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Eight Orders, Growing in Leadership and Virtue

Order System

 

The Order System is a student-organizational structure designed to manage junior-high students to achieve specific academic and student-life objectives.  The system supplants the traditional student council governing structure by creating smaller integrated communities of students (~40 students per Order, ~20 from each grade) within the school, thus providing a framework for student governance, allowing greater opportunity for the development of meaningful leadership. There are eight different Orders, all competing for the Purple Duck.

Purpose:

  • To increase institutional and peer-to-peer support for each student
  • To ensure individual care for each student by the order deans who will monitor and support the academic, social, moral, and behavioral growth
  • To multiply occasions to build strong, healthy student relationships
  • To develop leadership skills in every student
  • To enhance recruitment of new students

 Unique Outcomes:

  • Enhanced school spirit
  • More robust opportunities for junior-high students to be trained as leaders through hands-on service
  • Stronger interpersonal relationship skills for each student
  • More focused support internalizing character development
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Order Leaders

Jennifer Kepley

Madisson Webb

About the Orders

The following crests are associated with each of the eight Orders.  Please click on each to learn more about the unique character of its associated Order.

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The Legend of the Purple Duck

The Legend of the Purple Duck

A Lesson on Ancient Mythological History

A long, long time ago in Erebor, the far, far away and lonely, mountainous land of the dragons, a magnificent golden egg was found. The legend does not reveal how, or by what glorious creature the egg was laid, but as the tale will tell, the egg clearly possessed a power beyond this world. The dragons, being very protective of their treasure, kept close watch over their golden prize.

Read More about The Legend of the Purple Duck

 

 

Order Gallery

A smiling boy in a red shirt holds a unicorn stick in the foreground, with a playground and trees in the background.
A woman with a megaphone smiles at the camera in the foreground, while a volleyball court and school building are visible in the background.
Five young people pose on a running track in front of a school building and bleachers.
Two boys arm wrestle at a black desk in the foreground, while other students sit at desks in the background of a classroom.
A smiling girl in a yellow t-shirt holds up a caricature of herself in front of a wall adorned with colorful landscape paintings.
Two smiling girls in matching blue t-shirts with Viking logos stand on a track with a fence and trees in the background.
In the foreground, a group of young people in red shirts stand near a track, while in the background, a grassy field and trees are visible under a bright sky.
A group of young people sit on the grass in the foreground, some with face paint, while others stand and walk on a track in the background.
Two smiling girls in matching blue t-shirts stand on a grassy field in front of a volleyball net, with a building and trees in the background.
Two young women with face paint, one giving the other a piggyback ride, pose in front of a grassy field and a fence.
Five smiling teenagers pose for a photo in the foreground with a volleyball, while a volleyball net and other players are visible in the blurred background.
A woman in a yellow shirt with dragon wings smiles behind a table laden with watermelon slices and drinks, with a chain-link fence in the background.
Five young women in matching yellow shirts and green skirts pose in a hallway with an inflatable dragon behind them, under a banner that reads %22National Science Bowl.%22
Children in the foreground wear silly hats and hold stuffed animals, while in the background, a large Spartan helmet logo is visible on a wall.
A group of smiling children in colorful t-shirts stand on a grassy field with inflatable attractions and people in the background.
A group of smiling girls in colorful t-shirts stand on a track with trees and a building in the background.
Two boys, one in a green shirt and elf ears, and another in a dark blue t-shirt, stand in front of a doorway decorated with greenery and a nameplate.
Two young women in matching teal shirts stand in front of blue lockers, one holding a trident, while others are visible in the background near an exit sign.
Two smiling young men in %22Order of Rivendell%22 t-shirts stand behind a table with raffle boxes, while a blurred background shows a grassy field with people and trees.
Four smiling boys in matching t-shirts hold cups on a grassy field with a track and soccer goal in the background.
A purple, crowned duck-like figure stands on a stage, with a crowd of people visible in the background.
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