{"id":6678,"date":"2017-05-19T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/?p=6678"},"modified":"2017-05-18T16:54:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T20:54:01","slug":"7-habits-effective-newtown-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/7-habits-effective-newtown-students\/","title":{"rendered":"7 habits of effective Newtown students"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt feels good to be in the Leader In Me<\/em> Club,\u201d said third-grader Payton. \u201cYou get to do programs and learn how to be a leader.\u201d<\/p>\n

That sentiment was echoed by third-grade students at Newtown Elementary at the Leader in Me<\/em> end-of-year program.<\/p>\n

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The Leader In Me<\/em> program is in practice at the Bayside Tri-Campus, consisting of Diamond Springs, Bettie F. Williams and Newtown Elementary Schools. It teaches leadership and life skills to students while focusing on Steven Covey\u2019s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are a Leader In Me<\/em> School and I really love for the children to show their leadership skills,\u201d said Delores Simpson, club sponsor. \u201cGives them an opportunity to shine. They have a light and we want to let that light shine by practicing the seven habits every day and showing what they\u2019ve learned.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Students were able to demonstrate for their parents how they use those habits every day.<\/p>\n

Kimani\u2019s favorite habit is Put First Things First<\/em>. \u201cBecause I like to do my homework first before I play every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy favorite habit is Beginning With the End in Mind<\/em>,\u201d said Payton.<\/p>\n

Throughout the year, the club does fundraisers, operates the school\u2019s United Way campaign, creates messages pertaining to the SOLs on the morning announcements and organizes the school spirit day.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to be in the Leader In Me<\/em> Club,\u201d said Dominic. \u201cSo I can learn to lead others to follow the good path, the path to success.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis year the children were able to decide what club they wanted to be in,\u201d Simpson explained. \u201cThey had to submit a letter and an application and say why they wanted to be in the club and we made our selections from there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Emmaline explained that her favorite habit is Seek First to Understand<\/em>. \u201cI have to listen twice or do things twice before I can actually understand it.\u201d The third-grade student continued, \u201cIt\u2019s a habit that me and my brother need to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have this mindset of training little children to be leaders,\u201d said Simpson. \u201cYou know they can run the classroom; they can pretty much run the school; you put them out there and they know what to do. I believe you can train children to do anything and it helps them with their growth, their self-growth.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt feels good to be in the Leader In Me Club,\u201d said third-grader Payton. \u201cYou get to do programs and learn how to be a leader.\u201d That sentiment was echoed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-6678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-newtown-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6683,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678\/revisions\/6683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}