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Table of Contents
  About SGA
  Academic Eligibility
  Acronyms
  Advocacy Issues (homeless, drug, appeals, etc.)
  Appreciation
  Awards and Certificates
  Buttons
  Calendar Planning
  Committees
  Communications
  Decision Making
  Delegating
  Diversity
  Elections
  Evaluation
 Fundraising
  Games
  Goal Setting
  Parliamentary Procedures
  Project Awards (MCJC & MCR "Project of the Year" award submissions & winners)
Project Sharing (Project summaries)
  Project Planning
  Publicity
  Public Speaking
  Responsibilities & Duties - SGA
  Service & Service Learning
  Social Activities
  Spirit
  Teambuilding and "Get to Know You" Activities
  Time Management
  Miscellaneous Items

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About SGA

Articles and ideas that give general information about student government
  Let's Get Organized
  Purposes of student government
  SGA exists to serve students
  This is It!
  What does the SGA really do?
  A Journey through the SGA Year

Academic Eligibility

Regulation IQD-RA (High School) and IQD-RB (Middle School) addresses the academic eligibility for students who participate in extracurricular activities. These regulations can be located at MCPS Policies & Regulations. In the middle schools, two weeks after report cards are issued, a student may petition the activity advisor to be reinstated. The final decision rests with the principal. Middle schools may wish to develop a form for students to use as an "application" to be reinstated. Feel free to use this model form (developed at Rocky Hill Middle School) as a sample.

 

Acronyms

  Acronym game (Montgomery County Public Schools and Maryland Association of Student Councils related)

Advocacy Issues

  Homelessness (Powerpoint presented at NASC 2005)
Compaints and Appeals (breakout presentation MCR GA 09.28.06)

Appreciation

  Recognition chart (includes current dates)
  Student recognition ideas
  Student participation ideas
  Involving the invisible student
  Student special events
  Staff recognition ideas
  Community recognition ideas
  Survival Kits
    Sample 1
    Sample 2

Awards and Certificates

  Community Recognition
  Recognizing theInvisible Student
  Staff Recognition
  Student Participation Ideas
  Student Recognition
  Student Special Events
  Record of Appreciation events (chart)
  Certificate Samples
    Certificate 1
    Certificate 2
    Certificate 3
    Certificate 4
    Certificate 5

Buttons

  blank template
  office
  animals
  round to it
  art
  secretary's day
  birthday
  computer
  dad's day
  fun bugs
  gavels
  sports #1
  sports #2
  sports #3
  student government #1
  student government #2
  variety #1
  variety #2
  variety #3
  variety #4
  variety #5
  variety #6

Calendar Planning

  Master Calendar Planning
  A Journey through the Year (elementary oriented)
  Activities/Calendar Bulletin Board
  Calendar Ideas September through June

Committees & Appointed Positions

  AnOverview for Committee Meetings
  The committee system how it should work

Communications

  Listening - the Neglected Art (plus Communication Blocks)
  Interpersonal communications
  Intrapersonal communications
  Feedback
  Body Language
  Activities
    listening
    one way communications
    reading
    puzzle exercise (one way/two way communications)
    speech

Constitutions

  Sample Checklist for constitutions
  Article "Building and Rebuilding Your Constitution"
  Sample #1 middle school constitution
  Sample #2 middle school constitution (newer sample)
  Powerpoint on constitutions

Decision Making

  3 Simple decision making techniques

PowerPoint: ethical decision making workshop (ppt) Workshop handouts (pdf)

Delegating

  Delegating and Tips for Leaders

Diversity

(from an NASC Workshop)
  Teaching Outline for Workshop
  Role Play Cards for Workshop
  Questionaire for workshop
  Diversity Pyramid for workshop

(from an MLW Workshop)
  Overview of the Workshop
  Teaching Outline for Workshop
  Fact Sheet for workshop
  Discussion for Workshop
  Issues to discuss in Workshop
  Workshop Activity (stand up/down)
  Genders - Information for Workshop
  Questions from Bafa- Bafa exercise

Elections

   Logistics
    Important Election Issues
    The election process - overview
    Election statement
    Announcements and Calendar
    General Information to Staff
    Welcome letter to elected officers
  Appointed Positions
    Committee chairman
    Corresponding secretary
    Recording secretary
  Ballots
    Counting directions
    Directions for staff #1 and #2
    representative instructions
    sample paper ballot #1 and #2
    scantron type of ballots
  Campaigning
    hints for candidates
    poster basics
  Candidates
    letter to candidates
    letter to parents
    petition sample
    leadership profile #1 and #2
    requirement samples #1, #2, #3, #4
    candidate workshop logistics
    candidate workshop 
Mock elections
    National mock election

Boat Races
 Candygrams
 Car Wash
 Couch Potato
 Flower Sales
 List of Ideas
 Membership Drive
 Penny Wars
 Shamrocks for Muscular Dystophy
 Web Site List
 Ideas from 11.29.06 MCR General Assembly

Games

  Roll the Dice (leadership review game)

Goal Setting

  overview of goal setting
  benefits/excuses in goal setting
  goals and objectives in SGA
  sample objectives in SGA
  success poem

PowerPoint: goal setting workshop (ppt) Workshop handouts (pdf)

Involvement of Students

  Advertisements recruiting students (from MASC Middle School Conference - Nov. 2003)
  Ways to involve the student body (surveys, constitution, monthly themes)

Miscellaneous

(Information from Workshops)
  Advisor Workshop - MASC Convention 2002 (led by Kim O'Kane)
  Character Poem

Parliamentary Procedures

  Overview of parliamentary procedures
  writing Legislation - the easy way
  Writing legislation -Condensed & easy
  Legislationform explained
  Parlipro - an easy flowchart (elementary level; middle school level; high school level)
  The easy flowchart - broken down into separate parts for teaching
  Definition of terms - vocabulary
  How to use some motions - chart
  Elementary Parlipro - extremelysimple chart

Project Awards (MCJC & MCR "Project of the Year" award submissions & winners)

See Project Sharing for Additonal Project/Activity Summaries or see specific catagories

HIGH SCHOOLS
2006-2007
2nd Annual 5K Mike Tyler run/walk (winner) Watkins Mill High School
Northwest. NO WAY. We Don’t Drink and Drive - Northwest High School

2005-2006
Violence Prevention Week - Rockville High School (pictures)

2004-2005
Square for Peace (winner) - Blake High School
Veteran Day Assembly - Kennedy High School
Bathroom Beautification - Magruder High School
Gifts for the Holidays - Magruder High School (see MCR News 2004 for pictures)

2003-2004
Blake Idol - Blake High School

MIDDLE SCHOOLS
2006-2007
Autism Awareness Month - Gaithersburg Middle School
(additional information for project: poster contest information – poster contest certificate – candygram advertising – candygram card

2005-2006
Kiss The Pig - Shady Grove Middle School

2004-2005
Red Ribbon Week (winner) - Redland Middle School
Tsunami Relief Collection - Pyle Middle School
Talent Show - Tilden Middle School

2003-2004
Adopt-A-Grandparent - Frost Middle School

Project Sharing (see also specific catagories for project ideas)

  Blake High School (Battle of the Classes; Blood Drive; New Student Welcome; Homecoming Court; Green Team; Blake Idol; Cinderella Charity Dress Swap; California Tortilla Fundraiser; Pennies for Patients (Leukemia & Lymphomia Society)
  Blair HS – School Policy Recommendations
  Damascus HS – Canned Food Drive
  

Public Speaking & Writing a Speech

This section includes a short overview on how to teach a workshop for public speaking.
  Simplified workshop on public speaking
  Overview of writing a speech
  Vocal hints when giving a speech
  Body language and public speaking

This section includes a short overview on publicity techniques/hints and an overview of public relations.
  Public Relations & Publicity - a quick definition and philosophy
  PA Announcements - hints on different ways to present a public address annoucement
  PA Speech - hints on your voice pitch, breathing, etc.
  PA Form - a sample form for students to use to submit announcements
  PA Sample - a sample of announcements for elections
  Announcements Posted - a sample form to use to post announcements
  Bulletin Boards - some guidelines to make eye-catching, quick bulletin boards
  Poster Ideas - lots of suggestions to make great posters
  Posters - large - tips for making large posters
   Lettering Techniques - tips for lettering (guidelines, styles, etc.)
  Hints & Techniques - tips for making quality posters (glueing, etc.)
  Publicity Ideas - lots and lots of ideas for publicity techniques
  Publicity Requests - a form that student councils can distribute and record publicity efforts
  Publicity Considerations - things to consider in using different publicity techniques
  Sample PA Annoucements - sound tracks (Canned Food; Dance; Election; Mother's Day; Pumpkin Carving; Spirit Day)

Project Planning

  Steps involved in planning
  Project planning model
  Service learning project planning model (recommended)
  Project Planning example - Pennies for Patients - Penny Wars (tasks)

Responsibilties and Duties

  Elementary - Student Council overview (duties of officers, committees chairman, representatives and the advisor)

Service & Student Service Learning (SSL)

"Jeopardy" SSL Review game (pdf)

  Project Planning Model for SSL
  Canned Food Drive - SSL model sample
  Service Learning Workshop (title visual for workshop)
     (1) overview
     (2) SSL definition
     (3) steps involvoed for SSL
     (4) types of SSL
     (5) definitions of types
     (6) samples of SSL activities

Service Projects:
  Project - recycling inkjet cartridges (MCPS unique project)

see Project Planning - Pennies for Patients - Penny Wars

Social Activities

Coffeehouse
Checklist - for planning a coffeehouse

Dances (middle school emphasis)
  General Overview
  Dance Checklist
  Sample Layout (cafeteria)
  Set Up for Building Services
  Parent Chaperone Letter
  Teacher Chaperones
  Parent Duties at Dance
  Financial Records (student)

Spirit

  Spirit links legislation
  Spirit links logistics

Teambuilding and Get-to-Know Activities

  ABCs of meeting New People
  Biography Bingo
  Cooperation Squares
  Friendly Fringees (what and how of friendly fringees)
  Groups - by animal categories
  Groups - by color categories
  Groups - by food categories
  Groups - by theme categories
Groups - themes (12 groups with 10 per group)
  Groups - Take One Information (meeting directions)
  Groups - Take One Tickets (dividing into 6 six groups)
  Human Knot (also known as Hand Scramble)
  Human Machine
  Indiana Jones
  Lap Sit
  Mummy Wrap
  My Double in the Crowd
  Snowflakes

PowerPoint: 1 day teambuilding workshop (ppt) Workshop handouts (pdf)

Time Management

  Simple workshop- directions
  Personal time survey
  Time managment hints
  Daily schedule information

PowerPoint: time management workshop (ppt) Workshop handouts (pdf)

Updated November 6, 2007 | Maintained by Karen Crawford