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Nurturing Leadership

Student Leadership Shabbaton

♦ by Solomon Schechter Day School of Essex and Union

At Solomon Schechter Day School of Essex and Union, the overall goal behind our Student-Leadership Shabbaton is to create a community of learners dedicated to improving themselves and their school.

We have run this leadership shabbaton in order to attract current and aspiring leaders within the school and push them towards greater levels of leadership. We spend time over the course of Shabbat encouraging these tenth- and eleventh-grade students to look at their own talents and see how they can improve as leaders among their peers and in the greater school community. Since it is our hope that the students on this shabbaton will take the skills home to SSDSEU, we ask them to fill out an application in order to show their willingness and dedication to learn and grow.

Over the past three years, our students have identified some terrific areas that they wanted to improve and have come up with some real action steps to help them move forward. While there have been many system-wide changes that have come out of this shabbaton, the one that we are most proud of is our All-High School Community Service Day. During our brainstorming sessions three years ago, the students raised the idea of organizing more community service programs. Ever since, we have held our Community Service Day. It is completely student organized and run, with the faculty playing the role of participants and chaperones. Our students have traveled all over the county and have reached 25 different organizations and have helped hundreds of people during this time. It truly is a wonderful thing to experience. ♦

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