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Go to Rev. Aliah K. MaJon, Ph.D.

“Founder of the Next 50 Years Project, Dr. MaJon empowers both youth and adults to determine their own destiny and confidently step into leadership roles.”

Go to Mr Chris Spetzler

Decision Education

Chris Spetzler, the Executive Director of the Decision Education Foundation, is passionate about bringing decision skills to young people. Chris supports educators and organizations in realizing and evaluating the benefits of decision education, develops decision skills programs, and teaches on the subject.

Go to Nicole Anderson

Equity and Access

Nicole provides educational equity services to ensure that equity is realized to enable all students to achieve personal and professional success. Her work focuses on building capacity in cultural proficiency as well as all areas of equity and diversity.

Go to Heather Singmaster

Global Learning

Heather is the Associate Director, Center for Global Education at the Asia Society where her work focuses on international benchmarking and integrating global competence into Career Technical Education programs as well as state and national policy.

Go to Sean Covey

Social Emotional Learning

Sean Covey is an American author, motivational speaker, and publishing executive providing business leadership and time management educational tools for organizations and individuals. He is known for writing motivational books for children and teens.

Go to Barry Fingerhut

Business Communications

Barry is the Chief Executive Officer and majority equity owner of Certification Partners, a company that helps students develop 21st Century computing skills in ways that are easy, engaging, and flexible. Barry has a heart for helping the underserved become successful entrepreneurs.

Miki Bellon

Community Engagement

Miki is a passionate leader dedicated to advancing access to leadership and education opportunities for all students in CA. Miki partners with Nonprofit, Corporate, and Community leaders to achieve high impact results and outcomes aligned with the Organization’s Mission, Program, Funding, and/or Strategic goals.

Steve McEllin

Success Skills

A Transformative Leader, Strategist, Instinctive Problem-Solver, Value-Creator, and Bridge-Builder, Steve has a passion for education reform and improvement of student outcomes. Steve frequently writes on topics such as servant leadership, SEL, and emotional and social intelligence and its influence on effective school leadership, school and education reform.

ROB SEITELMAN

Arts Integration

Rob is an Ed-Tech Consultant with over 10 years in public school classrooms and school leadership experience focused on cross-curricular integration and arts integration. For over 20 years Rob worked in the performing arts including professional acting, writing, and directing on stage and camera in New York, Los Angeles, and the Bay Area.

Community News

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Spotlight on The Leader in Me Program

Developing Leadership Skills with 7 Habits

Our community has been changed for the better in so many ways by instilling core paradigms and principles of leadership. We are now one of four schools in the Rocklin Unified School District that is using leadership to shape our students for the future. Building character and tapping into the gifts of students and staff has built strong community both inside the walls of our school and out. Collectively, we are focused and working towards the same goal – being leaders and building leaders. ~ Former Principal of Ruhkala Elementary, promoted to High School Principal!

Melody Thorson

I am a 5th grade teacher at Patterson Elementary. I believed that just because a student was struggling, didn’t mean they couldn’t also be amazing. By understanding the 7 habits as a pathway to becoming a leader in one’s own life, I have seen that all students can get that magic. No longer is, “they just don’t have it” an excuse. The Leader in Me program has been an amazing addition to our curriculum. I have always been the out of the box teacher that likes to let students take the lead and ownership over their work. However, with the Leader in Me I have been able to elevate this to a whole new level.

Ms. Unger

The Leader in Me program is really helpful to us the students. Put first things first. It has helped me with doing my homework first then do whatever. My parents think it’s a great idea having this program in my school. They have said that it can help me and all the other students get more education out of life. I hope you can have the Leader in Me program in your school. Because it’s helping mine!

6th Grade Student