School Leaders
A leader’s work in actualizing human potential and unlocking energy is both personal and intensely interpersonal. It begins within each of us and radiates outward as we clarify our purposes, represent our view to others, improve the quality of our relationships, and shape the culture of our organizations. It is about individuals making a profound difference in the world around them, whether that world is their friend and families, their organizations, their communities, their nation, or their planet.
—Dennis Sparks, Leading for Results (2005)
Courage & Renewal for School Leaders is a multi-year, national initiative of the Center. The goal is to help school leaders sustain and renew their passion, enthusiasm and commitment to school leadership and to the communities they serve through participation in Courage to Lead retreats. The focus of the initiative is on school leaders who serve the neediest learners. It is made possible by grants from the Rainwater Charitable Funds, The Angell Foundation and many local funders.
Participants have reported:
- Development of new networks of support with other school leaders, counteracting the prevailing culture of overwork and isolation.
- Revitalized leadership that invites untapped potentials, passions, and talents of their faculty and students.
- Increased capacity to cultivate the kind of trustworthy relationships required to create a positive school culture in which teachers and students flourish.
Retreats are offered in partnership with local Courage & Renewal Facilitators in the following communities:
Denver, Colorado
Contact: Dan Liston
Indiana
Contact: Janet Wakefield
Maine
Contact: Richard Ackerman
Boston
Contact: Pamela Seigle
Kalamazoo, Michigan
Contacts: Marianne Houston Caren Bassett Dybek
Montana
Contact: Chris Love
New Hampshire
Contact: Jean Haley
Mid-Hudson Valley, New York
Contact: Ann Myers
North Carolina/South Carolina
Contacts: Russ Moxley Sally Hare
Central Oregon
Contact: David Hagstrom
Texas
Contact: Ed Tobia
Vermont
Contacts: Ken Bergstrom David Leo-Nyquist
Washington
Contact: Yarrow Durbin