Lots to Do!

While I was in the building-site trailer for a weekly meeting on Tuesday, I noticed an interesting poster on the wall. It was a timeline graph of the plans for each operation required to build the new school. The months were listed along the x axis. The y axis listed every activity that needed to take place to build the building including masonry, metal work, glass work, plumbing, drilling, etc.

I was astonished to see that, although the months leading up to now have been anything but idle, they were mainly focused on five or six activities only (mainly masonry, concrete, and drilling). The months coming up, however, tackle an amazing orchestration of dozens and dozens of activities going on simultaneously.

The chart was for the building itself, but the principle is true for everything involved with the school. As opening day approaches, we’ll be juggling more and more activities simultaneously. And, like the building construction, as we get more and more balls in the air, we seem to have more and more people to help juggle them. This month is a terrific example of that as our student body becomes more defined and teachers are being hired. What makes this journey so fun is that we get to share it each step of the way.