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Curriculum

An Inter-disciplinary Approach To Curriculum

Community education/leadership programs need to provide a picture of the whole community; of how the various parts fit together. A community is not about topics but rather, interrelations of issues. In creating an issue-based curriculum rather than topic-based, we incorporated the issues we currently face within our community and in turn, discovered potential solutions for the challenges we will face in the future. During the year, we will study the various issues facing our community and in turn, work to implement a vision for progress.

Community Overview Objectives

To gain a greater understanding of our region’s history, how people have invested and disinvested in the region, and how those trends impact current reinvestment.
To explore how we live, work & play in Northwest Florida.
To experience, firsthand, the elements of community development by touring a neighborhood and meeting its leaders.
To provide an essential basis for the curriculum year.

Present Economics Objectives

To explore different economic development strategies.
To understand how our community is affected by ongoing local, state, or nation-wide economic development efforts.
To examine the results of economic development efforts in Pensacola and elsewhere.
To generate and critique a simple economic development strategy for Pensacola.
To further understand the area’s economic strengths and weaknesses and prospects for the future (continued in Future Economics)

Future Economics Objectives

To develop an understanding of our economic base.
To lay down a foundation for our economy.
To standardize common understanding of economics To explore the fundamentals of our region’s economy and how fiscal policy (and the leaders that shape it) influence our lives.
To understand the area’s economic strengths and weaknesses and prospects for the future.

Tangible Support Structure Objectives

To explore and identify the components that make up the support structure and how they impact our daily life.
To examine how aspects of our support structure inter-connect with other aspects.
To identify strengths and weaknesses of our support structure and how it affects how we live work and play in Northwest Florida.

Intangible Support Structure Objectives

To explore and identify the components that make up the support structure and how they impact our daily life.
To examine how aspects of our support structure inter-connect with other aspects.
To identify strengths and weaknesses of our support structure and how it affects how we live work and play in Northwest Florida.

Quality of Life Objectives

To examine and explore the positive and negative aspects of our community’s quality of life.
To examine why we come and why we stay in the Pensacola Bay Area.
To examine the meaning of quality of life for the various socio-economic groups in the Pensacola Bay Area.
To explore the importance of cultural organizations and activities in the life of the community.

Tallahassee Trip Objectives

To explore how the legislative process impacts how we live, work and play in Northwest Florida.
To explore how the lobbying process differs in session and out of session.
To explore how Florida fits into the national plan for terrorism preparedness.
To allow the class the opportunity to speak with their legislators and staffs regarding the issues that are of importance to them.
To provide enough freedom in the schedule for the class to explore the issues or topics of interest to them.

Leadership & Ethics Objectives

To integrate leadership skills from past sessions.
To understand interrelationships among leaders in the community.
To identify the risks, rewards and challenges of leadership.
To understand the kinds and components of leadership.
To strengthen the bond between leadership and ethics.
To apply knowledge of ethics and leadership to specific situations.

Closing Retreat Objectives

To reflect on the LeaP Curriculum year.
To explore lessons learned during the past 10 months.
To review the LeaP experience and determine key individual and group learnings.
To explore new individual and team challenges.
To apply the LeaP experience to a future course of action.