After students become inspired at ICL events, they want to take action right away. Education is the base from which positive action flows. The ICL believes that before these young leaders can take truly effective action, they need to be educated in areas such as leadership development and critical thinking skills.
The ICL focuses on both traditional and nontraditional educational elements in its training. These elements provide students with underlying skills from which to draw upon when they plan to take action—
- leadership training,
- public speaking,
- current events assessment,
- organizational behavior,
- event planning,
- other critical thinking exercises.
ICL has created a teachers network that includes special peer-to-peer meetings, leadership training and curriculum development and support. When both students and teachers are inspired, they go beyond classroom learning and affect change in their school and community.
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- ICL Leadership Training
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On September 16, 2006, over forty students gathered early in the morning on a Saturday to participate in a leadership-training program sponsored by the Institute for Civic Leadership. The participants from the training represented leadership programs at several schoolsl. They all worked together to define their roles as leaders and acquire specific leadership skills. These student leaders worked on various communication skills, goal-setting, public speaking and peer mediation. These skills will surely benefit them far into the future.
The students who attended that were ICL Fellows also receive on-going leadership training throughout the year to enhance their ICL experience.