What makes Aquinas different? Attached Files What makes Aquinas different.mp4 What Makes Aquinas Different? Show Transcript at Aquinas we try and put our students on a path to just being the best versions of themselves we have a saying here that the next four years are going to affect the next 40 of their lives my name dr. Amanda Egan and I am the principal of Aquinas High School I feel extremely blessed to be in this position as the principal of Aquinas and to have the opportunity to form our student has servant leaders Enlighten the truth of the Gospel so what that means to me is it's more than about just educating our students academically but we actually have a real opportunity here to former students spiritually athletically and make it more than just a typical education but this is really an opportunity to just change the trajectory for some of their lives like the school did for me when the condo finest was the opportunities and has and the classes I can take I want to become a psychologist and thankfully they have a psychology class and my favorite part about it is definitely the community I really like how involved the community is in a sports and academics and just power all so close together I live in Moreno Valley I didn't know much about Aquinas until I got here I came here for better education and to be a football team I'm Jonathan Keck I am the Director of Education technology at Aquinas high school and I'm really excited about our use of iPads and the technology we I've been able to integrate into the learning environment and what kids get to do I'm students get to be creative draw crate music videos and express their learning and a bunch of different ways that the students in other schools might not get the chance to do Ella member of the National Honor Society the chapter we have here at Aquinas and it's a really rewarding program because we get the tutor kids who may be struggling and we get to see you like academic mentors to other kids on campus and there I could so offer social emotional support our teacher is really enthusiastic to help us to learn especially for the international student because our language is not that good but I will teach her it's really good at 2 helping the student to express their self cyber security various over the next three years I'm really looking for Sports of football and getting better academically and better and face my name is Chris Ibarra and I'm downloading director at Aquinas high school for the last sixty years the Aquinas Athletic program has strive for excellence field and in the classroom we have been competitive in all aspects of sports while also playing with the Christian like manner we are extremely proud of the history of the Aquinas Athletic program and look to continue in the future in the future yeah I'm just excited that we have the opportunity to to work with so many kids as our population continues to grow and physically are our campus can used to grow with the addition of our Performing Arts Center and upcoming editions of our new stem building and Art Labs we're just really excited about the future and the great opportunity to be here with such wonderful kids I'm so it's an exciting time to be at Aquinas at Aquinas you don't just make friends that are just going to last these four years it's like friends that you're going to be able to have for a lifetime
