Links:

 

Course Overview
MSAN

  • Course Expectations

  • Lesson Plans

  • Course Materials

MSAN Scholars

  • Student Bios

  • Student Digital Portfolios

  • Ms. Mafi's Digital Portfolio

Conferences

  • 7th Annual Student Achievement Leadership Conference in Green Bay, Wisconsin

  • Annual Educator's Conference in Eugene, Oregon (June 2007)

Mentoring Program

  • MSAN-Crocker Farm Mentoring Pilot Program

ADL

  • Anti-Defamation League's Anti-Bias Peer Training Program

 

MSAN Leadership Seminar
 Digital Portfolio

Amherst Regional High School
2006-2007
Closing the Achievement Gap through Scholarship, Leadership and Action...

The MSAN Scholars with their 5th Grade Crocker Farm

Elementary School Mentees!

    

     The MSAN Leadership Seminar is a second year course designed to empower students to work on closing the achievement gap at Amherst Regional High School through scholarship, leadership and action.  In the past, it has been the administration’s role to identify the root of the problem at ARHS and craft appropriate action-strategies to deal with inequitable school practices.  This course serves to give student leaders a prominent role in this process.  As a member of this MSAN Leadership Seminar, students commit to closing the achievement gap through service, action and dialogue in a small class setting over the course of an entire school year.  We meet as a group 3 times per week throughout the year.  Two days are devoted to scholarship-- critical investigation and analysis focused on answering the essential question "Why does the Achievement Gap persist at Amherst Regional High School?"    The third day focuses on student-designed "action projects" to address the problem.

The Minority Student Achievement Network (MSAN) joins schools from across the nation to study the gap in achievement between white students and students of color.  The network's goal is to achieve strong academic success of all minority students through conducting research, analyzing policies and examining the practices that affect academic performance of minority students.  Amherst-Pelham Regional School District has been a member of the Network for the past 6 years.  As a member school, ARHS has participated in the annual Network meetings for teachers and students, the Tripod Project, the STRIVE Peer Mentoring Program and now the MSAN Leadership Seminar.

 

Standards:

 

Scholarship

  • Overview of Standard

  • Student Reflection

Leadership

  • Overview of Standard

  • Student Reflection

Action

  • Overview of Standard

  • Student Reflection