Every person is a unique seed in the world’s garden.
Each seed grows a leader from which greatness can blossom.
Imagine the future of our planet if we nurture each leader to sprout greatness.
— Debra J. Slover
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School Leadership Garden

Empowered classroomThe place to cultivate and practice leadership in the classroom and on the playground

If you're looking to bring personal leadership training and anti-bullying resources into the classroom, we offer resources that individual teachers, counselors, and administrators can easily implement.

However, issues of bullying and building self-worth are often most effectively addressed at the organizational level. If, as an educator, you would like to create a district-wide, school-wide or grade-wide climate where: bullying is not tolerated and respect flourishes, every child's unique abilities and natural curiosity are nurtured, and each child is encouraged to take on a leadership role unique to them . . . we'd like to help you.

This site offers a number of resources to advance that agenda, working with students, faculty/staff, and/or parents/caregivers, including . . .

  • U.N.I.Q.U.E. Kids: Growing My Leadership Garden and its accompanying workbook, filled with activities that can be done by an entire class, or even a whole school
  • Workshops and Presentations at your school, including a cross-age leadership training program for teens, 13-18, and other programs directed at elementary-aged students
  • In-depth Educator Empowerment Workshops with optional ED 805 professional development credit through Western Oregon University
  • Facilitator Certification Program, where professionals in your school or district are trained to bring this empowering message to your students and community
  • The Leadership Garden Registry, which lets you access the resources of an entire online community, to think and share and brainstorm collaboratively, even across state lines
  • A Grant Program to help qualifying schools implement the Leadership Garden Legacy

All resources and presentations are designed by Debra Slover, a former classroom teacher who went on to coordinate two national and 18 statewide conferences, train 2000+ teens as trainers, present programs to 40,000 people, raise more than $3,200,000, and direct 38 youth leadership camps.

Slover has been Board President/VP of the National Association of Teen Institutes, chaired two statewide programs, and was a grant reviewer for the U.S. Department of Education and Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

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