Volunteer Resources
Volunteer News - Each month, GS-West will issue a Volunteer News. This newsletter is sent electronically to all adult volunteers, and will be posted at this location for printing. Keep watching the first of every month for the latest edition featuring upcoming events, event registrations and flyers.
E-Newsletter for Volunteers Archive
This list is updated weekly. If you need information on an article in an older e-newsletter, please contact dgooding@gswestok.org.
- Oct. 31 Weekly E-mail Update
- Nov. 7 Weekly E-mail Update
- Nov. 14 Weekly E-mail Update
- Nov. 21 Weekly E-mail Update
2008 Girl Application For National Board Leadership
2008 Volunteer Application for National Board Leadership
The Communicator - the 2008-09 Parent's Guide.
The Key to the Link- Page 1-10
Page 11-21
Page 22-23
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Take Basic Orientation Online!
To help all of our volunteers stay connected back to the GS-West Council, we have developed a variety of resources. Online Orientation Instructions:
1. Click here.
To do your online orientation
2. Select Basic Orientation3. Enter the password -- discover.
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Other Resources For GS-West Volunteers
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GS-West Recommended Reading List
"Why Gender Matters" by Leonard Sax, MD, PhDDo boys and girls develop differently? Are their brains wired differently? Do girls and boys respond to stress differently? According to the Dr. Leonard Sax the answers are: yes, yes, and yes. Dr. Sax uses 20 years of published research to guide his readers to the growing mountain of evidence that girls and boys really are different. This is a reader-friendly book full of eye-opening information about the development between girls and boys.
According to Dr. Sax these differences do really matter. Did you know that the typical teenage girl has a sense of hearing seven times more acute than a teenage boy? And, do you know why it’s easier for a girl to express her feelings than a boy? Stress enhances learning in males, but impairs learning in girls. And did you know that some experts now believe that the neglect of the hardwired gender differences during childrearing may be the cause of high risk behavior in girls and boys? These are a few of the questions addressed in this must read book. The book is full of myth-busters about child development and the differences between the two sexes.
Research indicates that girls are more likely to takes courses such as computer science and physics in girls-only schools. Every statement Dr. Sax makes about the gender differences is supported by good science in peer-reviewed journals.
Girl Scouts Western Oklahoma invites you to read and enjoy a book that will surely make a difference in how you think and act toward your children. This and other books will be featured in the future in our continued effort to be the go to place for girls.
And, don’t miss Cathy Stackpole’s “Essentials” training class this fall. She covers a great deal of child development topics. Our goal is to give our parents and volunteers as much information about the development of girls as possible.
To read more about this book or to order, click here.