The gcLi Leadership Academy at Hotchkiss
Empower students to become leaders who effect positive change.
This program is not offered in 2022
AGE: Rising 9th graders and Older
The gcLi Leadership Academy is a two-week program designed to develop your leadership skills and capacities so you can better serve others, from your home school to the global stage.You learn to:
- Advocate for self;
- Unleash the potential of team members;
- Skillfully solve adaptive challenges;
- Foster communities of belonging;
- Speak in public with confidence;
- Give and receive feedback.
The foundation of our approach to leadership education is the development of self-awareness: You take a deep dive into the ways in which your identifiers and dispositions shape your interactions with others. We take the cultivation of humility and resilience to the teaching of group dynamics: You and your teammates are immersed in real-world situations to learn how to build inclusive teams where everyone works together in productive and creative ways.
An Action Plan for Positive Change: You create meaningful impact in the Portals community - and beyond- by devising innovative solutions to current challenges.
Student Signature Story Presentations
At the end of the two-week session, Leadership students share signature stories that describe a defining moment in their lives. Listen to this 2017 student (below) explain how she found her voice so as to advocate for other “silent” voices: “Within each of us lies, lives a proud, inspiring, and sometimes quiet cantadora. Please remember to set her free."