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‘League’ aims to bolster student values, ambitions

DR. AMANDA MYLES

During the current school year, faculty members at Sinclairville Elementary are piloting a new program called the “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” designed to help students become leaders in our school and in our community.

Over the summer, a group of five faculty members worked together to make this initiative a reality. A variety of students have been chosen to become members of the “League.” There are currently 15 active members of this group, and they range from students who will benefit from positive role model support to students who have been recommended and identified as potential leaders in the school.

The motto of the League is “Look Good, Do Good, Feel Good.” Members of the League currently participate in a three-pronged model of success. First, they are asked to dress for success on Wednesdays which helps them to feel a sense of comradery as being a part of a group. The second aspect of the League is to have weekly meetings giving members the opportunity to meet with positive role models who happen to be faculty members at the elementary school. The teachers meet with these young gentlemen weekly along with other professional district staff to instill positive character traits via activities and lessons.

The third aspect of the model is to give the members opportunities to volunteer. Some events that members of the League have participated in are; serving their bus drivers breakfast, making packages for U.S. troops, serving coffee to faculty and staff members on Fridays, organizing school wide activities for positive character awareness, making videos to convey the meaning of kindness and compassion to their peers, and wrapping presents to give to children in the community.

We hope to instill the ideas of dressing for success, helping others, and volunteering in the minds of our young League members before they transition to middle school. We also hope that they take these positive character traits and make them a part of their everyday lives as they transition from young children to adolescents.

Dr. Amanda Myles is the Cassadaga Valley Central School psychologist.

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