The stakes for our team are higher than most of our public-school and secular private school colleagues. As a Christ-centered school, we are not only accountable to you and our school board for the quality of programming we deliver; ultimately, we are accountable to our Lord. We readily accept that yoke's weight because we understand our mission is much more than the temporal goal of getting students into a competitive college of their choice and teaching them good citizenship. We are committed to the eternal goal of partnering with you and your church family to sow the tenants of our Christian faith to help raise the next generation of Christian families.

More than ever in our nation's history, Christian school leaders must be clear and deliberate in defining and upholding the vision, mission, and purpose of their schools – but that is not enough. Our leadership team understands leadership means action and not a position, and our staff and faculty are keenly aware that stasis is the enemy of progress. Thus, we will continue to introduce change, moderate change where and when it makes sense, to provide our students with the highest quality education your tuition investment can bring.

Successfully leading a quality independent school like Prince requires the employment of visionary leadership which is imperative in devising strategic goals to ensure our school arrives at specific end states (goals three, five, or eight years into the future). We must also employ conceptual leadership to identify and complete the steps necessary to achieve our strategic goals that drive our school's continued advancement. Visionary and conceptual leadership skills are interdependent and mutually supportive; at Prince, we are blessed that both skills reside within our administrative leadership team

It is difficult to command the appropriate words to describe the exceptional work done by our K-12 faculty leading up to and since the start of this pandemic. As of October 2020, education pundits report seventeen million students nationwide have not returned to traditional school environments and remain in remote learning with its accompanying negative psychological impact on students (not to mention the financial impact on parents who cannot return to work because they must care for their children).

The reopening and sustained operation of our school, which has not been without challenges these first twelve weeks, is a classic illustration of a faculty who has refused to heed the fear filled counsel of others in our profession. Our teachers have worked side by side with our administrative team and supported one another during difficult and stressful times in a way I have not witnessed since my days in uniform. As a result, our students have directly benefitted academically, socially, and emotionally by returning to a traditional, but modified, educational environment.

I routinely share with prospective families who tour our campus that a school with mediocre leadership at the helm can sometimes stay afloat during inclement weather; however, a school will scuttle if it takes aboard teachers who lack a thorough command of their subject matter, give lackluster performances in their delivery of content, or fall short in successfully connecting and building relationships with their students. At Prince, our teachers are the hands and feet of Christ in the classroom and at the heart of our school's success. I am proud of our teachers, grateful for the like-mindedness and trust within our leadership and faculty team, and for the benefits that those relationships continue to bring to our students.

We will continue to move forward in the face of this pandemic while resting in the comfort that comes from calling Jesus our Lord.

With warm regards,