Ammon transferred to our Charter High School from the local public school after the start of the school year. He had been failing and misbehaving at his previous school. Ammon was assigned to my Freshman Physical Science class first hour. Once a week I also presented a leadership lesson to the students. Slowly under the influence of students who were living the 7 Habits and teachers who were un...

I teach first grade at Washington School, Muscatine, Iowa, a very diverse school with a high poverty rate. Last year was our first year of a district wide 7 Habits approach. My kids LOVED it, LIVED it and Blossomed!  One little guy comes from a difficult home situation. His understanding of being proactive was awesome!! He showed up one day in flannel spider man pajamas and it was not PJ day. W...

Our teachers came back today and the warm-up activity was for each of them to decorate a ceiling tile.   I now have 50+ new ceiling tiles throughout the school … and the energy was amazing!

Teachers then reviewed their strengths, made a visual representation of them, and these will be outside each teacher’s classroom. The inventory they went through, along with a scoring guide, is being kept in ...

Maine-Endwell students in Binghamton, NY have several great examples of leadership at work. All  four of our schools help with a program called M-Eals , a high school government class initiative which has been in place for more than a year, feeding over 60 families in need every week throughout the year. 

The Spartan Garden is a product of the Homer Brink Elementary School's Leadership Club whic...

This Peter Drucker quote was my favorite take away from the webinar hosted by the International Center for Leadership in Education titled How Does Your School’s Culture Impact Student Performance? 

The NASSP presenters stressed that structural change are good strategies but they do not equal cultural change.  Cultural change can only come about with a common set of beliefs, shared mission, visio...