UW-Whitewater Leadership Conference

LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE

UW-WHITEWATER

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Six TAG Juniors from Parker and six from Craig were selected based on their leadership qualities to attend this conference last month. As a staff member who attended this conference with these students, I have to say how impressed I was with the quality of this workshop and our students that attended. The students from Parker in attendance were Carly Treinen, Kiana Johnson, Riley Bendorf, Bree Porter, Ian Brown, and Nick Schneider. I am very proud of all of them and it was a great day!

Instead of hearing about the conference from me, I asked Carly to submit what she learned and enjoyed about this conference. Carly wrote:

Some other juniors and I took a bus up to UWW to attend a driven leadership conference hosted by Burlington high school. There, we learned that driven was actually an acronym. We were all split into several small groups and went around to each workshop based on a letter in DRIVEN. D is for desire, and we discussed what makes you happy, an what, at end of life, what will you be proud of to say you accomplished? 

R was for responsible. We learned how to take action for what we want done in the community.

 I stood for Inspire, where we learned how our views and actions can make other people motivated to make a change. 

V is for vision, where we discussed what exactly we wanted to get done and how to plan steps to accomplish the goal. 

E stood for Empowerment-how we can help others with our knowledge/ experience.  

N was for New birth, or how we can reflect on our actions. Also in this, we learned how to find where our plans went wrong and steps the solidify our plan before we put it in to action.

After all the workshops, we all came back together, and with our schoolmates, made a plan on what we wanted to see improved in our school system and how to achieve it. We made a poster with our plan, and got to take it with us to hang up on a wall to motivate us. All in all, the DRIVEN leadership conference was a great conference filled with useful information. I definitely learned a lot and recommend anyone to go. 

Ta-da. :)