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Proust Questionnaire – Lea Hunerkoch

by Lea Hunerkoch, LL’16, gcLi-Penn/GSE Scholarship for School Leadership ‘22-’23 Who are your favorite writers? Several books that have had…
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What am I doing?

“What am I doing?” I started this school year in a new office and a new position.  I switched gears…
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Safety is Looking Out for One Another

by Jeremy LaCasse, Executive Director, gcLi, Teacher of History, Taft School (Watertown, CT) A student walks into my office. For…
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What gcLi Means To Me

by Brandi Lawrence, LL’19, gcLi Scholar ‘22 The Gardner Carney Leadership Institute (gcLi) means quite a lot to me. It…
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Brandi Lawrence, LL’19 Proust Questionnaire

1. Who are your favorite writers? Nicole Hannah-Jones, Ta Nehisi Coates, Tressie McMillan Cottom, and James Baldwin 2. Who are…
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Reflecting on a Pedagogy of Leadership

by Craig Ough, LL’18, LL Scholar ‘22, Math Teacher and Social Curriculum Department Chair, Rumsey Hall (CT) When I made…
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Craig Ough, LL’19 and LL’22 Scholar Proust Questionnaire

Who are your favorite writers? Reading was not easy for me and books by Douglas Adams and Neil Gaiman were…
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Failing Publicly, a Lesson in Leadership

By Katherine Berdy, Faculty, gcLi, Director of the C. Kyser Ethical Leadership Center, Altamont School, Birmingham (AL) I’m 49 years…


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