The Student Leadership Program is a once in a lifetime experience for high school students. Students in SLP will have the opportunity to learn more about their community including career opportunities at major businesses and learn important work-ready power skills to earn their dream job and be successful on the job. Below is information on what to expect in SLP and resources to connect and be successful in your own leadership journey.
SLP Events
Ignite
Ignite
Ignite is the orientation and induction event for newly admitted SLP students. Students are officially inducted into SLP and participate in workshops focusing on team building, assessing personal career interests’ fundamentals of leadership. Students also learn about leadership through service by participating in a community service project in Savannah.
Kickoff
Kickoff
Kickoff officially begins the new year of SLP each fall. Kickoff includes a motivational speaker as well as high energy and interactive workshops and exercises focusing on career exploratory and leadership development growth.
Discovery
Discovery
Students participate in four Discovery events throughout the school year. At Discovery, students participate in career and industry tours, interactive simulation exercises and hands-on workshops focusing on specific work-ready power skills.
Year-End Celebration
Year-End Celebration
The SLP Year-End Celebration is the official conclusion of the SLP year that includes a keynote speaker, adviser and student awards recognition and SLP Graduation Ceremony for SLP seniors.
SLP Serves
SLP Serves
SLP Serves is a volunteer and community service day held in the summer where students and advisers work with nonprofit organizations to learn about community issues and volunteer to make their community a better place.
Sophomore College and Career Summer Experience
College and Career Summer Experience
This overnight experience trip for rising junior students will expose SLP students to college and industry tours to learn about career and educational opportunities within Georgia.
Junior Citizenship and Leadership Experience
Citizenship and Leadership Experience
This multiday experience trip for rising seniors will visit and explore Washington DC to see and learn about the history of the United States, but also be exposed to and learn about leadership within the country.
SLP Student Commitment
The Student Leadership Program (SLP) is a partnership between Gulfstream and Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools aimed to expose students to career opportunities in Chatham County and develop student’s personal leadership and work-ready skills. Being selected to be in SLP is an honor and privilege. Students admitted to the program will remain in the program throughout their sophomore, junior and senior year of high school as long as they meet the SLP Commitment Requirements. Failure to meet these requirements may result in removal from the program. Students in the program must commit to the following:
Being present is critical for students to be engaged and learn through the experiences offered in SLP. Students in the program can miss no more than two events per year. If a student misses more than two events in a year, they will be dismissed from the program.
Since SLP takes place during the school day, it is important for SLP students to maintain good grades since they will miss instruction time to attend SLP. Students who have a grade in any class that is lower than a C for more than two nine-week periods will be dismissed from the program.
SLP is a leadership program to promote and demonstrate positive leadership actions. As a member of SLP, students should abide by the school code of conduct. If the student violates any portion of the code of conduct, it will be up to their principal whether they can continue in SLP.
At all SLP events, being engaged and participating is important to personal growth. At SLP students are expected to be respectful to others in paying attention during tours, workshops and assemblies, not using their cellphone and/or earbuds and headphones.
Community service is a major part of leadership and understanding your community. Students must participate in at least one SLP Serves to complete and graduate from the program.
The learning that takes place in SLP is not limited to the sessions that take place during the school year. Students are required to participate in at least one of the Summer Experience Trips during their time in the program but are not limited to only participating in one. They will be required to attend the trip with their class.

SLP Advisers
Sophomore Advisers
- Lasaundra Wade
Teacher Adviser - Morgan Ferguson
Community Adviser - Hunter Morris
Community Adviser
Junior Advisers
- Khalilah Watson
Teacher Adviser - Kim Bachman
Community Adviser - Carlene Bridges
Community Adviser
Senior Advisers
- Beverly Lawton
Teacher Adviser - Kirby McCoy
Community Adviser - Brian Dawsey
Community Adviser
Sophomore Advisers
- Charles Johnson
Teacher Adviser - Shed Dawson
Community Adviser
Junior Advisers
- Gina Smith
Teacher Adviser - Liz Giddens
Community Adviser - Tiffany Moore
Community Adviser
Senior Advisers
- Kay Strickland
Teacher Adviser - Bettina Tate
Community Adviser
Sophomore Advisers
- Townley Smith
Teacher Adviser - Marshall tuck
Community Adviser
Junior Advisers
- Vanna Cuthbertson
Teacher Adviser - Cathy Manning
Community Adviser - Monica Daughtery
Community Adviser - Michelle Hetager
Community Adviser
Senior Advisers
- Stacey Bragg
Teacher Adviser - Vickie Callaway
Community Adviser - Debbie Fischer
Community Adviser
Sophomore Advisers
- Todd Perkins
Teacher Adviser - Daniel Scott
Community Adviser
Junior Advisers
- Nichole Baker
Teacher Adviser - Al Wright
Community Adviser - Lisa Yannett
Community Adviser
Senior Advisers
- Marilyn Police
Teacher Adviser - Nicholas Gray
Community Adviser
Sophomore Advisers
- Tracy Richardson
Teacher Adviser
Junior Advisers
- Daisymae Washington
Teacher Adviser - Michael Henderson
Community Adviser - Leandrea Mikell
Community Adviser
Senior Advisers
- Cynthia Mikell
Teacher Adviser - Jayne Chaplin
Community Adviser - Charlotte Perkins
Community Adviser
Sophomore Advisers
- Paris Viens
Teacher Adviser - Ashely Dubois
Community Adviser - Marina Warren
Community Adviser
Junior Advisers
- Rachel Wipper
Teacher Adviser - Danise Sarrazin
Community Adviser
Senior Advisers
- Cheryl Polite
Teacher Adviser - Jamila Jackson
Community Adviser
Sophomore Advisers
- Ben Parker
Teacher Adviser - Althea Cummings
Community Adviser - Kristina Giles
Community Adviser
Junior Advisers
- Jeff Fortson
Teacher Adviser - Carolyn Scott
Community Adviser - Blake Willis
Community Adviser
Senior Advisers
- Dane Williams
Teacher Adviser - Gail Terrell
Community Adviser
Sophomore Advisers
- Dreidre Jackson
Teacher Adviser - Cecilia Arango
Community Adviser
Junior Advisers
- Robert Jordan
Teacher Adviser - Alexis Burkes
Community Adviser
Sophomore Advisers
- Amanda Westerfield
Teacher Adviser - Ralph Dorsainvil
Community Adviser - Deborah Burnett
Community Adviser
Junior Advisers
- Rhonda Roberts
Teacher Adviser - Marini Jackson
Community Adviser - Phillip Scroggin
Community Adviser
Senior Advisers
- Antoinete Kavoori
Teacher Adviser - Roshawn Johnson
Community Adviser
Sophomore Advisers
- Latoya Muray
Teacher Adviser - Chris Bridges
Community Adviser - Charles Daw Jr.
Community Adviser
Junior Advisers
- George Johnson
Teacher Adviser - David Lewis
Community Adviser - Sajani Patel
Community Adviser
Senior Advisers
- Candace Vamvakaris
Teacher Adviser - Carla Finklin
Community Adviser - Donna Jones
Community Adviser
Sophomore Advisers
- Gustavo Tovar
Teacher Adviser - Ursula Phillips
Community Adviser - William Schriefer
Community Adviser
Junior Advisers
- Michele Hooker
Teacher Adviser - Corine Ackerson-Jones
Community Adviser - Kathleen Burkes
Community Adviser
Senior Advisers
- John Callanan
Teacher Adviser - Tracy McCoy
Community Adviser
Sophomore Advisers
- Keisha Davis
Teacher Adviser - Con Reynolds
Community Adviser - Weston Beck
Community Adviser - Norman B. Whipple
Community Adviser
Junior Advisers
- Amy Rotker
Teacher Adviser
- Brian Judson
Community Adviser - Angie Pagan
Community Adviser - Norman Whipple
Community Adviser - Ashleigh Seymour-Womack
Community Adviser
Senior Advisers
- Kathryn Ryan
Teacher Adviser - Kay Fish
Community Adviser



