Learn With Dr. Rod
A meaningful idea can begin in a book, a classroom, a program, or a conversation. What happens afterward matters just as much.
Dr. Rod's resources are designed to help parents, educators, and mentors keep those ideas moving through thoughtful questions, practical activities, and conversations young people can carry into everyday life.
Start With Who You're Guiding
Young people don't develop leadership in isolation. The adults around them help shape the questions they ask, the choices they make, and the way they understand themselves and others.
Choose the role that best describes where you're starting.
Simple ways to turn everyday moments, stories, setbacks, and questions into meaningful conversations about confidence, character, resilience, empathy, and leadership.
Explore Family Resources →Discussion prompts, classroom ideas, and practical tools designed to help leadership concepts move from something students hear to something they begin to recognize and practice.
Explore Educator Resources →Conversation tools and leadership activities for adults helping young people think more deeply about who they are, how they respond to challenges, and the influence they have on others.
Explore Mentor Resources →Read or Experience an IdeaTalk About ItPut It Into PracticeKeep the Conversation Going
Keep the Story Going
Some of the best conversations begin after the last page.
Explore resources designed to help young readers, teens, families, and educators revisit the ideas in Dr. Rod's books and carry them into everyday life.
Little Leaders · Ages 5–8
Keep Faith's journey going with activities and conversation tools designed to help young readers revisit the story's ideas about dreams, resilience, courage, asking for help, helping others, and believing in themselves.
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What's Planned
Teen Leaders · Ages 13–19
Go deeper with resources designed to help teens reflect on leadership, recognize these ideas in their own lives, and put them into practice.
Vision · Resilience · Energy · Connection · Attitude · Ownership · Empathy
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What's Planned
Tools for the Journey
Dr. Rod's resources are being created with a simple purpose. Make meaningful leadership ideas easier to revisit, discuss, and put into practice.
Activities and tools young people can use, revisit, and keep.
Questions designed to help families, educators, and mentors start meaningful conversations.
Practical ways to move an idea from something we understand to something we practice.
Resources created specifically to extend the lessons and experiences found in Dr. Rod's books.
New Resources Are on the Way.
We're building this library thoughtfully, one useful resource at a time.
Keep the Conversation Going
Some ideas need more than one moment.
The Weekly Spark with Dr. Rod offers a simple rhythm for keeping leadership conversations going with one meaningful idea, one question worth thinking about, and one small challenge to put into practice each week.
Read it. Talk about it. Try it. Keep it going.
Read With Dr. Rod
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Live With Dr. Rod
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