I am honored to serve Northeast Metro 916 as the Superintendent and to stand in service with staff as a trusted educational provider. I am also incredibly proud of District 916 educators, whom I love to work with and support daily. Delivering on our mission to provide exceptional educational services is a privilege and an incredible responsibility. Our highly trained educators play a vital and unique role as providers of innovative solutions driven by the needs of our students and member districts. For our students to receive educational experiences that address their individual needs, we must create healthy learning environments where all students are happy and proud.
As our Northeast Metro 916 Strategic Actions evolve, we have targeted the central tenet of our work, Happy and Proud: the 916 Experience, supporting an individualized approach to student success. To this end, we continue our commitment to equity as an essential component of our work to ensure that every student receives what they need daily.
We believe that students are happy and proud when they feel seen, heard, and valued through individualized learning plans that provide each student with the opportunity to share their individual life experiences and strengths. Students experience feelings of accomplishment, belonging, excitement, respect, encouragement, and confidence on their best days in school. Students' perspectives must be centered on creating belonging in supportive learning environments because belonging is vital to learning. When messages support students' sense of belonging, they feel physically and emotionally safe.
One of our leadership practices is expanding our work to engage students and families. To that end, I invite our Northeast Metro 916 families and students to co-construct our educational environments and personalized learning plans so that every student is happy, proud, and hopeful for the future.
Sincerely,
Superintendent