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Notes from the May PLC ECHO #8 Session - Coordinated Systems of Support

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Notes from the April PLC ECHO #7 Session - Strategies to Identify Military-Connected Students and Inform Stakeholders

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Strategies to Identify Miliary Connected Students and Inform Stakeholders

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Notes from the March PLC ECHO #6 Session - Coordinating Successful Welcome and Exit Transitions

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Coordinating Successful Welcome and Exit Transitions

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Coordinating Successful Welcome and Exit Transitions

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Coordinating Successful Welcome and Exit Transitions

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Notes from the February PLC ECHO #5 Session - Successful Application and Implementation

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Successful Application and Implementation

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Successful Application and Implementation (2 of 2)

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Recognition Events for Military-Connected Students and Families

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Recognition Events for Military-Connected Students and Families

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Notes from the December PLC Session - Military Family Webpages

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Military Family Webpages

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Notes from the November PLC Session: Peer-Led Student Transition Teams

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Student-Led Transition Programs

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Notes from the October PLC Session - Recognition Events for Military-Connected Students and Families

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Notes from the September PLC Session: Building Your Team and Creating Buy In

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Recognition Events for Military-Connected Students & Families

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Building Your Team and Creating Buy-in

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Frances Hesselbein Student Leadership Program

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Frances Hesselbein Student Leadership Program

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Mission:

The mission of the Frances Hesselbein Student Leadership Program™ (FHSLP) is to grow and sustain the Student 2 Student® (S2S™) Program on the local campus. Established by Military Child Education Coalition in 2006, the Frances Hesselbein Student Leadership Program offers an intensive experience for selected students to enrich their leadership and team-building skills.

The week-long, intensive experience builds skills through personal and small group settings. Students gain confidence, competence, and commitment to their leadership to build their local S2S program.

Students also have an opportunity to share their program challenges and successes with other peers to gain a new insight on improvement. Distinguished guests provide insights to overcoming challenges and to building personal character.

Accepting Applications Now!

The fall FHSLP session is October 22-27, 2023 at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Selected students will journey to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York to take part in leadership activities and lessons alongside cadets and other S2S leaders with the mission of strengthening their S2S team with the tools and knowledge gained from the program. Apply through your S2S program sponsor today. Both application and sponsorship recommendation are due by September 15, 2023!

Attending the Frances Hesselbein Student Leadership Program made me a better leader, communicator, and person. The skills I acquired are invaluable and applicable not just to being a leader, but dealing with everyday life.

- Josclyn E., Oak Harbor High School, WA

Program Qualifications:

Active in S2S

Sophomore or Junior

Complete the application

Good academic standing

The Official MCEC Application is available through your S2S Sponsor. View tips on applying!

Who is Frances Hesselbein?

Frances Hesselbein (November 1, 1915 - December 11, 2022) was a trailblazer, author, editor, and gifted leader. She was the president and CEO of the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute. Prior to founding the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute, she served as the CEO for the Girl Scouts of the USA. Between 1965 and 1976, she rose from volunteer troop leader to CEO and held the position of CEO for fourteen years (1976-1990). She is credited with leading a turnaround for the Girl Scouts, increasing their minority membership and establishing the Daisy Scout program for the youngest girls accepted into the Girl Scouts. In 1998, Hesselbein was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her work with the Girl Scouts of the USA, and was the recipient of 22 honorary degrees.

2022 Fall Frances Hesselbein Student Leadership Program™ Class

Student Testimonials
The Frances Hesselbein Student Leadership program will make a difference in my S2S program at home and in how I interact with others daily. This helped me focus on becoming a strong individual and helping others around me. I greatly appreciate this opportunity to go to this and be able to make a bigger impact. - The Frances Hesselbein Student Leadership Program helped me assess my current traits and improve them while also allowing me to obtain new skills. I learned that the greatest leaders are first and foremost human beings, and I feel that I have walked away from this experience with immense growth in my state of mind and understanding. Leadership takes courage, responsibility, an open perspective, and the ability to overcome situations that may not be ideal, but all in a unique style that best suits the individual. - Amira T., King George High School, VA Brayden H., Widefield High School, CO
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Frances Hesselbein Student Leadership Program

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This program teaches leadership skills to outstanding military-connected students to help improve and sustain their local Student 2 Student programs.

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https://www.militarychild.org/purplestarschools

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A Purple Star School is a public or charter school that has committed to supporting the unique educational and social-emotional needs of military-connected children.

These schools recognize that military-connected students must move whenever their active-duty parent receives a relocation order (called a Permanent Change of Station) and will uproot and change schools far more often than their civilian peers.

In fact, a military-connected child can expect to move six to nine times from kindergarten through their high school graduation, with approximately 200,000 students transitioning to a new school in any given year.

Purple Star Schools help military-connected students transition successfully with measures that include:

Training a staff member to ease entry into the new academic environment,

Student-led programs to help create social connections,

A military family webpage on the school website to inform parents, and

Relevant professional development opportunities for additional school staff.

State programs may require schools to meet additional criteria such as holding school-wide military recognition events that encourage tolerance and inclusion.

A primary goal of these programs is to ensure that staff can help manage the challenges military-connected children face when they move between schools with different cultures, curricula, standards, course offerings, schedules and graduation requirements.

Purple Star Schools are especially attentive to students who arrive mid-year, missing out on the normal cycles of sports and club activities.

Finally, Purple Star Schools acknowledge that every military-connected child has left behind friends and support networks and may be dealing with a parent who is away from home on deployment.

A national, grassroots effort, the Purple Star School initiative encourages states to develop a certification program that designates qualifying schools as friendly to, and familiar with, the unique education and social-emotional needs of military-connected children.

While there is no one-size-fits-all approach to Purple Star School programs, most states create an application process in which schools apply for designation as a Purple Star School by showing they have, at a minimum, met the four basic criteria noted above. Learn more about the criteria under the requirements section below.

The initiative has been so successful in certain states, military parents now routinely seek out Purple Star Schools for their children due to the level of support they can expect from these schools and their awareness of the challenges of life in a military family.
School District programs
The Purple Star School initiative is intentionally flexible: individual school districts are encouraged to start a program when their state department of education is unable to do so. MCEC can provide comprehensive guidance and consultation for states and school districts seeking to launch a program.

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A Purple Star School is a public or charter school that has committed to supporting the unique educational and social-emotional needs of military-connected children. These schools recognize that military-connected students must move whenever their active-duty parent receives a relocation order (called a Permanent Change of Station) and will uproot and change schools far more often than their civilian peers.

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Strategies to Identify Military-Connected Students and Inform Stakeholders

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Strategies to Identify Military-Connected Students and Inform Stakeholders