Leadership
Youth Service America (YSA) supports a culture of youth committed to service learning by promoting campaigns, resources and projects on their website. YSA works hard in order to ensure that kids from diverse backgrounds have the tool to serve in their communities.
The mission of Youth Leadership America (YLA) is to develop and inspire America’s young leaders through collaboration with community leaders and mentorship for the collective benefit of the students and the community.
YELL provides a youth leadership kit that aids students in creating change in their communities.
The object of this organization is to highlight and empower youth leaders as well as encourage them to pursue their goals through leadership and service.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) engages audiences in a community education program, Learning for Justice. This resource provides educators with free resources to encourage youth civic participation as well as to learn honest history, promote servant leadership, and move toward a racially and socially just society.
This collection of resources has been curated by SPLC to offer lessons for elementary and middle school classrooms that focus on elections and voting.
Students can apply to be leaders for UNICEF and join or start different chapters in their own areas.
The Teachers Guild is a professional community that activates teachers’ creativity to solve the biggest challenges in education today. In their collaborative learning programs we use Design Thinking, a learner-centered approach to problem solving.
The Leadership Challenge shows students that they are all leaders in their own way and pushes them to embrace a leadership role in their lives.
TED-Ed is TED’s youth and education initiative. TED-Ed’s mission is to spark and celebrate the ideas of teachers and students around the world.
What makes a great leader? These TED Talks — from soldiers and psychologists, athletes and entrepreneurs — share hard-won wisdom on leadership.
This website has multiple activities to use in the classroom to show students how to be good leaders and find their leadership style.
Teach to Lead is a collaboration between ASCD and the U.S. Department of Education. This program’s mission is to advance student outcomes by expanding opportunities for teacher leadership.