PASS© CEO Sponsors Leadership Experience for Boyd Anderson Students
Boyd Students Team up with Turner Tech Students for Trip
Twelve students from Boyd Anderson High in Lauderdale Lakes and 10 from Turner Technical High in Miami will spend June 10-11 in Atlanta, Georgia, on a very special trip designed to develop and heighten their leadership, as well as explore area colleges and universities.
The Boyd students’ participation is sponsored by business, community and educational activist, Steve Wasserman. Mr. Wasserman partners with Boyd Anderson through the Council’s PASS program, serving as the CEO mentor and partner. (More about this partnership and work, below.) Mr. Wasserman is a member of the Council for Educational Change Board.
Additional sponsorship is provided by Mr. Wasserman’s firm, Colliers Abood Wood-Fay, and the City of Lauderdale Lakes. The Turner Tech student participation is sponsored by Mr. Horace Hord of Royal Caribbean International. He joined with Mr. Wasserman to provide the Turner students with this unique leadership experience that networks students from both schools.
There are some extraordinary activities planned for the students during the two days, including:
- Tour of TV Fox 5, Martin Luther King Center, Atlanta Aquarium
- Lunch and motivational speaker /Olympic Gold Medal winner, Antonio McKay (sponsored by Colliers Spectrum Cauble)
- Address by Jesse Spikes, Attorney with Mckenna Lodge Law Firm (Additional invited speaker, Former US Ambassador to United Nations, Andrew Young)
- Discussion with Emory University Alumni Women
- Tours of Emory University, Morehouse and Spelman Colleges
- Lunch and Entrepreneurship presentation, sponsored by Maurice Maddox and Four Points
Steve Wasserman works closely with Boyd co-principals Joyce C. Ferguson & Rayfield C. Henderson and PASS Education Coach, Dr. Pat Dixon, who is a former, successful Broward principal and student/school achievement expert. Among the PASS Action Plan activities they developed and implemented are:
- After-school tutoring programs
- FCAT Camp
- Technology and computers
- Academic software—math and reading
- FCAT ESOL science program
- Teacher & staff performance recognition awards
- Youth leadership development
- Crime Watch program
Through PASS, student leadership has been enhanced. The PASS team developed and funded successful workshops and skill sessions that have involved student leaders from all fields—academics, clubs, sports, student government and other school and extracurricular areas. Mr. Wasserman’s son is a Boyd student.
Additionally, Mr. Wasserman has enlisted the area business community and the City of Lauderdale Lakes to support the PASS model and the school.
“Steve’s focus is on building the leadership potential and skills of the whole school community—students, teachers, administrators and parents,” said Council President and Executive Director, Dr. Elaine Liftin. “To fund this PASS model at Boyd Anderson and get people engaged in its success, he rallied the community and tapped civic and business leaders, and Boyd alums and supporters. He is dynamic and committed. Anything that is good for school and the students—he will find a way to do it.”
