Stand Up For Greatness

Empower students with easy to use, self-directed, multimedia lessons that develop student leaders and teach essential life skills.
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GRATITUDE

The first lesson of leadership: Let the people in your life know how much they mean to you. Students learn the importance of being authentic with their feelings.

ATTITUDE

Attitude is a choice: What will your students choose? Students learn that a true optimist takes action and that we can always go farther than we think we originally can.

GOALS

What are your students’ goals? Students learn that the biggest mistake they can make is to live someone else’s goals and how to manifest goals into courage, character and conviction.

RESPECT & RESPONSIBILITY

Recognizing that they are responsible for the consequences of every choice and decision they make; students learn they have the power to choose.

KINDNESS

It’s not “I want, it’s I will!” Students learn that their words and actions can either build people up or tear them down and that what they give out – comes back.

BELIEF

Believe in yourself – and be resilient. Students will quickly learn how to identify what they love to do and then begin to create a life around their set of beliefs.

Why Lessons in Leadership?

Today’s educators and our modern school system continues to be stressed by increasing regulations including standardized tests and curriculum mandates, making it challenging to find engaging and up-to-date leadership resources for our students. Finally there is an answer, a way to build tomorrow’s leaders TODAY.

Life is busy! In this fast paced, technology-driven world, leadership life skills are often overlooked. Some people may call them “soft skills’. They are not. They are “life skills”. These life skills are essential to the success of our students and to the future of us all.

A Message from Ed
— Coleen Thurber
Character Education Teacher: Cherry Creek School District

“As a 25 year veteran educator and character education teacher, I’m always looking for powerful and inspiring material to help coach our students to be the best versions of themselves they can be. I’m hungry for topics and content that has depth to it, is creative, engaging, and will leave a leasting impression long after…

— Mary Ellen O’Connell
Wellsville Secondary 6-12 School Principal

“Energizing – Impactful – Heartwarming. Three words that describe Ed Gerety and the message he delivers to student audiences. Ed has worked with our regional middle level student leaders for over a decade and the impact of Ed’s workshop is markable. Our students learn the most important aspects of being a leader – compassion –…

— Ravo Root, Ed.D.
Superintendent of Fillmore Central School District

“Ed Gerety’s Lessons in Leadership provides teachers with easy to use multimedia lessons that engage students. Teaching positive leadership traits has never been easier!”

WATCH: Video Lessons

6 Engaging self-paced video lessons (8-20 minutes each) take students through character building leadership lessons. Our proven “Watch – Discuss – Engage“ format allows students to be fully emerged in the power of guided learning. With over 3,000,000 students and counting, ‘Lessons in Leadership’ is building future leaders – today.

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DISCUSS: Interactive Lecture

Through guided self-directed discussion students will apply problem-based learning. This inquiry mode of learning is a powerful catalyst for knowledge acquisition and plays a critical role in shaping students into leaders. Our customized pre and post surveys will help to measure active learning while the lesson plans outline key objectives and discussion points.

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FACILITATED LEARNING: Activity Based Learning

Activity-based learning as part of guided learning promotes and nurtures character development which is a a key factor in helping students learn to be leaders. Promoting critical thinking skills, each of our 6 lessons plans are filled with fun and educational activities that help students explore what it means to be a leader and promote continuous learning long after the lessons are completed.

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SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING: Activity Based Learning

The lessons are flexible! Use the Student Activity Sheets for either classroom facilitated delivery, student or small group self-directed study or for at home use.

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