The average score in reading before adopting the 7 Habits was 57.4% of students. They took the Illinois Standard Achievement Test. Let me give you another illustration: Dewey Elementary in Quincy, Ill. So everyone became, in a sense, a leader, even if you were the leader of cleaning the classroom. So little by little it became part of the culture of that school. Then you lived by that and practiced what you learned Habit 3: First things first. You also had to come up with a vision, or the second habit, Begin with the end in mind. But look at what you had to do to get there. So, for instance, teaching a science class with a team experiment, the instructor would say, You came up with a solution that was better than either one of you proposed separately. Combs, the 7 Habits became the value system, so that when they teach academic subjects, they illustrate it. I said, I don't know why not.ĭescribe what the 7 Habits looks like in practice in a classroom setting.Īt A.B. She asked whether this material would apply to little children. Hers was a marginalized school, barely surviving. Her name was Muriel Summers, and she was principal of A.B. Why write about this magnet school?Ībout 10 years ago, I was speaking at a conference on the 7 Habits, and this educator came up to me. TIME recently spoke with Covey about what The Leader in Me can offer schools, why skeptics should keep an open mind and what all this has to do with bailing out Detroit automakers. ( See pictures of the college dorm room's evolution.) The Leader in Me, now in bookstores, tells how several principals nationwide applied his 7 Habits to their struggling schools. In his newest book, Covey provides a blueprint for employing those practices in the classroom. ISBN 978-0805851717.Follow the past two decades, Stephen Covey's best seller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has become a management bible in the boardroom.
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