SUPERINTENDENTS' MESSAGE

Hello, Lincoln Condors. Welcome and welcome back to the 24-25 school year. I hope this week has been fantastic for all your children. We have really enjoyed having students back on campus. A school without students is not always a joyful place. We welcomed over 120 new students to campus this week, over ten faculty and staff, including two new principals in our elementary and our high school divisions.

It has been really joyful to see how those of you who have already been a part of the Lincoln community opened up your arms to receive and welcome all of our new condors. At this time of the year, we often look forward and we also reflect back on our foundation. Our mission statement is put in front of our students, our faculty and staff and our parent community frequently throughout the year and especially at the start of the year.

We look at the words that resonate with us: kind, ethical, global citizens. What makes Lincoln a global community? Our diversity is key to belonging and to our sense of community and how we all come together. But it's also key to knowledge. Our cognitive conflicts and dissonance are opportunities to engage in conversations, is what makes us richer. Every day we witness cultural exchange, we embrace global perspectives, we learn through and from each other. 

Through that, our students have the opportunity to develop their attributes of a Lincoln Learner: communicator, thinker and researcher, agents of change, and self navigator. Our attributes come together to form our ALLs or, what we like to use as our theme this year, ALLTogether. I am thrilled to be entering my third year leading at Lincoln.

We're reaching in my tenure an all time high of over 630 students. We come together in a community to form bonds that last a lifetime and lead to future professional connections and friendships.

Speaking of connections, there's a long list of opportunities for us to be more connected. Coffees, parent nights and other events. Please do check out all those moments that you can join us on campus.

All the research shows us that the more that you're able to connect with the school, even if you don't see your child when you're on campus, the more that they're going to have academically, socially and emotionally successful and productive years. Most importantly, do make sure to check out the elementary, middle school and high school back to school night.

We'd love to see you here, get to know the teachers and learn a little bit more about our learning goals for this calendar year. Thank you so much and I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Dr. Nada Collins

Superintendent