Creighton's Corner Elementary
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Welcome!
Welcome!
Leader in Me School Since 2017
Leader In Me Lighthouse School since 2020
CCE The Leader in Me.mp4MESSAGE FROM OUR
PRINCIPAL CHRIS KNOTT
The Leader in Me CCE.mp4CREIGHTON'S CORNER STUDENTS SHARE THEIR VOICE
Creighton's Corner is so proud to be the very first Leader in Me School in Loudoun County, Virginia.
SCHOOL VISION
Each colt a creator, each colt a contributor, every colt a leader!
SCHOOL MISSION
Bring out the leader in each colt, in some way, every day!
At Creighton’s Corner, our TEAM includes ME. Our Vision of Each Colt a Creator, Each Colt a Contributor, Every Colt a Leader underpins all that we do and our students learn to lead themselves through the application of Habits 1-3, and lead others along the way. Every child shows their leadership from classroom leadership roles ranging from recognizing the greatness of others on our Kindness Crews to leading our classrooms as Morning Meeting Teachers. Leadership also extends well beyond the classroom. From the reporting of lunch counts and daily attendance, to Safety Patrols, to the weekly filling of our Backpack Buddies food relief bags, to presenting their learning to visitors and to our County Level Administration, our students contribute to making the world they live in a better place. Through the tremendous leadership experiences our students engage in, we have developed a leadership culture where we depend on each other and where Every Colt is a leader.
No paradigm has moved our school and school community more that the Paradigm of Change. As we initially entered the Leader in Me process, our teachers and staff were very focused on the old paradigm: how to teach the 7 Habits, how to develop Leadership roles, and how to make it fit into the system of what we were already doing. That changed immediately when we went through the very personal 7 Habits training. Over that time, our teachers and staff looked inward and embraced the belief that “change starts with me.” Over the last three years, we have seen tremendous improvement in teacher efficacy, in team efficacy, and in student performance. As the teachers have lived this paradigm, the results have been modeled to our students and their transformation has been significant, as students are now modeling their learning and understanding to their peers and their parents. Students in grades K-5 plan, prepare, and lead morning meetings each day, create personal and academic WIGS, chart their progress in their Leadership Binders, and monitor that progress along with their accountability partners. Student accountability carries through to parent conferences as students lead their own parent conferences and discussed goal attainment and personal mission statements with their families. Finally, families are encouraged to develop family mission statements and last year, over 250 families developed and displayed family mission statements at our school. Through our Student Lighthouse team, students are able to communicate ideas to improve our school to school leadership and monitor the progress of those changes.
At Creighton’s Corner Elementary, we show our commitment to developing the whole child by giving our students a wide variety of opportunities to develop their skills and talents. From teaching direct 7 Habits Lessons during our Wildly Important Wednesdays to the many activities offered to our students in the Arts (visual and performing), Music, Physical Education, Math Olympiad, Science Olympiad, Odyssey of the Mind, Lego Robotics, Public Speaking, Chess Club, etc, our students have the opportunity to follow their passions and this has resulted in championship performances at the local, state, national and international level. Our teachers also show this commitment in their relationship with our after-school program at our local apartment complex where we work with students on homework, play games, and do other activities that help us strengthen the home to school relationship. Our guidance department weaves Leader in Me language into our their lessons and has worked with students to develop restorative practices including a template for proactively taking responsibility for our behavior.
What a difference WE all can make when WE decide to lead. At Creighton’s Corner, we seek to release the potential of every child to be a leader and a contributor. As part of our Leadership Culture, we continuously seek and challenge our students to seek ways to allow all of our students to contribute. Through a focus on inclusion and community building, our students are showing their leadership every day in our school and in our community. Through targeted classroom leadership roles that begin in kindergarten and leadership roles suggested by our students, our Colts have a variety of opportunities to lead. Our strong focus on developing the Personal Victory through the mastery of Habits 1 through 3 in Grades K-2, features leadership roles that concentrate on self-efficacy and individual contribution to our classroom community. We focus on the belief that every student has greatness in them and that by focusing on the first 10 Highly Effective Practices tied to Habits 1-3 we develop a solid foundation in the primary grades from which Global Leadership Skills are developed. Our PE, Art, and Music programs offer a wide variety of opportunities for students to showcase their talents and student run art shows and PE games are wildly popular in our school. In the Upper grades, we take the skills developed as “Leaders of Self” in the primary grades and focus heavily on Habits 4-6 in developing our students as “Leaders of Our Community”. We do this through partnerships with our primary grades classrooms where our older students work with our younger students on Reading, Math, and Goal attainment and through school-wide leadership roles (such as safety patrol, library assistants, Super 7 PE assistants, backpack buddies, and office assistants) where older students contribute significantly to the daily functioning, safety, and security of our school and our younger students. We include every student in this paradigm, even our Autism classroom participates by operating a breakfast cart for our staff and helping with the distribution of backpacks in our backpack buddies food assistance program.
At Creighton’s Corner, students are truly empowered to lead their own learning and do so both in the classroom and in our school community. This student leadership has become the foundational piece of how we start our day with student led morning meetings and student recognitions. As students mature on their Leader in Me journey, their level of involvement increases and by fifth grade, these meetings are completely planned and led by our students. On Wildly Important Wednesdays, our students recognize their peers for demonstrating exemplary leadership in one or more of the 7 Habits in selecting a “Habit Hero” for their classroom for that week. Through the 4DX structure, our students set Wildly Important Goals and then monitor their progress toward these goals with the help of an accountability partner from their classroom. Each semester, our students share their progress with their parents in a student-led conference, where they review their progress and set new goals for the upcoming quarter.
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