In the fall of 2001 Linda Arbital, who teaches a personal accountability class at Blue Grass Elementary, decided she wanted to build the Six Pillars for the school. “I had a lot of enthusiasm and help from some very special people at school, as well as community members and my husband, who thank goodness is an engineer,” she says. The Pillars now stand eight feet tall and, she says, “They are remarkable.” Each is one of the Six Pillar colors and has a white satin banner emblazoned with the name of its trait. The school held a large assembly and the music teacher taught each grade a different song about character. Every student created a piece of art to reflect one of the Pillars and mounted them on correspondingly colored poster boards. Then everyone did the Six Pillar Shuffle. “It was wonderful,” Ms. Arbital says. “It took months of work and preparation and planning...but it was worth every minute of it!”