This book would not exist without the help and support of many individual contributors. To start, we would like to thank our Societal Advancement colleagues at the Center for Creative Leadership for their support of this work, especially Lynn Fick-Cooper, Michael DePass, Courtney Gentry, and Joel Wright. We would like to give a huge thank you to Marin Burton, Greg Cameron, Justin McCollum, and William Murphy for reading through different draft versions of this and providing edits and suggestions, and of course to our editors, Peter Scisco and Shaun Martin. We would also like to thank Amanda Fonorow and Amy Cox Cameron for their invaluable support with the Suggested Books and Additional Resources sections of the book.
We would like to thank our research collaborators whose efforts led to the creation of the Student Leadership Framework: specifically, Preston Yarborough, Tim Leisman, Chris Rehm, Nicholas Lindsay, Valerie Ehrlich, Jeff Kosovich, and Holly Downs. These colleagues contributed to our data analysis and framework development. We would also like to thank all of those who participated in our surveys and interviews, especially students, faculty, and parents at Ravenscroft School, in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Charlotte Latin School, in Charlotte, North Carolina. We also thank all of the public schools in Vermont, South Carolina, and North Carolina that participated in data collection for our pilot studies.
We gratefully acknowledge Peter Scisco, Elaine Biech, and George Hallenbeck, the authors of Compass: Your Guide for Leadership Development and Coaching. We couldn’t have written this book without their initial vision and research. Last, but not least, the authors are sincerely grateful to all of the CCL faculty who have participated in the work of CCL since its founding in 1970.