SUPERINTENDENTS' MESSAGE

Hello, Lincoln. What's up? I want to talk for a moment today about our counseling programs and services. We have five counselors here at Lincoln, beginning in our K4 program, all the way up through grade 12, who support our academic and social-emotional and learning and behavioral needs of our students. They're also a resource to our parent community.

I know many of you have signed up and joined their coffees or their parent sessions. I wanted to focus on one role today, which is the end of your students time at Lincoln. The way that we prepare students for the next phase after they graduate. A growing number of students of varying nationalities that choose prestigious universities here in Argentina, but as well as Canada, the US, China, Australia.

Many of our kids now are heading to Spain, to Amsterdam and exploring their learning opportunities, which may be a reflection of where they grew up, where their parents grew up. But it also may be places that they've learned and discovered as being a part of an international community here at Lincoln and are choosing to continue their studies in new or different places.

Either way, our focus here at Lincoln is helping students find the their best fit, that they seek out the right opportunities for them when they leave and that wherever they choose to go, whatever they choose to study that we're supporting them with exploring their passions, discovering their interest and choosing their next path.

Sometimes coming out of a small school in a graduating class of around 50 students, our students are looking for a more intimate opportunity, something that reflects their experience here with small class sizes, and sometimes they're looking for something much bigger and much different than their experience about here at Lincoln.

We've already hosted two major university fairs here at campus. We've welcomed in our students, our parents, even students from other schools in the area who have joined in to learn a little bit more about options of study abroad. Those universities did represent the United States and we know that we will look forward this year to bringing in schools from Italy, from Spain, from Australia, that have visited us in the past and that we're hoping will engage for repeat visits.

I'm looking forward to seeing many of you this evening at bingo night, the first of many really exciting PAL events, Parents at Lincoln, for some fun and some games and some opportunity to connect and meet new people.

Don't forget that next Wednesday is a holiday, it's an Argentine holiday in honor of Teacher's Day. Take the time to send an email or a note to your teacher and let them know how much you appreciate them. I know I do. Thank you and have a great week.

Dr. Nada Collins

Superintendent