ORDER SYSTEM

The Order System at Liberty Common School supplants the student council leadership system commonplace in many primary schools. The Order System is a student-life and student-leadership organization for 7th and 8th-grade students, facilitating academic achievement and leadership opportunities.

With approximately 30 students assigned to each order, the Order System provides a framework for student governance that affords more opportunities for students to develop meaningful leadership experience. Students are assigned to their Orders annually in a high-energy induction ceremony.

Throughout the school year, Orders compete against each other for the coveted Purple Duck trophy. The competition motivates academic success, develops camaraderie, boosts confidence, and encourages students to learn from failure rather than fear it. CLICK HERE to see how points are earned in the Order System.

CLICK HERE to read Order, Order! by Liberty parent Tricia Diehl

 

Order System: Mission Goals

  • Increase institutional and peer-to-peer support for each student.

  • Ensure individual care for each student by faculty order deans who monitor and support the academic, social, moral and behavioral growth of students.

  • Multiply occasions to build strong, healthy student relationships.

  • Develop leadership skills with hands-on service experience and real-world leadership practice.

  • Enhance recruitment of new students.

  • Enhance school spirit.

  • Develop students’ interpersonal relationship skills.

  • Provide focused support for character education and development.

 

Orders:

Named after fictional locations referred to in the Core Knowledge Literature Sequence, including a mascot that is associated with each location.

  • Order of Atlantis: Krakens

  • Order of Camelot: Knights and Ladies

  • Order of Delphi: Pythons

  • Order of Elysium: Warriors

  • Order of Erebor: Dragons

  • Order of Valhalla: Vikings

 

DEFINITIONS

Order—A group of approximately 30 students in the 7th and 8th grade.

Order Leaders —Students in each Order chosen by their order mates to lead, to convene and to organize the Order representing it at all school-wide student-governance meetings.

Order Captain—8th-grade student

  • Serves as Primary leader

  • Completes Event Packets

  • Reports directly to Order Deans and Order Director

  • Attends weekly Order Leader meetings

  • Reports updates on upcoming events and feedback on completed events during Order meetings.

  • Delegates responsibilities for major and minor events to the Executive Officer

  • Collaborates with his or her Executive Officer to plan Order-time activities

Executive Officer—7th-grade student

  • Serves as secondary leader

  • Reports directly to Order Captains and Order Deans

  • Attends weekly Order Leader meetings

  • Executes directives for major and minor events as assigned by the Order Captains

  • Plans and organizes Order lunch-time and Order meeting-time activities

  • Represents his or her Order at the JH Lyceums

Order Dean—A faculty member chosen to oversee the effective development and management of an Order. Each Order has two Order Deans.

Order Director—The faculty member who directs the day-to-day operations of the Order System, including leading Lyceums, meeting regularly with Administration, managing the budget and accounting of the budget, training the student Order Leaders

Assistant Order Director—The faculty member who will keep track of Order points; plan, coordinate and lead Order Competitions; assist the Director as appropriate.