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RE’s professional community: 100 percent committed
The core value of support and community means many things. Certainly, supporting the student experience has been a priority for Chief Operating Officer David Clark ’86 and me; the leadership team and professional community are aligned in the belief that a positive student experience is our number one priority. RE’s board of trustees has supported our faculty with the McMahon COLA endowment, ensuring they have sufficient resources. Our faculty are the most important part of our school as they take care of our children – day by day, hour by hour, class by class, on the stage, on the field, on local field trips, throughout the state, on national trips, and often throughout the world. The remainder of our professional community – our front office staff, our admission personnel, those in the business office, our IT professionals, our security team, and our maintenance professionals – also takes care of our students; this is a team effort that takes the entire professional community and I could not be more grateful for every hand, head and heart that makes our community live our core values.
I cannot think of a better illustration of that commitment than over the last 10 months, as our entire professional community banded together with historic purpose and solidarity to show its collective support for Ransom Everglades School. For the first time in at least 20 years, every member of RE’s faculty and staff – more than 270 employees – made a donation to our annual fund, giving us 100 percent professional community participation. Whether a small gift or a larger one, everybody joined in. Everyone agreed that an RE education and our students are worth supporting. Not one person opted out – everyone contributed.
This full-throttle, all-in effort from longtime faculty to first-year faculty to facilities employees to front-office staff illustrates our professional community’s belief in the tremendous good this school does in our community and beyond. Leadership team members completed their gifts prior to school starting last August, all of our trustees and alumni board soon followed suit, and we are pleased that our parents and alumni share the belief that RE is an investment worth the return. With less than a month to go in our annual giving drive, more than 70 percent of RE parents have made a gift, and about 15 percent of alumni have given. Our hope, when we get to the finish line of our giving season on June 30, is that we can set records for participation and gifts from all of our constituents. (If you haven’t yet given to The Fund for RE, it’s not too late. Give now.)As we end the school year, I am filled with gratitude as it is an honor to work with committed professionals who believe they are answering a call to service. Their professionalism and passion put them at the top of their respective fields and help our students be the best they can be, ensuring that Ransom Everglades continues to occupy a place among the top schools in the world. I remain grateful to our parents and alumni who help carry the ethos of the school into the community, as together we help our students carry the core values of Ransom Everglades with its rich traditions into another school year.
Have a great summer.
Rachel RodriguezHead of School
Middle School
2045 South Bayshore Drive, Coconut Grove, FL 33133Phone: 305 250 6850
Upper School
3575 Main Highway, Coconut Grove, FL 33133Phone: 305 460 8800
Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.