Spotlight: Eureka Elementary - Eureka, Missouri

Eureka Elementary is a K-5 school in the Rockwood School District in Missouri.  The school is beautiful and exhibits numerous symbols of The Leader in Me throughout the hallways and in the classrooms.  Eureka’s staff and students have embraced the leadership theme however, at the end of their first year of implementing The Leader in Me, it was discovered that the parents did not understand the connection between the 7 Habits, leadership, data notebooks and the Lighthouse team. One of the goals identified, for their second year, was to increase parent involvement and understanding.

To increase parent involvement, Eureka School added a parent to their Lighthouse Team who presented at the Leadership Day and Symposium.  The school planned a parent education night with the theme of “Let’s Learn S’More About Leadership!” The evening  was very successful and was totally facilitated by the students.  Students, using trifold displays at tables taught each of the 7 habits.  Trivia games and Bingo symbols used 7 Habits terms.  Even the grandparents day included leadership language. 

Examples of using the habits at home.

Sharing Data Notebooks

Eureka designed another opportunity for parent involvement as home projects. Four times a year, the parents are sent home a paper where they can write down an example of their child displaying one of the seven habits at home.  The students return the papers that are proudly displayed at school.  The winter home projects were in snowflake shapes. 

I attended Eureka's second leadership day on February 3, 2015. My favorite part of the visit was when the students shared their data notebooks.  One of the school’s goals is to transition from primarily data in their notebooks to more of a leadership notebook.  The materials from the Eureka Leadership day can be accessed at  http://bit.ly/154HQ7m



School Web Site:http://www.rockwood.k12.mo.us/eurekael/aboutus/Pages/default.aspx