The Hart Leadership Program combines rigorous academic courses with structured opportunities for students to practice skills and apply knowledge outside of the classroom. Goals of the program are to help students:
- -face community issues with open minds and ears, discovering values, concerns, and political issues
-learn what it is to live in a democractic society and the responsibilties that go with citizenship
-understand that they have power and that one of the most effective things they can do is teach others to have power of their own

