WEEK 5

ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT AND APPLIED LEADERSHIP

Week 5 Overview: Academic Development and Applied Leadership

🔘 MONDAY: Capstone Preparation and Leadership in Action
· 8:30-3:30: Service-Learning Day: Final Preparationsfor Capstone Presentation.

· Service-learning isan opportunity for students to integrate their academic learning into
real-world projects (Talebi, 2015; Northouse, 2022).

🔘 TUESDAY: Capstone Preparation and Leadership in Action

· 8:30-3:30: Service-Learning Day: Final Preparationsfor Capstone Presentation.

· Service-learning isan opportunity for students to integrate their academic learning into

real-world projects (Talebi, 2015; Northouse, 2022).

🔘 WEDNESDAY: Critical Thinking Through Lived Experiences

· 8:30-9:00: Morning Check-In and Peer Sharing

· 9:00-10:00: Critical Thinking and Real-World Decision-Making

· 10:00-11:00: Scholar Circle: How Research Can Uplift Our Communities

· 11:00-12:00: Writing with Voice and Insight

· 12:00-1:00: Lunch Break

· 1:00-2:00: Faculty Check-In: Progress and Growth Conversations

· 2:00-3:00: Reflection: Growth, Community, and Power of Your Narrative

· Presentations move beyond formality; students learn to lead by embracing and sharing their cultural identities (Northouse, 2022).

🔘 THURSDAY: BuildingResilience and Academic Belonging

· 8:30-9:00: Morning Check-In and Peer Sharing

· 9:00-10:00: Presentation Skills: Communicating with Confidence and Awareness

· 10:00-11:00: Presentations That Reflect Identity, Culture, and Purpose

· 11:00-12:00: Group Presentations: Sharing Our Stories as Scholars

· 12:00-1:00: Lunch Break

· 1:00-2:00: Recognizing Our Strengths as First-Generation Scholars

· 2:00-3:00: Reflection:Public Speaking as Leadership, Representation, and Power

· Students reflect on how their upbringing, community, and responsibilities make them uniquely equipped to succeed, framing challenges as sources of strength (Cutuli et al., 2021; Moll et al., 1992).

🔘 FRIDAY: Community Engagement in Action

· Service-Learning Day (8:30-3:30): Full day dedicated to advancing service-learning projects.

· Service-learning enhances leadership development through real-world application in line with John Dewey’s experiential learning model (Talebi, 2015; Northouse, 2022).