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Leadership School Curriculum
The Leadership School's program at Kieve is grounded in three principles:
1. Social connections and skills are critical to the success of students.
2. Active learning techniques engage students of all abilities and backgrounds. Active techniques that are fun and encourage metaphorical thinking facilitate maximum growth because it meets students where they are.
3. Solvable challenges of increasing difficulty enable students to accomplish more than they ever thought possible.
Classes:
Communication Skills
- Learn the 8 guidelines of clear and effective communication.
- Discuss assertive, aggressive and passive behavior and what part communication plays in that.
- Address the issue of bullying and peer aggression with initiatives and language.
- Practice conflict resolution.
Relationships
- Identify the qualities of a healthy relationship
- Discuss the concepts of stereotypes, judgments and generalizations and what part communication plays in that.
- Consider the values and beliefs of others and opening up positive lines of communication.
- Discuss sexual harassment and gender differences for 7th and 8th grade levels.
Solo
- Define the positive qualities students strive to develop in themselves.
- Set a goal for themselves and map out strategies to meet that goal.
- Practice the importance of resting, relaxing and reflecting on a goal while sitting in silence, stillness and solitude.
- Consider who students can turn to for help in achieving their goals.
Decisions
- Brainstorm what risky behaviors they are witnessing and/or facing in their own school and community.
- Investigate what a student hopes to get from a risky behavior versus what they often end up getting.
- Exemplify how quickly risky behaviors can complicate their lives with initiatives.
- Discuss positive ways/risks through which students can achieve some of the outcomes they are looking for when getting involved in risky behaviors.
Adventure
- Learn how to identify and respect one’s comfort zone and the comfort zones of others in their class.
- Challenge oneself in a safe environment.
- Identify who in their school and community are members of their support team, both physically and emotionally.
- Create a space that is physically and emotionally safe for each person and climb on our outdoor ropes course and in our indoor climbing center.
Teambuilding
- Practice working with one another to achieve a common goal or to solve a common problem.
- Brainstorm what makes a good team and what critical role they play to support that team.
- Discover their own strengths as well as the strengths of others and find a way to maximize them both.
- Develop skills to be creative problem solvers and practice clear and effective communication.
Environmental Stewardship
- Use the outdoors as an integrated context for learning -- fostering an intimate connection with the natural world.
- Help form values, perspectives and understanding of the natural environment and how to interact with it.
- Cultivate awareness, sensitivity, knowledge and understanding about the environmental challenges facing their own community.
- Nurture an attitude of concern for environmental quality and develop skills to mitigate problems.
 TLS Guiding Principles for the Maine Learning Results
Letter from former Commissioner Susan Gendron
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