Ethical Leadership Projects
An integral part of Seven Arrows’ curriculum and philosophy, Service Learning makes a positive contribution to communities and has become an increasingly prized pedagogical form. As a teaching method, Service Learning enriches and strengthens students in a number of important ways: It facilitates critical thinking and problem solving within the school and the community while helping students master important curricular content as they make meaningful connections between what they are studying and its many applications. Most important, it builds moral character and a passion for actively giving to one’s community.
Ethical Leadership Projects
Kindergarten
First Grade
Second Grade
Third Grade
Fourth Grade
Fifth Grade
Sixth Grade
Our school’s vision is to develop ethical leadership qualities in all our students by supporting them as they develop their own ideas and means of serving their community. Therefore, in addition to our Service Learning curriculum, we have an Ethical Leadership program that is purely student driven.
Throughout the year, individuals and small groups of students (from all grade levels) initiate community service projects that are of great importance to them. Not only do these young leaders have to submit a plan of action for project approval, but they must market their projects at school and earn support from fellow students and parents. Previous Ethical Leadership projects include: beautifying local parks, raising funds for terminally ill children at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, supporting children at an orphanage in Africa, and collecting coats for needy families. By sixth grade, every one of our students is expected to have led one community service project and to have been a team member in other projects.
Ethical Leadership Spotlight: Supporting Our Sister School in Uganda
Sixth Grader Laz’s Ethical Leadership Project was a poignant addition to this year’s event. Upon learning that children at our sister school, Amatsiko Preparatory in Uganda, carry gallons of water over rough terrain for up to two miles multiple times a week, he decided not only to raise money to send them high-quality water filters, but to give Seven Arrows students a small taste of what the experience must be like. He challenged our students to carry a full jerry can as far as they could and encouraged them to imagine what it must be like for students in Uganda.
This project brings together science and learning about the environment and water filtration and service.