Today’s Girl Scout
Experience…and You!
June 2008
The volunteer value
• The expertise, interests, skills and life
experiences of volunteers are essential to
shaping fun and enriching leadership
experiences for girls, and inspiring them to
reach their personal best.
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The volunteer value
• As a Girl Scout volunteer, you bring the
New Girl Scout Leadership Experience to
life for girls and are critical to the
program’s success.
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The volunteer value
• Your commitment and passion to the
Girl Scout Movement are indispensable.
• We value and celebrate your dedication
and ask you to join us as we embark on
our newest adventure.
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We are redefining
Girl Scouting by
focusing on
outcomes of the
New Girl Scout
Leadership
Experience
The New Girl Scout
Leadership Experience
• Is the world’s best leadership experience that
defines activities and outcomes, differentiated
by grade level, for girls from kindergarten
through high school, and offers flexible
pathways for participation.
• Keeps us focused on our core mission of
building girls of courage, confidence and
character, who make the world a better place.
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Leadership
New Leadership Journeys
• Help us transform Girl Scouting and guide
girls through their new leadership journeys
as they become courageous, confident
leaders of the future.
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What is a journey?
A journey has a beginning and an
ending. As we travel the distance
between the two, we learn and grow!
A national Girl Scout journey
offers girls:
• An invitation to explore the three
keys to leadership
• A chance to reflect on what they
learn
• Fun and challenges
A national Girl Scout
journey offers volunteers:
• How-to guides, which explain
how the leadership experience
ties to the outcomes
• Specific examples that show how
to use the Girl-Led, Cooperative
Learning, and Learning by Doing
processes
• Tips and encouragement for easy
participation in fun and
purposeful experiences with girls
Girl Scout Pathways
• Girl Scout Pathways—the ways that girls
and adults participate in Girl Scouting—
offer girls a wonderful opportunity to
experience Girl Scouting through one or
more of the six proposed pathways.
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PROPOSED
Girl Scout Pathways
Events
for Girls Different girls,
each event
Camp Special
Day and Resident Interest
Camps, focus on Same girls, all
out-of-doors and/or sessions relating to
environmental, a specific theme or
outdoor education purpose
Virtual Passport
High-quality, (Multipathway Travel
interactive Regional, national,
participation allowed)
program; safe, and international
secure, online trips
environment
Troops
Same girls, all
sessions; typically
spans of the length
of a school year
Pathways Criteria
Events Special Interest Travel Troops Virtual Camp
• Be mission-driven
• Align to the New Girl Scout
Leadership Experience
• Adhere to the Blue Book of Basic
Documents 2006 and Safety-Wise
• Be relevant and accessible to all girl and
adult populations
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Pathways Criteria
Events Special Interest Travel Troops Virtual Camp
• Provide opportunities for continuous
involvement
• Support volunteers through the Single-
Entry System (SES) and volunteer
structures
• Provide consistent volunteer learning
opportunities (training)
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Imagine…
The Future State