ComMentor Summer 2022 Final - Flipbook - Page 2
A message from the Superintendent
Hello! I hope this newsletter finds you well, enjoying summertime and spending plenty of time with family, loved-ones and
friends. As I wrap up my time as superintendent of Mentor
Public Schools, I want to take a moment to share that it has
been an honor to serve in this role for our community over the
last five years. My sincere thank you goes to so many of you
who have supported our students, staff and schools as we continuously work toward our goal of providing a safe learning environment where the children of our community can grow academically, socially and emotionally.
We have a wonderful team of dynamic and caring educators in
Mentor, whom I have no doubt will continue to provide a wellrounded, high-quality education for our students. I am proud of
the work we have done to support our students during some
challenging and unprecedented times. And, I am excited to
have a new opportunity within Mentor Schools as I begin working as the principal of Sterling Morton Elementary School. I’ve
also had the opportunity to work with the new superintendent,
Mr. Craig Heath, during this time of transition and am confident the Board of Education made a great decision choosing
our district’s next leader. I hope you will join me in wishing him
well as he gets started on August 1st.
Pictured here: Mr. Porter presents the Phi Beta Kappa Award at
Mentor High School’s Senior Awards Ceremony.
sure each student is caught up, but we are already seeing some
promising gains from the work so far. We have allocated additional covid relief funds to continue the extra interventions into
next school year as well. It is also worth noting, our local
benchmark data is helpful in identifying when students need
enrichment opportunities sooner, too.
In Mentor Schools, there are a number of ways we gauge student achievement and define student success, and one of
those is by analyzing data, as mentioned. But, there are also
During the 2021-2022 school year, Mentor Schools was responmany student successes to share that are not measured in that
sible for the education of more than 7,300 students in preway. I hope as you flip through the pages of this newsletter you
school through grade 12. And though this was the third school
enjoy learning about some of our students’ recent accomplishyear impacted by the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic,
ments. Many of these stories we have also documented in vidour students and staff demonstrated perseverance trying to
eo and you can view the wonderful stories by visiting our webmake the most of classroom time and extracurricular activities.
site, www.mentorschools.net. I would like to sincerely thank
In June, we celebrated the graduation of more than 600 Menyou for your continued support of Mentor Public Schools.
tor High School seniors with a traditional commencement ceremony held at CSU. You can watch the ceremony on Cardinal TV
YouTube. It certainly was wonderful to see a return to normal
year-end activities across all of our schools to close the 2022
school year.
Also during last school year, we placed a large focus on closing
the achievement gaps some students experienced due to various conditions of pandemic learning. We spent the majority of
our federal covid relief funds hiring extra teachers, who
worked specifically to provide structured, research-based interventions for students who need extra help at all grade levels.
Our team uses local, timely and subject-specific benchmark
data to determine which students are in need of these targeted Commencement bound! 16 buses carrying more than 600 students on
their final school bus ride — to Graduation! Congratulations, Mentor
interventions in each school. We have more work to do to enHigh School Class of 2022! We are proud of you! Photo by: Becky Guercio