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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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Cultivating Public Purpose & Leadership Development at Rye Country Day School

While attending the gcLi Leadership Lab in June, I began to see leadership as the development of character with an…
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Benefitting From a Brilliant Partnership

I can thank the Gardner Carney Leadership Institute for many things, but perhaps the biggest impact gcLi had on my…
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An Interview with Catherine Steiner-Adair and JoAnn Deak, gcLi Institute Scholars

It’s not often that classroom teachers get to spend not just hours—but whole, successive days—unfolding with Masters of Psychology and…
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Leadership Check-Up: How’s the Health of Your Leadership Culture?

In this season of back-to-school check lists, parents often place at the top “schedule physical,” as a reminder for the…
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“Why Won’t They Simply Do What I Tell Them to?” And Other Questions I Have about Teaching Leadership

Jeremy LaCasse, Assistant Head of School, Taft SchoolHow often have we seen situations in schools where the outcome of an…
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Inspiring Leadership: Building a Program to Last

Ryan Jordan, Upper Division Director, Berkeley Preparatory School, Tampa, FloridaAs a nationally recognized school with over 1,400 students in K-12,…
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Nurturing Quiet Leaders

Heidi Kasevich, PhD, gcLi Scholar ‘15, Director of Quiet Education, Quiet RevolutionSurrounded as we are by alpha, bold, and gregarious…


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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