PRHYLI - Puerto Rican Hispanic Youth Leadership Institute

PRHYLI
AT QUESTAR III BOCES
10 EMPIRE STATE BOULEVARD
CASTLETON, NY 12033

P: 518.479.6833
F: 518.477.1335

PRHYLI STATE COORDINATOR:
DR. GLADYS I. CRUZ

ASSISTANT COORDINATOR:
LISETTE LOPEZ

 

The Angelo Del Toro Puerto Rican/Hispanic Youth Leadership Institute is funded by a contract from the New York State Education Department

TRAINING MANUAL

Training Manual (PDF)

This training manual contains 13 learning modules, each component containing an integral element of the preparation necessary for students participating in this institute.

The 13 learning modules are:

  1. Teambuilding
  2. Leadership
  3. PR/HYLI History
  4. Communication and Public Speaking
  5. How a bill becomes a law in New York State
  6. PR/HYLI Parliamentary Mock Assembly Procedures
  7. Analysis and Study of Bills
  8. Culture
  9. Identifying Community Issues and Knowing Your Representative
  10. Writing a Winning Scholarship Essay for PR/HYLI and Beyond
  11. Debating and Forensics - Party Affiliation/Views
  12. Understanding Specialty Roles and Practice Sessions
  13. Decorum for PR/HYLI Weekend

The New York State Learning Standards incorporated in the PR/HYLI Training Manual are:

English Language Arts/English as a Second Language

Standard 1: Information and Understanding — Students will listen, speak, read, and write for information and understanding.

Standard 3: Critical Analysis and Evaluation — Students will listen, speak, read, and write for critical analysis and evaluation.

Standard 4: Social Interaction — Students will listen, read, write, listen and speak for social interaction.

Social Studies

Standard 1: History of the United States and New York — Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York.

Standard 4: Economics — Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of how the United States and other societies develop economic systems and associated institutions to allocate scarce resources, how major decision-making units function in the United States and other national economies, and how an economy solves the scarcity problem through market and nonmarket mechanisms.

Standard 5: Civics, Citizenship, and Government — Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the necessity for establishing governments; the governmental system of the United States and other nations; the
United States Constitution; the basic civil values of American constitutional democracy; and the roles, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship, including avenues of participation.

Additionally, the state document “Participation in Government” which is part of the Grade 12 Social Studies Core Curriculum, is a wonderful resource for PR/HYLI trainers. It can be downloaded at http://www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/socst/pub/partgov.pdf