What We Call Classroom Leaders

The last few weeks, I've been meeting with numerous school principals and superintendents in Monterey County, introducing our local impetus on positive behavior in school via developing the natural social influencers.

Most of the people I talk to readily know the type of students I'm referring to, and they've even volunteered their own adjectives to describe them.  A few are listed in this Wordle.  It's interesting that a majority of the terms tend to be somewhat negative.  Perhaps it's because in cultures valuing conformity, leaders stand out, a bit like stubbing your toe on a carpet nail.  I'm pleasantly delighted that most of the local school leaders with whom I'm meeting understand the inequity of social influence and concur with the strategy of getting to these catalysts to benefit the rest.