Student Leadership TEAMs: A Leadership Empowerment Intervention for School (Re)Connectedness. Issue 1 (2nd January 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Casado Pérez, Javier F.; Carney, JoLynn V.; Hazler, Richard J.
• Is Part Of: Journal of counselor leadership and advocacy. Volume 4:Issue 1(2017)
• Page Start: 77
• Page End: 87
• Publication Date: 2017-01-02
• Subjects: Leadership empowerment -- marginalization -- school connectedness; Counseling -- Periodicals; Leadership -- Periodicals; 361.06
• DOI: 10.1080/2326716X.2017.1288590
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2326-716X

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Schools face ongoing pressure to increase a sense of connectedness and prosocial behaviors among students, an especially challenging objective when working with marginalized youth. Leadership empowerment interventions can accomplish this while also building student self-efficacy, wellness, self-exploration, and social support. We draw from research on these interventions to examine a new team-focused leadership empowerment intervention (Student Leadership TEAMs; SLTs). Initial qualitative data from four second-grade students appears to support the conceptual basis of SLTs.