It Is About Gratitude

This past Friday afternoon, I was in my office when Mike Martin invited me to join him in the MHS auditorium.  It was unexpected - he came to my doorway and with a little bit of a smile on his face, asked me to come down to the auditorium.  When I asked what this was all about, he couldn't exactly answer my question.  Instead, he just insisted that I join him.

There was an assembly going on in the auditorium and by the time we got there, all of MHS was already there, students, faculty and staff.  There were a handful of students from the Student Council on the stage and they began speaking shortly after we arrived.  The students started speaking about gratitude and recognizing the work of people who serve MHS but are regularly overlooked for the work they do.

While sitting in the audience, I wondered who the students had in mind.  They spoke meaningfully about upgrades to the wireless network, the capacity expansion that allows more devices to be connected, and the efforts that are consistently made to serve the students, faculty and staff of MHS.  A few moments later, Russell Leete and Lucas Johnson were standing on the stage, to thunderous applause.  Russell and Lucas are our Technology Support Specialists.  Shortly after that, Mike Martin and Sue Monmaney were also called to the stage and the result was a standing ovation.  Both Sue and Mike have worked, along with the entire Technology Team in MPS, to grow our network to meet the demands of curriculum and technology.

Shortly after the assembly was over, I approached Myles Chater, the advisor of the Student Council at MHS and expressed how impressed I was with the choice and the assembly.  I was even more impressed with what he said next: "It all came from the students.  I didn't do anything except buy a couple of gift cards and set up the assembly."  It all came from the students...

It really is all about gratitude and our students are teaching us again.