Leader in Me

  • Leader In Me

    Teaching Students 21st Century Leadership and Life Skills
    When Principal Muriel Summers asked parents and business leaders what they wanted in their schools, what she heard reinforced what most people believe—that our schools should not merely be focused on improving test scores, but should provide opportunities for students to develop their full potential.

    • Leadership
    • Responsibility
    • Accountability
    • Problem Solving
    • Adaptability
    • Communication
    • Initiative and Self-Direction
    • Creativity
    • Cross-Cultural Skills
    • Teamwork
    • Using Best-Practices and Universal Principles

     

    The Leader in Me is aligned with best-in-class content and concepts practiced by global education thought leaders. It provides a logical, sequential, and balanced process to help schools proactively design the culture that reflects their vision of the ideal school.

    Content from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is a key component of the overall The Leader in Me process. The 7 Habits is a synthesis of universal, timeless principles of personal and interpersonal effectiveness, such as responsibility, vision, integrity, teamwork, collaboration, and renewal, which are secular in nature and common to all people and cultures.

    Click Here here for a synopsis of the habits in kids’ language.

    The Leader in Me is also aligned with many national and state academic standards. The process teaches students the skills needed for academic success in any setting. These skills include critical thinking, goal setting, listening and speaking, self-directed learning, presentation-making, and the ability to work in groups.

    And a New Mindset
    Instead of seeing children through the lens of a normal distribution curve—some kids are naturally smart and others are not—The Leader in Me paradigm sees that every child is capable, every child is a leader. This paradigm changes everything.

    “We only get one chance to prepare children for a world none of us can possibly predict, what are we going to do with that one chance?”
    — Principal Muriel Summers,  A.B. Combs Elementary