The New Girl Scout Leadership Experience
What an exciting time in Girl Scouting! The nation's premier organization for girls is on its way to being even more relevant and beneficial to girls ages 5-17 than ever before. After years of research and hard work, the new Girl Scout Leadership Experience is ready to guide girls through their own leadership journeys! Through all of these improvements, the Girl Scout mission remains the same: Building girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place .
What's New?
Learn all about the New Girl Scout Leadership Experience at our Leadership Launch Programs schedued for Thursday, July 24th and Tuesday, August 19th at our Service Center in Garden City.
The program will be offered every half hour between 10:00am - 12:00pm, 2:00pm - 4:00pm and 6:00pm - 8:00pm.
This informative program will include; an overview of the New Girl Scout Leadership Experience, introduction of the new Journey books for each level, guided tour of our Service Center and the resources available to you, and a display of new items in our shop.
Registration is not required! Please stop by!
Grade Levels : Research shows that girls learn best and have the most fun when they are in the right development/social grouping. To accommodate these findings, GSUSA has reorganized just a bit!
Girl Scout Daisy: K-1
Girl Scout Brownie: 2-3
Girl Scout Junior: 4-5
Girl Scout Cadette: 6-8
Girl Scout Senior: 9-10
Girl Scout Ambassador: 11-12
Journeys : Journeys are the experiences Girl Scouts engages in to achieve leadership outcomes. GSUSA will create a new journey each year with sessions specified and tailored for each Girl Scout grade level. The launch journey is called "It's Your World--Change It!"
Pathways : Pathways are the ways girls and adults participate in Girl Scouting. Girl pathways include: Camp, Events, Travel, Special Interest, Virtual, and Troop.
Outcomes : While the mission of Girl Scouting has not changed, the new Girl Scout Leadership Experience now provides concrete outcomes that Girl Scouts can achieve.
Frequently Asked Questions about new journeys and books .
Frequently Asked Questions about awards and badges .
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Six sessions on the journey with tips on how volunteers can easily add more sessions.
Through a story, girls meet "flowers and critters" who guide them to explore Global diversity (people, plants, languages), Botany (the environment and stewardship of the land), Girl Scout history and values of the Law
Session activities parallel the story. Girls explore the natural world, using their "growing skills" to make the world a better place.
Girls earn three awards as they complete the activities
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Six sessions on the journey with an example of a special closing ceremony as a seventh session.
Girls search for and find three keys. Sshhh! Girls will uncover for themselves how these are the keys to leadership.
Along the way they uncover their special talents and qualities, lead their families in a healthy living activity, and participate in a Brownie Brainstorm designed to engage them in identifying their own Take Action project.
During the journey, Brownies are invited to "Go ELF" by Exploring, Linking arms and Flying into action.
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Seven sessions on the journey.
Girls explore real power! The power of one, the power of team, and the power of community. They explore the "herstory" of heroines.
Girls practice teaming up and create a comic book style story based on steps for taking action. They then plan and carry out a Take Action project.
Girls earn three awards as they journey from the power of one, to the power of team to the power of community.
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Eight sessions on the journey.
Girls navigate the twists and turns of relationships. They use quizzes and team games to explore friendship dramas, first impressions, and coping with bullies.
After resolving these "obstacles," girls travel onward by creating a Take Action project which allows them to share their relationship savvy with others.
Before girls exit the maze, they see themselves as peacemakers, advancing peaceful interactions one relationship at a time.
Girls earn three awards as they travel through the maze.
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Eight sessions on the journey.
Seniors explore problems impacting girls in the world.
They create an art project based on their vision of a better world.
Girls create a Take Action project that brings the world one step closer to their vision.
They take turns guiding discussions or activities based on some of the topics/options in their books.
Seniors earn one award on this journey.
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Six sessions on the journey.
Girls explore the rich and global history of women's advocacy efforts.
They engage in an eight-step process for identifying an issue and proposing a solution and consider how to use this process in their own lives.
Ambassadors build their networks using their own Six Degrees of Separation.
Girls take some time out for themselves, exploring their "many moods" and career possibilities.
Ambassadors earn one award on this journey
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For more information:
Click Here to view the Transforming Leadership slide show presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting by Cathy Tisdale, Vice President of Council Partnerships for Girl Scouts of the USA. |
Frequently Asked Questions
We would like to acknowledge the Girl Scout Council of Colonial Coast in Chesapeake, Virginia for permission to reproduce information from their web site. |
