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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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Planting Seeds

By Jan Baldwin, LL ‘14, gcLi Scholar ‘21, Middle School Dean of Students and Chair of the Visual and Performing…
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A Week at the gcLi Leadership Lab

Joseph Ali is beginning his fifth year as a middle school French teacher at Calvert School in Baltimore, Maryland. In…
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Turning the Tide on Student Leadership Development

Jason Coady is in his nineteenth year of teaching. As with any independent school teacher, he wears many hats, including…
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Why am I Grateful for My Leadership Lab Experience?

Students write for a couple minutes with pen and paper in journals so that they may train their brain to…
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Storytelling: A Pathway to Leadership and Purpose

Being a speaker at the gcLi Symposium was a surreal experience for me because I barely passed high school and…
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Drinking From the Firehose at the gcLi Symposium

During the opening session of the gcLi Symposium on Building Cultures of Leadership, Dr. Ted Fish, Executive Director,  highlighted the…
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Reflecting on the gcLi Leadership Symposium II

In her seminar, Compassionate and Courageous Leaders, Dr. Brooke Lavelle of the Courage of Care Coalition projected pictures of people.…


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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