SWLSB Secondary Student Leadership Certificate
HIGH SCHOOL / SECONDARY 1-5
Get the training and tools to lead.
Leadership development is a process. There are no shortcuts.
The Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board's Secondary Student Leadership Certificate program is transformative by empowering students to develop the confidence, competencies, and skills needed for success in all areas of their lives.
Students from any SWLSB secondary school can participate.
Follow
Ascend Leadership:
Words without actions are meaningless.
Actions without understanding are empty.
Inaction is impossible.
WEEKLY ONLINE TRAINING
ADVENTUROUS JOURNEYS: CAMPS & FIELD TRIPS
MENTORSHIP
PRACTICAL EXPERIENCES
TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
You can change the world...
We can show you how!
You only need to provide effort, consistency, and a willingness to grow.
A TRUE LEADER MUST BE ABLE TO:
1. Take initiative to analyze the world around them effectively to identify opportunities for impact.
2. Rally, provide tools, and unite people in a common purpose.
3. Clearly define, plan, and communicate the objective and mission to enable ownership.
4. Possess the emotional intelligence to support the team and the situational awareness to help everyone reach the destination.
5. Learn from and follow through, adapt, overcome failure and repeat success.
6. Model the way.
Your personal leadership journey...
The SWLSB Secondary Student LEADERSHIP Certificate program is designed to give you the training, skills, coaching, and experiences necessary to grow as an effective and successful student and leader.
WEEKLY ONLINE TRAINING
CAMPS
MENTORSHIP
PRACTICAL EXPERIENCES
You can change the world... we can show you how!
The certificate program is free of charge with the exception of camps and trips.
Our MENTORS are some of the top leaders in the country. You will learn from:
presidents and vice-presidents of major multi-national companies,
philanthropists,
professionals,
business leaders,
government and elected officials in the highest offices in the country,
soldiers,
alumni who are in the next phase of their leadership experience and more.
Mentors have been been vetted through SWLSB procedures for external volunteers.
CERTIFICATES
1 Year of Participation - ALPHA
2 Years of Participation - ACOLYTE
3 Years of Participation - APPRENTICE
4 Years of Participation - TEAMBUILDER
5 Years of Participation - ENDEAVOUR
*Certificates are to recognize training and skill level. The certificates are not based on your academic year but on the skills acquired and number of years that you have participated and developed as a student leader within the program.
CALENDAR 2024-25
Wednesdays 7-8pm online
Sept 4 - Parent Information Session 19:00 - Zoom (register here)
Sept 11 - Wednesday evening sessions start
Sept 28 - Zombie Run
Sept 24 - Ottawa Peace Keepers trip
Oct 4 - 6 - Camp at Arundel Nature Centre
Nov 2 - Brunch Fundraiser
Nov 10 - 11 - Ottawa for Remembrance Day
Feb 13-19 - Walt Disney World
Feb 27 - Montreal International Women's Day BREAKFAST
April 9 - TEDx Youth
April 14 - NextGEN Assembly of Leaders - Ottawa
April 23-24 - Indigenous Land-Based Learning Day at Kahnawake
April - June - Pink In The City - SWLSB Raise Craze - in school
May 12 - Model The Way Honours - Cineplex
GRADUATE WITH:
Practical, real world, bilingual leadership training, adventurous journeys, and life experiences that can be incorporated in your CEGEP, University and post-secondary applications and CV.
You will have experience leading major events while grappling with complex ideas, issues, and problems as we help you acquire the skills to lead, build teams, evaluate and manage people, budgets, and environments. We will teach you how to debate ideas effectively. You will possess the tools and knowledge to establish and work with diverse teams and become an agent of positive growth wherever you go in life.
An active network of leaders who can help you pursue your long term goals and help you to continue to develop as a leader.
Your own TED Talk that is available on the global network to showcase you, your thoughts, and your talent to a world-wide audience.
Recognition, certifications, and access to bursaries to help you when you graduate high school.
5 LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT COMPONENTS
You will learn and demonstrate a mastery of these skills over time as you take on new responsibilities and work toward a new set of exciting and challenging goals.
LEADERSHIP is taking initiative to make a difference while enabling others to do the same.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
Curiosity - Commitment - Consistency
Participate in training every Wednesday 7-8pm and work at your own speed with support.
Follow through with your leadership obligations on the team and for your projects.
Together, we will build your 'Leadership CV' and you will receive your certification in June at the annual Model the Way Honours.
In order to receive the SWLSB Secondary Student Leadership Certificate the participant must adhere to the following:
Be in good standing with academics and behaviour at their school.
Be a part of a leadership team or club in their school or community.
Actively participate in the weekly sessions conferences, and trips for at least 80% of the time since enrollment.
Certificates are given in June at the annual Model The Way Honours.
Your training, materials, coaching and other supports will be available through Google Classroom.
You work at your own pace.
Complete the criteria.
COMMUNICATE. CONNECT. COMMIT. CARE. GROWTH MINDSET.
EXPERIENCES & ADVENTUROUS JOURNEYS
Phase 2 all Trips.mp4LEARN, DISCOVER, SERVE
We have built a student leadership travel and experience program unlike anything else in the country.
All of our adventurous journeys are meant to deepen learning in the classroom as you explore who you are and what you are capable of becoming.
If you want to be challenged and do things that you never thought possible, then take a look!
Fall Camp, Remembrance Day, Ottawa, Walt Disney World, Alberta, Costa Rica.
Future leaders! Receive training in a youth leadership program that offers the leadership principles The Walt Disney Company created, the opportunity to implement innovation, and interaction with Disney leaders—along with stimulating challenges that make learning about leadership magical.
Where: Walt Disney World, Florida, USA
When: November 13- 19, 2025
Who: Sec. Student Leadership Certificate
Spots Available: 15 students
Key Learning Objectives
Students will be working with Disney Cast Members in Disney Parks to develop essential leadership, and inter-personal skills and competencies related to language and CCQ courses.
After completing 4 LEADERSHIP workshops in WDW theme parks; students will be able to:
Know their own leadership style and continue to develop their personal leadership skills
Describe and analyze the relationship between team excellence, customer satisfaction and business results
Engage with various partners to problem-solve through collaboration
Discuss the importance of diversity when assembling a team
Understand the value of a positive attitude when faced with any challenge in their personal development
Discover the Disney 5 Keys of Excellence and how these impact a large organization’s ability to quickly solve problems
Students will enhance their understanding of community and culture, communication skills, creative and complex thinking as they work in collaboration with a diverse team.
THANK YOU TO OUR ADVENTUROUS JOURNEY FUNDRAISING PARTERS!
NextGEN 2024 recap.MOVThe NextGEN Assembly of Leaders
Students leaders work on teams with provincial and federal politicians on problems before the government.
Students have 4 hours to analyse the problem and give possible solutions to their political partner.
Desjardins 2023.mp4Director for a Day
Students have the opportunity to shadow Mme Nathalie Charron who is the Director of Desjardins Caisse de Chomedey.
One student will be selected through an application and interview process.
Participate in staff meetings.
Management decisions and daily operations.
Attend a board meeting.
Pink In The City MTWH 2024.mp4PINK IN THE CITY
Student leader coordinate a breast cancer awareness and fundraiser campaign.
Linking students to survivors and stories of hope as they take meaningful action to combat cancer through the Breast Cancer Clinic at the MUHC.
Magic Movie 50.MOVGraduating SWLSB student leaders will have the opportunity to craft and share their ideas on the global stage through TEDx Youth @ Laval.
TED Talks are a tool for student leaders to use to open doors of possibility in their post-secondary world.
Tedx 2024 recap.mp4franck_dupéré (1440p).MP4Mémorial de l'héritage Corporal François (Franck) Dupéré
Students are creating memorial that will be under construction by students across Canada for the next 100 years.
MIWD Breakfast MTWH 2024.mp4MONTREAL INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY BREAKFAST
Student leaders are creating a new event in Québec to celebrate and link women together in the pursuit of equity.
ascending wapum mini woosh.mp4INDIGENOUS LEGACY INITATIVES
Student leaders are creating sustainable ways to enhance learning, cultural appreciation, and relationship building with Indigenous leaders as we work toward reconciliation.
15 YEARS IN THE NEWS
15 years ago, students adopted the 3rd Battalion of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. Since that time young people have taken on the burden of leadership and work to make this world a better, more compassionate, and inclusive place.
CAMP
Magic Movie 52.MOV
REMEMBRANCE DAY
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3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry - our parnership.
MTWH They came 2024.mp4
Season 3 coming soon!
We believe that every student is capable of performing at the highest level academically, we want to ensure they have the core skills to succeed in life.
We are developing students who are capable of leading, collaborating, learning, and contributing in all areas of their lives.
Spiritual Care and Guidance, and Community Involvement Animators, facilitate and support a variety of student leadership programs.
