After students become inspired at ICL events, they want to take action right away. Education is the base from which positive action flows. The ICL believes that before these young leaders can take truly effective action, they need to be educated in areas such as leadership development and critical thinking skills.

The ICL focuses on both traditional and nontraditional educational elements in its training. These elements provide students with underlying skills from which to draw upon when they plan to take action—

• leadership training,
• public speaking,
• current events assessment,
• organizational behavior,
• event planning,
• other critical thinking exercises.

ICL has created a teachers network that includes special peer-to-peer meetings, leadership training and curriculum development and support. When both students and teachers are inspired, they go beyond classroom learning and affect change in their school and community.