Well here we are again. The start of yet another school year. Mostly, yes, mostly, I am prepared to start the year in both locations. One much more than the other but still this is the best its been in quite awhile. I have had the luxury of having some dedicated help again this summer, The three "workers" Tom Ortiz, Fred Groff, and Sue Hiltner put is some hard days this summer, especially Tom Ortiz. A living and breathing example of what a great employee is made of. We gave him a chance and he has responded ten-fold. Fred was steady all summer even in the midst of constant change and Sue Hiltner, who joined us for a second summer on hiatus from the Food Service Group was also very responsible in her duties as well. Now that we are into the start of the year we will be addressing mostly the startup concerns of the administration as well as the teaching staff. I have specific problems related to the electrical upgrades that are taking place in Galloway. The contractor had gotten a late start on the project through no fault of his just the usual permit application problems. They have worked very hard to get "substantially" complete in two of the elementary schools. Unfortunately for me, I can't get going on the completion of several projects at Galloway. I had hoped to be completed with our GEM, Music, and Art projects for the start of the new year. I have had the help of our District's Elementary Music staff with getting this project underway and the person I most need to thank is Ben Fong of the Reeds Road staff. We are now ready to distribute the systems into the four larger elementary schools and that will take place towards the end of the week. We will be down a man in Galloway for upwards of a few weeks and this will set us back even furthur into the end of the month. I started to put pen to paper today to come up with a punch list of sorts that will allow me some timelines as to when I can finish up some of the projects. For the most part I will accept an October 1st, deadline as the only realistic one that I can expect.
I have about a month's work of work at the tech center in Galloway. I need to prep terminals as well as upt together the start of the Teacher workstations for the remainder of the district. This will be mostly bench work and I was hoping to get that started on Tuesday. I also will be working on the Media Center layouts this Thursday and Friday at both Roland and Smithville. That will mostly be a distribution of sorts that will commence on Thursday. The maintenance tickets will also be coming in this week and we will start addressing them at the start of the week.
Charter had a very smooth start with the only real problems centering around the use of the new student management system. Marc Zydiak is handling the day to day similarly to the way the the former Principal had handled it in the past. He is competent with the system and he is comfortable in teaching the rest of the staff in its use. We are adding some blogging to the curriculum this year and that will start in the second semester after Christmas break, yeah thats right, Christmas break. I will hope to introduce it then to the Freshman English classes and keep you informed. Till next time.
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