Adaptive Leadership Style In Freedom Writer's '

Freedom Writer’s is a true story about teacher Erin Gruwell who is tasked with educating a group of underprivileged students that have experienced racial and gang violence all their lives. As Erin begins her journey to educate her new students she discovers that they are in need of much more than a broad curriculum education. Erin finds that these individuals need someone to positively influence, inspire, and stimulate a dream for their future that guides them away from the negative constraints they have encountered. In order for Erin to effectively change the lives of her students she utilizes a few different leadership styles throughout the film. The most predominant leadership style Erin implements is transformational leadership. Transformational …show more content…

In the movie the students read a story of Anne Frank and one student becomes angry with the outcome of the story, but another student goes to point out that the story didn’t end badly because Anne Frank will never be forgotten due to the stories she left behind through her journal entries. Erin used different historical contexts to show her students how their lives are not much different. She presented her students with other individual’s stories of their own personal challenges and hardships of life and showed how everyone faces struggle, but that how one handles it and deals with the experience can change the way they shape their future. By incorporating her students struggles through activities and relating them to notable works in literature Erin guided her students to new ways of facing the challenges and problems of life and provided them ways to change their perspective on life and their values in order to accomplish their overall