{"id":207006,"date":"2015-08-06T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=207006"},"modified":"2015-08-06T06:00:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T20:00:09","slug":"mt-carmel-enrollment-increased-73-pct-since-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mt-carmel-enrollment-increased-73-pct-since-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Mt. Carmel enrollment increased 73 pct. since 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_207007\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-207007\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a attid=\"207007\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Mt-Carmel-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Mt-Carmel-pix.jpg\" alt=\"A Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office staff cleans Mt. Carmel School\u2019s field during a recent campus cleanup. (Contributed Photo)\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"size-full wp-image-207007\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-207007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office staff cleans Mt. Carmel School\u2019s field during a recent campus cleanup. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The island&#8217;s sole Catholic educational institution will welcome the new school year this week with a 73-percent increase in student enrollment since 2012, with 434 student registered to attend. Mount Carmel School president Galvin Deleon Guerrero told Saipan Tribune that the school\u2019s student body comprised just 250 students three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe school has succeeded in a number of ways that have demonstrated to our community the rigor of our academic programs, the diversity of our extra-curricular activities, and the commitment of our faculty, staff, and administrators,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Guerrero noted that the recent news of an accreditation term with AdvancED, student achievement, and new initiatives taken by the school\u2019s board is fueled by parents, families, friends, Knights, and AlumKnights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur mission this school year is to deliver high quality education to every student and provide a safe and orderly school,\u201d school principal Frances Taimanao said in an email.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New courses, faculty<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Taimanao said that she is \u201cvery excited to begin this new school year.\u201d In particular, Taimanao explained that the private school will be launching Achieve 3000, a daily nonfiction reading and writing instruction, for all of its students.<\/p>\n<p>The school also plans to vigorously expand its e-textbook initiative. MCS will offer music, film, journalism, gardening, Zumba fitness, and principles of interpersonal communication skills to its list of elective courses for the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother addition is the Sports Recreation Room, a weightlifting room and sports skills development,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>AlumKnigts John Blanco, John Del Rosario, Fr. James Balajadia, and Galvin Deleon Guerrero will continue to work at MCS while Jackie Che, 2005 AlumKnight, and Kevin Bautista, 2011 AlumKnight, serve as adjunct instructors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited that our AlumKnights continue to come back and give back to their alma mater,\u201d Guerrero said.<\/p>\n<p>Taimanao said the school aims to equip its students with 21st century skills as well. \u201cWe are expected to\u2026integrate the use of technology in lessons, and demonstrate different learning styles. MCS is fortunate to have such talented and committed faculty and staff,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>The Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office recently conducted a campus cleanup for MCS\u2019 opening.<\/p>\n<p>The MCS parent orientation and open house are scheduled to take place on Aug. 12 at 5pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The island&#8217;s sole Catholic educational institution will welcome the new school year this week with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":207007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6360,1737,1181,1111],"class_list":["post-207006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-frances-taimanao","tag-galvin-deleon-guerrero","tag-mcs","tag-mount-carmel-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}