High School Leadership Assignment

California High School Leadership Samika Shah
9th Grade

Staff Support
Ways that I would recognize staff members is by organizing events such as Teacher Appreciation Day or by reaching out with social media. By organizing Teacher Appreciation Day, the staff members of Cal High would be rewarded with awards that represent the appreciation the student body has towards them and for all the work that they have done. Students could make cards or posters throughout their classrooms and could have their peers sign them by writing thank you notes or expressions of appreciation. Students that highly value their teachers could also recognize them by rewarding them with class parties or small gatherings that are dedicated to appreciating

and acknowledging their teachers as great minded and influential people. Students can take pictures with their teachers and post little captions that express how appreciative they are of their teacher. They can also take pictures or videos of any accomplishments or achievements that their teachers have gained and can post them throughout social media to also help others recognize them as great and important people. Birthday ideas that I have for staff recognition include having different staff members from the different departments of the school to come together to celebrate staff and faculty members’ birthdays during lunch. Teachers and staff members can wish their colleagues a happy birthday and can celebrate their birthday. Luncheon ideas that I have include bringing staff and faculty members together to discuss important school issues, school events, programs, and other school related activities.
Ideas that I have for inexpensive but thoughtful gifts that can be given to teachers and staff members are bouquets of flowers with notes of appreciation, little thank you cards or thank you notes, posters of gratitude and thanks, balloons with messages of recognition, gift cards, little gift baskets, coffee mugs, and movie tickets. Other inexpensive but creative gifts that can be given to staff members and teachers are Cal High Spirit Wear to help teachers remember that they love what they do as teachers, posters or notes that include quotes that reflect on how important teachers are and how they are a big part of our lives, and cookies, cupcakes, and other baked goods that show acts of gratitude and appreciation.
Three slogans that can be used to express thanks to the staff are “Thank you for all of your effort and all that you do.”, “You are one of the many reasons for our success and achievement. Thank you.”, and “Thank you for all of your hard work and commitment.”

Publicity/Decorations
As a person who strongly wants to be a part of the publicity and decorations committee, I have a great deal of creativity and artistic talent.

I reflect a lot of interest and captivation to art because I know that creativity is an important aspect of leadership. Something that portrays my artistic talent is an assignment that I was assigned to complete. For this assignment, I was instructed to create a timeline of the different events that I have occurred throughout my life. The events of the assignment had to reflect the most terrifying and embarrassing aspects of my life, as well as the happiest aspects of my life. I had to categorize each of the events into the best and worst occurrences and had to draw a big picture in the background of my timeline to represent each the events and occurrences of my life. I decided to illustrate the buildings of New York City to represent the ups and downs in my life. After drawing the various buildings of New York City on my sheet of paper, I placed my dreadful and embarrassing events on the small buildings because they represented the low points of my life. I placed each of my successful and happy events on the really tall and high buildings because they represented the high points of my life. After pasting all of the events on my paper, I began coloring and shading my illustration using various techniques. I colored the night sky a blue and purple gradient and vividly shaded the city buildings to represent New York City in the

evening.
Other ways that I would publicize events besides posters or twitter throughout the school are by making flyers of the events and posting them on campus in each of the classrooms, hallways, and buildings. Others ways that I would publicize leadership activities and school events is by promoting them on sweatshirts, sweatpants, jackets, and t shirts. Slogans of the events can be designed on spirit wear items and sold to students to help promote and publicize the events that occur on campus throughout the year. School events and leadership activities can also be encouraged and promoted by announcing information about the activity or event during school assemblies and morning announcements for people to gain more information about what the events and activities are about. Events can also be publicized through the Cal High web page by posting important information about the event for people to view online. Staff members and event coordinators can also send out emails in relation to the event to Cal High students through school loop or coordinators and organizers of the event can post information about the event under the Daily Bulletin on schoolloop for students to view.

Student Recognition
I would support a group on campus such as Mock Trial, Golf, Choir, etc.

by creating persuasive flyers and posters throughout the school and placing them at various areas on campus. If I were selected to be on the decorations and publicity committee, I would use my creativity and artistic abilities to make colorful and vibrant posters that would encourage various groups and clubs on campus. I would also wear any spirit wear that is associated with the group or club that includes the group name or logo on it to help support them throughout campus. This would be a great step to promoting and supporting the important groups and clubs on campus because it shows the passion that leaders have towards encouraging and supporting the club or group. Other ways that I would support various groups and members of our school would be by setting out to become a great leader that strongly motivates and encourages people throughout campus. Making lively posters and wearing spirit wear to support the people, groups, and clubs throughout campus are the steps to promoting them throughout Cal High. I know that following through with each of these ideas are great ways to show my support and enthusiasm towards these groups on campus, but it is even more important to become a great leader and use the skills of a good leader to encourage them. This can mean just showing my enthusiasm and school spirit towards these groups and clubs in order to help support them, or it can mean informing the entire

student body to promote these groups so that they can gain more support throughout school.
Some ideas that I have to support an undervalued and lesser known part of our student body are promoting and publicizing school events throughout campus and strongly persuading members of the student body to get involved into activities and events. If people engage into more school related events and activities, they will gain more experiences in communicating with other members of the student body and will become more valued and known throughout the school. If undervalued and lesser known members of the school participate in more activities, they can become more recognized and appreciated by members of the student body. Undervalued members of the student body can also join clubs, sports teams, and other activities that Cal High offers in order to become well known throughout the school.