High school leaders
Throughout Oregon’s outdoor school programs, high school students often serve as cabin leaders and assistant field instructors — serving in a support role for 5th and 6th-grade students’ outdoor school programs. There are multiple avenues for high school involvement in outdoor schools across Oregon.
Outdoor schools are place-based and rooted in their respective communities. Oregon outdoor school programs have the agency to recruit, train, and involve high school leaders in ways that work best for their programs.
The OSU Extension Service Outdoor School program provides a transformative learning opportunity for participating high school students in the 5th and 6th-grade outdoor school programs. We can also offer support at a statewide level in recruitment, training and evaluation.
Read the new report from the Outdoor School High School Listening Project
This report offers findings and recommendations from an inquiry project that the OSU Outdoor School Program undertook to help identify important next steps in supporting high school student leadership across Oregon’s outdoor school network.
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High school leaders roundtable meeting
Meet monthly with other outdoor school program providers to discuss the role of high school leaders at outdoor school and how to improve their experience. The roundtable participants are working together to create high school leadership programs that create a sense of belonging and connection to place for youth, support the mutual interrelationships between high school leaders and 5th and 6th graders, empower youth with skills and confidence to create a healthy, positive future for themselves and their communities, and where youth leaders reflect the communities of students they serve. Co-hosted by Friends of Outdoor School and the Outdoor School Program.
Register for the monthly Zoom meeting below!
