Accountabilibuddies
Jan 04, 2012
Student accountability is being greatly increased when teachers partner students with accountabillibuddies. Here’s how it works.
Leadership notebooks are a great tool for helping students track goals and academic achievement. However, the deeper impact comes when students verbally articulate their progress. The ultimate opportunity for students to verbally discuss their leadership notebooks is t...
Character skills are seen as a lifestyle rather than a lesson.
Admin Account Apr 01, 2011
At Winchester Elementary, after only one year with The Leader in Me process, the impact it has made is evident. Use of Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is stressed each day and school practices have been examined and aligned to ensure that children practice and employ these strategies in all aspects of their school day. These skills are witnessed when students show compas...
“Growing Great Leaders”
Admin Account Mar 11, 2011
Since 2008, the staff of McLees Elementary School has been busy! They have participated in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Signature Training that I taught. They have done a book study on The Leader in Me and the staff has experienced Vision and Implementation Day.In 2010, they introduced the eight habits to their students and they have continued to implement the habits throughout our c...
Pretty Incredible
Admin Account Mar 08, 2011
In the past, moving a kid out of Reading Intervention didn’t happen often—but this year is different. My veteran teacher is quoted as saying; I have never had kids move out of the program this quickly. The only thing I changed was setting goals with the kids and having them track their strategies every week. Pretty incredible! The second piece of data is also amazing – we read more books last q...
The Leader in Me Journey
Admin Account Feb 07, 2011
The website link below chronicles our amazing journey with The Leader in Me process. We are very excited to share this new website and hope you will have a chance to check it out. www.beaumonttogetherwelead.com Jan McCartan, PrincipalBeaumont Elementary, MI
Synergy in Action!
Admin Account Jan 07, 2011
Central Elementary school staff and students recently welcomed educators from Washington Elementary and Blessed Sacrament of Quincy, IL. The guests attended morning meetings followed by a student-led tour of the school. During the tour, each class was able to share something about the 7 Habits and Leadership. At the conclusion, all three Leader in Me teams met to present to one another and disc...
The Seven Habits of Happy Pilgrims
Admin Account Nov 29, 2010
The Kindergartners have been very busy! They integrated the study of Thanksgiving with the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People . They discussed how the Pilgrims were proactive in making the choice to leave England so they could pray the way they wanted. They began with the end in mind when they decided they wanted to make a new life for themselves. They put first things first by building houses...
The Special Needs of Children
Admin Account Oct 06, 2010
As a former special education teacher, I am thrilled with the success stories coming out of The Leader in Me schools. The special needs children are responding to being leaders in remarkable ways!Perhaps you have your own story of how the leadership initiative is working with your special needs children. Send your stories to me at judy.yauch@franklincovey.com and I will have them posted on T...
Town Meetings
Admin Account Sep 22, 2010
Our Leadership Model at A.B. Combs is stronger than ever! Last year we added a new and exciting component to our model as we strive to provide students with more leadership opportunities and lessons: Town Meetings. All students participate every other week in these 45-minute assemblies that focus on leadership qualities.The feedback is tremendous! Our students are cultivating their own leadersh...
100% Commitment!!
Admin Account Jul 08, 2010
Recently our staff conducted their official vote for our 21st century proposal to the district. Our proposal is to become a Leader in Me school and getting an official vote is required by the teacher's union. When the votes were tallied, we had a 100% commitment! I was thrilled to have this kind of enthusiasm from the staff. Then we found out that our school is the first in the district to r...
These stats affirm our 7 Habits Journey!
Admin Account Jun 25, 2010
In Alberta, Canada we poll our students, parents, and staff every year. In May, Alberta Education released its May Accountability Pillar Survey results. Our results were the highest we have ever had!For example:
- Students are taught the attitudes and behaviors that will make them successful at work when they leave school—100% agreement.
- Students treat each other well at school—100% agreement.
- Stude...
An Empowered Student
Admin Account May 10, 2010
Like some Intermediate students in Grade 7, a boy in our school was starting to shut down, not completing work, and beginning to act out. His teacher tried many different things to help him, without much success. She decided to get him involved in a process to see if he could change and work to his potential. The teacher came to me to see if I would be able to sit and work with them to help cr...
Be Proactive with Sammy Squirrel
Admin Account Apr 12, 2010
Sammy Squirrel and Sean Covey’s other “happy kids” have given me a great way to support our school’s leadership focus during library. Using The 7 Habits of Happy Kids book, I read Chapter 1: Bored! Bored! Bored! to the first grade classes and we discussed what Be Proactive means. Then we discussed what Be Proactive means in the library. The picture below illustrates some of the answers the stu...
Video of Ideas
Admin Account Apr 09, 2010
At Winchester Elementary, we are fairly new to The Leader in Me but you would never know it by the wealth of great ideas coming out of our students, staff, and parents. The video illustrates ideas we used in the fall to get the school year started strong. It includes ideas for the library, the literacy program, and the classrooms. We made this video to share with our parents, and our community....
Mandated Curriculum and the 7 Habits
Admin Account Apr 01, 2010
One of our social studies and math objectives for first grade is to expose children to time lines and how they are used. When I heard Stephen Covey speak at Oakland Schools a few weeks ago he said that when he asked a child what he was the leader of, the child responded that he was the leader of his life. To me that was a profound thing for a child to understand and state.My class knows they ar...
Leadership Liaisons
Admin Account Mar 29, 2010
We are well on our way to accomplishing one of our district goals—to become a District of Leadership—and our Leadership Liaisons are one of the reasons for our momentum. The Leadership Liaisons encourage leadership initiatives in their schools; they teach leadership lessons, encourage leadership activities, and provide examples of how leadership can be part of each and every day.With the Leader...
Empowering Students
Admin Account Mar 12, 2010
During the 2008-2009 school year 91% of our parents attended at least one parent conference. Data notebooks and student-led conferences played a big role in achieving that number. These two strategies empower students to take ownership of their own learning. Tracking progress in their data notebooks and knowing they will personally share the progress with their parents has been a big motivator ...
The Community Notebook
Admin Account Mar 03, 2010
One way our second grade teachers keep parents involved in The Leader in Me process is through a Community Notebook. Each Friday, students write how they have used the habits in their daily activities to work toward their goals for the week. Over the weekend, students share the notebook with their parents. This encourages parents to look at their own lives and see how they can also use the habi...
"Yo Soy un Ser Proactivo" (I am Proactive)
Admin Account Feb 10, 2010
My name is Hugo Delgado and I live in Colombia, South America. Three years ago, I co-founded a foundation called "Yo Creo en Mí" . We work with children and teens from marginalized communities 200 miles south west of Bogota. After reading Dr. Covey's book The Leader in Me, I instantly bought the concept of the 7 Habits approach and the ubiquitous strategy to teach leadership skills to kids and ...
A School Song
Admin Account Dec 15, 2009
Sow a thought, reap an action. Sow an action, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny. This familiar verse begs the question: Where do the thoughts originate? How do we sow a thought in the heads of students?One significant way is through language and song—a great teaching tool. Create a song using 7 Habits® words. Use an established song like Row, Row, Row...
7 Habits Song
Admin Account Dec 10, 2009
Teaching the 7 Habits in different forms brings out the creativity in everyone. Pickett’s Mill Elementary created a song. These girls are having so much fun they probably don’t even realize they’re learning![youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tte8RFrrGhI[/youtube]
Seize Teachable Moments
Admin Account Dec 10, 2009
Is it best to teach the 7 Habits® within the science curriculum? reading curriculum? physical education? the arts? The answer is yes, yes, yes, and yes. There is no one right curriculum for teaching habits of effective living. Rather, there are multiple rights.The 7 Habits are often introduced in isolation, one habit at a time. Though this is desirable, it is not enough.To convert them into pra...