What is Leadership? Life Lessons from the Pebble

Leadership is a touchpoint topic for all humans of all ages. This fictional story showcases that it can only take one to make a change for the good and a leader can be in the heart of everyone no matter your role in education or in the workplace. True leadership is unforgettable. It can be found in small mindful moments. It is the drive to give your best self and to embrace and care for others with an open heart. Professional leadership demonstrates greatness that is authentic and a constant in daily life. In this story, the large plateau envisions itself as the one in charge of all, from the boulders to the granulars. The plateau sees leadership from a top-down, transactionary perspective. The plateau has a narrow lens of being in charge and making all the decisions. The pebble on the other hand, is a transformational leader, who engages the other metamorphic, igneous, and sedimentary rocks with empathy, a growth mindset, and self-worth as they journey through and along the riverbed. This book is a mentor text for a current professional leader and one who is an aspiring leader. It is also providing a threaded connection for the non-fiction topic about rocks and their classifications for high interest reading and inquiry about this topic. It can be a good addition to a TC Library for learning progressions in the story arc of reading, story schema, main idea, and deep reading for revised thinking as a reader through essential questions and prompts embedded in the book.