LEADERSHIP: IT'S NOT ABOUT REWARDS; IT'S DOING WHAT IS RIGHT EVEN IF NO ONE ELSE ACKNOWLEDGES YOU!

2022 MOANALUA HIGH SCHOOL LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE (above) The Moanalua High School Executive Council is made up of fifteen volunteers. VOLUNTEERS! While officers are elected, they choose to run knowing that if they win, there is no physical reward, no letter grade, no incentive other than the pure satisfaction of doing a good job and representing the student body. At times, we achieve great success while at other times, we achieve somewhat less, but it is always a learning process. While we can take away much satisfaction from doing a good job, we can also learn from mistakes and try to better ourselves the next time. And so, at the end of our terms, while we do not earn a credit, a letter grade or even a certificate of achievement proving our accomplishments, we can take away the self-satisfaction in knowing that we did our best for the students, school and community, and that positive experience is something we can really use as contributing adult members of society.

Tuesday

8/27: DISTRICT MIDDLE-SCHOOLERS MASTER I.M.

This is a "repeat after me" energizer!
Jannah, Mark and Marlene discuss the finer points of IM!


Selena and Jamie start the discussion!

Let's go over all of our choices!
Central District middle school leaders visited Moanalua to train in the interactive method (IM) of making decisions at meetings.  IM is a way of coming to a decision as a group but instead of straight voting where there are winners and losers, it gives everyone in the group a chance to contribute to the discussion and have a say in the final decision.  While it takes a little longer than a straight vote, the final decision is always one in which everyone in the group can "live with."  Moreover, it gives all the members in the group an opportunity to play different roles in the meeting process.  Thanks go out to members of the executive council and all of the advisors from each school.
 
 
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