Breaking Down the Walls<\/p>\n
Westmont High School student Kaylee Garcia was among 25 student leaders who helped their peers from\u00a0Silicon Valley Career Technical Education\u00a0(SVCTE) center in the\u00a0Breaking Down the Walls\u00a0(BDTW) on Aug. 29.<\/p>\n
Garcia and the other student leaders completed a three-hour training to prepare them to\u00a0guide their peers through a full day of activities designed to build meaningful connections. More than 100 students participated in the\u00a0BDTW event, organized by\u00a0ignite2unite.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat inspired me to step into this student leadership position was I felt it was a really great opportunity to put myself out there in a way that I wasn\u2019t really familiar with, and I just felt like it was a really great chance to get to know my peers and people that I maybe kind of recognized but never got a chance to talk to otherwise,\u201d Garcia said\u00a0in a release.<\/p>\n
Run by the Metropolitan Education District, SVCTE provides career technical education for high school students in Santa Clara County. \u00a0Mobile apps and web development teacher Jesus Correa, who co-led the event, said the goal in bringing in BDTW was to \u201ccreate an opportunity for students from all of our different courses and from the 45-plus schools that attend SVCTE to come together in a meaningful way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Correa said student leaders were nominated by their teachers and staff for their leadership potential, positivity and willingness to support their peers.<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir role was crucial because they set the tone for the activities, encouraged participation and helped create a safe environment for honest conversations,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Breaking Down the Walls Westmont High School student Kaylee Garcia was among 25 student leaders who helped their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3805,4,450,2356,7337,451,7206,983,3,10840,10843,452,453],"class_list":["post-156368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-bay-area","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-california","tag-campbell","tag-headlines","tag-k-12-education","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-south-bay","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}