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Created for Greatness

Middle School Leadership program
While the foundation of our school's virtuous leadership formation starts at the very earliest entry (preschool and primary grades), the effort is formalized within our middle school leadership program, Created for Greatness.This program is based on the virtues of leadership with humility as its foundation, the four cardinal virtues for growth, and culminating in the life ideals of magnanimity and service. The works and research of Alexandre Havard have inspired this program. Through this leadership program, we guide our students to understand their dignity as human persons - and thus their unique and challenging call to greatness.

 

6th Grade Overview

In the Created for Greatness leadership program students will:

  • Begin leadership formation through the virtues
  • Participate in a twice-weekly Socratic seminar class on the four types of humility (metaphysical, ontological, spiritual, and psychological) - the foundation of virtuous leadership
  • Study the four temperaments: sanguine, choleric, melancholic, and phlegmatic
  • Practice self-knowledge and appreciation of others’ strengths and weaknesses
  • Integrate virtues in everyday interactions, schoolwork, and subject areas

 

7th Grade Overview

In the Created for Greatness leadership program students will:

  • Continue leadership formation through the virtues
  • Participate in a twice-weekly Socratic seminar class on the four Cardinal Virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance)
  • Identify how the Cardinal Virtues apply to their own life
  • Integrate virtues in everyday interactions, schoolwork, and subject areas
  • Text: Virtue Field Guide (Education in Virtue)

 

8th Grade Overview

In the Created for Greatness leadership program students will:

  • Attend leadership camp and a leadership Commissioning Mass
  • Participate in a twice-weekly Socratic seminar class on the virtue of magnanimity (the essence of true leadership) and humility (the foundation of true leadership)
  • Study the spiritual gifts (charisms) and discern their own gifts
  • Use their spiritual gifts in a variety of leadership opportunities and experiences - most concretely through serving as house prefects and faith family leaders
  • Practice being a young leader with the goal of developing a habit of virtue and confidence
  • Text: True Leadership: Youth Readership Edition (Habiger Institute for Catholic Leadership)
 

"I love that Created for Greatness helps students to more fully know themselves - not as the world evaluates them, but as God sees them." -Mrs. Katie Ranniger