Girls Planning for Success
An Initiavie provided by the Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative
Recruit your squad! You may already have a group of young women in mind to target or you may open your squad up to any girl in your school between 6th and 8th grades to participate. Please register your squad here.
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Once you have the returned permission slips, your squad is ready to begin. It is ok if you continue to add members once you start, in fact we expect it. Once the word gets out about this program, more will likely want to join in on the fun!
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Secure the time and place of your weekly meetings; this could be during enrichment periods, Advisor/Advisee, after school or even on weekends. Each topic has a variety of activities to choose from with varying time frames to work around almost any schedule.
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How to Begin
Each week you will address a different topic, pick one of the activities associated with it and then culminate the meeting with a physical fitness activity of your choosing. Using the Physical Activity Journal, the girls will be responsible for setting their fitness goals and tracking their progress throughout the week
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Choose a Community Capstone Project to get their girls to give back and be involved in the community around them. This can be as simple as choosing to clean a playground or park, Creating a flower garden or maintaining an existing one. The point is to get the girls to think about how they can make their community a better place.
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Monthly squads will utilize technology to video conference with squads from other schools, mentors, or role models. Because each squad will have different meeting times and days, chats will be scheduled for the second Tuesday of each month at 5:30pm with girls logging on from home.
Join us in the Spring when we bring all squads together to display an exhibit of their Community Capstone Project and participate in a 2 mile run/walk obstacle course!
Girls earn badges in each topic that they participate in. Girls who earn badges in each of the topics are offered to act as mentors for the next squads.