An Everyday Leadership Academy  (ELA), is Reckoning’s long-term presences in a community which focuses on developing good character and everyday leadership into the youth and adults in a community. Reckoning has partnered with the Josephson’s Institute with the use of their 6 pillars of Character which are: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship. Reckoning has added one more universal pillar: beauty or transcendence.

The ELA uses these pillars as the foundation for training and leading youth and adults in leadership. The uniqueness of the Reckoning Approach is our focus on art and imagination. Process art making is the primary method of developing and training leaders in the crucial work of character development.

An ELA can be an afterschool program or it can be integrated into an existing school. In Cabrillo Village, CA the ELA exists as an afterschool program working closely with the local schools and the community at large, while in Jos Nigeria, the ELA is integrated into the school day.