I hope that everyone had an enjoyable holiday break! While everyone at AHS had a chance to be with
family and get a little rest and relaxation, we were still hard at work to keep
things moving forward as we moved into the New Year. I’ll include an update from the Christmas
break along with the first week back of school.
The policy committee began review of the 300-400 series
policies. We are hoping to present our
recommendations to the board at our January 22nd meeting.
The Mississippi Valley STO board held its annual meeting at
Crow Valley. Thanks to the hard work of
Liz King and Linda Duffy, we once again met the cap of our STO, and even had to
send back some donations. While it never
feels good to turn away donors, it is great that the STO was once again able to
meet our cap. Bridget and I met with Elisha Kubalsky (who previously taught at
Assumption) over break to discuss a long term subbing opportunity for second
semester. Elisha has lived in India for the
last two years because of her husband’s employment, but they will be moving
back to the area soon. It will
be great to have her back working with our students!
State reporting time is once again upon us. I worked on this process quite a bit over
break and it is much easier after going through the process at the beginning of
the year. State reporting is time
consuming, but I believe that we should be able to cut the amount by about half
when compared with the beginning of the year.
I attended the AEA superintendents meeting over break where
we heard a presentation from the Department of Education about Response to
Intervention, and the initiatives proposed for the upcoming legislative
session.
We continue to work on the marketing campaign for Catholic Schools
Week. Thanks to Steve Grubbs, we have
some really neat ideas on different approaches we can take. More to come on that! We will also be partnering with Bethany Home
on a dodgeball for Diapers project. This
will be a lot of fun for all of our K-12 students, and a great way to provide a
service to the community.
We held out Scott County administrators meeting and discussion
items included tuition Bethany CSW project, CSW mass, math, school safety and
AHS choir teacher visits.
On Monday,
I presented to the teachers a new endowed award that will celebrate the great
teachers we have at Assumption. The
Edward J. and Helen T. Lammers Teacher Excellence Award is an annual award was
established in 2012 as an ongoing tribute to the memory of Ed and Helen Lammers. Ed and Helen were life-long advocates of
education in general and Catholic education in particular. They raised eight
children in Davenport, all of whom attended Catholic grade and high school, and
later attended Catholic universities. What
a great award for Assumption High School and our great educators!
In Development
we have been working on a couple different projects. The first of is the Focus newsletter, which
will highlight the great things happening on all of our local Catholic Schools
which should be mailed during Catholic Schools Week. Second, in an attempt to reconnect with past
parents and alumni, Jordan Gizzarelli (our new Alumni Relations Coordinator) is
working on an alumni newsletter.
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