18TH ANNUAL GRASS VOLLEYBALL TOURNEY

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Superintendent’s News

Dear Students, Faculty, and Community Members:

Welcome to the 2010-11 school year! For those of you who are new to our community, I take this opportunity to formally welcome you and invite you to participate in the richness of all that CAC has to offer. CAC is truly at the heart of a vibrant and diverse community. I urge you to become involved with any of our educational, recreational, leadership, or social activities. For those returning to CAC I welcome you back from summer travels and adventures and take this time to thank you for your support in what has been a fantastic start to the new school year.

Last year, I used Cairo Glyphics and our website front-page to share educational initiatives and information with our community of learners. CAC is a very busy place, and thus we provide a number of ways to obtain information about our activities, including the website, e-mails, and divisional newsletters. I would like to use CairoGlyphics as a venue to share where we are going from a vision perspective, and how we are walking the path toward this vision of becoming a world-class educational institution.

In each of the past additions, I introduced and elaborated on the “Big Four”. These four big ideas or focus areas encompass my goals for the year and are also focal areas for our Board of Directors. The Big Four are: Value-Added Instruction (what we bring to CAC and how that influences the lives of students and adds value to their lives); Multiple Intelligences and Student Support Services (how we can serve all students and help them to be successful); Cultural Sensitivity and International Relations (looking at formal and informal ways to utilize our diverse community for educational opportunity); and finally, the Master Plan (creating world class facilities for students, teachers and
parents to interact).

I will start with our fourth goal and share our opening success story regarding Master Planning development. For anyone who has been on campus, it is clear that our new Elementary School building is a wonderful addition. While we are all aware that construction is not an exact science, and we still have work to do in terms of “debugging” the building in small ways, it is apparent that this
facility is not only architecturally and aesthetically pleasing, but it has multiple educational functionality, and modern features of passive and active sustainable design. In addition, the various “common spaces” on each floor will allow us the opportunity to change and add functionality based on student learning needs, now and into the future. Congratulations to our Project and Facilities Manager, John Hollenbach, and his team for all their efforts. My special thanks to our Maintenance and Custodial Staff for their additional work and efforts in delivering this building to our students for the opening of the school year. If you have not yet seen the building and would like a tour, please
contact Susi El Badrawy, Director of Development and Alumni Relations, and she will be happy to arrange one.

At our Board Retreat on September 16-17, we will be looking at the specific parameters of “Big Four” implementation for this year. I know in advance, that these goals will be predicated by two overarching themes: First, as mentioned above, we acknowledge that CAC is on a journey in its quest towards being a World Class institution. Second, we will focus our efforts on continuous learning and improvement as part of that journey. In the next edition of CairoGlyphics, I will be providing an update on another one of our educational initiatives.

I firmly believe in partnership and efficacy as keystones to participatory leadership. Each member of the CAC community needs to feel a sense of belonging, as well as believe that their voice is heard as part of the process of charting our course and addressing our challenges. I would like to thank each
of you for your engagement and participation in making the start of this year together, a great one. I look forward to working together to ensure that CAC continues to be a vibrant learning community for all.

Sincerely,
 

Rob Mockrish, Ph.D.
Superintendent

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