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A few years ago, we were hearing the same thing from teachers...

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that students were becoming increasingly apathetic,

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sometimes were very hard to motivate,

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and so one of our elementary schools happened to

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take on the Leader in Me process and become a Leader in Me school the previous year

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And when we saw all the great things happening at that school, we thought

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How could we possibly bring this to other sites here in Moore Public Schools?

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Choose Moore!

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So Leader in Me is a basic foundation that

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introduces a lot of pathways to our school that weren't here before.

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It also has brought a lot of physical aspects

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to our school, like some of these posters, as well as this behind me,

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but it's mainly to just motivate and encourage

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students by using other students' perspectives.

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Basically, just providing that motivation to kind of make our school a better place.

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The Leader in Me program has been a great addition to our school and

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our environment because it is allowed for

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us to teach them how to be community leaders.

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By inspiring them with the 7 habits.

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By learning how to take responsibility for themselves and also to.

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Build upon their own skills they already have.

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With like Leader in Me, the point of that is that everybody can be a leader.

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So really, it doesn't matter your age.

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who you are.

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At this school, we try to make sure that everybody has some sort of leadership

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role, even if it's like big or small, just holding the door open for somebody.

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Choose Moore!

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Leader in Me has been amazing for our school.

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So we actually started last year with just the staff.

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This year we've implemented with students, but we have

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already seen a difference and it's only January.

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We've seen an improvement in tendance.

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We've seen a huge improvement in behavior, and I don't

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just speak for my school, but I speak to other principles across the district,

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and they're seeing a huge difference when it comes to Leader in Me.

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In these schools, what we're seeing now is teachers not

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only collaborating with their grade level teams, which they've always done, but

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now they care what happens to their kids before they get them and what happens to their kids after they leave them.

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Choose Moore!