Follow the Leader by Practicing Your Character
High school Leadership students interact with grade school students each month to introduce character education words. Through skits, readings, activities, and other presentations, grade school students are exposed to new ideas of character education. The students started the school year introducing Responsibility at school and in the community. We started the year introducing The Golden Trashcan as a reward for being responsible and keeping the school and classroom clean. Other assemblies include: students singing and dancing to "Follow the Leader" as everyone shouts HONESTY. High school students also portray historical figures who demonstrated that month's character traits (such as Taylor Swift or Abraham Lincoln), allowing them the opportunity to research good role models in history while teaching the younger students that showing character daily is very important. High school students created and gave bookmarks with "Cindy the Citizenship Crab" to the students after showing students what citizenship looked like in school and the community. A high school leadership student creates the bulletin boards and the elementary counselors use additional lessons during the month to reiterate the theme.