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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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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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Rethinking Student Leadership Training to Create Culture Shapers

Student leadership election season is an exciting time for any school. It is April or May, and our current senior…
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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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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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Emily Ihrke
Executive Editor, gcLi Leadership Blog
Director PK-12 Ethical Leadership Program
University School of Milwaukee, Milwaukee (WI)
eihrke@gclileadership.org