Leadership Blog

This class will cover elements of leadership through reading and discussing classic books and applying through simulations. Topics may include service, leadership, study skills, resource (time&money) management, entrepreneurship and statesmanship. The crowning event will be a humanitarian service trip, for which we will plan for and fundraise throughout the year.

This class meets once a month.

Time Map

Tips for Success

FALL

CLASS 1: Do Hard Things

Activity: Vision / Self-evaluations.  Entrepreneur teams

CLASS 2:  Cash, Cars and College and The JackRabbit Factor (free online)

Activity:  Budget simulation  & abundance/scarcity

CLASS 3: Three Cups of Tea

Activity: Service

CLASS 4: Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens

Activity: 7 Habits journal 

WINTER

CLASS 5: The Real Benjamin Franklin by Andrew Allison 

Activity: Statesmanship, traits of a leader

CLASS 6: Speak Like Churchhill, Stand Like Lincoln

Activity:

CLASS 7: Leadership & self-deception

Activity: application of principles

CLASS 8: Great Divorce and William Blake’s poem "Marriage of Heaven & Hell"

Activity: Compare/contrast, personalize