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Curriculum

An Inter-disciplinary Approach To Curriculum

Community education/leadership programs need to provide a picture of the whole community; of how the various parts fit together. A community is not about topics but rather, interrelations of issues. In creating an issue-based curriculum rather than topic-based, we incorporated the issues we currently face within our community and in turn, discovered potential solutions for the challenges we will face in the future. During the year, we will study the various issues facing our community and in turn, work to implement a vision for progress.

OPENING RETREAT OBJECTIVES

To introduce LeaP Curriculum for the upcoming year.
To introduce the LeaP experience and preview key individual and group learning.
To establish individual leadership styles.
To educate and inform essentials of the program and how it ties into the community as a whole.

COMMUNITY OVERVIEW OBJECTIVES

To gain a greater understanding of our region’s history, how people have invested and disinvested in the region, and how those trends impact current reinvestment.
To explore how we live, work & play in Northwest Florida.
To experience, firsthand, the elements of community development by touring a neighborhood and meeting its leaders.
To provide an essential basis for the curriculum year.

SIMULATED SOCIETY RETREAT OBJECTIVES

To further explore individual leadership styles and components such as stressors and ideal working and living situations.
To emulate society, evaluate natural instincts, struggles and human reactions.
To evaluate and learn from the dynamics of social change, the causes of societal fragmentation, the challenges of group conflict and the numerous options for civic control.

COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE OBJECTIVES

To explore and identify the components that make up the support structure and how they impact our daily life.
To examine how aspects of our support structure inter-connect with other aspects.
To identify strengths and weaknesses of our support structure and how it affects how we live work and play in Northwest Florida.

EDUCATION, HEALTH CARE & TECHNOLOGY OBJECTIVES

To explore and identify the components that serve as an intangible support system of our community.
To examine the quality of our education, health care and technology services.
To identify strengths and weaknesses of our support structure and how it affects how we live, work and play in Northwest Florida.

TALLAHASSEE TRIP OBJECTIVES

To explore how the legislative process impacts how we live, work and play in Northwest Florida.
To explore how the lobbying process differs in session and out of session.
To explore how Florida fits into the national plan for terrorism preparedness.
To allow the class the opportunity to speak with their legislators and staffs regarding the issues that are of importance to them.
To provide enough freedom in the schedule for the class to explore the issues or topics of interest to them.

MILITARY DAY

To explore and identify components of the military structure in our community.
To understand the large economic impact that the military has on our region.
To examine our community support of the military.
To understand the basic components of Armed Services Commands.

REGIONAL ECONOMICS

To develop an understanding of our economic base and foundation.
To explore different economic development strategies.
To understand how our community is affected by ongoing local, state, or nation-wide economic development efforts.
To examine the results of economic development efforts in our region.
To understand the area’s economic strengths and weaknesses and prospects for the future.

QUALITY OF LIFE OBJECTIVES

To examine and explore the positive and negative aspects of our community’s quality of life.
To examine why we come and why we stay in the Pensacola Bay Area.
To examine the meaning of quality of life for the various socio-economic groups in the Pensacola Bay Area.
To explore the importance of cultural organizations and activities in the life of the community.

LEADERSHIP & ETHICS OBJECTIVES

To integrate leadership skills from past sessions.
To understand interrelationships among leaders in the community.
To identify the risks, rewards and challenges of leadership.
To understand the kinds and components of leadership.
To strengthen the bond between leadership and ethics.
To apply knowledge of ethics and leadership to specific situations.

CLOSING RETREAT OBJECTIVES

To reflect on the LeaP Curriculum year.
To explore lessons learned during the past 10 months.
To review the LeaP experience and determine key individual and group learning.
To explore new individual and team challenges.
To apply the LeaP experience to a future course of action.