Mariam G. MacGregor - Building Everyday Leadership in All Teens: Promoting Attitudes and Actions for Respect and Success

Copyright 2015, 2007 by Mariam G. MacGregor, M.S.

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MacGregor, Mariam G.

Building everyday leadership in all teens : promoting attitudes and actions for respect and success / by Mariam G. MacGregor. Revised and updated edition.

1 online resource.

Earlier edition: 2006.

ISBN 978-1-63198-043-5 (Web PDF) ISBN 978-1-63198-044-2 (epub) ISBN 978-1-63198-042-8 (paperback)

1. LeadershipStudy and teaching (Secondary) 2. Leadership in adolescents. I. Title.

HM1261.M32 2015

303.342dc23

2015006974

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DEDICATION

To my mom (19352004) and dad,
who have always believed in me, and more
importantly, taught me to believe in myself,
especially when I was a teenager.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am grateful that Building Everyday Leadership is being used to inspire 21st Century youth leaders worldwide. This bookboth the original and this updated editionwould never exist without the insights, engagement and support of the following:

Jeanne Rosenberger, vice provost for student life and dean of students at Santa Clara University, who served as an incredible mentor in my early career, became one of my dearest friends and who continues to inspire me today.

Tom Mordue, retired principal of Vantage Point Alternative High School in Thornton, CO. Years ago Tom took a chance by hiring me and allowing me to teach leadership to youth-at-risk in a way that was very different than the norm. This launched the prototype curriculum, which is now the Building Everyday Leadership curriculum.

Kristin Aarestad, still one of the best language arts and diversity teachers out there, who eagerly and consistently engages her students as leaders no matter the subject being addressed.

Every student with whom Ive had the honor of working, especially those who doubted they had the right stuff to be leaders, and who often proved everyone including themselves wrong.

Ruth Taswell, Eric Braun, and Darsi Dreyer, my talented editors at Free Spirit over the years, who each provided support in my quest to create a better mousetrap in terms of how leadership talents are nurtured in kids and teens.

Alyssa Riggs, who kept my kids happy, healthy, and safe, and serves as a sounding board for talking through activities and ways to keep students engaged when learning to lead.

Hayes, Colt, and Lily, each of whom reinforces everyday how young leadership can be taught and how it is learned. Together, they face and deal with daily situations that require attitudes of leaders to succeed.

My sweet husband Michael, who unfailingly supports me in my pursuit to write and teach about leaders in ways that make a difference in the lives of teens, the adults working with them, and generations of everyday leaders to come.

CONTENTS

The Sessions

BONUS MATERIALS IN THE DIGITAL CONTENT
(These materials can be accessed at www.freespirit.com/belt-forms , use password potential4 .)

Additional Teen Leadership Activities

In My Lifetime Action Plan

Leadership Word Play

Choose a Button

Pick-Up Sticks

Pass It On

Cant Judge a Book

Guest of Honor

Leadership Quotes for Discussion and Writing

Using Movies for Leadership Discussions

Summaries and Discussion Questions for Movies

Additional Movies for Leadership Discussions

Standards for Earning a Varsity Letter in Leadership

Leadership Project Group- and Self-Evaluation

LIST OF REPRODUCIBLES

These reproducible forms can also be downloaded or printed out at www.freespirit.com/belt-forms , use password potential4 .

SESSION 5

SESSION 6

SESSION 7

SESSION 8

SESSION 10

SESSION 11

SESSION 12

SESSION 13

SESSION 14

SESSION 15

SESSION 16

SESSION 17

SESSION 18

SESSION 19

SESSION 20

SESSION 21

Everyday Leadership Skills & Attitude (ELSA) Inventory

Supplemental Materials

FOREWORD

by Barry Z. Posner, Ph.D.

Every day there are opportunities for teens to take the lead among their peers, and all teens have the potential to learn the attitudes and skills that enable them to do this. Its a myth that leadership cant be taught. Viewing leadership as non-learnable character traits or believing that only certain kids can lead dooms society to limited leadership. Its far healthier and more productive to recognize its possible for everyone to lead. With Building Everyday Leadership in All Teens and its companion guidebook for teens, Everyday Leadership , you can make a tremendous difference in helping young people learn how to become everyday leaders.

Leadership development is fundamentally self-development. The primary instrument of a leader, teen or adult, is ones self. To teach leadership, then, requires helping teens explore inner territorywho they are and what they care about. If, for example, in teaching leadership skills, we say, Leaders stand up, we also must help teens figure out what theyre going to stand up on (their foundations). For teens to grapple with this idea amidst their struggles for independence can be intense. But if you help teens realize they are indeed leaders, then you can assist them in using their unique talents to serve the common good while pursuing individual interests.

Using the tools and techniques within this book and the teen guidebook, you can counsel and provide an important perspective for teens to help them practice leadership skills. Author Mariam MacGregor provides ample opportunities for teens to discover, strengthen, hone, and enhance their leadership skills. A talented educator, she acts every day on her passion for youth leadership and for liberating the leader within every teen, including those outside the traditional leadership venues of student government and athletics. In both her books, shes captured teens interests, language, struggles, and dilemmas as they seek to find out more about who they are and what they care about.