Sugarloaf Elementary students are inviting the media and local community to take a peek into their classrooms for the 2015 Sugarloaf Leadership Showcase – a series of student-led workshops explaining how leadership is incorporated into everyday learning at the school.
Principal Peggy Marshall said, “Every student will have a role either directly or indirectly in the showcase, from creating the invitations, to creating the artwork for the folders,” given to guests. Other students will serve as tour guides, or help create name tags and thank-you cards for visitors.
The second annual Leadership Showcase is a chance for students to demonstrate through speeches, projects and personal journals how they’ve embodied the leadership lessons taught through Steven Covey’s The Leader in Me program and its “7 Habits of Happy Kids.”
Marshall said the students will share activities they perform in the school’s student interest clubs. “We have 34 clubs,” from sports and dance clubs to a stock market club and morning announcement team, Marshall said. “We’re trying to develop the whole child.”
“We’re also going to do a parade of nations,” representing the 15 different countries represented by Sugarloaf students, Marshall said.
“Our students are so excited,” she said, adding that administrators and teachers from all over North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee will be attending the Leadership Showcase. “We’ve got several business partners in our county that are coming, too,” Marshall said.
