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Composing the Leadership Classroom – or – How I Learned Not To Teach Plutarch

A few years ago, fresh off our gcLi Leadership Lab experience,  my colleague Jimmy Morrissey and I stumbled into a…
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Leadership for the Long Run – Inspiring Leadership Development at Gilman School

The power of a good teacher is profound and goes beyond his or her ability to deliver material. A teacher…
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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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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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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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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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Emily Ihrke
Executive Editor, gcLi Leadership Blog
Director PK-12 Ethical Leadership Program
University School of Milwaukee, Milwaukee (WI)
eihrke@gclileadership.org