TOWNSHEND — Seventh graders at Leland & Gray Union Middle/High School will participate in a new leadership program this academic year.
Edge of Leadership will teach young people the skills to work together to identify and provide solutions for the challenges facing them in their schools and communities.
The staff of a Brattleboro-based nonprofit, High 5 Adventure Learning Center, will visit the Leland & Gray seventh-grade classrooms throughout the 2017-18 school year, and students will participate in a program combining social and emotional learning, leadership training, and team building.
EOL's focus is on shaping a classroom environment that supports learning. It accomplishes this through activities that help students understand how they process, store, and apply information about other people in social situations and interactions.
Students learn the way they think about others plays a major role in how they think, feel, and interact in the classroom and the larger world around them. The resulting change in the classroom culture allows teachers to spend more time teaching and less time in classroom management, and students spend more time learning, the organization writes.
Edge of Leadership, developed by High 5 Adventure Learning Center, Inc., has been implemented in schools and agencies across the Northeast for the past five years. Edge of Leadership is appropriate for youth in grades 5 through high school.
The Trustees of the Thomas Thompson Trust and High 5 have partnered to bring the program to Leland & Gray.
For more information, visit high5adventure.org or call 802-254-8718.