POPLAR BLUFF, MO (KFVS)- A Poplar Bluff grade school launches a new program in hopes of inspiring kids to become good leaders.

Eugene Fields Elementary School is taking part in the "Leader in Me" program.

The program encourages teachers to focus on their students strengths and encourage them to develop good habits.

"We're looking at building 21st century skills with our students," said one educator. "They're going ot have to be problem solvers. They have to be risk takers. They have to be able to collaborate-there's not a single profession that I can think of where you don't have to collaborate with someone at some point or time and this initiative just transforms the whole building's culture so that the students are learning this at a very young age."

School leaders applied to take part in the leader in me program.

POPLAR BLUFF, MO (KFVS) - The city of Poplar Bluff, a Certified Local Government, will receive a $10,605 grant through the federal Historic Preservation Fund, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources announced Monday.

The city will use the grant to update its design guidelines and provide preservation training.

The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 authorizes a program of federal matching grants, known as the Historic Preservation Fund, to assist the various states in carrying out historic preservation activities. The program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Interior’s National Park Service, and is administered in Missouri through the Department of Natural Resources' State Historic Preservation Office.