PEER-TO-PEER

Purpose: Our Peer-to-Peer leadership program trains selected upperclassmen to lead a class of freshman in a half-day of teambuilding activities. The peer-led activities foster communication between underclassmen and upperclassmen, forging relationships built on trust, teamwork, and problem-solving. We aim to aid school staff in creating a more cohesive, effective student body.

How: The program covers two days. The first is a peer leader training day. The second is the peer-led Challenge Day.

On the training day, CLC staff lead the leaders through every activity that they will lead for the underclassmen. The half-day plan follows in a sequence of getting-to-know-you exercises, icebreakers, a trust sequence and finally, problem-solving initiatives. After each activity, the group leaders facilitate a debrief where participants reflect on what happened, lessons learned and applications for the future and in other environments such as the classroom, or home. Leaders not only experience the teambuilding program themselves, but they also begin to reflect critically on their own experience and prepare themselves to lead their peers.

On the Challenge Day, the peer leaders guide the freshmen through the sequence they learned, drawing on their own experience being led in order to empathize with struggling students, or to handle shy, disruptive or uncooperative group members. CLC staff stand by to assist the leaders with equipment, and monitor all of the students.

Size: Challenge Days can accommodate any number of students. Our longest-running program operates at Woodside High School every year, where we train 120 of their upperclassmen to lead teambuilding programs for all 600 of the school’s incoming freshmen. Call CLC to arrange a plan to serve your students.

History: CLC has operated a Peer-to-Peer Leadership Program in various forms since 1993. We began our high school peer leadership initiative at Woodside High School. Newer Peer-to-Peer programs currently run with Menlo School and Sacred Heart Schools in Menlo Park. In 2006, we began to offer the program at East Palo Alto Academy High School.

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"The ROPES Course was absolutely awesome! It was a great experience for
not only the group participants but the student and teacher leaders as
well."

-Mia Onodera, Teacher Monta Vista HS