TVMS Starts New Leadership Initiative
February 22, 2022 at 2:56 a.m.
TVMS Starts New Leadership Initiative
By Leah Sander-
The Tippecanoe Valley School Board heard that information at its meeting Monday at TVMS.
TVMS Principal Scott Backus talked about the initiative called Viking Leadership as part of his annual update to the Board on TVMS.
Viking Leadership came about as a result of the school's chapter of the National Honor Society.
"So last year at the end of the year, we had an Honor Society banquet and just looking out over the group, we had a very small group in our eighth grade last year, but we had almost 60 in our seventh-grade group last year in Honor Society," said Backus. "We have this year invited all of those kids to participate in what we call Viking Leadership."
"It's been a really great experience for me to be able to actually do a little teaching to be with kids every other week and just have some good interactions about what it means to be a good person, a good leader and a good role model," Backus said.
Some of the students involved were at Monday's meeting and talked about the group.
"Every other Friday we meet during R and R, which is when we have advisory for our first period class in the morning and we talk for 30 minutes in the library about our leadership activity and what we're going to be doing for the day and then (we go) to our sixth-grade classroom where we meet with our individual groups and we go over that same activity or sometimes we show them a video of what we're going to be doing for that day and then once we have finished those activities, we have a Q and A session where they can just ask us ... leadership questions and just whatever they really need to know at the time," one boy explained.
The Tippecanoe Valley School Board heard that information at its meeting Monday at TVMS.
TVMS Principal Scott Backus talked about the initiative called Viking Leadership as part of his annual update to the Board on TVMS.
Viking Leadership came about as a result of the school's chapter of the National Honor Society.
"So last year at the end of the year, we had an Honor Society banquet and just looking out over the group, we had a very small group in our eighth grade last year, but we had almost 60 in our seventh-grade group last year in Honor Society," said Backus. "We have this year invited all of those kids to participate in what we call Viking Leadership."
"It's been a really great experience for me to be able to actually do a little teaching to be with kids every other week and just have some good interactions about what it means to be a good person, a good leader and a good role model," Backus said.
Some of the students involved were at Monday's meeting and talked about the group.
"Every other Friday we meet during R and R, which is when we have advisory for our first period class in the morning and we talk for 30 minutes in the library about our leadership activity and what we're going to be doing for the day and then (we go) to our sixth-grade classroom where we meet with our individual groups and we go over that same activity or sometimes we show them a video of what we're going to be doing for that day and then once we have finished those activities, we have a Q and A session where they can just ask us ... leadership questions and just whatever they really need to know at the time," one boy explained.
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