On May 11, Teach One to Lead One (T1L1) honored 45 high school and middle school students from Hamilton Heights who completed the T1L1 Leadership Curriculum. Parents, mentors, faculty, and school board members gathered at Hamilton Heights Middle School to recognize the students.
T1L1 is a community mentoring program that meets weekly with students throughout the school year. The program teaches ten Universal Principles that are essential for student leaders to possess if they are to find their purpose and reach their potential. The 10 Universal Principles are respect, integrity, self-control, compassion, courage, teamwork, excellence, humility, enthusiasm, and honor.
In addition to receiving a graduation certificate, 34 students were recognized for putting the 10 principles to work when they took part in a service project to pack food for refugees from the war in South Sudan.
Three students were recognized with the Positive Influence Award. They were ZiAnder Campbell, Lillie Champion, and Brandon McNew. Three students were recognized as well with the Second Mile Award. Those students were Aubree McDonald, Owen Biddle, and Natalie Vann.
This is the fourth year the T1L1 program has been at Hamilton Heights. Currently, the program is offered at the middle school for one eighth-grade classroom and in the high school for two ninth-grade classes. For more information on T1L1, go to T1L1.org.