Good luck to our volleyball and football teams in their
competitions tonight and tomorrow.
Even though it has been a short week a lot has been
accomplished. A couple of updates:
The daycare renovation project continues, and we had carpets
cleaned in several daycare areas. We are exploring some updates to kitchen
equipment and weighing out the repair vs. buy options. This was also the week
for our semiannual bus inspections and everything went well.
We have finalized a meeting with Blackbaud’s Target
Analytics team. This group, which manufactures our development software, will help
us to explore some ways to potentially enhance their software and make us more
efficient in our utilization.
I attended the AEA 9 Superintendents meeting on Thursday.
The majority of the time was spent reviewing new legislation for this year with
Iowa Department of Education officials. The two main areas of focus were
teacher compensation and No Child Left Behind.
There seemed to be a lot of questions regarding the Teacher Leadership
and Compensation system that is being implemented in the state. If you are
interested, I encourage you to check it out here. Our Scott County Catholic schools will need
to keep a close eye on how this program develops as it could have an impact on
the expectation of pay of teachers throughout the state.
No Child Left Behind was another area of concern as Iowa has
been rejected for a NCLB waiver. It remains to be seen what exactly this means
for Iowa schools. If you remember back to when the legislation was passed, 2014
was kind of the magic year. All students in the nation were supposed to be
proficient in 2014. Of course, that
won’t occur. It remains to be seen what will happen as a result.
We had an Investment Committee meeting Thursday, and there
was a lot of great discussion. This
group will be looking over our investment policy to see if there needs to be any
changes made.
Tomorrow I will be here bright and early to open for the
locker installers, as our dramatic increase in enrollment lead to a shortage of
lockers. I want to thank those students
who have used the old lockers for these first couple of weeks. Barring any complications, we should have all
of them in nice new lockers no later than Tuesday.
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