St. John’s Leadership Academy extends the school's commitment toward excellence by offering programs that focus on mental health, accountability, responsibility, team building and other leadership qualities needed throughout our students’ educational career and beyond. Over the course of each six week program, the SJE Leadership Academy creates an environment that embraces risk taking and growth where participating students will discuss their journeys as leaders, whether as athlete, artist, engineer or innovator.
The research based leadership curriculum we utilize was created by MindsetMatters and is guided by the following core principles:
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Everyone is a leader, regardless of age, gender, or ethnicity.
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Leaders are developed through education and experience.
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Building character is a personal choice.
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Leaders use a common and shared language.
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Leadership takes practice.
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Leaders learn and grow through failure.
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Feeling safe isn’t enough. Being safe takes practice, preparation, and observation skills.
(To learn more, go to https://www.mymindsetmatters.org/)
In addition to the leadership curriculum, student participants will demonstrate their learned skills through team participation and group discussion with both coaches and motivational guest speakers.
Fall Leadership Academies include:
SJE Basketball Leadership Academy -
St. John's Basketball Leadership Academy is a six-week course led by faculty advisors and parent mentors. Each session will begin with 15-20 minutes of leadership training. The remaining time will focus on developing various basketball skills via drills and full court basketball games. Each child will get ample playing time to showcase their newly learned skills. Dates: 9/15, 9/22, 9/29, 10/6, 10/13, 10/20 Time: 5pm-7pm. Parents are welcome to stay for the duration of each session and a St. John's faculty member will be present at all times. If you have any questions, please reach out to Coach Ronnie Williams (rwilliams@stjohnseagles.org)
SJE Esports Leadership Academy -
Unleash your child's inner developer with the Esports Players Club: Jr. Developer Program! Our step-by-step program will introduce your children to coding and programming principles through exciting video game design. Do your kids love Roblox? Well, now they can turn their passion into projects to unlock their creativity by designing their own games on Roblox Studios! With our experienced instructors and hands-on approach, students will learn Lua, Java Script, Python, C++, animation and design! Learning to code in a team based environment also teaches the necessary social skills required to work in a group setting with one team objective! Take gaming out of the home and turn it into an educational platform your kids will love. At the end of the program, they will have built their very own game for everyone to play!
The program meets for two hours (10:00 am-12:00 pm), once a week on Saturday mornings. No previous experience is required. The program will start on Saturday September 23rd and continue for six weeks ending on November 4th.
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Located at 1802 West Kennedy Drive, Tampa, FL 33606
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ESPC has a brand new, state of the art facility that can house a full club within a classroom.
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Parents will provide transportation to and from the location but are welcome to stay for the duration of the program
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SJE personnel will be present and the facility will be closed to the public during these hours.
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