A trip to Monticello High School
Monticello school

 

Whenever I go to one of our schools, I learn something from our talented educators. Last Tuesday morning, I had a wonderful visit to Monticello High School. Our principals are top-notch, and I was amazed as I walked with Rick Vrhovac and he addressed every single person we came across by name. When I complimented him on this trait, he said, “It comes with decades of coaching athletes. If you want to get a person’s attention and have that person know you care, you have to address him or her by name. It makes all the difference in the world.”

When I hear a principal—someone charged with a responsibility for thousands of our students and hundreds of employees—say this, I know that he embodies our mission “to establish a community of learners and learning, through relationships, relevance and rigor, one student at a time.”

 

Friday, September 18, 2020