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Leadership Opportunities

at King

Lend your voice, ideas, and effort to make a difference

for the things that matter.

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Why join a leadership group?

  • It’s good for you!
    • Increase your self confidence!
    • Meet new people!
    • Develop your leadership skills

  • It’s good for the King Community!
    • Learn & teach about important social issues
    • Create a sense of community and belonging
    • Help others creatively solve problems
    • Leave your mark at King!

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Leadership Council

There will be a Leadership Council for all grades.

  • Building school spirit
  • Supporting cultural celebrations & assemblies
  • Leading whole school events
  • Creating art, bulletin boards, posters, & more!
  • Community Service to give back to our school community and beyond

Examples of Leadership Activities:

  • Poster slams
  • Student/staff competitions
  • Spirit week
  • Halloween fun
  • Talent shows
  • Fundraisers

6th Grade Tuesday Lunch

7th Grade Tuesday Lunch

8th Grade Thursday Advisory

Run by Ms. Gregor

Room A2

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Wellness Educators

Help teach wellness and healthy habits to our King community!

Thursdays at Advisory

Activities can include:

  • Teaching a lesson in 6th grade Social Smarts!
  • Planning yard activities for all three lunches
  • Developing posters, videos, and more
  • Presenting to your teachers at staff meetings

Topics can include:

  • Mental and Physical Wellness
  • Substance use
  • Sexual Harassment & Consent
  • Healthy Relationships & Friend drama
  • Online harassment

Thursdays during advisory for each grade level

Led by Ms. CC, Ms. McCarthy, & Ms. Katie

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King Middle School

Restorative Justice (RJ) Leaders

  • Help peers sort through their drama!
  • Support others on solving friendship problems
  • We are seeking youth voice and leadership to integrate a more equitable & reflective approach.

Roles and Activities Include:

  • Support students on assignments as alternative to suspensions
  • Help Facilitate student conflict mediations
  • Co-lead student and class circles
  • Attend workshops to build skills
  • Help peers address their impact
  • Learn leadership skills and meet new people

When: Thursday advisory

Where: Room 206

Who: Contact Ms. Tran for more information

chautran@berkeley.net

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Remember your first day at King?

Where is PE?

How do it get lunch? Where do I sit?

I want to play soccer! How?!

Where is the S building?

How do I make a friend?

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King Ambassadors

Tours

Show new students around campus

Lunch ally

How to get lunch, what to do at recess, learn about each other’s cultures

Guide to King

Share all the important intel on life at King

Calling all multilingual speakers

Use your superpower, we need you!! Being a King Ambassadors is a unique opportunity to help others, and learn about other cultures and the world beyond Berkeley.

Details:

We’ll meet for 2-3 lunches to get oriented and create our “language bank” (big list of what everyone speaks). Then, when a new multilingual student arrives, you’d be called on to help give a tour in their home language.

↑ this map shows all the countries new students came from just last year!

Who: See Ms. McCarthy

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Wellness Educators

Leadership Council

Restorative Justice (RJ) Leaders

This club is perfect for students who want to CREATE and/or LEAD awesome classroom presentations or make videos about Social Issues. You can be behind the scenes or in the spotlight. We want your ideas of how to share this information to the other students at King.

This club is great for students who want to run school events and build school spirit. Bring your ideas! There will be a Leadership Council for each grade level.

This group is great for students who are interested in seeing justice in our discipline culture, are empathetic, can understand multiple perspectives, have fair judgement and want to support classmates on making better choices.

Which leadership opportunity is right for me?

King Ambassadors

This club is for students who speak a language other than English and are willing to help a new student on their first day! You may just give one tour all year, and you’d have a big impact.

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Which Leadership Opportunity is right for me?

8th Graders:

May apply to join either:

RJ Leaders: Great for students who prefer small groups, are empathic, have a passion for justice

Wellness Educators: Great for students who like to create and present on important topics

Leadership Council: Great for students who have time, energy and focus to give to make things happen

6th & 7th Graders– OPEN TO ALL Grades:

Leadership Club on Tuesdays at Lunch Room 201

King Ambassadors

Wellness Educators Thursday Advisory

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6th Grade

7th Grade

8th Grade

King Ambassadors

(open to all students)

Leadership Club

Tuesdays at Lunch in room 201

with Ms. Gregor

Wellness Educators

Thursday advisories with Ms. Katie

King Ambassadors

(open to all students)

Leadership Club

Tuesdays at Lunch in room 201

with Ms. Gregor

Wellness Educators

Thursday advisories with Ms. McCarthy

King Ambassadors

(open to all students)

Please complete the interest form that was emailed to you to sign up for:

RJ Leaders with Ms. Tran & Ms. Lydia

Leadership Council with Ms. Gregor

Wellness Educators with Ms. CC

(all meet Thursday advisory)

Opportunities by Grade Level

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