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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Aspen Academy Students Are Leaders!
Aspen Academy students are leaders! Whether it involves operating one of our on-campus businesses through Bear’s Enterprises – the school store, the vending machines, the café, or the broadcast network; participating in AMP’d (Aspen Morning Program), our Friday morning celebration of life at Aspen, participating in our Mentor/Mentee program, hosting visiting students through our Student […]
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Milton Hershey School Leaders For Life
What does leadership look like? This is just one of the many topics Milton Hershey School® students explored during the Leaders for Life conference hosted by Student Government Association in Feb. 2015. “A leader is not arrogant,” said junior Shaelah Best. “It takes a lot of humility. You have to be willing to make other […]
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SBS Student Selected for Highly Competitive South Africa Summer Program
Stoneleigh-Burnham School junior McKim Jean-Pierre has been selected to receive a full, merit-based scholarship to attend an intensive summer leadership training program in South Africa. McKim was one of 15 students selected from 200 applicants for the highly competitive Experiment Leadership Institute, a program of The Experiment in International Living (EIL). McKim is an International […]
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Whose Classroom Is It Anyway?
For days or even weeks before the first day of school, teachers all over the world are busy setting up their classrooms. There are bulletin boards to be covered, supplies to be organized, notebooks and folders to be labeled, books to be sorted and displayed…..but in the 4th grade classroom at Charles River School, teachers […]
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Carson Long Military Academy: Ethical Peer Leadership
At Carson Long Military Academy, “choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong” is instilled from the first day. Ryan Estep ‘16 writes, “To me, it means that no matter what the situation is, as a leader I am obligated to make the right decision.” All Carson Long students enter at the same level. […]
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The 2015 Student Technology Conference: Connecting the World, One Student at a Time
Marymount School of New York’s Student Technology Leadership Team posed the question: what if students and teachers from around the world could share ideas about using technology in the classroom? Under the guidance of educational consultants Lucy Grey and Steve Hargadon, Marymount students realized this dream on Saturday, January 31 at the first annual Student […]
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SBS Student Earns Invitation to Prestigious World Debate Competition
A junior at Stoneleigh-Burnham School has been selected for the U.S. team that will compete at the World Individual Debating and Public Speaking Championship in Hong Kong in April. With this prestigious invitation, Claire Lane of Greenfield, Mass., becomes the 14th Stoneleigh-Burnham student to compete at the world level. At the World Championship, Claire will […]
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HMI Semester and Summer Term of leadership development, rigorous academics, and wilderness exploration.
How might your life be different if you spent more time outside? If your learning came directly from the world around you? If you relied on (and could be relied upon!) your classmates through real experiences in the Colorado and Utah wilderness? At HMI this a reality through semester or summer-long programs in Colorado. Make […]
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Middle School Students “Go Green” at Innovative Event
They came with curiosity and left as leaders! More than 240 students from 11 middle schools in Virginia, D.C., and Maryland joined forces at St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes School (Alexandria, Va.) for the seventh-annual Students for Sustainability (S4S) Conference on January 26. It was a day of hands-on education, brainstorming, and bonding to make […]
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Learning the Power of Power
2nd and 3rd graders explored their own power to make change as part of a year-long unit on POWER at Aurora School. It all started with a science field trip to the San Francisco Bay shoreline. Students had a chance to run nets through the water to find living creatures. They looked at zooplankton and […]
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Global Immersion Studies in Tanzania
April 13, 2014 Few words were spoken as we drove away from the Janada Batchelor’s Foundation for Children (JBFC); the silence spoke more than we could possibly have achieved with words. We shared the inexpressible sentiment built and reinforced through hours of intimate shared experiences with the dozens of unique, inspiringly-high-spirited, non-exclusively loving and caring […]
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Falling in Love with Robotics
“I wanted to pass on the confidence I gained from doing robotics to younger students.” Jennifer Ma flashes a smile as she explains her motivation for leading the LFA Robotics mentoring program. In the program, members of LFA meet middle school students at the Neal Math and Science Academy in North Chicago to help them […]