ABSTRACT
Houndstooth capacities develop when students become passionately involved in an area of personal choice. The goal of Operation Houndstooth is to instill in students the six co-cognitive factors: optimism, courage, romance with a topic/discipline, sensitivity to human concerns, physical/mental energy, and vision/sense of destiny. Schools have the potential to promote internalization of the co-cognitive factors needed to progress toward post-conventional thought through a myriad of experiences at all levels of the Houndstooth Intervention Theory. Researchers who have studied social capital have examined it mainly in terms of its impact on communities at large, but they also point out that it is created largely by the actions of indi-viduals. Although numerous studies and a great deal of commentary about leadership have been discussed in the gifted education literature, no one has yet examined the relationship between the characteristics of gifted leaders and their motivation to use their gifts for the production of social capital.
