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Stretching to Become a Flexible Leader

by Lindsay Leal, Dean of Students at The Taft School in Watertown, CT In 2016, I had the incredible opportunity…
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Jean Plum, LL ‘21 and LL ‘23 Scholar, Proust Questionnaire

Getting to know a 2023 Lab Scholar–Jean Plum Who are your favorite writers?  Among many others, though admittedly not a…
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Leadership and The Power of Stories: Part I, The Bubble

“Share the learning, but not the details.” This is a norm that I must adhere to in order to honor…
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Follow the Leader

“Follow the Leader.” In classrooms across our nation, the vast majority of kids today interpret this phrase in the very…
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Angels On Earth

As the landscape of the world, our country, and education continues to change, I am constantly reflecting on what is…
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Getting to Know 2019 gcLi Scholar Jonas Jeswald

Jonas Jeswald is in his fifth year as the Head of Middle School at Germantown Academy, a PreK-12 school located…
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Uncovering Our Community’s Greatest Assets: Intrapreneurs

Mike Friedman M.Ed. is the Director of the San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Teen Education and Engagement Initiative at the…
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Building Schools that Care: Creating Authentic Learning Experiences for Our Students

Jay Parker is the Director of the Institute for Leadership & Purpose at the Calvert School in Baltimore, Maryland. In…


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Emily Ihrke
Executive Editor, gcLi Leadership Blog
Director PK-12 Ethical Leadership Program
University School of Milwaukee, Milwaukee (WI)
eihrke@gclileadership.org