Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School

Student Ambassador Training

The Student Ambassador Program… What is it?

• Student Leadership Through Service

• Student Created Organization

• Lead by Students

• Students Working With All Communities Related to MLWGSGIS

• “ Life is a place of service. Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.” - Leo Tolstoy

Student Created Organization

Class of 1999 – Jesse Sultzer & Chris Joseph, Piloted Concept

Class of 2000 – Elizabeth Biney-Amissah, Developed Formal Structure and Presented it to the Regional Board for Approval

Student Lead Organization• Senior Coordinators

John Ziegler Andrew Tynes

• Junior Coordinators

Daisy Banta Catesby Wolski

“We are here to add what we can to, not get what we can from life.” - Sir William Osler

Student Leadership Through Service Assist with Day-to-Day School Operations Greet and Host Visitors to MLWGS Represent MLWGS Students at Community

Events Host and Assume Responsibility for

Preparation and Hosting Major Events Assist Foundation with Alumni and

Community Events

“Servant-leadership is more than a concept, it is a fact. Any great leader, by which I also mean an ethical leader of any group, will see herself or himself as a servant of that group and will act accordingly.” - M. Scott Peck

Personal Stewardship

• Maintain Own Grades & Attendance

• Accept Responsibility• Confidentiality• Represent School Community

Well• Lead through Action• Know “Audience” for Each

Event or Activity

Know “Audience” for Each Event or Activity• Actively Involved Community Beyond with MLWGS: Current MLWGS:

• Student Body *MWHS Alumni

• Faculty & Staff *GSGIS & MLWGS

Alumni

• Parents *Prospective Students

THANK YOU for volunteering to serve your school this year!

• Dr. Ellis

“The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve the leader, but the number of people served by the leader.” - Adapted from a quote by John C. Maxwell