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Another year is about to begin. Parents are buying the myriad supplies and uniforms, maintenance folks are busy putting on the last minute touches around the campus, staff are taking payments and distributing textbooks and other didactic materials and faculty are in their rooms – preparing for the first day of school.
This year we have designed the employee orientation to be all inclusive, therefore August 2nd will be a day when all offices are closed. Everyone – all 77 faculty, staff and maintenance employees – will be together for the entire day. We will be working in cross-functional teams to:
1). enhance school-wide communications,
2). build camaraderie with folks who may never have had the opportunity to work together in the past, and
3). get to know and discuss how we will be implementing our annual continuous improvement theme – “St. John’s brings out the best!”.
We will be sharing our successes from this productive day with the entire school community at the PTA’s Red, White and Blues BBQ on August 18. Please mark your calendar and come and enjoy fellowship with all of us then.
* – Pope, A. 1732-4, Essay on man, Epistle 1, line 95.
