SMS Principal Blog

"Trust is the most important part of a relationship, closely followed by communication. I think that if you have those two things, everything else falls into place..." -Vanessa Lachey I know it means a couple of late nights, but getting the opportunity to observe parent-teacher conferences rather than be an active participant has convinced me more than ever that it is time well spent. Our students parents place an incredible amount of trust in us to do the absolute best we can for their children.  It is our job to maintain that trust, and the best way for us to do that is through communication. By picking up the phone to call a parent when their is an issue or sending an email when something awesome happens, we are sending the message to them that their child matters to us, that in the chaos of our busy day, our communication to them is a priority. When we sit down with them face-to-face to laugh, cry, and care about their child right along with them, it reinforces

"Unity is Strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved." -Mattie Stepanek One of the coolest things about my job is the ability to have a front row seat to the kinds of things most people never get to see happening in our schools. Whether that is a teacher working one-on-one with a student until they get the correct value for x, a social worker helping a student through a traumatic event, or a team of teachers collaborating to find the best way to accomplish multiple tasks at once; I am never at a loss for positive things to say about our building and the people in it. With that being said, I want to thank all of you for your efforts to make this past Friday a success. What started out as the seed of an idea by one teacher blossomed into a pretty robust experience for our students. In one day, thanks to your efforts, these things were able to be accomplished: hundreds of pages read, a yet unknown number of missing assignmen