Innovative and challenging high school program opportunities
ORGANIZATION: The Future Leaders Institute (FLI, often called "fly")
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Position Description :The Future Leaders Institute Guides provide group and one-to-one guidance and coaching to a FLI Team of 12-15 high school students. FLI Guides coordinate bi-weekly 2-hour FLI Team meetings and ongoing coaching sessions with each individual student. FLI Guides implement the Passion to Action curriculum, which guides students in their development as humanitarian leaders and supports them in the design and implementation of their own community impact projects.
FLI Guides work directly and creatively with students, parents, school educators and administrators, community partners, and local professionals to maximize student growth and success. FLI Guides assist each student in tapping into a broad range of potential resources so that they may fully envision, develop, and finally implement their own community impact projects. FLI Guides are also encouraged to recruit and nourish partnerships with local businesses, individuals and organizations to further the impact of FLI Team Member projects.
Duties and Responsibilities Include:¨ Recruit and interview student applicants for the FLI program starting in late September.
¨ Guide Team Members through the course of the 9-month program.
¨ Complete participant evaluations and reporting.
¨ Advocate for the FLI program at the partnering high school and in the community.
¨ Participate in three FLI Guide dinner gatherings to strengthen the FLI Team network, FLI program, and your own professional development.
¨ Serve as a FLI resource on community issues/current affairs especially as they relate to youth and education.
¨ Promote the FLI program in the community in coordination with FLI's overall development and marketing efforts.
Highlights of FLI Guide Position:
The FLI Guide's time will be spent working directly with their co-Guide and FLI Team on site at either a partnering public high school in Alameda County or with a FLI Team of high school age foster care youth in San Francisco. On-the-job opportunities include:
« Experience in multiple areas of nonprofit and youth program management
« Direct work with students, community members and partner school staff
« Opportunity to inform the organization during a major period of growth
« Potential for rapid advancement
« Balance of administrative and youth programming work, with the students and out in the community
About FLI:
The mission of The Future Leaders Institute is to engage high school youth in generating and implementing visionary solutions for society. The Future Leaders Institute (FLI) guides and mentors youth across the San Francisco Bay area, supporting them as they develop individual initiatives and employ social entrepreneurship in the face of the world's most pressing needs.
The Future Leaders Institute is guided by three key objectives: First, FLI seeks to provide the structure and guidance for high school students to realize their ambitions through innovative self-initiated projects that generate concrete actions in response to real-world needs. Second, FLI seeks to offer high school teachers the tools and methods to empower their students to recognize and address the growing needs of the modern world. Finally, FLI seeks to train and inspire educational leaders to effectively integrate social responsibility, civic engagement and collaborative leadership into classrooms, high schools and school districts.
Since its founding in 2004, FLI has grown rapidly in response to demand from students, schools and teachers, and is looking for FLI Guides interested in gaining part-time positions and advancing with the organization.
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About The Future Leaders Institute (FLI, often called "fly")
Location:
PO Box 22598, Oakland, CA 94609, US
Mission Statement
The mission of The Future Leaders Institute is to engage high school youth in generating and implementing visionary solutions for society. The Future Leaders Institute (FLI) guides and mentors youth across the San Francisco Bay area, supporting them as they develop individual initiatives and employ social entrepreneurship in the face of the world's most pressing needs.
The Future Leaders Institute is guided by three key objectives: First, FLI seeks to provide the structure and guidance for high school students to realize their ambitions through innovative self-initiated projects that generate concrete actions in response to real-world needs. Second, FLI seeks to offer high school teachers the tools and methods to empower their students to recognize and address the growing needs of the modern world. Finally, FLI seeks to train and inspire educational leaders to effectively integrate social responsibility, civic engagement and collaborative leadership into classrooms, high schools and school districts.Description
What if every young person could pursue their dreams in a way that created real solutions to our community’s everyday problems? They can at The Future Leaders Institute!
The Future Leaders Institute (FLI) was founded in 2004 to engage high school youth in generating and implementing visionary solutions for society. Since its humble beginning of just 6 students at The Athenian School, FLI has moved on to serve nearly 600 students who have completed more than 75,000 service learning hours. Over the years students have raised awareness and funds for numerous causes and organizations in areas such as Education, Economic Development, Arts, Environment, Health, Poverty, Animal Rights and Technology.
FLI is a 10-month program integrated into the school day which invites young people to discover their passions and to respond with action. The FLI Passion-to-Action™ curriculum and pedagogical approach is comprised of the most effective, research-based components of successful youth, education and service-learning programs. This curriculum has been developed over a decade of reflective practice and scholarly research in youth and leadership development, service-learning and education reform. FLI is a nimble organization that is aware of innovation and best practices in order to maximize upon each student’s ability and commitment to contribute in meaningful ways. In each of the 23 partner schools where the FLI program has been implemented, students have moved beyond the limitations of their current education and evolved as models of hope for their peers and those who helped guide them.
This year, FLI serves 78 students from four high schools in the San Francisco Bay Area: Alameda Community Learning Center (ACLC), ARISE High School, Gateway High School, and Skyline High School.
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1201 Martin Luther King, Jr. WaySuite 104Oakland, CA 94612
DATE POSTED
February 16, 2011
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REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 23