The Lighthouse Team

Our Lighthouse Team shines bright and guides our students and school to success. The Lighthouse Team is a designated group of student leaders that make important decisions about our school. The team consists of sixth graders, seventh graders, eighth graders, and Mrs. Hammond, our leader of the group. We usually meet one to two times a week during lunch where our team usually talks about small contributions we could add to our school, hoping that they will have a great and positive influence on our learning environment. Some of these contributions include hosting assemblies more often, brightening up our school by adding motivational posters and providing more for our community. Not only do we discuss changes to our school, but we also help and plan events for our school, like concerts and open houses.

We are currently on our way to achieving the rewarding title of becoming a Lighthouse School. This title is only given to schools that excel in leadership and exhibit phenomenal talent. Additionally, you need to be a Leader in Me school for three to five years. Currently, there are 600 lighthouse schools in this world, and this is all possible due to the founder of “Leader in Me” Franklin Covey. Franklin Covey first obtained the idea of “Leader in Me” in 1999 from Muriel Summers the principal of A.B Combs Elementary School. She first used it as a way to enhance her school, and after noticing the tremendous benefits of using the Leader in Me protocol. Steve Covey decided to share “Leader in Me" with the whole world, thus creating the honor of having Lighthouse Schools. Not only does being a Lighthouse School provide you with a title, but it gives benefits like having a lower amount of student discipline referrals and suspensions, improved teacher, student, and parent satisfaction, and enhanced school culture. Over the years “Leader in Me” has rapidly gained popularity and there are now over 1,100 schools that have adopted this idea, and close to 550,000 students and 49,500 school staff have been trained in the process, worldwide. On the huge day for our school, we organized everything from the tours that will display our school to the Lighthouse Team, to individual classroom presentations, all the way to an exhibition of our achievements we accomplished as a community.

Ultimately, I am delighted to be a part of the Student Lighthouse Team and a contributing factor to our school. I am very excited about what our team plans to do in the future, but I am sure that it will make a big difference to our community. Together we can achieve great heights. As Margarete Mead said "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

Be sure to check out our school’s website at “https://www.micms.org/” for upcoming events, and information about our school and staff.