This required core course uses the frameworks of positive psychology and strengths-based leadership to explore leadership theory that promotes a culture of commitment and recognizes the strengths of all educators and students as a focus. In this course, students will learn to identify their own personal strengths as well as those of their individual students and create strategies for using these in Montessori instruction, relationship building, assessment, and classroom management at all levels: infants and toddlers, early childhood, lower elementary, upper elementary, and secondary school, including working with adults in teacher education.