The Leader in Me: How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time Paperback – October 6, 2009

This has been one of the best book that I have read in years as a parent. Though, I bought this book a couple of years back as a paperback, have read it just now after re-buying it as a Kindle edition. I have in fact gifted my paperback edition to my daughter's school with the expectation, that they will be influenced to become the first school in India to adapt the learnings from this book.Reg,Pranjal KonwarGuwahati, Assam,India

Conquering Academic, and Life, Challenges is as easy as I ... 2 ... 3.The first struggle a teacher, of students who have fallen behind, will face is the learned helplessness of students who spend their energies looking "as if" they are on task, instead of actually learning.Habit 1 helps students to start at the beginning... I am in charge of me. Because each student with special needs has unique goals (and IEPs), the next logic step is to understand and be part of their educational plan. Habit 2 Begins with the End in Mind... I have a plan The next struggle is making sure that learning tasks take top priority. Habit 3 helped me teach my students to focus on work first, then play.I credit this 7 Habit plan for students as having laid the foundational skills that allow my students to gain greater than one year's growth (and often 2 and 3 years growth) in less than one school year. If these students who have fallen so far behind are to every close the gap between their current achievement and ability levels, Leader In Me is what it takes to succeed.

I purchased this book because our school was going to be using this program this fall. I felt that if I got it before our training it would be beneficial. The book was in great shape and I received it way before the time I was given. Great book that would benefit any one interested in bettering their or their childrens lives.

This book caught my eye because I have been looking at how education will change to deal with the increasing need for more creativity and innovation within all employees in the future. This book provides a good overview of some changes tried by a number of primarily elementary schools that I did not know about, so it fulfills my need. However, it is primarily an overview. One looking for more of a how to do it will be disappointed.Basically, the book tells the story of how, in particular, A.C. Combs Elementary School has adopted the seven habits as a kind of value set underlying the traditional curriculum across the school. Other schools are also cited, but with much less detail. Students have done very well, even on the standardized exams that are so important to schools today. In my experience this emphasis on underlying values is one key to a new generation of education, so this material validated what I have been seeing and provided other reinforcing models. (The idea of values is not "being good" but rather a way of life that brings success.) The seven habits do provide a good basis for leadership, and I am now considering how they can add to the initiatives I am doing. However, our focus on creativity and innovation means we use other values that reach beyond the seven habits, primarily think-team-trust. This does not detract from the value of the stories told here to stimulate more thinking about the ideal next generation of education for the 21st Century.Note that Covey's company apparently now has a large business in providing materials and training for education activities such as those cited in the book. One could perceive this book as a sales pitch. However, I found the writing more an attempt to honestly spread the word rather than sell a given program. I guess the value, then, depends on whether you are in a position to build on the ideas, or you just want to try to copy what is described. In the later case you may have little option but to turn to Franklin Covey for the detail that is missing in the book. I, however, found the overview provided good food for thought for an unrelated activity that is already well underway, and thus a valuable contribution.

I have looked at several books in the library to help me with teacher development & skills. I raised my kids and retired from engineering to teach math & science in high school. This is one of the 3 that I decided to buy and keep. The other 2 are Teaching With Love & Logic (by Fay & Funk) and Harry Wong's book: First Days of School (even though it is not oriented toward high school teens as much).Thanks!

Good book but has A LOT of fluff in it. Most of the book he spends talking about how great the programs are at different schools, which is interesting to know, but offers no value. After one or two stories it's like, "all right, I get it, it's a great program, now tell ME how I can replicate it," but then he goes on and on and on with more and more stories not telling you anything. Then, finally, towards the end,he starts to get into some talk that is helpful but it's very short lived. I'm a big fan of Mr. Covey's work, but this isn't one of his best. Better to read The 7 habits of highly effective families than this book.

Covey does a great job of exploring how various schools have implemented the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Although the first half of the book focuses primarily on one elementary school, the first to take this leadership theme approach, it is such a great look into how the leaders of the building and the community went about getting the system in place. I couldn't put this book down!

El libro llegó antes de lo esperado y en excelentes condiciones. Cuando termine de leerlo, les cuento como me fue 👍.