The Newsletter for Alumni & Parents
IN THIS ISSUE...
Message from Chris Overtree . p.12
Praise for Hulbert Outdoor Center . p.4-5
SUMMER ISSUE
Hive Will Thrive! . p.15
Alumni Updates . p.8-9
Spotlight: Hulbert Outdoor Center
Getting Serious about Leadership KATIE KNOWLES Director of Program Development Hulbert Outdoor Center
At the Hulbert Outdoor Center, we have always been serious—like all Aloha programs—about the quality and impact of our work. We have always focused on sharing Aloha values, our connection to the outdoors, developing leadership skills, and fostering healthy communities. In 2012, we got serious about broadening our impact to communities beyond the Alohas.
leaders take these lessons one step further by learning about organizations in their own communities that are working to improve the lives of people. Hulbert leaders help them contemplate how they might effectively join the effort. They return to their schools ready to teach and lead their peers in new community development projects. For most students, approaching leadership by talking about how to motivate, encourage, listen, and understand people is challenging and new. Supporting them to use those ideas in a real-world context gives them the confidence to expand their own impact and sense of themselves.
We asked ourselves how—if we were serious—would we help students take what they learn at Hulbert into the world with them? The answer was our new Success Leadership program, a skillful confluence of existing Hulbert programming and an innovative educational leadership curriculum. Hosted at Hulbert, we knew we could send students home with important new skills and on a mission—to transform their home communities in meaningful ways. Hulbert’s Success Leadership Program for middle school students brings student teams and teacher mentors to Hulbert for teambuilding, leadership development, and beginning lessons in The Aloha Foundation’s Success Counseling Model. Student
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