S17E965 - How a School Built Its Culture Around the 7 Habits — and the Academics Followed — Episode 965

A struggling Title I school built its culture around the 7 Habits — and the academics followed. Principal Muriel Summers tells how.

In 1999, Muriel Summers became principal of A.B. Combs Elementary in Raleigh, North Carolina — the fifth person interviewed for a job four others had walked away from. She had just heard Dr. Stephen Covey speak, and she went back to her staff with one question: do you think we can teach these habits to children? There was no framework. There was no money. What they built turned A.B. Combs into the original Leader in Me school and...