Youth Leadership | Legacy Leaders
Legacy Leaders believes in the inherent capacity of today’s youth to be confident, purposeful, and conscientious leaders within their surroundings. This belief motivates our efforts to help students develop the necessary skills, attitudes, and strategies to successfully navigate academic and professional settings.
The Legacy Leaders model was developed with Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) theory in mind. Our curriculum acknowledges that understanding one’s feelings and aspirations cultivates self-awareness, establishes a sense of belonging, and builds interpersonal skills necessary for positive relationships. Legacy Leader’s approach to Social and Emotional Learning, through instruction and coaching, helps students understand the value, purpose, and identity of who they are.
Goals of the Social and Emotional Learning Model:
Demonstrate healthy decision-making skills and responsible behaviors in personal, school, and community contexts. (Transforming Students’ Lives with Social and Emotional Learning)​
Legacy Leaders curriculum places emphasis on the unique needs of youth between the ages of 13 and 17 years old who are from urban settings, focusing on teaching them valuable life skills and leadership traits. We also tailor certain topics to the specific needs of our school partners to create mass scale keynote addresses for school assemblies, orientation programs, and other school wide events. Workshops range up to 90 minutes and are taught through the use of multimedia tools and various experiential exercises.
“Legacy Leaders’ curriculum has not only enhanced our students’ understanding of professionalism, decision-making, building healthy relationships, and setting attainable goals, but has also taught them the values associated with becoming a positive leader.”
Dr. Jason Nault, Ed.D., Former Principal Chicago Public Schools
Our curriculum can be delivered in the following formats:
Day Session Training Workshops
Legacy Leaders Summer Academy
The Legacy Leaders curriculum can be described as leadership in action. We believe in encouraging our program participants to enhance their experience of leadership beyond the classroom. As such, we organize experiential field trips to allow students the opportunity of maximizing their learning through hands-on practice. Some of these trips include: United Airlines, Nova Quarter Horses, Depaul University, Northwestern University, Loyola University, Pacific Garden Mission, Elk Grove Leadership Course, Moody Bible Institute, Chicago Fire Major League Soccer, Chicago History Museum, Art Museum, U.s. Capital Building, U.s. Holocaust Museum, and the American History Museum.