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Firm introduces leadership boot camp for students

As part of its contribution to preparing school children well for the world of work and other lawful engagements in future, an ed-tech solution company, Tessas has introduced a ‘leadership boot camp’ for school children from primary to tertiàry schools.

The boot camp, which is in Lekki, Lagos and with the plan to establish same in other parts of Nigeria and Africa, is to serve as a coaching hub for school children after regular school hours and during holidays and weekends.

Addressing newsmen in Lagos on Thursday, founder and CEO of Tessas, Mr Osayi Izedonmwen, said the boot camp is being organised in conjunction with the FranklinCovey Education, a US-based education coaching firm to provide first-class tutorial lessons on various subjects in line with the National School Curriculum and critical skills including coding, for the school children.

He said the boot camp with the pilot scheme to last two weeks, is designed to help children currently on Easter vacation to channel their minds and energies for meaningful academic and other lawful activities that would further impact and prepare them for school work upon resumption and future challenges.

According to him, the participants at the boot camp are exposed to individual and group work on seven major habit areas that are peculiar to their age groups.

He said children from age seven to 11 for example, would be handled by their coaches separately and likewise those from age 12 to 18 years.

While disclosing that Teesas is also preparing students in terminal classes whether in primary or secondary schools for entrance examinations into secondary or tertiary schools, he said the whole idea is to produce a total child in every student at those levels of education.

He said that is why the digital learning platform of the company known as “Tessas App” that also available to learners wherever they are globally is not only packaged with relevant content in core academic subjects including Mathematics, Science, and English language but also delivered in some African languages such as Yoruba, Hausa, Ibibio, Igbo, Ijaw, Bini, Tiv, Arabic, Swahili and French.

He said, “The idea is not to leave any child behind as Tessa’s vision is to offer 360 hybrid solutions that will liberalise access to education in Africa.”

In his own remark at the event, the Vice President of FranklinCovey Education, Bill McIntyre, said “FranklinCovey Education deplores a special concept known as “Leader in Me” to deliver the programme and achieve its objectives.

He said currently, the company has over 7,000 ‘Leader in Me’ schools around the world.

Explaining the concept, McInytre said, ‘Leader in Me’ is a whole-school transformation model and process based on the ‘Seven habits of highly effective people’ and on leadership, particularly in schools.

He said the focus is to help schools get measurable results in three key areas, which he identified as academic achievements, leadership and life skills as well as the culture of safety.

He said FranklinCovey is partnering with Tessas to deliver the programme based on the conviction that there is a great need to join relevant educational service organisations with a genuine interest to give quality academic and moral education and skills to African children with the aim of moving the continent forward appreciably.

He said a recent demographic forecast for Africa is that by 2050, there will be one billion children on the continent(representing 40 per cent) of all children in the world and that if concrete action is not taken now to build the future leaders in them, it is not only Africa but the entire world that will suffer for such population upsurge.

“So, we must all join hands to develop leaders that will be relevant to themselves, families and the society at large not only in Nigeria but across the world,” he said.

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