RC009 Student Leadership Matters: Student Leadership is Much More Than Organizing School Dances

Jeremy LaCasse is the Assistant Headmaster at Taft Boarding School. He is also the Director of the Association of Boarding Schools New Teacher Academy and the Dean of the Leadership Lab at the Gardner Carney Leadership Institute at Fountain Valley School. With an extensive background in the boarding school environment, Jeremy has served in many executive leadership roles throughout his career in education. He has also served as an educator, teaching a variety of history classes including World Cultures and Social Theory and Global Impact as well as European, U.S., and Ancient and Medieval History. Jeremy earned his Bachelor's degree in History with a minor in Economics from Bowdoin College and his Master's in Educational Administration from Klingstein Center at Columbia University's Teachers College.

Jeremy LaCasse joins us today to discuss why student leadership is crucial in the school environment. He discusses the importance of self-awareness and group awareness and how they impact your ability to be a successful leader. We discuss why it's important to teach students to identify and learn from mistakes and failures and how it can help them hone their leadership skills. We also discuss what it means to build a trust reservoir with the people you work with and the value of maintaining authenticity and empathy as leaders.

"Leadership really is awareness of self, awareness of group, and then having a wide enough repertoire of behaviors to call upon that ultimately can help the group thrive and survive." - Jeremy LaCasse

This week on the Roll Call Podcast:

• The leadership styles and behaviors that are most relevant to today's student leaders
• The importance of modeling self-awareness and how it impacts your leadership skills
• Why teachers need to teach students how to identify and learn from mistakes and failures
• How to help students and teachers learn from feedback and criticism
• Reframing the concept of stress to achieve resiliency
• How teaching leadership skills to high school students impacts their future success
• How to teach students empathy
• The connection between good leaders and a deep belief in humanity
• The importance of maintaining authenticity as a leader
• The similarities and differences between organizational leadership versus individual leadership
• Jeremy's prediction for the future of leadership

Resources Mentioned:

• The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson
• Canaries in the Coal Mine: Finding Good Teachers

This episode is sponsored by REACH Boarding

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