Last week's winds took out the city of Pasadena and our little campus got hit pretty hard.  You drive down the streets of Pasadena now and it still looks like a disaster... yet it only took OUR campus 12 hours to get back on its feet... How you ask? There is no mystery... Philippe Detzen has an extremely dedicated and amazing team.  On Thursday, all teachers and staff worked all day to put the campus back together while the students were home...  Thank You Pasadena team!!!!

As you all know, I am serving as the Interim Campus Director for Los Feliz on top of my Head of School duties for the duration of this school year.

I am happy to report that we had several qualified candidates respond to our Ads and last week our search committee of 9 (made up of a few LILA administrators, Board members, teachers and parents) held the in-person interviews.

After careful review, spirited debate, and self-analysis we have unanimously chosen Stephane Plancke, current West Valley Campus Director, as the next Los Feliz Campus Director (in charge of Secondary). Stephane is highly-qualified for this post: he has been a LILA employee since 1999, including WV campus director for the past 6 years; he has a Masters degree and a teaching credential (CAPES) in Math.  He taught both Math and Physics/Chemistry at middle school and high school levels at LILA, including French Bac and International Baccalaureate classes in Math; and he is currently completing his Masters in Educational Psychology and Counseling. Most importantly he is ready and and eager to take on the new challenge the larger Los Feliz campus will provide him.

Stephane will slowly transition to Los Feliz for the remainder of this school year so he gets to better know the community and get re-acquainted with the campus. He will officially transfer here on July 1, 2012.