Whether you are a wide-eyed brand-new advisor or your program needs a reboot, these templates and tools will uplevel your program, saving you hours of overwhelm and frustration and letting you focus on building real leaders.

Even better, everything is fully editable, with highlights to mark where to customized and the very best tips from a veteran advisor for managing each of the easily-overwhelming components of the job.

Included in this everything-you-need Student Council Advisor kit:

1. Welcome

• What is Student Council? an overview of the common elements that make up a middle/high school student council program
• What does an Advisor do? an overview of the common roles you will
• What is Service Leadership? an introduction to the framework that is behind all LCG Stuco/Leadership resources
• Reflection Questions on imagining your program

1. Using This Kit

• What’s Included List an overview of all the included templates and forms
• Getting Started Tips for exploring and using the included files
• Getting Organized Tips for creating advisor, officer, and class binders as well as storing digital files for use year after year
• Welcome & Organizational Templates
  – Back to School Welcome letter
  – School History & Traditions overview
  – Student Council & Service Leadership overview
  – 20+ Binder Covers & Spines
  – Brainstorm, Meeting, & Reflection note-taking forms
  – Hall passes & ID Badges templates
  – Weekly timesheets & end-of-week reflection sheets
• Reflection Questions on your organizational systems

III. Getting Started

• Kick-Start Your Council advice on the very first steps to take as a brand-new advisor
• Reflection Questions on how you want your year to start

1. Student Council Constitution

• Essentials for Drafting a New Constitution advice on how to assemble a committee and build a strong foundational document
• Sample Constitution a 9-page file, including all the wording you need to draft or overhaul your own constitution, including the complete text for 10 Articles: Preamble 
  1. Name of Body
  2. Statement of Purpose & Powers 
  3. Membership 
  4. Eligibility of Student Council Members 
  5. Duties & Powers of Executive Board Members 
  6. Meetings & Voting 
  7. Elections 
  8. Removal from Office & Vacancies
  9. Amendments 
  10. Ratification
• Reflection Questions on what you’ll want to include in your constitution

1. Student Council Elections

• Tips for Hosting a Stress-Free Election advice for how to run fair, open, and inclusive elections
• Campaign & Election Template Materials for everything you need to run any kind of officer election, from start to finish, including
  – Election Planning & Procedures Checklist
  – Candidate Sign-Up Forms
  – Candidate Application Requirements Checklist
  – Campaign Rules & Procedures Checklist
  – Officer Code of Conduct Agreement
  – Officer Responsibilities List for Executive President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, & Class Officers
  – Ballots for Executive & Class Officer Elections
  – Meet Your New Officers bulletin board and handout forms
• Reflection Questions for how you’ll want to run your elections

1. Student Council Meetings

• Tips for Holding StuCo Meetings that Run Themselves advice on when and how to run your meetings
• Meeting Template Materials for everything you need to plan, run, and record a meeting that takes care of all necessary business
  – Meeting Agenda Template
  – Meeting Minutes Template
  – Attendance Record Template
  – Meeting Procedure Overview Handout

– Hall Passes Forms

• Reflection Questions for how you’ll want to structure your meeting

VII. Quick-Reference Idea Sheets

• Tips Building a StuCo Program You’re Proud Of for how to help students brainstorm & plan great events
• Idea Handouts for everything you need to equip students to build a positive, inclusive, and fun year for their school
  – Icebreaker Game Idea List
  – Year-long Calendar of Appreciation Days
  – Year-long Calendar of Seasonal Events
  – Homecoming & Spirit Week Activities Idea List
  – Dress Up Day Theme Idea List
  – Recommended Leadership Book List

– Random Acts of Leadership Idea List

• Reflection Questions for what sort of idea lists you’ll want to add

This resource is 45 PDF pages, plus 75+ pages of Google files.

Additional Information

What grades is this intended for?
This should work for either middle or high school students. I have used it with 9th through 12th graders, but these activities don’t require any high school-specific skills. Please read the description and examine the preview file closely to determine if it is appropriate for your students.

What supports are included? Can I modify this?
Detailed teacher directions and editable Google file versions of student materials are included so you can modify activities to suit your group’s needs and setting. 

What are the terms of use for this resource?

This resource, including all ancillary files, may be used as needed for regular, non-commercial single-classroom use between a teacher and their students. 

This includes printing copies and sharing digital files with students through a secure platform, like Google Classroom or Canvas, email, or a classroom-only shared drive.

The using and sharing of any part of this resource in any manner outside the above-mentioned capacity is strictly prohibited. Prohibited uses include, but are not limited to,

• posting files on the open internet or in a Facebook group
• emailing files to or sharing print copies with others (without purchasing additional licenses)
• uploading or storing files in a shared cloud drive accessible by anyone other than students
• including any part, or any derivative work, within any commercial endeavor like curriculum development, professional training, or for-profit teaching like Outschool, or selling this resource as your own in either print or digital formats

Doing so violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), copyright law, and these terms.

By downloading this resource from Let’s Cultivate Greatness, the original user has been granted one license for a single teacher (or number of teachers matching the number of licenses purchased) and their students at any one time. 

Let’s Cultivate Greatness retains the full copyright of this resource.

Reviews

Let’s Cultivate Greatness’s resources are hands down amazing for your Student Council or Leadership class needs. I was asked to take over the ASB program at the semester.  Finding Erin’s resources on TpT was a LIFESAVER.  I look forward to using her entire Leadership curriculum from start to finish in the fall.  The Student Council Starter Kit saved me HOURS of time getting elections organized. – Katie

This was SO useful in helping to start a Student Council Resource binder for our team.  I was given the task of running the student council with zero information. This was just what I needed. – Gail

Fantastic! I was asked to be the student council advisor at my middle school but needed to start from scratch. This had everything I needed & more to get started from the constitution to meeting agenda templates to candidate applications. – fellow teacher-author