Diane Oakes, executive director of the Kaw Valley Council, saw girl scouting as a tool in bringing out the leader from every girl of any age. It is one of the few service organizations, which gives full voting power to its young representatives to choose council board of directors. These elected and hardworking representatives become an important voice in the council. The respect they earn from the adult members of the board boosts their self-esteem. That self-esteem, productivity and sense of achievement contribute to their total personality development into adulthood. And Amanda Atwood, a senior high school student, relished a sense of fulfillment when her opinions benefit younger girl scouts. Amanda and three other Senior Girl Scouts organized a safety program for students in the elementary level. As a result, 2,000 children received identification cards with their photos and fingerprints. Amanda and her co-organizers were given the Gold Award, the highest honors in girl scouting. Two things make girl scouting unique in developing a girl's leadership potential, according to Diane Oakes. One is its single-sex orientation. The other consists of the outdoor experience the girls gain through camping, hiking and canoeing. Single-sex orientation makes it possible for programs to identify and then meet the needs peculiar to girls and women. Creators of girl scouts programs insure that these are educationally sound, appropriate for a particular age level, focused on community service, and involve caring adult leaders. Outdoor experiences, on the other hand, provide them with excellent opportunities to learn about themselves and their environment as well as to cooperate with and depend on others. Oates describes the set of experiences as fostering a sense of sisterhood and cultivating "girl power (Hooper)."
Girl Scouts leadership model consists in informal mentoring between the older and the younger members (Hooper 2000). In all its programs, the younger ones have the opportunity of receiving help from older girl scouts. The younger ones foresee what they can accomplish in the future and, at the same time, envision a future for themselves in girl scouting. They can almost feel and touch that future. Cathleen and Amanda are very strong and successful examples for younger girl scouts. But Oakes said that these two models only represent the level of excellence girls in the movement are capable of attaining on their own (Hooper).
US Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings said that Girl Scouts taught her a lot about serving others (the Achiever 2006). She also expressed pride in continuing the tradition by working for a President who believes that every child can learn and deserves to succeed. She emphasized the value and relevance of the department's primary federal education policy, which is No Child Left Behind. The policy provides high-quality education to every child, regardless of race, residence and background. She noted the increase in the number of fourth-graders in the country in the last three years. She recalled that she was herself a girl scout in the late 60s when the most popular badge was Social Dancer. But today, she stressed, girls need more advanced skills in order to succeed than dancing. She reported that throughout the United States, girls comprise only a third of advanced placement physics classes and only 15% of AP computer science classes. She also remarked that women accounted for only 20% of enrollees in engineering in the college level. She emphasized on the importance of math and science for girls to learn. Problem solving is learned in math and science teaches the nature and operations of nature. In this direction, the department of education hosted the first-ever national summit on math and science for girls. It would serve as a forum and meeting point for the best and brightest women leaders on how to help more girls and their parents to learn math and science. Educators who coalesce with girl scouts enhance their chances of achieving (the Achiever).
Nakeya Bell, an outreach assistant for the Tierra Del Oro Girl Scout Council in Sacramento, California introduced a revolutionary idea to the 26,000 members of the council (Jewett 2006). Girl scouting is not about looking thin or remaining in the kitchen any longer. Girl scouting is involved in current-day and relevant issues, extreme sports and career search. To illustrate, Girl Scout executives in Manhattan are all agog about recovering from a "crisis of relevance." The crisis response consists in cutting bureaucracy and creating appropriate programs for girls who tend to abandon the organization. Some of these girls feel trapped and do not know where to...
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