We Inspire Leadership
Independent schools see leadership potential in every child and cultivate that potential.
Independent schools see leadership potential in every child and cultivate that potential.
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Kent Place Economics Students Visit Accenture
Kent Place Upper School Economics students spent Wednesday, March 9 at Accenture’s New York City headquarters. Hosted by Ellyn J. Shook, the visit included meetings with female executives and an introduction to their Creativity Lab. Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, […]
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Admiral Farragut Academy student, Shawn Simon ’17, starts two business clubs, advances to state competition with his peers
Farragut doesn’t necessarily have a business program within its curriculum but if Shawn Simon ’17 continues exerting his passionate influence, things might soon change. He has generated excitement within the student body at Farragut by introducing and helping form two clubs on campus that are centered around business and have chapters throughout the world: DECA, […]
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Students Learn Leadership Skills by Raising Chickens, Selling Eggs
Fourth grade students at The Lamplighter School oversee a chicken-raising and egg-selling corporation that integrates entrepreneurship into the curriculum. Lamplighter Layers, now in its 47th year, teaches students to apply academic skills to the hands-on operation of a real business that involves selling thousands of eggs and donating most of the profit to charities, including […]
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Admiral Farragut Academy student, Michael Cooney ‘16, develops leadership through charitable deeds
Saturday mornings for most teenagers are usually reserved for snaring extra sleep. For Michael Cooney, the day has been devoted to helping with the Challenger League, which is for players with physical or mental disabilities. Since coming to Farragut at the beginning of his sophomore year, Michael – along with his teammates on the Farragut […]
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Hearing Voices
There are many ways to be a leader, and we at Aurora School in Oakland believe students should practice them all. Every day, we give students of different ages opportunities to work together side-by-side and learn from one another what it means to step up academically and socially. The world needs leaders who are as […]
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Friends School Baltimore fourth, fifth graders partner with Baltimore City Public School peers on World Peace Game
Over 11 weeks beginning on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015, 15 Friends School 4th and 5th graders and 15 of their counterparts from Robert W. Coleman Elementary in the city’s Mondawmin community will gather twice weekly at Friends for an after-school club dedicated to playing the World Peace Game. (Note: Mondawmin was among the communities affected […]
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UCLA Professor Talks to New Roads School’s GLASS Student Club About the Biological Link Between Body-Shaming and Obesity
While it’s no surprise that, particularly for young women, body-shaming causes emotional harm, it turns out that merely labeling a child as ‘too fat’ may trigger a hormonal response from the body that keeps him or her overweight even a decade later. This discovery was made by Dr. Janet Tomiyama, a distinguished professor in Health […]
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Silence Is Not An Option
In seventh grade history at Riverdale Country School, students learn about governing by doing it. During the year, teachers lead the class through six simulations that dramatize the units of study: formation of government, the legislative process, foreign policy, the Supreme Court, citizen advocacy, and elections. Students take on the roles of activists, lobbyists, legislators, […]
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Kent Place Girls’ Leadership Institute Has Record-Breaking 20th Year
A record-breaking 38 Outstanding Women Leaders (OWLs) from 22 different schools and four different states, attended the Kent Place School Girls’ Leadership Institute (GLI) from July 20 through July 31. The 10-day summer enrichment program, for girls entering seventh and eighth grades, explores these young women’s leadership potential and strengthens each girl’s self-esteem. This is […]
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Rock-n-Roll Academy Helps Middle Schoolers “Come Together”
Who hasn’t dreamed of being in a band? The four-week Rock-n-Roll Academy at University Lake School makes that dream come true for students in grades 5-8. Mentored by Academy facilitator Peter Humphrey-Loving and working in two sound-proof practice rooms fully stocked with audio equipment and instruments, students form bands, decide on their roles (vocals, guitar, […]
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Turning Point Students Just Say “No” to Plastics
Turning Point School’s Level 8 Community Leadership team recently returned from the 2015 Algalita POPS (Plastic Ocean Pollution Solutions) International Youth Summit in Dana Point, California, where they had the opportunity to network with other student leaders from around the world in an effort to explore and expand their role in the plastic pollution movement. […]
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Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, The Hill School Class of ’67, speaks on preparation for life
The Hill School (Pottstown, Pa.) recently presented Pennsylvania’s Governor, Dr. Tom Wolf, a member of Hill’s class of 1967, with its Sixth Form Leadership Award. Enjoy this short video of highlights from his speech. Governor Wolf was selected for this honor by the sixth form (senior) class. The award acknowledges an individual who, through his […]