Today, Collinsville, Crossville Elementary, Crossville Middle, Ider, Ruhama, & Valley Head students filled the DeKalb County Schools Coliseum. After finishing 10 weeks in the Super Citizen Program, they are gathered to celebrate their accomplishments and honor local heroes from the stage.
These students have learned their important roles in America’s future thanks to an immersive experience in civics, character, financial literacy and social studies. And in the closing piece of the program, Torch Teams (or “Helping Hands” for the younger students), students are applying those crucial lessons in the real world. They chose heroes who embodied the traits of amazing citizens and read essays from stage before presenting them with an Authentic Liberty Replicas & Liberty Pins. They learned that “when you honor a hero, you become a hero!”
See the Torch Teams & Helping Hands Heroes honored today in the photo gallery below!
Today’s event and the donation of Super Citizen teaching kits was made possible by the DeKalb County Community Alliance. With their help, we are teaching, inspiring and empowering our Next Great Americans.
Were you at the event? See the photo gallery below to find yourself, to revisit the magic or watch it unfold for the first time >
- Superintendent Wayne Lyles welcomes DeKalb County students, teachers, and heroes to their Super Citizen Celebration!
- Anglie, Esmeralda, Trent, Adabelle, and Alyssa lead students, heroes, and guests in the Pledge of Allegiance!
- Ollie, Miriam, and Neymar from Collinsville Elementary 2nd grade told us all about their class’s hero: EL teacher Elizabeth Barrientos!
- Crossville 2nd grade honored the lunchroom ladies of Crossville Elementary as Helping Hands Heroes!
- Lincoln introduced us to his Ider Elementary Helping Hands Hero, nurse Kelly Porter.
- Rita Tharp shows Harlie and Jorden’s class at Ruhama Elementary what a real Helping Hand looks like!
- Crossen and Josephine from Valley Head Elementary honored their class hero, Amy Haymon!
- 5th graders Elly, Journey, Jimmy, Harshavi, and Miley told us about their Super Citizen Hero: Officer Cagle, Collinsville SRO!
- Collinsville 5th graders honored Pre-K teacher Dorta Higgins as their class Super Citizen!
- 5th graders Yessica and Samantha honored Tara Kirby as their Super Citizen Hero.
- 5th grader Jase from Ider shared all about his Super Citizen, Ider Assistant Principal Nick Ledbetter!
- Clair and Hawkins honored Valley Head Assistant Principal Lisa Powell as their class Super Citizen!
- Madison, Jacey, and Joseph told us all about how their Super Citizen, SRO Sherry Johnson, inspires their class to be Super Citizens!
- Now it’s time for DeKalb County 2nd graders to take their Helping Hands Pledge!
- Mr. Palmer himself led the students in their Helping Hands Pledge!
- 2nd grade students pledged to “be responsible for what they say and do, in their country, community, family, and school.”
- Mr. Palmer says “you’ve gotta do good to be good,” and these students pledged to do just that.
- Now it’s time for DeKalb County 5th graders to take the Super Citizen Pledge!
- 5th grade students pledged to be “a good, responsible, and active American.”
- Taking their Super Citizen Pledge!
- Hands on hearts, these students pledged to be Super Citizens.
- Super Citizens lead everyone in our tour anthem.
- The students filled the room with their voices as they sang “YOU in the USA.”
- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
- Leading the crowd in song!
- These students are excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
- Singing along to our tour anthem!
- “Freedom! Liberty! It starts with you and me!”
- We love seeing the students excited to sing along to our tour anthem!
- Singing along to our tour anthem!
- Students, heroes, and teachers alike singing along to our tour anthem!
- “Freedom! Liberty! It starts with you and me!”
- Students, heroes, and teachers alike singing along to our tour anthem!
- Singing along to our tour anthem!
- Only YOU can keep the “U” in the U.S.A.!
- We were incredibly honored to spend the morning celebrating with our heroes, students, and guests!





































