Youth Leaders of Promise (YLOP)

The Youth Leaders of Promise (YLOP) program was developed by the Center for Ethical Leadership in the early 1990's as part of a grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to train citizens in a model of ethical leadership aimed at promoting the common good.  The YLOP program was conducted for 4 years as a summer program that brought together young people from diverse neighborhoods and cities in the Seattle area, for a common experience in leadership development, team building, and community project work.

The program subsequently was conducted as a semester-long class for sophomores within Seattle area high schools including Nathan Hale, Cleveland and Franklin.  The Center provided the curriculum, lesson plans and the training to teachers to enable them to conduct the class.  The program ended because schools were being forced to focus teaching and classroom time to elements that were on standardized tests only.

If you or your school is interested in the YLOP Curriculum please call 206-328-3020 or email Steve Stapleton for information on availability.

The essential YLOP modules include:

Values and Ethics

• Core Values Exercise
• What is Ethics
• Ethical Scenarios

  

• 4V Model of Ethical Leadership

Developing a Vision

• 4V Model of Ethical Leadership
• What’s Hot and What’s Not
• 4V Personal Crest
• Asset Approach to Community
• Scan of the Common Good

Finding Your Voice

• Follow Your Bliss
• Gifts and Capacities I
• Personal Mission Statement
• Assertive Communication
• Creating a Timeline
• Writing a Biography
• Student View of the Common Good

Team Building

• DISC – Leadership styles
• Gifts and Capacities I and II
• Forming and Storming (2^nd qtr)
• Conflict Resolution (2^nd qtr)
• Low Ropes and Active Icebreakers
• Peer Mediation (2^nd qtr)
• YLOP Culture
• Gracious Space intro (in Gracious Space Body of Work)
• Games – Warp Speed, Ugli Orange, see Icebreaker Appendix

Civic Participation and Citizenship

• Bringing the Bill of Rights to Life
• Comparing Three Nations’ Bills of Rights
• Exploring Citizenship: Rights and Responsibilities
• Bill of Responsibilties
• Favorite Places - Followership (2^nd qtr)
• YLOP Culture

Transformational Leadership/Leadings Social Change

• What is Transformational Leadership
• Level III Leadership
• Non-Violent Social Change Simulation

Service Learning

• What is a Citizen Action Team (CAT)
• Types of Service: Charity, Compassion, Justice
• Asset Approach to Community Service
• Scan of the Common Good
• Gifts and Capacities II

Common Good

• Student View of the Common Good
• Common Good Murals
• Scan of the Common Good (2^nd qtr)
• Common Good Timeline (in Ethical Leadership Body of Work)

Project Management

• Citizen Action Team Basic Planning
• SODA Decision Making
• Doin’ the Doable
• Writing the Project Proposal
• Time Management
• Resiliency