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Educating Teachers To Teach Leadership
For 6 days, every June, on the campus of the Fountain Valley School of Colorado, K-12 teachers and administrators from across North America learn how to develop the leadership competencies of their students.

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gcLi Leadership Academy

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Empower Students To Become Leaders Who Effect Positive Change
At the Leadership Academy we begin with a deep dive into the ways in which an individual’s identifiers and dispositions shape their interactions with others. With consistent practice, students become adept at receiving and giving feedback

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gcLi Scholarship Grant

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The GARDNER CARNEY LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE (gcLi) is proud to announce a $10,000 gcLi Grant award, offered in collaboration with $10,000 from the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, to the Masters in School Leadership Program at PennGSE.

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ORIGINS

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In 1995, Gardner Lynch Gordon Carney died in a kayaking accident in his senior year at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His family, Jim, Laurie and Winston Carney, established a restricted endowment at the Fountain Valley School in Colorado, in his memory.

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LEADERSHIP


  • “Leadership is courageously modeling and only thereby inspiring others to be(come) their best selves.”

    - Gus Lee, former gcLi keynote; Head of character education at West Point

  • “Leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do it”

    - Frances Hesselbein, Former CEO American Girl Scouts

  • “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality….”

    - Warren Bennis, bestselling author, UCLA professor

  • “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”

    - Rosalyn Carter, Former First Lady

  • "Leadership is action, not position."

    - Donald H. McGannon

  • “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then you are a leader.”

    - John Quincy Adams, 6th U.S. President

  • "When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves"

    - Victor Frank

  • "Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

    - John F. Kennedy | 35th U.S. President

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Educating Teachers To Teach

LEADERSHIP

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At the gcLi, we have found that leadership can be taught.

Virtually every young person can learn the skills, habits, and commitments that define good leaders.

It all depends upon what the teacher knows.

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Please contact the gcLi to register for one of our programs or to find out more about Pedagogy of Leadership.