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State Farm agent Ryan Young, right, offers help to Pickett’s Mill Elementary School fifth-graders Michael Benefield, left, and Brady Maddox on Leadership Day.
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Someone to look up to: Community leaders help students on Leadership Day

by Lindsay Field
lfield@mdjonline.com

January 28, 2012 12:00 AM | 0

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ACWORTH — About 85 leaders from the Cobb community participated in Pickett’s Mill Elementary School’s first Leadership Day on Friday to help students, teachers and administrators at the school get recognized for their efforts to incorporate the “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” into their lives. Pickett’s Mill students in kindergarten through fifth grade served as leaders throughout the day to earn “Lighthouse School” status in the “Leader in Me” program, which teaches children the “7 Habits” and follows author Franklin Covey’s “The ...

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