Dayton Leadership Academies

A Leader In Me School With A School Culture of Joy and Achievement

Leader In Me


This is Year 4 of DLA implementing Leader in Me.

  • Quarterly conferences are student-led with students sharing their leadership portfolios with their families. Leadership portfolios include student’s progress on their goals, examples of their leadership, and artifacts from celebrations. 

  • Students lead in the classroom, across the school, and in the community. 

They do morning announcements, give school tours, lead school assemblies, plan school events, and complete community service projects. 

  • Students enjoy Leadership Clubs on Fridays. They selected from a wide range of options: sign language, photography, comic books, sewing, sports, and Girl Scouts. 


Thanks to an $18,000 grant from the Ohio Arts Council, in 2025 DLA students worked with a visiting artist to design and create a leadership mural in our main atrium. The theme of the mural is the 7 Leader Habits in action at Dayton Leadership Academies. 
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