I call the students down the day before to ask if they want to attend. About 99 percent do, if they remember. I get asked all the time, when juniors are called down to my office, 'I hope this is about Breakfast Club'.

Every day I deal with the same 20 percent of students; as assistant principal (along with assistant principal Kara Cotton) I deal with discipline. (But) I like to hear from the kids, about their life, education, passions, things they like, don't like. It's why I got into education in the first place, to talk to students about those things.

The more connections students make with teachers and administrators, the better environment a school will have.

If it's a great senior class, it's a great school year.

The students who spent the day here now have a better idea of what it means to be a scientist or an engineer and of what they can accomplish.

I am very proud of them. It was a wonderful day for the students.