Before we go into the happening from the week a couple of good lucks and congrats. Good luck to our Cross Country team as them head to state this weekend. Bring home some hardware! Good luck to our volleyball team next week in their Regional final match in Dewitt next Wednesday. Last night’s semifinal match against Keokuk was a great performance by our Lady Knights, keep up the good work! Finally, congrats to Coach King and our football program on a successful season. I am proud of how our kids competed this fall. They are a great group of young men.
A couple facilities updates this week:
Eric finished the installation of the flooring on the auditorium stage. We began this project last year, but with all the use our stage floor gets we couldn’t complete the project until now.
There are several small improvements taking place in the gym. New square backboards were installed this week, to replace the existing fan shaped backboards. Another great aesthetic improvement to our large gym! Starting next week we will remove the broken tile from the concession stand in the gym area. This is currently an eyesore and will continue to be a problem due to the amount of moisture that gets on that floor. We plan on replacing the tile with a bare concrete floor to prevent future problems. We are also moving ahead on replacing locks in the athletic areas. Almost every door in the gym has a different key and this problem has become a major headache so we are trying to remedy the situation by organizing our locks so there is some method to which keys go where. We will be purchasing some new locks and moving around some of our existing locks to make this happen.
I spent some time this week working with CDW on our Microsoft licensing agreement. It sounds like we will be able to save a good amount of money when our agreement ends. I believe Microsoft has become a lot more flexible and affordable due to competition from free programs like Google docs. Many schools have switched to Google because of the affordability, and we have also considered this option.. Next Monday I will present the use of Google docs and the applications of Google’s programs to our teachers..
We had an affective Scott County principal meeting on Thursday. This is a monthly meeting with Lee Morrison, Julie Delany, Katie Selden, Chad Stiemle, Jeanne VonFeldt, Chuck and me. This has been a great effort to work together to improve all Scott County Catholic schools. Items discussed this week included AHS Info Knight, elementary tuition rates for next year, elementary school conferences, Embracing Our Future, and the K12 e-newsletter updates.
I spent a lot of time this week reading through all of our parent surveys. There is a ton of great information embedded in these documents and I am grateful to everyone who took time to fill them out.
There has been a lot of work put in this week down in the Business Office on tuition assistance, including compiling data on enrollment and retention My role in the process was to compile and analyze 5 year enrollment trends for the elementary schools and 10 year trends for Assumption. There were some interesting pieces of knowledge in this data, including 10 year retention rates from 9th grade to 10th, 10th to 11th and 11th to 12th. The good news is in comparing the 2000-2005 retention rate to the 2006-2011 retention rate, the data shows we have improved our rate of retention in the past five years. One area that we need to concentrate on is our 10th to 11th grade rate as indicated by the data. This week our administrative team had a good conversation on this topic and we will continue to discuss ways to increase retention.
Thanks and have a great weekend.
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