Thanks for Attending Student Participation!

Thanks for attending my workshop on "Student Participation" at the Area F Student Leadership Conference! Please click on the link at the top right of this page to download today's presentation.

CADA Area E/F Advisors Conference

Thanks for attending my workshop, "Elect Them, Select Them, and Hold Them Accountable" at the Area E/F Advisors Conference at Chino Hills High School on September 19, 2009. Please check the links on the right under "Presentation Downloads" to check out all my downloadable handouts.

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Goodbye CADA Camp

Thanks for a great camp! If you want to keep in touch with all the great people you just met, become a Fan of this Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cada-Leadership-Camp-III-July18-21-2009/110414156492?ref=ts

Are you committed to treating others on your campus with respect and kindness? Have you made the "I Will" pledge? Learn more about the program, share with your friends, and make the pledge by becoming a Fan at:

http://www.TheIWillSite.org

Have a great school year!
Ron

Our camp is on Facebook!

Hey CADA Campers!

Thanks to Ryan Singer! You now have a Facebook page to connect with all the new friends you made here at CADA Camp. Check it out at:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cada-Leadership-Camp-III-July18-21-2009/110414156492?ref=ts

Have a great school year!

Ron

Black Light Rallies

We had a great discussion about blacklight rallies at our Rockin' Rallies interest session. Thanks to http://www.asbdirector.com for the cool blacklight rally photo.

A great source for blacklight paint of all kinds is Automated Entertainment, out of Little Rock, CA. You can check out the site at http://www.automatedhd.com. Call or e-mail the owner, Jeffrey, for information on flourescent paints, invisible paint (only visible under blacklight), and other cool blacklight effects you can create. Enjoy!

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Big First Day at CADA Camp

We had a big first day here at CADA Leadership Camp at UC Santa Barbara. We checked in nearly 340 student leaders early in the day, sang and danced at Program on the Green, met new friends in our Council sessions, heard the amazing motivational speaker Mike Smith, and ended the evening with our first dance. It was a blast! More fun tomorrow on Day 2!

Farewell, CADA Campers!

Hope you all had a great time, and a great learning experience, here at CADA Leadership Camp. Have a great school year!

Cheers,

Ron

Rockin' Rallies Follow-Up

Rockin' Rallies went great today! Thanks to all who attended, and thanks to Makai from Council 7 for taking these notes! E-mail me at rippolito@gmail.com if you have any questions about how to make your rallies rockin' this year!

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Rockin' Rallies!

Thank you for attending my interest session, Rockin' Rallies! I drew inspiration for my interest session from a website called asbdirector.com. If you would like great rally resources, visit their rally site here:

http://www.asbdirector.com/activities/rally/rallies.html

SWAPs notes

Do you have SWAPs notes or other great ideas to share? Scan your notes and send them to me at rippolito@gmail.com and I will post them here on ISawYouAtCADA.com. Or post a comment on this blog entry. Hope you had a great time and learned a lot at CADA Camp!

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Our camp experience on Facebook

Now everyone who attended CADA Leadership Camp from July 8 to July 11, 2009, can come together on Facebook! Thanks to Danny for getting this going!

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More Council 13 photos

Our last day of Council 13. Enjoy!

http://picasaweb.google.com/cadacamp/CADACampCouncil13LastDay?authkey=Gv1sRgCKau5oST7e2ClwE&feat=directlink

Have a great year, CADA Camp!

The newsletters should be posted in the next 24 hours. Thanks for a great leadership camp, and go back and make the 2009-2010 school year the best ever!

Cheers,
Ron

Council 13 Beach Photos

Council 13! Check these out, and more to follow . . .

http://picasaweb.google.com/cadacamp/CADACampBeachCouncil13UCSBI2009?authkey=Gv1sRgCO7wyKqC8ubDWw&feat=directlink

Cheers,

Ron

Council 13 Practice SWAP Session

The ideas were coming fast and furious as Council 13 met during Seventh Council to practice a SWAP session together as a council. The notes may not all be in complete sentences, but there are lots of great ideas that came out of just our 24-minute practice session. Enjoy!

PEP RALLIES

Homecoming bang sticks. These are banned by CIF, but you can still use them at rallies.

Games and prize giveaways at dances and at rallies

Sell spirit shirts at the beginning of year

Buy a shirt cannon, or make a water balloon launcher out of surgical tubing and a dog dish

Black light rally – Using UV lights in your gym

Completely black out your gym; rent black lights from your DJ or DJ may let you borrow them for free

Use Purex laundry detergent to make stuff glow, use it to make hand prints on your clothing or put a drop inside clear balloons and you will have glowing orbs. The detergent is virtually invisible in the regular light, but glows cool!

Senior Olympics – Lion King themed Olympics, classes compete

Nickelodeon themed rally – made slime for the rally! Obstacle course, last part was to throw slime at the class president (only losing classes get their president slimed)

How to make slime? Little kid wading pools, slime tank with PVC frame and clear

Slime recipe: Water flour and green food coloring

STAR testing rally: goal was 660. Brought pro-wrestler to school to challenge assistant principal—cool to get staff members involved in rallies!

Senior class needs money for Prom – “Pies for Prom” donates money to pie a certain teacher. Dollar amounts get higher for the teachers that students really want to get pied in the face. Variation on this: kiss a cow.

FFA – some schools in California have farms for the Future Farmers of America. These teaches students how to care for farm animals

HOMECOMING

We had 50^th anniversary of our school. We had an alumni parade. Alumni held signs and marched in pre-game parade. Dinner for alumni before event. Confetti cannons near conclusion of national anthem

White Dove Release for Homecoming or for Graduation

What do we do for a brand new school for a homecoming?

We didn’t have alumni yet as a new school, so we called it “Upcoming”

Do it during basketball season

We have a week full of events

Bonfire night, turned into a karaoke night, ice cream, karaoke, parade

Disneyland theme with floats: Frontierland, Adentureland, Tomorrowland

Parade in the middle of town one night

Turn homecoming week into a spirit week, coed game, have a dance-off

We have a whole week, like a spirit week with the big finish on Friday: rally, parade, and football game and then the dance is the next night

Reserve a section of the bleachers at your homecoming game for alumni

Theme for parade was decades, and parade and dance was themed for the different decades

Huge outdoor pep rally on the football field

Have football players’ moms come onto the field to kiss players on cheek; players then had to guess which girl

Greetings from the CADA Convention!

Whether I met you at the CADA Convention in San Diego recently, or you were referred by a friend, I'm so glad you came to my site!  Please look at the links on the right-hand side of this blog for helpful downloads such as ASB officer applications, commissioner applications, grading rubrics, and much more!  These documents have been drawn from my five years of high school activities and four years of middle school activities.  Don't hesitate to e-mail me at rippolito@gmail.com if you have any questions.

Cheers,

Ron