Dear Cicero Prep Families,

Welcome to a new school year at Cicero Preparatory Academy. As a community of staff, teachers, parents, and students we are each preparing for the coming year and in our own ways. Whether it is the front office and operations refining systems and communication, professional development for teachers, or parents buying books, supplies, uniforms and squeezing in time away together as a family. We are all preparing for a new season of recommitting to the mission and providing a revolutionary education for your children here at Cicero. This is an invigorating time.

The Pursuit: As I shared with the incoming 6th graders in May, our country was founded on “LIFE, LIBERTY, and the PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS” and these are dependent on the pursuit of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. These cannot be separated. These ideas are essential. Our school is here to continue the legacy and invite your students into citizenship with these essential ideas that our country was founded on.

Embracing the task: It is up to each of us as faculty, students, and parents to embrace the task at hand of cultivating an environment in which students can grow and thrive. Part of embracing the task is preparing for the school day, putting on the uniform, and embracing the call to excellence – of moral, civic, and intellectual growth all of which can bear lasting fruit. The revolution that takes place comes when one embraces the good and chooses it repeatedly, even when and especially when it is difficult.

Student Life: The classroom is just one springboard for personal and academic growth. What one does outside of the classroom is generally what one becomes. It is part of our mission to provide a thriving community where students engage both in the classroom and beyond whether that is in athletics, enrichment courses, socials, leadership, or leisure and hobbies in the community or at home. This education is more than books and ideas, it is the catalyst for your students to take their rightful place as heirs to the freedoms that have been bestowed on them.

In closing, I would like to draw us back to the last line in the headmaster letter in our family handbook which reminds us that passing on of this inheritance of citizenship, of moral and intellectual excellence, is a shared work, a partnership between the Academy and parents:

“Each of us, as free citizens of the Academy, should equally strive to make our school a better place – a city of truth, goodness, and beauty – for those students, parents/guardians, and teachers who will follow us.”

Here is to a great year friends,

Christa Reichert, Headmaster