On Thursday, June 17, I led my last graduation ceremony as Principal of North Collins Elementary School. I will be retiring at the end of November. The final group is one that I am very proud of and am glad that we are celebrating the end of our careers together. We have been through a lot, even before these past 15 months of craziness. Many of them started in PreK in 2013, and witnessed many Principal’s Challenges. From holding a disgusting snake to sitting in a dunk tank to rolling around in a hamster ball. They were also the class that saw my final challenge, a 7-mile walk to school in 2019. I am glad to have done those things for our students. They are the reason we are here. I hope it made school a little better for them.
Elementary school teaches children how to read books, write paragraphs and do math with letters where the numbers used to be. Elementary children play sports and games, create art projects, sing music, and code computers. To guide children through their elementary years we have three basic rules: ... read more