Girl Scouts of Eastern Iowa & Western Illinois

Over the last several months, the GSEIWI Adult Development Department has been busy introducing the new Girl Scout Leadership Experience and the leadership journeys to volunteers at Kickoff meetings, volunteer trainings and Super Saturday events throughout the council.

We hope that you'll send us a "postcard" (post a comment by clicking the link below or send an e-mail to AdultLearning @GSEIWI.org) to share how you and your girls have enjoyed your travels along this new Girl Scout journey.

Here are a few questions that would be helpful to our council and GSUSA in shaping future resources and trainings.

• If you attended Leadership Essentials training, how helpful has it been to you as a leader? What could be improved?
• Are your girls using the leadership journeys? What do they like best? What improvements wold they suggest? (Please include the grade level for your girls.)
• Are you using the adult guide for the leadership journeys? What do you like best? What improvements would you suggest? (Please include the grade level for your girls.)
• How has your troop incorporated other Girl Scout awards, events or field trips into the journey curriculum?
• What are your girls planning for their Take Action project?
• What other topics/activities would your girls like to see in future journeys?

All of your suggestions and ideas will provide greatly-appreciated feedback for program and adult development staff at both the council level and the national level. Thank you for sharing your voice!

Labels: Girl Scout Leadership Experience, Girl Scouts, journeys

Nearly 100 cases of Girl Scout Cookies were delivered yesterday; they will be used for promotional purposes prior to the start of the sale in January. But once the first shipment arrives, we'll have Girl Scout Cookies delivered to the office until the last case leaves in May! So we're cleaning closets here at the office, getting ready for the 2009 Cookie Sale Program.

One of the things we found was a word magnet set from the 2008 Cookie Sale Program. I love these sets--easy poetry at your fingers!

So I thought I'd let you all play along at home. The words are listed below, use as many as you want to make a phrase or poem and add it as a comment or send an email to HillaryB(at)GSEIWI(dot)org and I'll add it for you.

Here's my three poems:

• I do so girls believe.
• We volutneer to create hope.
• Others dream and you initiate action.

Here are the words. Feel free to add -ing, -ed or -s, if you need to. Have fun!

a, action, and, believe, can, challenge, create, discover, do, dream, encourage, energize, girls, give, grow, hope, I, imagine, initiate, inspire, laugh, lead, learn, motivate, my, others, reach, reward, shine, so, they, to, we, we're, will, with, volunteer, you

Labels: Girl Scouts, inspirational message, poems, words