The Student Leadership Challenge: Facilitation and Activity Guide - Paperback

by James M. Kouzes (Author), Barry Z. Posner (Author), Beth High (Author)

This book gives educators the flexible, modularized building blocks for teaching students how to apply Kouzes and Posner's Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership. The guide includes language, guidance, and activities for teaching each Practice and its associated leadership behaviors, as well as tips for coaching students through their leadership development. It also includes direction on using the Student Leadership Practices Inventory, advice for working with students using the Student Workbook and Personal Leadership Journal, and curriculum suggestions for different educational contexts.

Front Jacket

The Student Leadership Challenge: Facilitation and Activity Guide gives educators the flexible, modularized building blocks for teaching students how to apply Kouzes and Posner's Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership(R) as outlined in their best-selling book The Student Leadership Challenge .

The Facilitation and Activity Guide includes:

• Language and guidance for teaching each leadership practice and its associated leadership behaviors
• Experiential, reflective, and film activities to bring each leadership practice to life
• Direction on using the Student Leadership Practices Inventory
• Advice for working with students using the Student Workbook and Personal Leadership Journal to help them deliberately practice, reflect, and commit to liberating the leader within
• Curriculum suggestions for various educational contexts

Praise for The Student Leadership Challenge: Facilitation and Activity Guide

From what, to so what, and now what, this guide helps take educators on a journey of not only understanding The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership but also specifically on how to apply, practice, and teach the nuances of these exemplary leadership ways of being. --Laura Osteen, professor of higher education, Florida State University, and director, Florida State's Center for Leadership and Civic Education

The Facilitation and Activity Guide would have helped me not only to develop a better leadership program but to be a better leader myself. For those administering The Five Practices, this guide 'models the way' and will be one of your best coaches. --Sam Eriksmoen, former director, Emerging Leaders Program, University of North Dakota

Educators working at all levels will benefit from this resource. It is practical, applicable to diverse sectors, and works. --Katie Burke, assistant director, L.E.A.D (Leadership Education & Development), Florida Atlantic University

Back Jacket

The Student Leadership Challenge: Facilitation and Activity Guide gives educators the flexible, modularized building blocks for teaching students how to apply Kouzes and Posner's Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership(R) as outlined in their best-selling book The Student Leadership Challenge .

The Facilitation and Activity Guide includes:

• Language and guidance for teaching each leadership practice and its associated leadership behaviors
• Experiential, reflective, and film activities to bring each leadership practice to life
• Direction on using the Student Leadership Practices Inventory
• Advice for working with students using the Student Workbook and Personal Leadership Journal to help them deliberately practice, reflect, and commit to liberating the leader within
• Curriculum suggestions for various educational contexts

Praise for The Student Leadership Challenge: Facilitation and Activity Guide

"From what, to so what, and now what, this guide helps take educators on a journey of not only understanding The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership but also specifically on how to apply, practice, and teach the nuances of these exemplary leadership ways of being." --Laura Osteen, professor of higher education, Florida State University, and director, Florida State's Center for Leadership and Civic Education

"The Facilitation and Activity Guide would have helped me not only to develop a better leadership program but to be a better leader myself. For those administering The Five Practices, this guide 'models the way' and will be one of your best coaches." --Sam Eriksmoen, former director, Emerging Leaders Program, University of North Dakota

"Educators working at all levels will benefit from this resource. It is practical, applicable to diverse sectors, and works." --Katie Burke, assistant director, L.E.A.D (Leadership Education & Development), Florida Atlantic University

Author Biography

James Kouzes is the Dean's Executive Fellow of Leadership at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University.

Barry Posner is Accolti Endowed Professor of Leadership at Santa Clara University where hehas also served as dean of the Leavey School of Business.

Beth High is a Leadership Challenge Certified Master, a facilitator and leadership development trainer, and founder and president of High Road Consulting.

Gary M. Morgan has taught student leadership at a variety of universities and is the founder of the Student Leadership Excellence Academy.