This fall, we've given our Ember intern experience a new name. I've never quite liked the term 'intern' before - it doesn't quite convey everything that we do with these students. Instead, we are calling them ProtoGuides. Proto coming from the concept of protege and Guide because they serve at an Ember staff level, having some of the same kind of responsibilities that our Guides have. The ProtoGuide experience is a lot more than busy work.
We've started their experience this Fall already. Two of their readings already include Church in the Making by Ben Arment and The Forgotten Ways by Alan Hirsch, both favorites of mine and fantastic reads for anyone interested in global leadership. Check out their blogs for some good postings already [here and here] Those aren't ordinary reading for high school students. But that doesn't mean they shouldn't.
If you know a high schooler that might be interested in something like this in the future, here is a quick infosheet on the ProtoGuide experience.
Ah. I had assumed there was a connection to "Proto" meaning first as in prototype. Especially in the sense of pre/early/before, but that may be to much language stretching.
ReplyDeletehaha yeah.... but ProtoGuide.... once you say it over and over to yourself... it really starts to sing!!
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