📝 Overview

1. Identify a community issue
2. Design a project that addresses the community need
3. Consider qualities needed to lead peers and expand their leadership skills
4. Partner with community members to carry out their project
5. Present their project to a local audience

📚 TESOL Focus

• facilitate student-led projects with real-world relevance
• guide students to effectively collaborate and build communication and teamwork skills
• incorporate meaningful target language development related to the project
• provide multiple points for students to reflect on their skills, interests, collaboration, and community impact

🎯 Goals

• identify and practice leadership qualities needed to lead peers, such as vision, planning, organizational skills, and clear communication
• feel empowered to use their developing leadership skills as they design and implement their project
• use vocabulary and language structures to discuss these topics and reflect on their work

❤️ Potential Impact

• Personal Impact: Students will develop and refine their leadership skills throughout a community service project; be better able to identify community issues and offer concrete solutions; and recognize their potential as leaders based on their interests, passions, and personality traits.
• Community Impact: Students will make a measurable impact on the community as they design and implement a project to address an important issue.

As students complete the Impact Projects, they will document their research, observations, analyses, and reflections in Inquiry Notebooks.

On Page 4 of this Impact Project, you will find six creative Inquiry Notebook Prompts to guide students' critical thinking and encourage them to reflect on their personal passions, challenges in their communities, important leadership skills, and project management. Involve students in their learning by letting them choose one inquiry prompt to answer during each stage of the Impact Project (beginning, middle, and end).

After completing the Youth Leadership lesson plans and Students in Action Impact Project, students will review their Inquiry Notebook entries and reflect on their experience.

On Page 10 of this Impact Project, you will find an Impact Statement Prompt to help students reflect on the overall impact of the project on their learning. Students write their Impact Statements after completing the Impact Project.