Cluster One: Participants Engaged in Building and Sustaining a Learning Community
High quality leadership programs contribute positively to student leadership development as a result of the contributions and perspectives of a community of stakeholders whose participants collaborate to engage in building a learning community. This community fosters leadership development and learning for participants. The attributes of the participants engaged in building a learning community cluster include:
• Diverse and engaged students
• Experienced and committed practitioners
• Educators model leadership and support
• Participants unite through small groups
• Participant foster a culture of challenge and support
• Participants cultivate one-on-one relationships
This is Cluster One of Three. Each cluster contains 3-7 attributes of high quality leadership programs. Each attribute is described in terms of actions taken to enact it and the learning and leadership development outcome it relates to achieving in the learner. I will blog attribute by attribute over the upcoming weeks. Next up, “Diverse and engaged students.”