider before doing this workshop is to make sure you have set boundaries to what people can say and making sure everyone is comfortable with being treated differently. Allow students to opt out if they don’t feel comfortable doing this activity.
This is a great workshop that teaches that you should treat everyone equally, regardless of the cards they’d been dealt!
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“My best successes came on the heels of failures.” - Barbara Corcoran
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