Taylor Middle School Inspires Great Leadership

Taylor Middle School Inspires Great Leadership




Mr. Sullivan (Leadership Teacher)

 MILLBRAE, California- Taylor Middle School in its 74th year is continuing a 20 year tradition of creating great leaders. The leadership program is to train students to become great leaders not only in the school, but also in our community. The program teaches students to design, plan, and advertise school wide events. In addition, the program instructs the students to be responsible, to work together and to build strong friendships with everyone.

The leadership curriculum is for students to support the school, environment, and neighborhood. The program consists of four different committees. They are the public relations, the beautification, the events, and the fundraising. In public relations, the students learn to interact with different people in the community and in the school. The beautification committee makes the school a clean, pleasant, place to learn. The event committee is in charge of planning and designing dances and other events. Lastly, the fundrasing committee raises money for the dances and other school wide activites.

The leadership program is for the community and the students at Taylor. They support the school by holding fundraisers, dances, school lunch activites, and more. Some students from leadership students said, "We help the students in this school by socializing with different students, preparing events, and making the school a cleaner enviornment." The program benefits the community by doing at least 30 hours of community service a year.

The leadership's plans for this year include learning about a great leader, digital media and communication, and working together. They will also complete a study project using collective documents to learn about a good leader in the world. Also, the students will preform 4 different types of speeches. The different speeches are informative, demonstrative, persuasive, and entertaining. In addition, the kids do face to face meetings as well as through emails, edmodo, and other websites. During the meetings, they discuss about the future situations and more.

Students at Taylor chose leadership because they wanted to design, create, and plan school wide activities. They want to help the school to make it a better place by holding fun fundraisers, dances, and lunch time activities. A student from leadership said, "My goal is to make all the students have a lot of spirit for the school." Leadership program trains young students to become a great leader in the future.