Raise a kid who can make the case — and change something.
Leaders 4SC is where middle schoolers learn to speak, write, and build like leaders — three project-based weeks every summer, plus Task Force Saturdays all school year. Every week ends with something real they made: a speech, an op-ed, or an AI-powered pitch.
No student turned away for cost · 1:7 ratio · Non-partisan
The class of 2027Meet the cast
Five tools. One young leader.
The five kids in the picture up top each carry one of the tools we teach. By the end of a summer, your child will have used all five.
The Speaker
Commands a room and moves an audience.
The Explorer
Knows how the world actually connects.
The Thinker
Builds arguments that hold up.
The Advocate
Weighs both sides, then takes a stand.
The Builder
Turns ideas into things that work.
The Leaders 4SC promise
Rigorous enough to matter. Affordable enough to say yes.
You shouldn't have to choose between a substantive summer and an affordable one. For $500 a week — with a device to use, snacks, a Friday meal, and a t-shirt included — your child joins a small group led by real educators, works through the issues shaping their world, and goes home Friday with something they made and can be proud of.
Summer 2027 · July 12–30
Three weeks in the field.
Enroll in one, two, or all three — each week stands on its own.
Speak Up
Persuasive Speaking & Public Advocacy
Public speaking is the skill students fear most and need most.
A delivered speech→Make the Case
Op-Eds & the Art of Argument
Make the Case teaches students to do what most adults can't: build a genuinely persuasive written argument.
A publishable op-ed→Build What's Next
AI & Social Innovation
In Build What's Next, students put everything together.
An AI-powered pitch→Task Force Saturdays.
Leadership isn't a summer-only thing — it's a year-round habit. One Saturday a month, September through May, students dig into a real issue for four hours: the same Know · Care · Act method, all year long.
The method
Know. Care. Act.
Know
They dig into a real issue — from AI to refugees to press freedom — across history, economics, psychology, and civics, so they understand how the world actually connects.
- →What are the pressing challenges of our time?
- →How do they affect my community and the world?
- →Where can I find reliable information and go deeper?
Care
They figure out why it matters, to them and to others, and take a position they're ready to defend.
- →Why does this issue matter to me?
- →How does it affect the people around me?
- →Why should others care, and how do I bring them along?
Act
They turn understanding into action — a speech, an op-ed, a pitch — practicing the real skills of leadership: argument, persuasion, collaboration, and presentation.
- →What specific action can I take to make a difference?
- →How do I work with others for greater impact?
- →What tools, people, and organizations can I draw on?
It's the same loop great leaders run their whole lives. We just start early.
Why Leaders 4SC
Why Choose Leaders?
A finished project every week
A speech, an op-ed, and an AI pitch your kid can show off for years.
Real attention
At least one instructor for every seven students, with personal feedback on every piece of work.
Taught by educators
A sequenced curriculum from a civic-education nonprofit, taught by trained, background-checked educators.
Genuinely affordable
Among the lowest prices in the Boston area — device, snacks, Friday meal, and t-shirt included.
Aid that means it
Need-based aid, a simple application, and a promise: no student is turned away for cost.
The issues of right now
Fresh topics every year — from AI to refugees to press freedom. Never the same two years running.
The portfolio
What they make.
Every week ends with a finished piece of work — and students who do all three leave with a portfolio.
Written, rehearsed, and delivered to the room on an issue they chose.
Revised with real feedback — the best run in our Student Voices collection.
A prototype and pitch deck, presented founder-style.
The essentials
Everything you need to know.
Ready to give your child a voice?
Start with the summer, add Task Force Saturdays, or do both. Each week is capped at 20 students, and registrations completed by April 1, 2027 get 10% off.