Message from our President

Dear Parents,

Honesty is always a good starting place so that is my starting point in my first letter to you. Change is often a catalyst for growth, exploration and imagining. On the other hand, change can be unnerving and cause a little dis-ease. Sometimes change is in the forefront and, then again, it can slip through our fingertips unnoticed.

This past July 1, 2015 a new Notre Dame Schools Board of Directors began its oversight of governance for Notre Dame Elementary and Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin Schools. For over a year, a task force has judiciously addressed this change. Mrs. Doering worked closely with the task force in thinking through and executing the governance changes.

Along with the Board and as the only hire of the Board, I will have the joy and responsibility to serve Notre Dame Schools (NDES/NDCL) as president. Mrs. Doering will continue to serve you and your children as principal.

Both NDES and NDCL remain separate schools. The 25 member Board will use their skills and talents to uncover new potential for sustaining, strengthening and strategically directing the implementation and living out of the educational vision and principles of the Sisters of Notre Dame. This vision is at the heart of Notre Dame Elementary School’s mission. All of us seek to have it impact the lives of your precious and loved children and the culture of NDES.

Since NDES is a school sponsored by the Sisters of Notre Dame, we commit ourselves to educate in this vision. We commit ourselves to giving visibility to our Catholic identity. And most of all we promise you the continued nurturing of dreams, excellence and success. The track record is self-evident as a Blue Ribbon School!

May this new governance change, the Notre Dame Schools Board of Directors, be a stimulus for exploration, expansion and envisioning now and into the future.

With gratitude and prayer,

Jacquelyn Gusdane, SND