Charleston Leaders, Inc.
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
There is a need in our society to help and lead our children toward positive influence and it starts at the elementary level. Leader in Me provides elementary schools with a model and process that addresses the common challenges that are unique to students during these formative years. Parents, educators, and school administrators are concerned with their child’s physical, mental, social, and economic well-being, all of which are factors that can contribute to or hinder academic success. Teachers, staff, and administrators at Leader in Me Schools are empowered to provide support in all of these areas by creating a learning environment that addresses whole-child education with five (5) Core Paradigms. These paradigms influence the behavior of staff, students, and their families.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Leader in Me
Leader in Me (LiM) is an evidence-based, comprehensive school improvement model—developed in partnership with educators—that empowers students with the leadership and life-skills they need to thrive in the 21st century.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of children who have a sense of their own feelings and an ability to express empathy for others
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Leader in Me
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
We announced funding in May 2019 and training began over the Summer. On August 19th, students walked in to two completely transformed schools to be totally immersed in Leader in Me.
Number of youth who demonstrate leadership skills (e.g., organizing others, taking initiative, team-building)
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Leader in Me
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
As the school year is continuing, we will begin seeing results of the Leader in Me model that we just implemented in Sangaree Elementary and Devon Forest Elementary.
Number of students with good social and leadership skills and self-discipline
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Leader in Me
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
The Leader in Me (www.leaderinme.org) has been greatly successful in many schools, including five others in the Lowcountry. We will continue to monitor and track these two school for success.
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Our core goal is to foster leadership in individuals, whether at the K-12 level or an individual in our community. Our recipe is simple, gather leaders once per month to interact and engage with each other to make a positive impact in our community. Gather once per quarter and bring a leader in to share with us what he or she is doing in our community, region or country that is making a positive impact, then we ask what can we do to help. Gather once a year to celebrate leadership and highlight leaders in our community that are making our local area better than when they found it. And lastly, implement leadership in our schools through our partnership with FranklinCovey Education and their Leader in Me model. If we can impact children at the K-12 level and introduce leadership to them, we can inspire greatness which will have a lasting impact on their lives and the community they serve.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
With just one of our programs, our strategies are to focus on 5 core paradigms. The Leader in Me experience begins with a whole new paradigm for education. Educators rediscover their passion through Leader in Me as it redirects their focus back to a deeper understanding of student achievement. (1) Everyone can be a leader, Not This: Leadership is for the few. (2) Everyone has genius, Not This: A few people are gifted. (3) Change starts with me, Not This: To improve schools, the system needs to change first. (4) Educators empower students to lead their own learning, Not This: Educators control and direct student learning.And (5) Develop the whole person, Not This: Focus solely on academic achievement.
With great leaders in our community, we can help deliver the leadership programming that our community needs. If we can make an impact in just our community, what can we do when this spreads to every community. Many people equate leadership with a formal position of authority. But we believe anyone can be a leader by intentionally leading one’s own life (leading self) and working well with and encouraging the greatness in others—whether family, friends, neighbors, or colleagues (leading others).
What's missing in today's society is the core principles of leadership. Everyone can be a leader. When schools adopt this paradigm, students take ownership of their learning. Leadership training and development encourages the development of leadership skills inherent in us all. Leadership, as defined by Leader in Me, powerfully resonates with children and enables greatness. Once students begin to internalize this principle of empowerment, they become engaged, responsible, collaborative, and confident in the face of life’s challenges. Students who develop life-ready leadership skills through the Leader in Me process are prepared for college, career, and life.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Our goals can be achieved by staying true to our core mission and focus on fostering leadership to make a positive impact in our community. We're very intentional on our programming to insure that we are gather leaders and aspiring leaders to interact with each other monthly, quarterly and annually.
By leveraging the community to invest in our leadership programs, we can help fund many schools with the Leader in Me model so that the school does not have to incur the full costs. We can also implement our monthly, quarterly and annual programs as well to gather leaders together.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Over the last 30 months, we have successfully gathered leaders together at over 40 events that fostered leadership. We have brought our area Mayors, Council-members, a Senator, Military Commanders, Former Mayor, and Congressional Candidates together to name a few that shared insight, knowledge and next steps for leading in our community.
We have visited countless schools and announced two schools in our community that we are funding the Leader in Me model in those schools. The two schools for the 2019-2020 school year that we helped fund is Sangare Elementary and Devon Forest Elementary.
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Charleston Leaders, Inc.
Board of directorsas of 02/25/2021
Janet Newham
Carolina One Real Estate
Term: 2018 - 2022
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Not applicable
Organizational demographics
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Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.