I want to thank everyone for
their support of the Lake Forest Schools over the last eleven years while I
have had the privilege to serve as superintendent. Together we have accomplished much.
Delaware, and thus Lake Forest,
has gone through a lot of changes in that time.
For three years we experienced amazing growth which led to the need for
new construction. The community came
through and supported that idea with new South Elementary and additions at Lake
Forest High School. This gave us the
space we needed to move the sixth grade to the middle school and start all-day
kindergarten.
Our teachers and administrators,
hatched a plan to make something called Learning Focused Strategies the foundation
of our teaching. They began to make more
time to collaborate and study student performance and the art of teaching
together which led to unprecedented student performance. Race to the Top brought some new objectives
and responsibilities and our people were already moving in that direction.
The end result has been multiple
recognitions for Lake Forest Schools from state leaders.
Most recently, U.S News and World
Reports released their best of the high schools report. Only 8 schools in Delaware made that list and
one of them was Lake Forest High School.
On May 22 the Lake Forest Board
of Education hired Dr. Jason A. Conway to be the new superintendent in Lake
Forest starting July 1. After months of
searching, using a process of collaboration from community and staff, they
determined unanimously that Dr. Conway was their best choice. I hope the staff and community will embrace
him in the same way that I was embraced in July of 2003.
Lake Forest was my best
choice. Goodbye and good luck.
