What if your superintendent could name every kindergartner in the district? What if teacher retention wasn’t a crisis, but a culture? In this episode, we meet a leader who challenges everything we think we know about school administration—by rolling up his sleeves and leading from the front lines.
Guest Introduction
Alex Moore is the Superintendent of Montmorency Communities Consolidated School District 145 (CCSD 145) in Rock Falls, Illinois. A true servant leader, Alex has built his career on a radical belief: that the best way to lead a school district is to remain genuinely connected to the people it serves. From playing with kindergartners at recess to cleaning toilets when custodians are sick, Alex embodies a leadership philosophy that’s transforming how his district attracts, retains, and empowers educators.
What You’ll Learn
In this compelling conversation, we explore how one superintendent is reimagining school leadership in a resource-constrained rural district. Discover:
- How servant leadership creates loyalty – The practical strategies Alex uses to build unshakeable school culture
- Why teacher retention is solved differently – What makes educators want to stay (and it’s not what you think)
- Moving beyond standardized testing – How CCSD 145 is restoring holistic student development and real relationships
- The technology paradox – Finding balance in an over-digitized educational landscape
- Small district, big impact – Maximizing limited budgets through authentic leadership and community investment
Key Takeaways
✓ Servant leadership isn’t performative – Real leaders aren’t afraid to do the work. When staff sees their superintendent wiping tables and cleaning toilets, it sends a powerful message about dignity and shared responsibility.
✓ Relationships are the foundation – Playing with students, knowing their names, and genuinely investing in their development creates a school culture where everyone feels valued.
✓ “Family first” must be lived, not just said – Districts claiming to prioritize families while making budget cuts send mixed messages. Authentic family-first cultures are built through consistent, sometimes difficult decisions.
✓ One leader can influence an entire district – By shifting focus from test scores to student growth, from compliance to culture, superintendents can redirect their entire school system.
✓ The best ROI is in retention – Investing in staff development and creating a supportive culture costs less than constant turnover and is infinitely more impactful.
Notable Quotes
“I frequently will go down and I’ll go outside at recess and I’ll play with the kindergartners and the first graders. And I can build those relationships and get to know an actual face and a person much more than just another number.”
“I’ve been raised with the idea of servant leadership. So, um, I’ve been known to wipe tables with the custodians when custodians were out sick during COVID, I’d clean toilets. You know, there’s, there’s not a job that I, I can’t do.”
“We live by here family first. And I know some, some places you’ll go, they’ll say family first, but we mean it here.”
“Part of the decision making and going from the classroom into admin was I can touch more lives that way.”
Listen Now
If you’re a school administrator, teacher leader, or educator searching for what authentic leadership looks like in practice, this episode is for you. Alex Moore’s story proves that the best school culture isn’t built from a desk—it’s built in the hallways, on the playground, and in the willingness to do whatever it takes.
Subscribe and listen wherever you get your podcasts. Share this episode with a colleague who needs to hear that transformational leadership is possible, even in under-resourced districts.
FULL PODCAST Transcript
Lighthouse Therapy (00:00.866)
Hello everyone and welcome to the brighter together podcast. My name is Janet Courtney and my special guest today is Alex Moore. Alex is a superintendent at Montmoresee communities, consolidated school district 145 in Rock Hills, Illinois. Alex, I think I got it and it’s great to have you here.
Alex Moore (00:21.478)
Thanks for having me. like you said, I’m the superintendent at Mount Morenci. We call it CCSD 145 for short, cause that’s a mouthful. I was born and raised here, so I am a, I am a, kind of a hometown self grown.
Lighthouse Therapy (00:30.828)
Yeah.
Wow.
Alex Moore (00:38.84)
I was fortunate enough, I went to Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas to get my undergrad and whenever I had the opportunity to come home, I knew this was the place for me. I had such a positive experience in this school as a kid growing up that I knew I wanted to give back.
Lighthouse Therapy (00:54.166)
Nice. That is such a great story. So how long did you start as a as a teacher? How did you like go up through the ranks? Is that how it happened?
Alex Moore (01:03.918)
Yep. So, I, I began my first year at Mount Moransey. was actually the sixth grade, geography, reading and language arts teacher. That is not my forte, but I figured it out. and then after that, I became the math teacher the very next year. And so I was the middle school math teacher. I did that for six years. And then, my boss at the time, he was on his way out. had.
Lighthouse Therapy (01:16.812)
Ugh.
Lighthouse Therapy (01:21.516)
Okay.
Alex Moore (01:30.618)
my principal certificate, just in case sometime in the future. And, they gave me an opportunity to, to apply and, and, it’s, it’s all worked out. So I’ve spent around 30 years of my life at Mountmorency school.
Lighthouse Therapy (01:34.7)
Right? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Lighthouse Therapy (01:42.7)
Awesome.
Lighthouse Therapy (01:46.904)
Wow, that’s incredible. Congratulations, I love that for you. I love that for your school because it’s like, have, you know, you know those kids, you know those families, you know that community. How big of a school district is it?
Alex Moore (02:02.054)
We’re really tiny. are roughly 220 kids. One, two, three, four,
Lighthouse Therapy (02:06.318)
K12 or do you have preschool? K8, okay, K-8. So where do the kids go when they go to high school?
Alex Moore (02:14.342)
So the majority of them go to Rock Falls High School, its own separate district in town. Several of them do go to Newman Central Catholic Kids of Private School in Sterling, the next town over.
Lighthouse Therapy (02:25.194)
Okay. So why are they separated? Why is the high school separate from the elementary middle school?
Alex Moore (02:34.586)
You know, it’s funny, Illinois has roughly 800 school districts. And so I know in some states that you have like a county wide district. just, Illinois has a bunch of separate small districts. So Rock Falls at one point in time, there were six elementary districts that fed into the high school and a couple of those have closed. So there’s, there’s three of us left and then the high school district.
Lighthouse Therapy (02:47.374)
Lighthouse Therapy (03:01.346)
Where is Rock Falls in relation to the state of Illinois? Where are you guys at?
Alex Moore (03:07.482)
We are at the Northwest, so we’re about two hours directly west of Chicago. We’re roughly 30 to 45 minutes from the Iowa border on 88.
Lighthouse Therapy (03:19.72)
okay. Okay. on 88. Okay. Yeah, I grew up in Grand Island, Nebraska. So I’ve been across and we lived in Michigan for 19 years. So lots of that back and forth, especially my daughter lived in Lincoln for a couple of years. And so we were always, I know I drove 80 not 88, but drove through Chicago. I didn’t always like driving through Chicago, let me honest with you. But yeah, so
Alex Moore (03:25.295)
Okay.
Alex Moore (03:44.977)
I don’t enjoy it either.
Lighthouse Therapy (03:49.566)
Midwest, the Midwest, you’re definitely in the Midwest for sure. Yeah, awesome, awesome. Me too, was, you know, just, I didn’t go back to my hometown, but it was a great place to grow up. Grand Island, Nebraska was a great place to be raised and to go to school and, you know, cows and corn. We had a lot of cows and corn. Now I’m in Texas, we have more cows and not as much corn.
Alex Moore (03:53.488)
Yes.
Alex Moore (04:14.638)
Hahaha
Lighthouse Therapy (04:16.366)
Anyway, okay. So, so tell me a little bit about like, what is it like to be the superintendent? What are some of your, some of your wins and maybe some of your challenges right now? Cause it’s a, it’s an interesting time to be in education for sure.
Alex Moore (04:32.696)
It is, I’m pretty blessed to be in a, fairly conservative community. And I don’t mean that politically. just, we’ve got that small town field. So a lot of the crazy politics have not entered our district. which is nice.
Lighthouse Therapy (04:43.522)
Mm-hmm.
Lighthouse Therapy (04:48.781)
Nice.
Alex Moore (04:51.622)
And so I actually have a new teacher this year that was from the St. Louis area and she taught down there for 20 years. And she told me that it feels like she was transported 30 years back in time. So I take that as a compliment. So I can’t, I can’t explain it. A lot of the locals will call this the, the public private school.
Lighthouse Therapy (05:03.576)
Hahaha
Lighthouse Therapy (05:07.094)
Yeah, absolutely.
Lighthouse Therapy (05:17.134)
okay, okay, nice.
Alex Moore (05:19.27)
So, for me, being the superintendent of this district, it’s one building. And so I have the ability to be in the classrooms, be in the hallways. I frequently will go down and I’ll go outside at recess and I’ll play with the kindergartners and the first graders. And I can build those relationships and get to know an actual face and a person much more than just another number.
Lighthouse Therapy (05:28.27)
Mm-hmm.
Lighthouse Therapy (05:47.18)
Mm-hmm.
Alex Moore (05:48.174)
I love that. That’s what makes my day and that’s what keeps me going.
Lighthouse Therapy (05:52.365)
Yeah, yeah, those kids, they’re, kids are kids are kids. I don’t care what time you grew up in, whatever, know, however society looks at kids, there is developmentally things that kids just go through and they’re just a joy. Kids are a joy. If you allow them to be a joy, they are an absolute joy. Yeah, yeah, it’s what makes us educators and makes us, I think it’s what brings us back.
Alex Moore (06:12.984)
Absolutely.
Lighthouse Therapy (06:19.634)
One of the hardest things for me, and I’ve said this on the show before, was giving up seeing kids because, you know, I, I don’t know, did you experience that when you went from being a math teacher into administration? Was that a, maybe not so much, I don’t know. How was it for you?
Alex Moore (06:34.126)
I’ve always had the mindset that our job is a service job in education and I’m here to serve the students. So part of the decision making and going from the classroom into admin was I can touch more lives that way.
Lighthouse Therapy (06:39.286)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Lighthouse Therapy (06:49.122)
More lives, yeah, 1,000%.
Alex Moore (06:52.794)
And I’ll admit early on in my admin career, I wasn’t very good at it because there’s all these new things you’re learning and there’s all these fires you’re trying to put out. The last three or four years, I’ve really been able to get back to focusing on being with the kids. And I’m starting to see now that the younger you start, the better the relationships are built. And then they don’t want to let you down and they want you proud of them. So then a little less disciplinary issues.
Lighthouse Therapy (06:57.23)
Yeah.
Lighthouse Therapy (07:13.484)
Mm-hmm. Right. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, absolutely. So tell me how has your philosophy as a superintendent, and you’re the leader, I mean, you’re the one who’s captaining that ship there. So how has your leadership philosophy grown over the years and how do you manage? Because I know budgets are tight and with a small school district, you probably have even more budget constraints than someone else. So how do you do?
How do you manage all of that?
Alex Moore (07:52.56)
keeping people first.
Lighthouse Therapy (07:54.306)
Mm-hmm.
Alex Moore (07:57.905)
From day one when I started, I knew that I never wanted to have to let somebody go because we couldn’t financially afford it. So I’m very conservative with my spending. I treat it like it’s my own home. I think the fact that I grew up literally three minutes from here and my house is three minutes from here, I treat it like my own home. So that helps with that. I think I got a little off. Sorry.
Lighthouse Therapy (08:04.675)
Mm-hmm.
Lighthouse Therapy (08:15.64)
Mm-hmm.
Lighthouse Therapy (08:23.254)
No, you’re fine. You’re totally fine. You’re totally fine. So what about, so when you talk about leadership, what does, what’s your leadership philosophy? How do you, how do you manage the school? I mean, cause you’re in charge of the teachers, the everything, you know, all of the, all of the support staff, everything. did, so where did, how did that grow in you?
Alex Moore (08:29.872)
Yes.
Alex Moore (08:38.064)
Yes.
Alex Moore (08:48.646)
Honestly, my background at church, I’ve been raised with the idea of servant leadership. So, um, I’ve been known to wipe tables with the custodians when custodians were out sick during COVID, I’d clean toilets. You know, there’s, there’s not a job that I, I can’t do. Um, and I, try to, I preach and we live by here family first. And I know some, some places you’ll go, they’ll say family first, but we mean it here.
Lighthouse Therapy (08:54.679)
Mm-hmm.
Alex Moore (09:19.974)
And I treat the kids like family. I try to treat staff like family, but sometimes that’s good and sometimes that’s bad.
Lighthouse Therapy (09:28.222)
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, yeah, yeah. It’s good though. It’s interesting that you say family first because that’s something that we strongly believe, you know, and at Lighthouse is, you know, if your family has an issue, go take care of them. You know, you have to take care. I always tell people, you know, you think about the day that you were born, think about your tombstone, right?
They put on the date, the year you were born, they put a little dash, and then they put the year or the date that you die, right? And in that little dash, nobody says, gosh, I wish I’d worked more. So, yeah, so take care of your family, take care of your kids, take care of your elderly parents or whoever needs you because the work will be there when you get back.
Alex Moore (10:00.059)
Yeah.
Alex Moore (10:04.558)
No.
Lighthouse Therapy (10:17.898)
it will be there, because it doesn’t stop in education. It doesn’t stop. And it certainly doesn’t stop in what we do, you know, in this industry at all. kids are, there’s always more kids. There’s always more to be done. And yeah, so I love that for you guys. And I’m sure your staff appreciates that.
Alex Moore (10:40.095)
The majority.
Lighthouse Therapy (10:41.358)
There’s always somebody isn’t there? There’s always somebody. So what is your biggest challenge? mean it sounds like you really got it going. know finance probably, but what are your biggest challenges?
Alex Moore (10:45.125)
Yes.
Alex Moore (10:53.63)
finances are obviously Illinois is not a wealthy state nor run very fiscally conservative. So, that’s going to be a challenge here in the next probably three to five years. my biggest challenge right now and, my principal is leaving. So she’s been my right-hand person for the last six years. And, so we’re going to do the grow your own route.
Lighthouse Therapy (11:12.602)
I’m sorry.
Lighthouse Therapy (11:16.354)
Mm-hmm.
Alex Moore (11:21.262)
to try to keep the culture where it’s at. And for me, that’s a giant challenge because I have such close relationships with so many people in this building that I don’t want to let anybody down. But I also want to make sure that we make the best decision for the kids in the school and our staff.
Lighthouse Therapy (11:21.58)
Mmm. Mm-hmm.
Lighthouse Therapy (11:33.622)
Right, yeah.
Lighthouse Therapy (11:38.453)
Mm-hmm. So how do you, I’m curious about that, because you have one building, right? You said you have one building and you’re the superintendent, but you have a principal. How do you differentiate the work that you do versus, I mean, obviously you did because you have them both, but how did you differentiate what you were doing versus what she was doing?
Alex Moore (11:45.38)
Yes.
Alex Moore (12:00.326)
So she takes on the discipline. I take on all the finance. She handles teacher evaluations. And she’s the first line for personnel issues. ultimately, if anything escalates, it comes to me. A lot of the curriculum and instruction, we do that together. And really…
Lighthouse Therapy (12:04.268)
Okay.
Lighthouse Therapy (12:20.109)
Mm-hmm.
Alex Moore (12:26.704)
We’re in contact frequently throughout the day. So our offices right across the hall from each other and a lot of things we just share. it’s just depending on who has the bigger load, we’ll pick up for the other person.
Lighthouse Therapy (12:29.475)
Yeah.
Lighthouse Therapy (12:39.566)
That’s nice, that’s nice. When you have that kind of a partnership where you can help and not have to just be the only one at the top dealing with it, that’s really good. Yeah, you were the only one. Yeah, were you the principal and the superintendent? Yeah, that’s a lot of hats. That’s a lot of hats.
Alex Moore (12:47.002)
Yes.
That’s how I started my career. I was the only one. And that was tough.
Alex Moore (12:57.658)
Yes.
Alex Moore (13:01.446)
you’re not able to do anything well when you’re wearing so many hats. So now we’ve been able to differentiate and we can make some positive changes.
Lighthouse Therapy (13:05.184)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Lighthouse Therapy (13:13.942)
Yeah. So when do you have to start that whole process of finding somebody?
Alex Moore (13:18.308)
So that process has already begun. It’s currently posted internally. As of this recording, we haven’t announced to the public she’s leaving. So.
Lighthouse Therapy (13:20.717)
Has it?
Lighthouse Therapy (13:29.294)
Well, it’ll be six weeks before this goes out. So you’ll be, it’s March 5th right now. So March 5th, 2026. So you probably won’t even see this until, or people won’t hear this until mid May, I wanna say. No, mid April, mid April.
Alex Moore (13:32.784)
That’s perfect.
Alex Moore (13:45.511)
That’s all good. She’s a, she, they’re formally accepting her as the principal at the new district on the 18th. So we’re going to let everyone know on the 19th. We plan by the time this is out, we will have already gone through the process and already selected someone. So.
Lighthouse Therapy (13:53.747)
gotcha.
Lighthouse Therapy (14:01.13)
Awesome, yeah. Well, certainly let our team know, because then we can post something as well to say, hey, they found somebody. If you watch this, they found somebody and so and so has been hired. That’s always good. So yeah. So what about the kids? You’ve been doing this for 30 years. Tell me a little bit about, has your philosophy or has how, society keeps changing. We’re just.
Alex Moore (14:10.297)
Okay.
Lighthouse Therapy (14:27.5)
Every time you turn around, know your teacher said you felt like she stepped back 30 years, but it’s moving fast. And then how we educate kids and the philosophies and how we do things. What have you seen in your career?
Alex Moore (14:43.462)
Technology’s been bad. That’s the biggest thing I’ve noticed. Students don’t learn the same way whenever they’re on a device all day long. And so I feel like COVID especially helped push that shift towards technology. And we’re starting to find that if we pull that technology away, our students actually perform better and better understand the content.
Lighthouse Therapy (14:45.453)
Mmm.
Alex Moore (15:08.582)
So I think that kind of goes against the trend and that’s probably going to be a little bit of a challenge as we move forward. There’s a lot of different opinions on that.
Lighthouse Therapy (15:17.216)
Mm-hmm. Yeah, I think they’re, mean, my opinion is a balance. You have to find a balance. And if you don’t find a balance, it’ll balance itself one way or the other. You know, it’s just gonna be, and you have to partner with parents too for that. Cause it’s easy to take the three-year-old that’s being loud in the supermarket and hand them a tablet so that they’ll get absorbed in the game and they’ll be quiet for you.
Alex Moore (15:46.725)
Yes, it is.
Lighthouse Therapy (15:46.863)
But yeah, it’s, and I, you know, my kids are 28, 26 and 23. So I didn’t have to, I didn’t have that. I mean, we were dealing with cell phones when they were in middle school, high school, right? And my son will tell you, he’s like, my youngest is 23 and he got his phone by default because everybody else had, you know, when like, we waited until our kids were driving before our first two, before we gave them a phone.
Alex Moore (16:11.142)
Okay.
Lighthouse Therapy (16:12.938)
And then, but we had a, how we got rid of the landline cause it was cheaper to have a cell phone that just kind of floated around the house instead of having a landline where we live. And then when the second one got a phone, well, then we had this phone that no one was using while it became my youngest. And he’ll tell you, he’s like, I use my phone too much, mom. And I was like, I know. And now you’re in the military and they’re gonna, they’re gonna beat some of that out of you. He’s going, he’s going into the 26th of March.
Alex Moore (16:31.824)
Wow.
Alex Moore (16:37.435)
Yeah.
Lighthouse Therapy (16:42.446)
He does his basic training and he’s got seven and a half weeks. No phone, no phone whatsoever. And no contact, the only contact and he has a very serious girlfriend and he’s like, it’s gonna be hard. And I was like, the art of writing letters is not a bad thing, right? So he’s like, I’m starting to get a little nervous. He’s like, I’m excited about it, but it makes me nervous. I said, that’s okay, it’s a good thing.
Alex Moore (16:47.846)
Wow.
Lighthouse Therapy (17:10.99)
And he’s like, and it’ll help me reset my clock too, because I think that that’s also something that happens with these kids. They get on their devices and they lose all sense of time. They just get so sucked into whatever it is that they’re doing. And then all of a sudden three hours has gone by and the hour that I was gonna do and now two hours for homework, I don’t even have those, they’re gone, right? Yeah, yeah, that’s a tough thing.
Alex Moore (17:20.858)
They do.
Alex Moore (17:32.827)
Yeah. It was. And it’s amazing how kids don’t know how to communicate nowadays.
will have an indoor recess due to poor weather and they just want to sit and play games. They don’t want to actually on their computers. They don’t want to actually talk. So we recently had a rewards trip to one of the local park districts and there were no devices and the kids had two hours just to play in a giant gym and hear the excitement and it was nice. It was nice.
Lighthouse Therapy (18:04.78)
Yeah, yeah, I’ve had school, I’ve talked to school leaders who have now in Texas, they’ve banned devices in schools. And I think there’s other states that have done that. I can’t tell you which ones, but, and there’s a lot of controversy even over that. But one of the things that I’ve heard, especially for the high school kids is you take the devices, I talked to somebody yesterday and they put them in these pouches with a metallic,
or a magnetic thing and the kids have even learned how to get the magnet off. They like are buying great mags. It’s like an open, it’s like take it out of the school. You’ve got to get it away from their hands. And it’s like, and I, I, I, I agree. I think it’s like something. And, but anyway, the point I was trying to make when I taught, when I’ve talked to other leaders who have literally banned devices, phones and tablets and that, and the like,
Alex Moore (18:35.788)
Ha
Lighthouse Therapy (19:01.646)
except for in the school, the things that they’re doing in the school for whatever supporting there. But all of a sudden, the lunchtime went from being quiet to all of a sudden the kids are talking and it’s loud and they’re interacting. And it’s that whole art of communication that is coming back because communication is so much more. And this is a soapbox of mine as well as an SOP, know, communication isn’t just
Alex Moore (19:24.602)
Yes.
Lighthouse Therapy (19:31.011)
the words on a screen. And they need that, they need that interaction, they need that ability to have that conversation and not be upset by what somebody wrote to them on a post or that somebody didn’t like their post or whatever, you know, it’s like, it’s tragic some of the stuff that I’ve heard from kids. yeah. So tell me where should people, well, no, let’s do that. Let me ask you this question.
So if you could fix, and maybe it’s gonna be cell phones, I don’t know. If you could fix, it can’t be money by the way, but if you could fix one thing in your job, in your world as a superintendent, if you could just fix one thing, never have to deal with it again. God just says, this is gone, we fixed it. You never have to deal with it again, Alex. What would that, oops, hit my microphone. What would that one thing be?
Just one thing.
Alex Moore (20:31.896)
If I could fix one thing, it’s freezing up on me just a little bit. If I could fix one thing and just never have to…
Lighthouse Therapy (20:33.518)
okay.
Lighthouse Therapy (20:39.83)
and never have to never have to hear about it, never have to worry about it, never have to deal with it again. And related to your job as a superintendent right now, what would that one thing be?
Alex Moore (20:50.726)
standardized tests.
Lighthouse Therapy (20:52.398)
yeah.
Alex Moore (20:54.992)
The amount of time and effort that’s put into standardized tests and what we get for the return is not worth it. It shouldn’t be high stakes. Education should be about helping students to grow to be the best individual they can be. And we’re all different. We’re all unique. And we have different talents. And to try to make cookie cutter kids just does not work in our society.
Lighthouse Therapy (21:01.452)
Mm-hmm.
No, I hear you.
Mm-hmm.
Lighthouse Therapy (21:23.854)
I agree with you so much. I was talking to somebody in Georgia today about that, that you’re getting, you’re taking a standardized test, you’re getting one score and you are judging my students and their ability to do math or literacy or whatever based on one test score. And then you’re also putting all the special education students in there in that test score, the ones that have challenges and then, and then expecting to compare me to another country.
who you know, they carve all of that out. They don’t even consider that, you know? And yet I’m judged as a school and as a teacher and as a superintendent based on that one score, that one moment of time. And you and I both know if that child had a bad day, no matter how much you’ve prepared them, no matter how much they have learned the skills that you have drilled into them so they could take that test score, it can go right out the window.
Alex Moore (21:55.128)
yeah.
Alex Moore (22:22.66)
Yep. Yeah, it’s a… I feel like it’s the biggest joke in education, standardized testing.
Lighthouse Therapy (22:30.17)
Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah, that and how we paid schools. I don’t like that either. There’s a problem with that too. But boy, we don’t have time for that one. But there’s, and that’s, mean, that’s what Brighter than the Other is all about. We need people to understand that you cannot look at a standardized test, which is what social media and what the big, you know, the media companies and the media in this country does is they go out, the mainstream media.
Alex Moore (22:35.226)
No. Yep.
Lighthouse Therapy (22:56.788)
looks at that one test score, looks at the data that they’ve gotten and judges all of us in education on those scores and on, it’s such a false measure of what’s happening.
Alex Moore (23:12.386)
It is, and I know as a parent myself, and I know from the parents that I deal with in our community, at the end of the day, I want to know that when my kid comes to school, I want to know that they’re being taught, yes, but I mostly want to know that they’re being loved, that they’re being taught how to be respectful, and how to be contributing members of our society. I don’t care how they do on a test. Ultimately, at the end of the day, that test says nothing about who they are as an individual.
Lighthouse Therapy (23:28.174)
Mm-hmm.
Lighthouse Therapy (23:33.294)
Mm-hmm.
Lighthouse Therapy (23:39.982)
100%, 100%, so well said. Alex, so great. So great to talk to you. Tell people where they would go to find more information about Montmorency.
Alex Moore (23:52.666)
Montmorency’s website is www.mgs145.net. We also have a Facebook page, and so we can be found there as well.
Lighthouse Therapy (24:03.378)
Awesome. Well, Alex, I love the fact that you’ve been there so long. You obviously love your community and love these kids. it just reminds me of home. So thank you for your time. I appreciate the fact that you took this time to be on brighter together with me.
Alex Moore (24:20.688)
Well, thank you, Janet. It’s been a joy.
Lighthouse Therapy (24:22.913)
Awesome. All right.
