I spent today at the Meadowlands Fair and met many wonderful people. I met students from Cotton, saw AlBrook students and met many students from the area that are looking to attend the new school. As I look at the work we do at AlBrook and Cotton right now, I believe we do many things very well. However, as I meet 4 year olds that will be the first class to come to the school and middle school students that plan to attend the new school, I can't help but think . . . how will we do things even better?
One of my goals this year is to talk to people from the area and find out what they want from schools. I know we want sports and we need before and after school care because those are items the public comes in to see. I want to know what we want our students to know and how we want them to learn. I want to challange students, staff, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, community members to tell me what the would like from our school. We have an opportunity to implement technology, arts, vocational skills, science, and enhanced English and math programs in these schools but what will we do to really make a difference?
Stay tuned as we dig in to this topic/adventure!
