About
Urban Grad Leadership Camp isn’t the same ole camp. At Urban Grad Leadership Camp (UGLC), it’s even better: better curriculum, better teachers, and better activities.
If you’re looking for a camp program that will build skills, confidence and motivation to succeed in the classroom and in life, you need UGLC.
UGLC uses a well-researched teaching methodology that’s updated with the latest research on how the brain learns, plus a variety of successful teaching strategies, to make great kids greater.
More than a camp program, more than a motivational retreat, UGLC is an accelerated learning program for students ages 11 to 18 who want to:
Live up to their full potential
Reduce study time
Make friends more easily
Get better grades
Be happier
Build self-esteem
Score higher on tests
Become more self-motivated
Get along better with family members, teachers and friends
It all started in 1998. Adopting some accelerated learning principles from a successful business school, Wilda Kier, executive director and the president of UGLC, applied those same strategies to a youth camp. The ultimate desire was to make learning both fun and fundamental, and the program was a success.
Graduates from the original class Inner winner power workshops says, successful with over 1200 students completing the academic and life skills work shop.
During our Youth/Teen Camp Program, UGLC will teach students to:
Read faster … and with greater comprehension
Write more quickly and powerfully …
Take better notes and organize information in a way that dramatically improves the recall of important facts, figures and details
Memorize everything from vocabulary words to history dates using fun, entertaining memory techniques
Prepare for the SAT, PSAT and ACT … and net a higher score
Become a lifelong learner
Students will also discover life skills that help him or her:
Become more self-motivated and accept responsibility for his or her life
Blossom into a secure, confident young adult
Think creatively, set goals and solve problems
Communicate more effectively and resolve conflict easily
Break through self-imposed limits to achieve his or her greatest potential
During an independent evaluation survey, past program attendees reported that UGLC helped them to:
Increase their motivation
Improve their grades
Increase their confidence
Increase their self-esteem
Plus, reported that they continue to use the skills they learned at UrbanGraduate Leadership Camp
UrbanGraduate Youth Leadership Conference: Residential weekend camp offering a concentrated immersion of college, career, leadership and entrepreneurial seminars and workshops, fun and life-long friendships in a truly beautiful setting for 9th-12th graders.
UrbanGraduate Youth Leadership Camp: Residential 3 day/3 night or 6 day/5 night camp offering Academic support, life-skills training, college and career workshops, fun and life-long friendships in a truly beautiful setting for 4th-10th graders
Academic and Social Enrichment
According to the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice, "Youth attending formal after-school programs spend more time in academic activities and enrichment lessons than do their peers left unsupervised after school. Research has shown that these youth" do better in school." With that in mind, the UrbanGraduate school-based programs provide youth an opportunity to increase their academic learning and comprehension.
Life-Skills Training
In direct complement to academic support is the program's life-skills training component. Here students are exposed to social-emotional-cognitive life skills that help them develop the assets they need to grow up healthy, caring and confident. These assets include caring, interpersonal competence, conflict resolution, drug resistance skills, personal power, wellness and fitness and self-esteem. Approximately 3-5 hours per camp or conference is devoted to life-skills training. Each curriculum employed in the life-skills training component is research-based and nationally recognized for its effectiveness.
Mentoring
The recent surge of mentoring programs throughout the United States is not an unfounded fad; it is a direct response to a deep need for supportive adult-youth relationships. Once a natural part of most communities' social fabric, adult-youth relationships have waned in recent decades due changes in family structure, the increase in women in the workplace, and to overcrowded schools. Mentoring fills the gap by providing adult friendship and guidance otherwise absent from many youths' lives, resulting in improved school performance and family relationships. Mentoring also helps prevent initiation of drug and alcohol use. UrbanGraduate has developed Academic Mentoring partnerships with college students, business professionals, and the Anthony Robbins Foundation Mentoring Program.
Service-Learning
Service-learning is defined by the National Commission on Service Learning as "a teaching and learning approach that integrates community service with academic study to enrich learning, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities." Like mentoring, service-learning has attracted a great deal of attention and support in recent years because there is strong evidence that it increases student motivation in school, promotes citizenship and community involvement, and decreases engagement in risky behaviors. All service learning projects will fulfill student’s requirements. All students requiring volunteer hours will be guided to projects that will help them fulfill school requirements.
Adventure Leadership and Teambuilding
Promoting Leadership Through Youth Driven Adventure Experiences and Teambuilding in collaboration with Wolf and ChampionsUSA.
UrbanGraduate Youth Leadership and Mentoring is a program created especially for middle and high school youth with an array of Outward Bound-style activities to build leadership and confidence.
Rock Climbing
Rock climbing is an excellent way to build self-confidence, trust, strength, and balance. At Urban Graduate we will be using both indoor climbing gyms and some of Southern California’s awesome outdoor climbing areas.
Ropes Challenge Course
Camp Hess Kramer, Hollywood land, and Brandeis Bardin Institute Challenge Courses are a great opportunity for youth to work on their communication, leadership and teamwork skills. Youth can choose to spend concentrated time on the low challenge course, or spend the day doing both high ropes and low element activities
Urban Graduates kids will participate each year in a few nationally recognized service learning projects. Students will identify needs in their unique community, and find a way to address them.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day in January
Projects designed to celebrate diversity and the breaking down of social and economic barriers.
Entrepreneurship Week in February
Next Top Entrepreneur is a competition seeking out the individual with the most potential to succeed in the entrepreneurial work force of the future. Contestants will be given tasks to complete that will be judged by a panel of professionals using criteria such as originality, creativity, and showmanship. The grand prize is the opportunity to shadow local entrepreneurs in order to gain experience in and knowledge of the entrepreneurial field
National Youth Service Day in April
With the spotlight on youth leadership, Urban Graduate kids participate with millions of young Americans to serve their community.
Make a Difference Day in October
Created by USA Weekend Magazine this is a day designated to serve the community.
UrbanGraduate Middle School Ambassadors and High School Leaders Luncheon and Awards Ceremony
Join us in celebrating outstanding youth in our community! Students in UrbanGraduate programs are nominated for their outstanding work during the school year and summer, and voted on to receive awards. Winners are celebrated and receive their awards at this ceremony in April.
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed”: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
Martin Luther King
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