23: Fostering Leadership in the Classroom

Guest: Matt Coe

• “Just defining Christian leadership in itself is no easy task, and then, when you bring in the cultural element, and the virtues and values of what a good leader is in that context, it’s dramatically different.”
• GLOBE Project
• “If you have that underpinning of trust, then you can have robust conversations, then you can talk into people’s lives. A leader must be able to read the situation, must interpret the situation, and then use the right leadership quality for that moment, all wrapped in love.”
• “The character of our students is vital, the practical application of the skills that we are teaching them - organization, decision-making, teamwork, conflict - all of these things that we deal with in the mission world, we have an opportunity to teach that.”
• “As we release our students into the wider world, we need to be able to teach them to be adaptable and versatile and flexible.”
• “How can we always guide them back to the cross through the opportunities that we give for leadership?”
• “Everyone has capacities to lead in different ways.”
• Lead Like Jesus by Blanchard, Hodges, and Hendry
• “Everyone has their gifts, everyone has their strengths, so let’s play to those strengths and let’s form a team around it.”
• Leading from the Second Chair by Bonem and Patterson
• The Ideal Team Player by Lencioni

• Keane: Habitica
• Heather: Meeting friends’ kids on Marco Polo
• Matt: The creativity of students