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)

School Leaders

Courage & Renewal for School Leaders is a multi-year, national initiative of the Center for Courage & Renewal. 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.

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NH Courage to Lead is the recipient of school leaders grants through the Center for Courage and Renewal. We will be conducting sessions during the month of August with the leadership of two Supervisory Administrative Units (SAUs) under the program grants.

SAU 21

[Seabrook, Hampton, N. Hampton, S. Hampton and Hampton Falls]

SAU 17

[Sanborn Regional]

SAU 68

Lin-Wood (Lincoln-Woodstock) Cooperative School District

Contact us if your school district or school leaders want to discuss this program further.