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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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The Leadership Journey – The Ethical Leadership Summer Institute at The Masters School

“The vision is, first, that the school will be a community, a place full of adults and youngsters who care…
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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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The Three C’s of Leadership

What Rishi Raghunathan learned at gcLi helped him to become not only a better teacher but a better parent. Confidence,competence…
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From Crucible Moments to Cultural Shifts: How gcLi is affecting our Middle School

After observing that students stepping into leadership positions received extensive leadership training while those not in leadership roles received none,…
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Leadership from All Directions – The Collaborative Effort of Lion Term

Last Spring, our entire community experienced the first ever St. Mark’s Lion Term, a two-week experiential education program that ends…
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Summits and Thunderclouds: Lessons Learned on the Trail

We gathered in a grassy field next to the hut to debrief the epic day. Beginning 1.5 miles on the…
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Leading From the Middle at Horace Mann School

My colleague, Emily Dutton, returned from the 2011 gcLi Leadership Lab energized to introduce a new approach to leadership training.…


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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