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ILI Recognition |
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Intercultural Leadership Initiative |
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1. Provided 33 day-long sessions for more than 530 4th-8th grade students; 37 sessions for close to 100 9th-12th grade high school; and 1 overnight retreat for 8th and 9th students during the school year. 2. ILI successfully brought together administrators and teachers from the four feeder elementary schools and the high school to form the Lakeland Transition Committee. This committee is a revitalization of an earlier effort to provide activities for 7th and 8th grade students transitioning into the high school. In May 2005, we hosted over 250 students in the LUHS school forest. 14 elementary school staff, 18 LUHS staff, 6 community team leaders, 8 LUHS student mentors and 6 ILI staff provided the leadership ands facilitation for the day. The Transition Committee worked with LUHS administration to break the students into 17 groups for the day, representing their homerooms for the next 4 years-each of these groups was led by their new homeroom teacher. 3. ILI was supported by funding from 40 different organizations (schools, service clubs, faith community, state grants, foundations, local businesses and tribes). 4. 2003-2004 was the first year for our annual “Friends of ILI” membership drive. We had 75 people sign up as members and they donated $7600 to our efforts. In 2004-2005 we had 98 members giving almost $10,500. 5. Our working relationship with Lakeland Union High School (LUHS) administration continues to strengthen as they have now embraced integrating ILI into their overall curricular plans through their new Social/Emotional Learning Program (SEL). For the first time, during the 2005-2006 school year, LUHS ILI students will be able to attend ILI sessions in the high school without being pulled out of other classes. 6. ILI staff was nominated by the Wisconsin Indian Education Association in January 2005 for the Ford Foundation “Leadership For A Changing World”, a $100,000 award. 7. Received the Department of Public Instruction Superintendent’s “Standing Up For Rural Schools, Communities and Libraries Award” presented by Elizabeth Burmaster at the Wisconsin Small Schools Conference in Wisconsin Rapids in March, 2005. 8. ILI was one of seven awardees from across the nation to receive the Legend Leadership Award from the Dale Earnhardt Foundation in Moorseville, North Carolina in April 2005. 9. Project Director Bob Kovar was appointed by Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction State Superintendent Elizabeth Burmaster to the Advisory Council on Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Programs in May 2005. This 18 member Advisory Council has legislative responsibility for AODA programs, grants and services, but not in isolation from other related youth risk behaviors including: Tobacco Prevention, AIDS/HIV/STD’s; Violence Prevention; Teen Pregnancy Prevention and Youth Suicide Prevention. This is a 3 year appointment and members may serve two consecutive terms. 10. ILI was a featured segment in September 2005 on Wisconsin Public TV show “In Wisconsin”. ILI was also featured in May 2005 in “Into the Outdoors”, a syndicated children’s television shown throughout Wisconsin. 11. Project Director Bob Kovar was awarded a special recognition by the Lac du Flambeau Tribe’s Education Committee at the annual Eagle Feather ceremony honoring Lac du Flambeau students graduating from Lakeland Union High School in June 2005. |
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