LEADERSHIP
A comprehensive, two-year program dedicated to creating leaders through experience, exploration and practice.
“Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now.”
Leadership Levels
Level 1 curriculum introduces the necessary skills for leading and collaboration while allowing the students to explore those skills in a practical setting.
Available:
- Zero-hour
- During the school day
Elective credit
Level 2 curriculum expands on what the students learn and practice in Level 1 and challenges them to develop those skills further while also introducing new, higher-level concepts.
Available:
- Zero-hour
- During the school day
Elective credit
Leadership students currently delve into some of the obvious elements connected with Law when they work on communication, public speaking and debate skills. In the future, Law will be a specialization or concentration within the Leadership Strand that will offer related courses, such as Criminal Justice (8th grade), Leadership is a vital skill that students can use in any magnet or general education experience offered at Richardson High School; however, the Leadership program at Westwood will continue to develop stronger linkages with the Law Magnet Strand at RHS as we continue to grow and strengthen our magnet program.
Leadership Continuum
Our Instructional Approach
We use activities that teach:
- Discussions
- Team Building
- Public Speaking
- Debate
- Real-world skills
- Resumes/Interviewing
- Collaboration
- Current Events
- Technology
- Problem-Solving
- Interpersonal Skills
Principals of Business, Marketing and Finance
Additional opportunity to link the Leadership magnet strand with CTE pathways
The focus for this curriculum will be understanding business concepts within the context of the leadership lens. Students will be able to explore the components of business and finance while ending their experience creating a practical business model for a new business of their own making!
- For 8th graders only
- During the school day
- Level 1 Leadership is a preqrequisite.
- Principles of Business, Marketing and Finance earns 1.0 high school credit (0.5 can count as the 0.5 Technology requirement).
- If a student already has Data Entry credit, then 1.0 applies entirely as elective credit for high school graduation.
- From RISD’s Chart Your Course Handbook: “The .5 Technology credit required for the RISD Foundation High School Program must be from Touch Systems Data Entry; Principles of Business, Marketing and Finance; Business Information Management 1; or Principles of Information Technology.”