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What Are Good Leadership Skills: Effective Leadership Styles

For Students 9th - 10th
Website describes how leadership in the 21st century is much different from the leadership of previous generations. The most effective types of leadership in the 21st century include visionary, coaching, democratic, and affiliative styles.
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What Are Good Leadership Skills: Example Leadership Skills List

For Students 9th - 10th
Web page teaches ten important qualities of strong leadership.
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What Are Good Leadership Skills: Personal Leadership Plans

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Develop your own leadership plan with this online guide and downloadable template.
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Why Bother Learning and Improving Leadership Skills?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Developing good leadership skills is essential for any profession, and a quality leader is one who is always trying to improve upon what they know. Use this guide to find materials suited to your needs, including avoiding...
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Mind Tools

Mind Tools: Leadership Styles: Using the Right One for the Situation

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about different leadership styles and decide which one works best for your situation and personality. Because there is no "right" way to lead in every situation, the different styles and theories of leadership presented here can...
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Mind Tools

Mind Tools: Leadership Styles: Using the Right One for the Situation

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about different leadership styles and decide which one works best for your situation and personality. Because there is no "right" way to lead in every situation, the different styles and theories of leadership presented here can...
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What Are Good Leadership Skills: Leadership Styles

For Students 9th - 10th
Because there has never been a proven "right" way of leading, many experts have broken leadership down into various styles and ideas. Learn about these various schools of thought and decide which is the best personal fit in this site.
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What Are Good Leadership Skills: Developing Good Leadership Skills

For Students 9th - 10th
Being a good leader is not an easy task and it can often be confused with having a great deal of expertise. This article allows readers to decide what leadership is not and to find out if they have what it takes to be a good leader.
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What Are Good Leadership Skills: Definition of Leadership

For Students 9th - 10th
Becoming a leader depends highly on interpersonal relationship skills. Without being able to communicate and empathize with others, attempts at any type of leadership are often futile. This site poses difficult questions to determine...
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What Are Good Leadership Skills: Leadership: Eight Key Indicators

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a self-assessment of leadership abilities to decide if you would make a good leader. Links to a more comprehensive assessment with immediate feedback. Download in PDF format or take directly online. Also read and learn about the...
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Stanford Business: Ten Leadership Tenets From Colin Powell

For Students 9th - 10th
Excerpted from a longer article, this article provides a list of ten ideas that former Secretary of State General Colin Powell presents about the qualities and behaviors of a good leader.
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University of St. Francis: Fiedler's Contingency Theory of Leadership

For Students 9th - 10th
In-depth look at Fiedler's leadership views.
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Constitutional Rights Foundation

Constitutional Rights Foundation: Sam Houston: A Study of Leadership [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Article and learning activity on Sam Houston. Includes questions for discussion and small group activity.
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BBC

Bbc: History: Hitler's Leadership Style

For Students 9th - 10th
Examine Adolf Hitler's shortcomings as a military leader. Discover why the Fuhrer distrusted most of his generals and relied too much on his own instinct.
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Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Southern Christian Leadership Conference (Sclc)

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed facts and a summary on the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) formed as a Civil Rights non-violent protest group in 1957.
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PBS

Pbs Online News Hour: Report Finds Federal Leadership Lacking

For Students 9th - 10th
The Government Accountability Office, a Congress-commissioned investigation group, rips the Bush administration for their lack of leadership and slow response to Hurricane Katrina. In particular, the report is critical of the Secretary...
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A&E Television

History.com: How Colin Powell's Service in Vietnam Shaped His Leadership

For Students 9th - 10th
Colin Powell served two combat tours in the Vietnam conflict and earned three medals for his service. Although Powell broke his ankle in a helicopter crash, he rushed back into the wreckage again and again to save the lives of Gettys,...
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Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)

Educational Leadership: Art and Science of Teaching /Cognitive Verbs and Cc

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) present a new mandate and challenge for K-12 educators-teaching and reinforcing cognitive verbs. These verbs, referred to as academic vocabulary, signal the type of mental operations that students...
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The Ceo Refresher: Who Are You? And What Do You Want?

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the attributes of an effective leader.
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PBS

Pbs News Hour Extra: North Korea Prepares for Critical Transfer of Power

For Students 9th - 10th
North Korea is preparing for a major change in leadership. Kim Jong-Il has prepared his son, Kim Jong-Un, the youngest of his three sons. Article describes the problems in North Korea at this time and the difficulty of leadership change...
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Global Kids' Digital Media Initiative

For Students 9th - 10th
One 21st Century way of helping students stay in touch with the real world is to utilize technology. There are several online leadership projects for classrooms to use.
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Pbs: Women in the Corporate Workforce

For Students 9th - 10th
Results of a study that looked at women in corporate leadership roles. Gives statistics on women in the workforce, on boards of companies, executives and more.
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University of Houston

University of Houston: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference

For Students 9th - 10th
This comprehensive essay describing the history and effect of the SCLC is written by Cynthia P. Lewis of the King Center.
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Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation

History Is Fun: Powhatan's Challenge and Opechancanough's Action [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the interactions between the Powhatan and the English, the different leadership styles of the brothers Wahunsonacock and Opechancanough, and the events leading up to the Powhatan War and Opechancanough's defeat.