Learning to be Leaders

While 5th-7th grade students explored the outdoors at Camp Speers last week, the 8th grade participated in The Cathedral School’s inaugural Leadership Lab program back on campus. A mix of service-learning, workshops, presentations by guest speakers and preparation for high school highlighted the two-day program. On Thursday 8th graders visited Harlem Grown, a non-profit that operates urban farms to increase access to healthy food for Harlem residents and provide development programs to Harlem youth. Back at school, students built on their trip by discussing the relationship between leadership and service and what it means to lead at Cathedral in workshops led by the Cathedral faculty.  
 
The Leadership Lab also brought in Alexander Gillet (inset) to speak to the 8th graders. Alex founded HowGood, a corporation that rates food products according to their sustainability and impact on the environment. He spoke of his early years putting in many hours of hard work to get his startup off the ground, and how he learned to create a working team of employees to make his company thrive. Students spent Friday participating in high school admission mock interviews with a broad array of members of the Cathedral staff and faculty, as well as preparing their high school essays. The two days were an intensive but ultimately gratifying process which will continue throughout the year. “I want to leave Cathedral a better place than I found it,” remarked one student in an interview, “I want people to remember the impact of our class.”
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