ONE School Project AND New Head of School Make for Exciting Times
IT started out looking like Mars. Now steel beams, brick and grass are giving it form.
It’s the fast-moving ONE School project, and everyone at The Lexington School feels the excitement for next fall when it will be ready.
After all, it is a $10 million project that will impact every single member of The Lexington School community.
SHE started out as a teacher over 25 years ago, and after 20 years in education management, Una MacCarthy is The Lexington School’s new Head of School, and everyone is excited about her too.
The Lexington School is energized by change, arms wide open to growth and the impact it will have on each individual and the community at large.
“Collaborating with an incredible team of professionals, I am proud to be a part of this nationally-ranked school,” Una said.
“We have come a long way. I understand the significance of transition, the need for stability, and the boldness needed to continue moving forward.”
As part of the $10 million plan, The Learning Center at The Lexington School, a school within the school for children with language-based, learning differences (Dyslexia), will expand.
With no integrated programs in the Bluegrass to serve these creative but reading-challenged students, The Learning Center expansion gives these students a home right next door to their elementary school peers, and it provides a proven curriculum that leads to self-advocacy for kids who are able to find success wherever they attend next.
In addition to the Academic Center that houses Learning Center classrooms, and a state-of-the-art library/media resource center, the ONE School project includes a new kitchen and dining hall, larger preschool classrooms, a new middle school identity with project rooms and modular classrooms for innovative learning, an outdoor environment better suited to age and stage, and to cap it all off, a clubhouse and athletic fields that accommodate a growing, active student body.
Chuck Baldecchi, current Head of School, has led the successful ONE School project.
“What I love most about this project is how it touches every single student in our school,” said Chuck, who is 100% confident that Una’s passion, inspired standards and determination will make the most of it.
The project is almost ready. Una is ready.
“I am energized and enthusiastic to continue the good work that is part of the history and the future of The Lexington School.”
It’s an exciting time at TLS.
– By Beth Pride, Director of Marketing and Communications at The Lexington School.