Keep Changing for the
Better
English author, Arnold Bennett, once wrote: “Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by
drawbacks and discomforts.”
This is so true. Each year brings
new beginnings and with it new challenges as well. January may be the start of 2013, but we are
well into our school year already. Sixth
graders are more than halfway to becoming seventh graders, and at the other end
of the spectrum our eighth graders are soon going to be entering their high
school careers. It is at this time we
can look back and see what we are doing well but we can also make some
resolutions for change.
I was trying to think of a resolution I would like to see
myself accomplish during the rest of this school year. There are many things for the school as well
as for myself that need to keep improving.
I believe for the school we need to keep making great progress. We keep tweaking and playing with what we
have in order to try to make everything better for the students of NMS. We have started since September looking at different aspects of the school and began committees to study how we might change things for the better. Mr. McLaughlin and myself have led many of these committees, but we have an incredible group of teachers and faculty members who want to help and support as well. There is so much that we hope we can do, and when this school year is over, I hope you will also be proud of what we have done . . . just so far. We will continue to put little things in motion and who knows what the next school year may look like. Every improvement we are looking at, though, we are doing so to see how it can correlate into more student achievement.
With resolutions and changes, everything is done with the
hope that things improve. I hope the New
Year, 2013, brings you everything you hope for and, for me, I hope that the changes we
keep making bring even greater success for the students at the Nichols Middle School.
Thank you,
M. R. Geoghegan
