A Leadership Skills Development Program for gifted upper elementary and secondary school students includes the Leadership Skills Inventory (a self-administered, self-scoring assessment tool) and a handbook of activities accompanying the inventory. (CL)

An approach to developing leadership potential involves having gifted students write and implement leadership plans which focus on an important area of needed change in the student's school, community, or religious affiliation. Presented are the purposes and benefits of the plans, processes involved in designing plans, and sample topics.…

The Family Environment Scale was used to measure perceptions of home environments of 76 students attending a leadership training program and those of their parents. Significant differences were found on the Independence, Intellectual-Cultural Orientation, and Expressiveness Scales, with students scoring home environments notably lower than their…

A model for developing leadership in elementary-secondary education includes infusion of leadership skills and concepts into curricula, training of teachers in the leadership development of youth, and providing mentoring experiences with community leaders. (SK)

This article discusses the need for competitions and contests in schools to develop and enhance talents in academics, fine and performing arts, leadership, and service learning. An academic contest school assessment checklist is included. Information on several national contests for children and youth is presented. (CR)

A survey of 73 parents, most having gifted children, examined perceptions of the development of leadership abilities. Parents identified: leader characteristics; their children's strongest and weakest areas of leadership skills; methods for encouraging leadership development; school opportunities for leadership experiences; the role of teachers,…