So what's with the alphabet soup? The title in full is simply: Central District Intermediate Student Council gets Interactive Method training from the Moanalua High School Student Association! That's a mouthful! Anyway, three MoHSSA officers sacrificed their morning classes to help train Central District intermediate (middle school) leaders in the fine art of the interactive method of decision making. This is a meeting style where everyone has input into the final decision. About thirty were in attendance and hopefully, they can all take back the process to use in their own school decision making.
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.