USHLI Presents
Student Leadership Series in Oklahoma City
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Approximately 500 middle school and 500 high school students in Oklahoma City attended our Student Leadership Series events on September 21. USHLI partnered with educators at Santa Fe South Middle School and Santa Fe High School, which hosted the two events. The SLS events focused on helping students improve their academic performance, prepare to transition successfully from middle school into high school and from high school into some kind of post-secondary education or training. Our Post-secondary Readiness model has been widely endorsed by educators from coast-to-coast.
Our featured speaker was Carlos Ojeda, Jr. from Philadelphia, arguably the most dynamic motivational speaker in the nation under 40.
USHLI would like to thank Santa Fe High principal Lance Seeright and Santa Fe Middle School principal Mike Figueroa for their support, middle school teacher Greg Hallman for spearheading USHLI's involvement, and Ruth Mazaheri for being a super volunteer.
This was our 28th event of 2012, bringing the total number of students, parents, and professionals served to 38,568 in 19 states. The next stops for the Student Leadership Series are Lansing, MI (9/27) and Omaha, NE (9/28).
The primary goal of the Student Leadership Series is to ensure that every Latino family has a student that is one of the following: the 1st student to graduate high school; the 1st student to enroll in post-secondary education or training; the 1st student to graduate post-secondary education or training. The USHLI 2012 Student Leadership Series officially launched February 16th and consists of Stay-in-School Rallies for middle school and junior high students, Career & College Recruitment Fairs for high school students, Regional Leadership Summits for college students, and, whenever possible, Parent Leadership Training and Professional Development events. |
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SLS Title Sponsor
SLS Honorary Chair
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