San Mateo High School Jefferson Awards – Deloitte

March 2010

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1. Effective Leadership Team

Students in Action Team: – Katherine Lebo - Community Service Commissioner – Eric Morin - Community Service Commissioner – Lila Cantor - Outreach – Vita Zakhu and Jacob Angel- Special Project Chairs

New Team Additions: – Jesse Wong - JA Chairperson – Morgan Babbs - 11th grade rep & Historian– James Zongus -10th grade rep – Alex Rosenberg - 9th grade rep

• Additional team members are recruited in Leadership, Renaissance and Clubs in the Fall 2010

• Succession plan: JA Chairperson will be selected in Spring 2010

• Community Service Chairs will be selected in Spring 2010

Expanded Jefferson Awards Team to include underclassmen and an official chairperson

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2. Engage the School Community

Elevate Visibility and Importance of Jefferson Awards in school

• Staffulty Involvement – Yvonne Shiu: Principal

– Sara Catalli: Advisor 2004-current

– Mrs. Zongus: PTO President

– Mr. Kuhl: Interact Advisor

• VOLUNTEER CONNECTIONS – New “Service Commission” on campus

– Help Desk for Help Binder

– Help Desk for Help Brochure

– Ways to Help website partnership

• Messaging and Publicity – GOLD level JA banner

– Display Board

– JA Community All Stars Recognition Banner

– JA 20/20 Article in the school newspaper

– JA Congratulatory Message in PTO news

–Jefferson Awards “Volunteer Faire”

–School Website with Photos –Display Case–Monthly Rallies –Facebook group and School Loop messages –Year End “Jefferson Awards Celebration”

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3. Help Desk for Help – Expand Volunteer Capacity

• Awards Presentations: – Homecoming Game and Program – Monthly Recognition Rallies at Lunch– Senior Awards Night – Jefferson Awards Evening Celebration

• Help Desk for Help – Brochure – Ways to Help website – Binder

• New Service Events – Invisible Children Assembly and Fundraising – One Dollar for Life & Talent Show – Project Haiti - American Red Cross

• Tracking – New Tiered recognition system – “JA 20-20 Challenge”

• Encouraged many students • Increased awareness of community involvement

•Students are collaborating with new organizations

•“Samaritan’s Feet”

•Rebuilding Together -Peninsula

•Raphael House - San Francisco

•Sierra Service Project

Established and Implemented New Volunteer Activities

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Project Haiti

Train on campus groups with Jefferson Awards methods

•Spearheaded by: –JA Students In Action–Freshmen Class Council

•On campus partners: – Freshmen Class Council –Human Rights United

–American Red Cross Club

–La Raza Unida–Polynesian Club–Girls Basketball Team–Future Leaders of San Mateo

•Off campus partners:–American Red Cross Bay Area Chapter–Samaritan’s Feet–One Dollar for Life–“Ways to Help”

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4. Expanding Financial Capacity for Volunteers

Expanding Fundraising Capabilities by Creating New Events

• JA Specific Fundraising – Jefferson Awards Concession Food Sales – Fund JA t-shirts for JA Community Service All Stars

• New Student Led Fundraising: – Invisible Children (Oct: $2,000) – One Dollar For Life (March 2010)– Project Haiti -“American Red Cross” ($700)

–Talent Show (March 2009: $2,000 for Vitamin Angels)–Canned Food Drive (Dec. $53,000)–Senior Class Council ($8,000 in July - Dec) –Pennies for Mills Hospital (Spring 2009: $1,000 all coins) –Blood Drive (on campus, Feb 2010)

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5. Tells Compelling Stories in the Community

Increased visibility of Service Projects in the Community

• Press Coverage of Service Project: – Bay Area network covered CVS, Second Harvest and San Mateo High Schools food drive– Coverage of Food Drive in local papers – Created and distributed Press Release about Food Drive

• Jefferson Awards Specific Press: – We plan to create

• Jefferson Awards Video for use on school website, rally and networking purposes • Jefferson Awards Specific Press Releases this Spring• Awards “pitch” and “story” to present this Spring to the local media

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6. Growth and Expansion of SIA

• Expanding – Half Moon Bay students assisted SMHS with project for Second Harvest Food Bank – SMHS Leadership Teacher will present stories about students and their food drive at the statewide CADA

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• Collaborating – Increase Collaboration County Wide

• Mills High School students and teacher visited to watch and discuss a Rally and Leadership • Capuchino High School students gather ideas about recognition and the Jefferson Awards • Half Moon Bay High School students visited to see rallies, classes, and the Jefferson Awards Presentation • Burlingame HS and San Mateo HS both completed ODFL projects and shared ODFL materials

Significantly enhanced our Jefferson Awards recruiting

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7. Innovation

• Keys to our success:

– Maintain a core value of service in the Leadership class and the Renaissance Class

– Several school-wide service projects

– Showcase JA winners and service projects at all school assembly at least once a year

– Monthly Recognition Rallies with JA Award

– Annual Jefferson Awards Night recognizes key stakeholders in our community

– Attend Jefferson Awards training days and celebrations in the Bay Area

• New Innovations: – Jefferson Awards “20/20 Service Challenge” serves as a “Year Round Service Drive”

– Tiered Level of Recognition (orange, silver, gold and platinum)

– Partnered with the non-profit “Ways to Help”

• Encourage students to serve in 16 distinct areas of service

• Share our expertise and experience to help them create and evaluate a toolkit for schools to run service projects

• Utilize their “virtual” help desk for help

Continue to enhance program internally, assist a non-profit and other schools

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7. Innovation

GOALS for 2010-2011: – Create more diverse service projects – Establish a new a year long goal and “Service Challenge” (20-20) – Recruit more underclassmen students to be on the Jefferson Awards Team – Encourage more schools to the adopt the JA program– Expand the Help Desk for Help and use “u-give” in 2010-2011 – Contact Press regularly with community service news– Fundraise for Jefferson Awards Students in Action

– Share “waystohelp” as a resource for other schools

Continue to enhance program internally, assist a non-profit and other schools