Update for the week 8/17/2012

With the start of a new school year there is always some adjustment to the “new normal”.  With all of the new faces, new friendships, and new experiences it is easy to feel the energy in the air.  I think the general feeling amongst the faculty is that things are busy, but the year is off to an amazing start.

A couple of updates for the week:

The big new for the week is enrollment.  As of Friday the count looks like this:

Freshman                          129

Sophomores                      108        

Juniors                               122        

Seniors                               93

Total                                   452

To put this in perspective, enrollment at this same time last year was 437.   This 15 student increase represents a lot of hard work by many of the people at Assumption.  Without and emphasis on academics, extracurricular activities and a tremendous tuition assistance program many of these students would be attending other schools.  Great work by all of our supporters who are out selling Assumption every day.

Our student laptops for the 1:1 program arrived this week.  For me, this brings a ton of excitement, but also a little bit of frustration.   I feel that our teachers and students are ready to go with this, as am I. Currently we are waiting on a mobile web filtering program from the AEA.  This is really the last piece that needs to be in place before we begin to image these machines.  Imaging puts all of the necessary programs on the computer in order for them to function correctly.  After we have the machines imaged we will be holding rollout meetings so our students can get the machines in their hands.  I look forward to this day as many of our students, teachers and parents do.

We had our first budget and business meeting of the year.  It has been a lot of review and figuring out the solutions to many of the things that popped up over the summer.  Topics discussed included our new student information system, transportation issues, addition of a radio backup to our security system, locks for gym lockers, Fr. Martin fund distributions, football ticket takers and fine arts financing.

This week ended with preparations for our annual board orientation and meeting on Monday.  We will begin with an orientation reviewing the structure and function of the board and a detailed description of the boards responsibilities.  This is an essential meeting to set the tone for the upcoming school year.  After we complete the orientation we will have our regularly scheduled meeting.  Should be a great learning time for all of us!

Have a great weekend!