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About the authors:Joshua Powers is an assistant professor of higher education leadership at Indiana State University where he coordinates the Higher Education Doctoral Program. John Moore is President Emeritus and Distinguished Trustee Professor of Indiana State University and serves as the founding convener of the ISU Alliance for Servant-Leadership.

The purpose of this essay is to examine how servant-leadership can be embodied by teachers in wide-ranging disciplines, not just in those areas where servant-leadership is taught as content. The authors have done a beautiful job of showing how the classroom instructor can harness the principles of servant-leadership to enhance the learning process. They provide examples of how teaching and learning can be facilitated by applying the characteristics of servant-leadership (listed below) both personally and systemically.

The essay is divided into these sections:
Opening Remarks
Inner Characteristics or Commitments: Building Community, Commitment to the Growth of People, Foresight and Conceptualization, Awareness
Outer Characteristics or Practices: Listening and Empathy, Healing, Persuasion, Stewardship: The Tie that Binds

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