“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. – John Quincy Adams”
About Us
A focus program created for high school students, the Silver Creek Leadership Academy was established in 2009.
The Silver Creek Leadership Academy builds leaders from the ground up. SCLA students actively participate in community service projects and apply leadership skills to real-world situations. They learn how to identify resources and challenges; and they work as a team. Our program gives back to the school as much as we do our students. Our core curriculum focuses on the BIG 6; the intention is to incorporate a leadership focus into every class at Silver Creek — in essence, we want our graduates to be able to successfully and intelligently apply classroom skills to all environments they find themselves in. SCLA students are prepared to excel wherever their futures take them. When our students graduate, they possess attributes that successful individuals and captains of industry apply to be positive change-makers.
Big 6
Respect
- SCLA students are respected by their peers
- Students treat others with respect and dignity.
- Students acknowledge the success of others
- Students are capable of getting people to commit to a cause
- Students work well with people from diverse backgrounds
- Students are role models for others
- Others listen when students speak
Communication
- Students adjust communication to address different people
- Students are good listeners.
- Students enjoy speaking in public.
- Students express themselves well when they write.
- Students like to engage in conversation with people they don’t know well.
- People understand when students communicate.
Vision
- Students always look for new ways of doing things.
- Students set goals.
- Students prefer creating their own solutions to a problem rather than following set procedures.
- When working with others, students generate the ideas.
- Students see challenges as an opportunity for creativity.
Ethics
- Students are honest with themselves and others.
- Students acknowledge when they are wrong.
- Students are bothered when their actions aren’t appropriate in a given situation.
- Students are intrinsically rewarded when they make ethical choices
- Students are comfortable allowing others to see and learn from their mistakes.
Critical and Creative Thinking
- Students have strong observational skills
- Students ask probing questions to better understand problems
- Students compare and contrast information to increase understanding
- Students invent imaginative solutions to problems
- Students enjoy wrestling with a problem even if they can’t find and immediate solution
Teamwork
- Students enjoy working with others
- Students hold themselves and others accountable to commitments they make to groups
- Students applaud their teammates when they do well
- Students are comfortable handling conflicts
- Students build positive relationships
- Students ask others to generate input
Frequently Asked Questions
Each year of SCLA helps students build a different aspect of their leadership skills. Students are not required to continue with the program after their first year, but students must take the prior years of SCLA in order to take the next courses.
Yes! If you transfer to Silver Creek you can still join SCLA after a discussion with the Program Coordinator.
SCLA students need to acquire at least 25 volunteer hours each year, but many of our students achieve even more!
Yes, each year there is a class fee of $20. Additionally, other costs may be required, such as the cost of an SCLA volunteer shirt.
SCLA holds several events throughout the year and works with a multitude of organizations to provide opportunities for students to volunteer.
