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Student Application Form
What is
Link Crew?
Link Crew is a high school transition program that welcomes
freshmen and makes them feel comfortable throughout the first year of their
high school experience. Built on the belief that students can help students
succeed, Link Crew trains members of the junior and senior classes to be Link
Leaders. As positive role models, Link Leaders are motivators, leaders and
teachers who guide the freshmen to discover what it takes to be successful
during the transition to high school and help facilitate freshman success.
More and more studies show that if students have a positive
experience their first year in high school, their chance for success increases
dramatically. The Link Crew high school transition program provides the
structure for freshmen to receive support and guidance from juniors and seniors
who have been through the challenges that high school poses, and understand
that the transition to a larger school can sometimes be overwhelming.
Link Crew begins with a powerful orientation day that makes
freshmen excited and proud to be attending their new high school and allows
them to begin developing relationships and strategies that will contribute to
their high school success. After orientation, Link Crew continues, providing a
variety of both Academic and Social Follow-up Activities throughout the year.
Academic Follow Ups are lessons presented by trained Link Leaders during visits
to freshman classes; Social Follow Ups are events organized by your Coordinator
team in which the freshmen and Leaders attend fun school sponsored social
events together.
Link Crew's goal is to provide schools with a structure in which
students make real connections with each other. Through this program, students
learn that people at school care about them and their success. Link Crew is the
high school transition program that will increase attendance, decrease
discipline referrals and improve
Interested
in becoming a Link Crew Leader?
Link
Leaders are upperclassmen who are good role models for younger students and who
have been successful at our high school.
Link Leaders’ communication skills, leadership potential, responsibility
and personality have helped them succeed in the high school environment and the
lessons they have learned should be shared to help others succeed. You could have a tremendous influence on our
new students and you will learn many valuable leadership skills in the
process. Plus, it will be fun!!
What
does a Link Leader do? Link Leaders are
trained to work with the incoming freshman class and other new students who are
entering our school next fall. After the
extensive training, the Link Leaders will run freshman orientation before
school starts in August. At the orientation,
each Link Leader will be given a small group of freshman to work with that day
and will be asked to befriend and to help that group during the fist week of
school with any challenges they may face.
Periodically during the school year, Link Leaders will meet again with
their student groups to touch base, discuss problems, and plan social
activities. We know that the more
contact a freshman has with her/his Link Leader the more successful the
freshman will be.
For more information:
Come to
one of the informational meetings to find out more and pick up an application
form. We’ll see you at one of the
meetings!
Informational meetings have been
scheduled for:
April 22nd
4° lunch
– Miss Sitz’s room 1402
6° lunch
– Mrs. Hutnik’s room 1404
After
school in Miss Sitz’s room 1402
April 23rd
8° lunch
– Mrs. Schorr’s room 2201
10°
lunch – Miss Sitz’s room 1402
After
school in Miss Sitz’s room 1402
If you have any
additional questions or cannot attend one of the meetings, please see Mrs.
Schreck in House 4.
Contact
Information
E-mail address
Lynsey Sitz
Office phone
(330) 636-3200 Ext. 3452
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