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Butler County Judge-Executive David Fields and Morgantown Mayor Billy Phelps presented Butler County Schools' Superintendent Scott Howard and the local advisory council with a check for $10,000 from the B.R.A.D.D. Board for The Leader In Me Program.  The program started this year at Morgantown Elementary and will be implemented at North Butler Elementary next year.
“We are very thankful for the money and the community support for The Leader In Me Program.  We are excited about what is already happening at Morgantown Elementary with the program,” said Superintendent Scott Howard.
The Leader in Me is Stephen R. Covey’s whole school transformation process. It's goal is to teach 21st century leadership and life skills to students while creating a culture of student empowerment based on the idea that every child can be a leader.
The Leader in Me is aligned with best-in-class content and concepts practiced by global education thought leaders. It seeks to provide a logical, sequential and balanced process to help schools proactively design the culture that reflects their vision of the ideal school.
Content from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is a key component of the overall The Leader in Me process. The "7 Habits" are a synthesis of universal, timeless principles of personal and interpersonal effectiveness, such as responsibility, vision, integrity, teamwork, collaboration and renewal, which are secular in nature and common to all people and cultures.
The Leader in Me is also aligned to many national and state academic standards, including Common Core standards. The process strives to teach students the skills needed for academic success in any setting. These skills include critical thinking, goal setting, listening and speaking, self-directed learning, presentation-making and the ability to work in groups.
Instead of seeing children through the lens of a normal distribution curve—some kids are naturally smart and others are not—The Leader in Me paradigm sees that every child is capable; every child is a leader.