ON THE PATH OF TRUTH AND GRACE
BY: MELISSA REDEKOP, ACS BOARD MEMBER I am flawed, imperfect, and at times, painfully aware of it.
Oct
7, 2019
Sep
23, 2019
LET’S RUN THE NUMBERS
“Are you excited to be principal at ACS next year?” I was asked this question a lot over the summer. I always answered that question without hesitation. YES! Some of you might be wondering, how can he say that? Doesn’t he know what he’s getting himself into? As a recovering math teacher, allow me to run [...]
Jun
11, 2019
GOING TO ZAMBIA!
“Do you want to go to Zambia?” This was not a message I expected to receive from my wife, Jane, while I was away visiting my mom on the Family Day weekend. We had been tossing around some ideas for summer, but mostly they were local and more budget-wise, as last summer, we took a [...]
May
20, 2019
CATCH THIS!
There is something really gratifying in running down a flying disk to score a point for your team. Just ask any of our middle school students who enjoy playing Ultimate during our lunch breaks. Ultimate is a fast paced game that is a hybrid cross of football, Frisbee and handball. One of the really cool [...]
May
11, 2019
KIDS, CAKE, AND STAFF ROOM BANTER
BY EMILIE DARBY, MUSIC SUPPORT SPECIALIST It's May. How on earth did that happen so fast? But alas, here we are, and as I pull the calendar month of April from above my desk and replace it with the tasks of May, I find myself marvelling at how quickly this year has sped by, and [...]
Mar
4, 2019
THE GIFT & WONDER OF MUSIC
Along with the rest of my siblings, I took piano lessons growing up. My mom is an accomplished musician and she wanted to be sure that her children carried on this gene. I was the only one of my four siblings who actually crossed the plateau from despising these lessons to actually (secretly) enjoying learning [...]
Jan
11, 2019
THE CULTURE OF SAFETY
BY: EDGAR RIVERA, BUS DRIVER When I was a kid in Guatemala, my friends and I used to go to a candy manufacturing plant. For just a few pennies we would receive a huge block or bag of chocolate, mints or whatever they were processing at that moment. Broken or incomplete marshmallows and cookies were [...]
Nov
6, 2018
JUSTICE PEOPLE
Recently, I was talking to my parents about being their child. Now raising my own kids, we were making special note of how much the world has changed in terms of how we parent, and what parameters we operate with as parents. Even during the parenting of our own children (especially if our children span many [...]
Jun
11, 2018
WHY TEACH?
I still remember the first time I heard the story of why my brother became a teacher. He was in his first year of college, not sure what he really wanted to do. He had to take a science course as one of the core subjects. One of the required labs was to document the [...]
Dec
18, 2017
GETTING BETTER
I really do not like being wrong. Actually, I think this is a common attribute of all sinful humanity. However, in all honesty, I really do not like to make mistakes. Please note: when I am proven wrong, I think I am pretty good at admitting that I made a mistake, but it is my [...]
