Going once, Going twice, Threetimes, Gone! SHHHHt…. It is A Silent Auction to help Glenwood Elementary!

As other Management and Leadership groups have done before, we wanted to continue supporting Glenwood Elementary, a low income school in Waukegan IL. We decided to organize a Silent Auction to raise money for buying Apple products as suggested by Mrs Amy Newman, a teacher at Glenwood Elementary. The following video shows all our work and we hope that our project will encourage other Management and Leadership groups to continue helping Glenwood Elementary. Enjoy!
Our Video:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzgxyzMSfUs&feature=youtu.be

Our Plan:

Glenwood Proposal

Challenge State:

• Help students and families attending Glenwood by donating electronics
• Raise $650 to buy apple products
• Do a silent auction: we will bring prizes (list in The Plan) and put them on a table (we will fix a starting price for each item). People can come, choose the price that they want (for example, a book at $10) and put their name on the list. But someone else can come and say that he will buy the book for $12; then someone else, or someone who’s made a previous bid can come again, etc.
• Set an example for how other GBN students can help this community in the future

The Plan:

• Put together a silent auction to help the students and families attending Glenwood
• Provide different “prizes” for GBN students: -

1. 2 Soph parking sticker  (2nd semester)  $150.
2. Movie passes (6 sets of 2) [$60 total]  - beginning $15.
3. $25 Meatheads gift card. $10.
4. $25 VISA card. $20.
5. 4 VIP seats for V-Show, Row N (Thursday night only) - beginning price $20.
6. 4 VIP seats for Musical (Thursday night only) $20.
7. 2 Blackhawks tickets [$150 ]
8. A gym makeup pass. $5.
9. Tickets for school activities (V-Show,)
10. Lunch  with Mark Zemela
11. Free workout with Geo - beginning price $5.
12. Free personal training with Fastert. $25.
13. A lunch with Purdy
14. T-shirt from Booster Club/4 - beginning price $5.
15. Box full of candy (Snickers, Twix, Munch Bars, Starburst, and M&Ms) $40.
16. Plain money donations
17. A lunch with Mr.Hoynes - beginning price $10.
18. A History tutoring session with Mr.Berg, an hour after school - beginning price $10.
19. A lunch with Mr. Kallay - beginning price $10.
20. A work out with Mr.Kim - beginning price $5.
21. Spartan Record from Marching band music - beginning price: $15.
22. lunch with Pryma. $10.
23. Spartan goods bag - beginning price $ 20.
24. Spartan cup,T-shirt & post-it notes,GBN Lanyard, Sleeves. $15.
25. Lunch with Purdy - beginning price $10.
26. Folder, Notebook, Mug - beginning price $15
27. 2 tickets for Winterplay - beginning price 10$

Benefits of the Project:

• Our project will benefit students at Glenwood Elementary by heightening their way of learning.
• We also intend to set a precedent for future Management classes, and hopefully encourage them to continue our project.
• The benefits for us is that worked as a team to accomplish a goal of $650.00 and exceed it.

Definition of Success Criteria:

• We are aiming to have around 20 total “prizes.”
• Our target for total amount of money collected from the bidding (and therefore going toward food) = about $650.00
• Buying Apple products
• Then bring to Glenwood Elementary school in Waukegan IL

Next Steps: Silent Auction

• Obtain items and services to be auctioned               → did that
• Decide on a date, time and place for the auction     → did that
• Create auction sheets                                                  → did that
• Make list of auction items with starting prices           → did that
• Advertise the auction                                                    → did that

Implementation Strategies/Job Responsibilities:

George M. and Allie - talk to Tarjan and find how we want to use the money and find prizes for silent auction

Melanie, Ann, George H and Sebastian - find prizes for silent auction; handle advertising

Final date for silent auction:

• Nov 14 ,2013

Location: Green & Gold Conference Room

Hours: 7:40AM to 3:10 PM

How did we organize our silent auction:

• We got approved by Tarjan to have the silent auction in the Green and Gold conference room.
• Group members had jobs to go ask family, friends and teachers for donations for the silent auction for Glenwood Elementary school.
• We brought all the items together and decided the beginning prices.
• We made bidding sheets and images with the name of the items.
• We did a schedule for the Silent Auction day because not all group members needed to be in the Green and Gold Conference room during the whole day.
• Group members arrived at 7:30 to help setting the tables, the items, the bidding sheets and the images.
• We put posters on the outside of the Green and Gold Conference, advertise in the SAC and in place with people concentration. In addition, during lunch, we went in the cafeteria to collect money for donations.
• 5 minutes before we close the Silent Auction, people that have bit in the morning come back and begin to bit more and more especially for the Sophomore parking pass and the Blackhawks tickets. Our job was to encourage them to bit more.
• At 3:15, we clean up the room, collect the sheet of paper, the prices and pull off the posters.

How people will get their items and us, our money:

• One team member take all the bidding sheets and shared a Google doc with all the names, ID number and amount of money that they own us.
• We divided this document in 6 and everybody send their email attached with a certificate that they can show to the teacher or student for items like “Lunch with Pryma” 
• The items was stored in the Career and Life Skills Office at Mrs Ingersoll desk.

Ending prices for the items:

Sophomore Parking Pass A	$ 530.00
Sophomore Parking Pass B	$526.00
2 Blackhawks tickets	$191.00
Lunch with Dr Pryma	$58.00
4 VIP tickets for the Spring musical	$45.00
Box full of candies	$46.00/
Lunch with Mark Zemela	$25.01
Personal training session with Mr Fastert	$25.00
GBN bookstore school goods	$25.00
$25 Meatheads gift cards	$24.00
4 VIP tickets for V-show (Thursday night)	$24.00
$25 Visa gift card	$24.00
Gym make up pass	$21.00
Bag full of Spartans goods	$20.00
Lunch with Mr Kallay	$15.00
2 tickets for Winter play	$15.00
Record	$15.00
2*2 movies pass	$15.00
Lunch with Mr Hoynes	$10.00
3 Football Playoff T-shirt	$6.25/$7.00/$8.00
Personal training session with Geo	5.00
Cash Donations	$41.00
Total Silent Auction:	$1,735.26

Thank you to:

Dr Pryma, Dr Tarjan, PE department, Booster club, the Dean’s Office, The Career and life skills office,  Mr. Geo, Mr. Hoynes, Mr. Fastert, Mr. Kim, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Kallay, Mark Zemela, the Bookstore, Georges Mercouris relationship (movie passes, candies, visa gift card), Vera Mayer (meat heads gift cards), Georges Hook relations (Blackhawks tickets), GBN booster, GBN students.

Thank you to Mrs Ingersoll for all the help and the good advice.

Made by Allison Kaplan, Sebastian Garzon, Anujin Batbold, George Hook, George Mercouris and Melanie Gerrer.

Management & Leadership Class at GBN

Management & Leadership is a fun, life skills class suitable for all types of students whether they are interested in going into business, interested in improving leadership skills or just want to be inspired to live a more fulfilling life!  This class focuses on three core areas.

A Leadership Impact Project that continued for two years
to donate guitars to Glenwood Elementary in Waukegan, IL 

Managing yourself: time management, being

proactive, and goal setting.

Management functions: planning, organizing,

directing and controlling.

Leadership: how to motivate and inspire.

Students will study the traits of an effective

leader and work in collaborative team projects

to gain hands-on experience investigating how

to be a leader in the community.

The Leadership Impact Projects have been a huge success over the last several semesters.  The project begins with the entire class brainstorming about ways they can have an impact on their community or society as leaders.  A list is created of potential realistic projects and students choose to be on a project team that inspires them the most.  In the Spring 2013 class, students helped local cancer patients, collected book donations for Glenwood Elementary (a school in a low income community), raised depression awareness, collected used sporting equipment for charity, and raised awareness about concussions.  A big emphasizes on this project is about the management functions mentioned above.  Before executing the project, students developed a plan and present it to the entire class to receive feedback for revision.  Check out posts from April 2013 on this blog to see the proposals for each of the projects from this year.  

The Leadership Impact Projects give students' a tremendous opportunity to apply the skills they learn in this course.  Skills and topics include: 

Students working together to lift their teacher over a wall.

• Communication Skills
• Problem Solving Skills
• Management Philosophies
• Group Dynamics & Team Building
• Emotional Intelligence
• 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens

The other experiential learning opportunities in this class comes from team building activities and reflection.  Team building opportunities provide a valuable hands-on learning opportunity to solve projects and to collaborate with their peers.  Students then reflect introspectively and with each other to discuss how they think and feel as they create their own leadership style.

For more information about the course:

Contact Mindy Ingersoll at Glenbrook North High School in the Career and Life Skills Department.

Spartans Crush Cancer Video

Helping Cancer Patients in Our Community

Hello Spartans! Many of us wonder how it is that we can help the people right in our community. It is a wonderful opportunity to help people that need it the most when you choose this group. Brandon, Dylan, and I (Adam) have decided to help the strongest Spartans in the community to stay strong by raising money to purchase baskets and other goods that the patients at our local Glenbrook Hospital's Kellogg Cancer Center. We want to help them by giving them what they request in their fight to stay strong. Watch the video below to learn more about how you can pave a path of kindness for those in the classes to follow. 

Recommendations for doing a Baggo tournament in the future:

-You need to create an interest in the tournament. Create flyers to hand out, posters to put up around the school, and use social media websites to directly contact GBN students. You need to create a buzz around the tournament in order to get people to sign up.

-Create an organized method of signing people up for the tournament. Try contacting someone about using the ticket booth in the SAC to sign up kids during lunch or other free times. You can also directly ask students to sign up by walking around with a signup sheet during any of your free times.

-Have an organized sign up for when students will play. You need to get two teams to agree on one time slot in order to schedule a game. Ask students that sign up what available times they have throughout the day to play. Once you can match them with another team, contact them with the  time slot that you will assign them. Assign teams to play each other based on when they are available to play.

-Have students pay ahead of time for the tournament. It may be great if you get someones name down to play, but there’s no guarantee that they will actually show up to play on the tournament date.

-Offer an incentive to get students to play. Try contacting local businesses for donations, things such as gift cards that could be given to the winners of the tournament. Be creative with this and choose an incentive that is appealing to students and will get them motivated to play. After all, this is a tournament and students will be expecting to be able to win something.

With this, keep in mind that it is not as easy as it seems to get students to participate. While many students may like the idea of a baggo tournament, a majority of them will not be willing to give up their free time to participate, or they will not want to pay to play in the tournament. We found it difficult to get students to sign up, even though many thought it sounded like a cool and fun idea. For this reason, we wouldn’t recommend the baggo tournament to you guys. Once we found out that students weren’t actually interested in participating in the tournament, our project started to fall apart. It’s important to choose a project that excites students, and a baggo tournament did not do that.

Kellogg Cancer Center Entrance

Dylan Marx (left) and Adam Goldberg (right) holding our new baskets

Brandon Isaacs holding baskets as we deliver them to  the hospital

Leadership project: Sac Rager

6/7 SAC RAGER

APRIL 26^TH DURING ALL LUNCHES

Annie, Alex, Lisa, Mark

ALL MONEY WILL BE DONATED TO:

TO WRITE LOVE ON HER ARMS

Our big idea for our Leadership Impact Project is to raise funds for our charity by holding a dance party in the SAC for students and faculty.

Our challenge is to get students involved in the dance party and get them to donate money to our great cause.

In the SAC we will have DJs such as N!ko, Neeral, and Casey Jones to play some sweet jams to get the students excited to participate in dancing and donating.

We will be turning the music down or off every 2-3 minutes, in order for the music to come back on, five volunteers have to donate one dollar to the cause.  In addition to this, students and teachers will be able to “vote” for the best DJ by putting money into jars. The DJ with the most “votes” (most amount of money) will be declared as the winner.

Our leadership project will benefit both the GBN community and the non-profit organization, To Write Love On Her Arms.  It will bring the Spartan society together for a fantastic cause.

To reach success, we will raise $100.  We will have an awesome turnout of students, that are willing to donate money and are excited abut the cause and the event.

We will hold our “rager” April 26, in the

sac during all lunch MODS.

We will ask local DJ’s to perform for free.

We will spread word of the fundraiser through advertisements and announcements to maximize student participation and awareness.

In addition to the music, we will have a bake sale to raise money.

Management & Leadership Students Have an Impact

Challenge-based learning at it's best in the Management & Leadership class at Glenbrook North High School.  This year I gave my students an essential question, "How can leaders have an impact in their community or society?"  Students brainstormed coming up with 20 or more ideas and then choose which project they were most passionate about to work on during the semester.  Project ideas ranged from volunteering to raising awareness about a topic, click here to see the full list of what the students brainstormed.


For those not familiar with challenge-based learning, here's a great explanation from Apple's website:

"Challenge Based Learning is an engaging multidisciplinary approach to teaching and learning that encourages students to leverage the technology they use in their daily lives to solve real-world problems. Challenge Based Learning is collaborative and hands-on, asking students to work with other students, their teachers, and experts in their communities and around the world to develop deeper knowledge of the subjects students are studying, accept and solve challenges, take action, share their experience, and enter into a global discussion about important issues."

What I love about a challenge-based learning classroom is that students drive their learning and I am a mentor, coaching them along through the process.  I should also mention that the process is a big part of what I teach.  Since this is a Management & Leadership class, we naturally discuss important concepts like collaboration, leading and working with different personality types.  But I also put a big emphasis on pre-planning which includes thinking about what they need for their project and how to research the answers.  Students also need to reflect on the implementation process and self-evaluate.  As I explain to my students, these critical thinking skills and project management is extremely valuable in the real-world.  Depending on the occupation, most employers don't expect you to do test-taking memorizing but rather they want them to think and do!

So how did this whole challenge-based project turn out as far as answering the essential question of having an impact?  Great results!  Students this semester choose various topics which included entrepreneurship projects, creating a website to help students find jobs, raising money for the GBN Special Olympics team, increasing volunteers for a book reading project at the library and helping an elementary school in a low income community.  Working with the elementary school, Glenwood, in Waukegan, Illinois turned out to be one of the most value experiences in my classroom this year.  I presented the idea of helping this school to my students but they took their passions and decided how they would help.  From an entire class field trip that was eye-opening for GBN students, three groups evolved with various goals.   

Josh Kerman with Principal of Glenwood School

• Sports Group: This group set out to organize a 3-on-3 basketball tournament over Memorial Day weekend to raise funds for sporting equipment.  Despite their hard work, the tournament was cancelled because of lack of pre-registered participants. While my students were disappointed, they learned a hard lesson they sometime you can plan and plan but yet something might night turn out the way you hoped and so you need to use your "failures to move forward" to quote from another leadership field trip we attended.  One Senior, Josh Kerman from the group was so passionate about still helping Glenwood he donated his $500 scholarship he earned at graduation and his parents were so moved by this they matched the donation.  Glenwood in considering using the $1000 donation to build something on the playground in the upcoming year.
• School Supplies Group: This group coordinated with the administrators at GBN as did the sports group to get approval for promoting and using the facilities at school.  The group created advertisements, emails, and announcements to get the entire school involved in donating gently used school supplies.  Over 12 boxes were filled with donations along with two boxes of books from the Northbrook Public Library.
• Music Group:  Just like the Sports group, this group used their passion for a cause.  They called it "Music through Music."  The group approach the Tri-M Music Honor Society at Glenbrook North about making a donation.  Three members of the group also performed at Via Gelato in the Glen to raise money.  Mitchell Green, a member of the group and a classically trained guitarist, was able to work with his employer Gand to purchase 13 guitars for the school.  Tri-M has also pledge to donate again next year if another group plans to take on this project. 

The music group with Principal and Music Teacher at Glenwood School

As you can see a lot of community was involved in making all of these projects happen.  Students worked in their community and use their leadership abilities to have an impact on society! For any teachers interested in hearing more about the project let me know.  And to all my students, feel free to comment on this blog and share with the community about your experience.