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The new Girl Scout Leadership Experience provides the design for what girls do in Girl Scouting. It illustrates how adult support  strengthens girls’ experiences and drives and displays all the elements that must be in place to create a positive impact on girls’ lives. The benefits of the New Girl Scout Leadership Experience are many: - Girls embrace diversity, work collaboratively, advocate effectively for themselves and others - and become leaders now and throughout their lives.
- Girls acquire critical skills and take leadership journeys in a carefully developed curriculum with concrete and measurable outcomes.
- Girls help transform their local communities through diverse projects that they themselves develop aimed at improving the quality of life.
- Girls working together create national and global projects that harness the combined energy and leadership of Girl Scouts from many places.
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Click on the links below to find out more information:
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These 3 Keys to Leadership* are defined as: Discover: Girls understand themselves and their values and use their knowledge and skills to explore the world. Connect: Girls care about, inspire, and team with others locally and globally. Take Action: Girls act to make the world a better place. In Girl Scouting, Discover + Connect + Take Action=Leadership. All Girl Scout experiences are intentionally designed to tie to one or more of the 15 national leadership outcomes, or benefits, categorized under the 3 keys to leadership. *The 3 keys to leadership replace the "four program goals." Top
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 In Girl Scouting, it’s not just “what girls do” (activities), but “how” (processes) they do them (activities). When used together, these processes—Girl Led, Cooperative Learning, and Learning by Doing—ensure a quality experience and promote the fun and friendship so integral to Girl Scouting.
Here’s how Girl Scouts defines these processes:
• Girl Led:Girl led is just what it sounds like—girls play an active part in figuring out the what, where, when, how, and why of their activities. They lead the planning and decision-making as much as possible. This ensures that girls are engaged in their learning and experience leadership opportunities as they prepare to become active participants in their local and global communities.
• Learning by Doing: A hands-on learning process that engages girls in continuous cycles of action and reflection that result in deeper understanding of concepts and mastery of practical skills. As they participate in meaningful activities and then reflect on them, girls get to explore their own questions, discover answers, gain new skills, and share ideas and observations with others. Throughout the process, it’s important for girls to be able to connect their experiences to their lives and apply what they have learned to their future experiences.
• Cooperative Learning: Through cooperative learning, girls work together toward shared goals in an atmosphere of respect and collaboration that encourages the sharing of skills, knowledge, and learning. Working together in all-girl environments also encourages girls to feel powerful, and emotionally and physically safe, and experience a sense of belonging even in the most diverse groups.
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Girl Scout Pathways are the ways girls and adults participate in Girl Scouting. Girl Scout Pathways include:
- Camp
- Events
- Travel
- Special Interests
- Virtual (online)
- Girl Scout Troop
Girl Scout Pathways are critical because they allow girls and their families to participate in Girl Scouting in a variety of ways that best fit their interests and busy schedules. Girls and adults may be involved in Girl Scouts in one or more Girl Scout Pathway at any time.
Girl Scout Pathways add value in the following areas:
- Girls have the freedom to choose from any of the Girl Scout Pathways to join Girl Scouts and may participate in multiple Girl Scout Pathways within a membership year.
- Girls can explore their skills and interests while helping to shape a variety of fun and enriching leadership experiences that inspire them to reach their personal best.
- Girls, no matter where and how they participate, get the necessary guidance from adult volunteers and council staff to develop leadership skills and understand how those skills can be used to make a difference in the world.
Click here to view a visual aid of the Girl Scout Pathways.
Click here for the Girl Scout Pathways Fact Sheet
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Girls say it’s important to be with other girls their age, and they identify with social groups based on grades. Research also found that girls learn best and have the most fun when they are with the right developmental/social grouping. The new grade levels address the charge of intentionally creating differentiated Girl Scout experiences that mirror girls’ developmental needs.
Girl Scout Daisy: K-1
Girl Scout Brownie: 2-3
Girl Scout Junior: 4-5
Girl Scout Cadette: 6-8
Girl Scout Senior: 9-10
Girl Scout Ambassador: 11-12
The grade-level groups provide "leadership levels" for girls as they progressively "step forward" through the new Girl Scout Leadership Experience.
*The grade-level name Girl Scout Ambassador was added to adjust the newly-separated 11th - 12th grade level. The word “ambassador” represents young women leaders, paving the way in a global world. Click here to read more about girls' developmental characteristics.
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A Girl Scout Journey is a themed set of activities focused on building specific leadership skills. Each Girl Scout Journey will be broken out into different grade levels, placed into book format, and will include between six and eight sessions that will be customized for the specific needs and interests of girls. Girl Scout Journeys can be done in a variety of Girl Scout Pathways including stand-alone, short term activities. Each Girl Scout Journey is tied to Girl Scouts’three keys to leadership with special emphasis on choosing and implementing related "Take Action" projects. Each of the sessions within Girl Scout Journeys are directly related to the GSUSA National Outcomes.
While engaged in the new Girl Scout Journeys, girls and volunteers are encouraged to add outings, celebrations, in-depth explorations, or anything else that meets girls’ specific interests, time, and resources, including the Girl Scout Cookie Program.
Girl Scout Journeys:
The first Girl Scout Journey, the Change Your World series, will come out this fall. In this series, girls at each grade level identify problems and put “Take Action” plans in motion to change their world.
Each of the Girl Scout Journeys in this series:
– Provides a global and multicultural perspective,
– Highlights Girl Scout history and tradition,
– Encourages girls to live the Girl Scout Law,
– Touches on healthy living and the environment, and
– Can be used for longer-term experiences.
Click the links below to see the highlights of each grade level’s Girl Scout Journeys coming this fall:
Click here for Girl Scout Journeys Frequently Asked Questions
Click here for Girl Scout Recognitions Frequently Asked Questions
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The new leadership model requires ongoing, comprehensive efforts to measure the impact of the new Girl Scout Leadership Experience, helping to determine modifications as needed, and communicating to all of our audiences how girls are benefiting from Girl Scouting.
Girl Scout Outcomes are the tools to measure the specific knowledge, skills, attitudes, behaviors, and values  that girls gain in Girl Scouting. The new Girl Scout Leadership Experience has 15 specific outcomes. There are five common outcomes in each of the three keys to leadership: Discover, Connect, and Take Action. The short term outcome is that girls gain specific knowledge, skills, attitudes, behaviors, and values in Girl Scouting, while the long term Girl Scout outcome is that girls lead with courage, confidence and character to make the world a better place (Girl Scout Mission).
Click here to view a visual aid of the 15 Girl Scout Outcomes.
Click here to download GSUSA publication Transforming Leadership (Note: This PDF is 8.3 MB).You can also purchase the book from any of the Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas Shops to see the Discover-Connect-Take Action framework behind the 15 Girl Scout Outcomes and understand how girls will benefit from the new Girl Scout Leadership Experience today and tomorrow.
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Additional Information
This membership year (October 2008 – September 2009) will be a year of transition. If you wish to continue with the old Girl Scout model, you may choose to do so, but we hope you decide to transition to the new Girl Scout Leadership Experience soon. Girl Scout Journeys and traditional program books can also be used simultaneously.
By September 2010, the transition to the new Girl Scout Leadership Experience will be complete and all Girl Scout resources will be updated.
Want more information about the new Girl Scout Leadership Experience? Click here!
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Administrative Kick-Off Follow Up
ATTENTION ALL GIRL SCOUT SERVICE UNIT TEAM MEMBERS WHO ATTENDED THE ADMINISTRATIVE KICK-OFF:
As requested, we will be posting the Kick-Off Girl Scout Leadership Experience workshop Power Point soon.
Several also requested copies of the handouts, which are provided below:
- For a template to help modify current recognitions (Girl Scout Try-Its, Badges, and Interest Projects) to reflect the Girl Scout Leadership Experience, click here. This will help in the future with identifyng Girl Scout Leadership Keys, Processes, and the future program report.
- For the Girl Scout Leadership Experience Engine, click here.
- For the Girl Scout Leadership Experience Administrative Kick-Off Workshop Power Point, click here.
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