The 2009-10 LEAP Program is designed to provide the LEAP scholars with a unique mix of experiences. The activities will combine meetings and conferences with opportunities to interact with educational leaders from around the state.

Required Activities

Meetings - LEAP Scholars will meet with the LEAP co-chairs, other college staff and guest speakers each month for an activity-filled meeting. Each month will have a particular theme or activity. The meetings will be interactive and require LEAP scholars to be prepared for the meeting by reading assignments and case studies.

Conferences - LEAP scholars will participate in two conferences during the year at various locations around the state.

Leadership Activities - Each participant will choose six activities in which to participate in a variety of settings that best meet their career goals. Participants will prepare a report on each activity.

Group Project - The 2009-10 LEAP scholars will prepare a group project on a topic to be discussed by the LEAP co-chairs. The project will be presented at the June statewide conference.

Readings - Each LEAP scholar will be provided with a LEAP binder for handouts and required readings. A community college book will be provided to all 2009-10 LEAP scholars

The Leadership Challenge- Kouzes & Posner

From the publisher: 

From Publishers Weekly
An inspirational and practical handbook, this expanded revision of a bestselling manual originally published in 1987 offers sound advice to corporate leaders and entrepreneurs, to managers and employees and to aspiring leaders in retail, manufacturing, government, community, church and school settings. Drawing on interviews and a questionnaire survey of more than 3000 leaders, the authors identify five fundamental practices of exemplary leadership: challenge the status quo; inspire a shared vision; enable others to act; model the way forward by setting an example; tap individuals' inner drives by linking rewards and performance. Kouzes, chairman and CEO of TPG/Learning Systems, and Posner, managing partner of Santa Clara University's Executive Development Center in California, write insightful, down-to-earth, jargon-free prose. This new edition has been substantially updated to reflect the challenges of shrinking work forces, rising cynicism and expanded telecommunications. An appendix includes the author's Leadership Practices Inventory, a tool for assessing leadership behavior. 75,000 first printing; Executive Program Book Club main selection; author tour.

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