The Leadership School
“All children are at promise, and we do the greatest good when we teach the teacher.” – Dick Kennedy, Founder
Since 1981, The Leadership School (TLS) has cultivated career educators who provide experiential education programs to thousands of Maine students each year. TLS programs are founded on the belief that we learn best by doing. Whether at Kieve Wavus Education’s (KWE) stunning Damariscotta Lake campuses or at Maine schools, a TLS education comes to life through our experiential approach to social-emotional learning (EASEL) and environmental stewardship curricula.
TLS helps build healthier school communities through each of its programs and by empowering the next generation of educators who will spend their careers promoting the values of kindness, respect, and environmental stewardship.
TLS helps build healthier school communities through each of its programs and by empowering the next generation of educators who will spend their careers promoting the values of kindness, respect, and environmental stewardship.
“All children are at promise, and we do the greatest good when we teach the teacher.” – Dick Kennedy, Founder
Since 1981, The Leadership School (TLS) has cultivated career educators who provide experiential education programs to thousands of Maine students each year. TLS programs are founded on the belief that we learn best by doing. Whether at Kieve Wavus Education’s (KWE) stunning Damariscotta Lake campuses or at Maine schools, a TLS education comes to life through our experiential approach to social-emotional learning (EASEL) and environmental stewardship curricula.
TLS helps build healthier school communities through each of its programs and by empowering the next generation of educators who will spend their careers promoting the values of kindness, respect, and environmental stewardship.
TLS helps build healthier school communities through each of its programs and by empowering the next generation of educators who will spend their careers promoting the values of kindness, respect, and environmental stewardship.
EASEL Curriculum
At TLS every lesson and activity is framed through the experiential learning cycle — Do, Reflect, Process, and Apply. Through our Experiential Approach to Social-Emotional Learning curriculum (adapted from CASEL), we use the environment, time, and space out of the traditional classroom to target the social-emotional skills that kids need to thrive — self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision making.
Students learn to be more aware of themselves and how to process their feelings through facilitation that promotes reflection and self-evaluation.
Students learn to be more aware of themselves and how to process their feelings through facilitation that promotes reflection and self-evaluation.
Students learn to regulate their thoughts, emotions, and behavior, focusing on impulse control, personal boundaries, and goal setting.
Students identify how their actions affect others, and how others’ experiences influence their worldview, learning to identify others’ emotions to build community connections and empathy.
Students discuss and visualize who they are, where they come from, and where they want to go, collaborating to build positive relationships that honor similarities and celebrate differences.
Students learn how to reflect on decisions they make on a daily basis and the effects of those decisions, with each group relying on each other to make the best decisions for their community.
Environmental Stewardship Curriculum
Through experiential learning — from exploring natural habitats on our lakeside campus to observing weather patterns, the lake ecosystem and more — our educators teach students:
- how to recognize their environment,
- how they as individuals and communities affect the environment,
- and basic steps to protect and preserve it for the benefit of their community.