“Students have acquired the skills and knowledge required to be productive citizens and contribute to their communities.”
Mustang Service Corps (MSC)
Vision:
Leadership is about service. Students can make a difference in their
communities–and globally–as well as in their school. Mustang Service
Corps is a way to organize and mobilize Mustang power in service to
others!
Mission:
We will carry out meaningful, annual community, global, and school service projects.
- Each
year, MSC “service leaders” will choose a community service project
(parks clean-up, trail maintenance, nursing home visits) that can also
connect to.…
- A Global service project (parents’ pledges for hours served to raise money for Heifer Project, etc.).
- They will help organize and administer the whole student body’s efforts to carry out service projects.
- They
may also conduct occasional Spirit Days or other school events for
worthy causes within the school and they will continue to publicize and
coordinate food-shelf drives to service school community members.
- Ideas
for service projects might taken from actual student essays or can be
researched on-line or come from the community itself.
Membership:
- MSC will comprise two representatives (“Service Leaders”) from each classroom in grades 3-5.
- There will be no officers. Staff advisors will guide main meetings.
- Most work to be done as a cooperative group or in subcommittees.
- Service Leaders will be chosen by the quality of their responses to an essay assignment.
- Teachers in grades 3, 4,and 5 will administer a common writing prompt to students about service.
- This year, it will be “How can a kid help make our town or world a better place?”
- Teachers
are free to score the essay for whatever academic traits are useful to
them as a pretest or a part of their writing curriculum.
- They will also identify the top essays for “ideas” related to the prompt.
- Teachers
will ask the top two essayists if they are interested in serving on
MSC. If a student is not interested, the teacher will offer a spot on
MSC to the next-best essayist.