Students at the Junction City Elementary School had the opportunity to meet and show community leaders how they are leaders in the classroom on Tuesday.

The students in kindergarten through fifth grade were selected by their teachers. Principal Pam Shunk explained homeroom teachers pick two students to receive the classroom leadership awards, chosen because they have done the best job of demonstrating the seven habits, principles of the Leader in Me program.

“With Leader in Me, the idea is that students be involved in all aspects of running the school,” Shunk said.

Those habits are: be proactive; begin with the end in mind; put first things first; think win-win; seek to first understand then be understood; “synergies,” or work together; and “sharpen the saw — finding balance in one’s life, including family, mind and soul.

Four have been chosen in each class, but only one in each class was selected to eat lunch with community leaders.

After the lunch, fifth-graders — as part of the Student Lighthouse Team — gave tours of the school to community members. The Student Lighthouse Team is a group of students who help provide a voice in decisions that impact the school. They meet with Shunk weekly. The idea behind Leader in Me, Shunk said, is to have students be involved in all aspects of running the school.

Visitors got a card and photo signed from all of the students.