Nativity Parish School

|||

Facebook

Back

Forward

Pause

Caption

3 FADE

New Principal Announcement

June 16, 2021

Dear Nativity Family, School and Parish Staff,

With the announcement of the retirement of our school principal, David Kearney at the end of the school year, the search for a new principal to lead Nativity Parish School began. The first step was to take this intention to the Lord in prayer. I consulted with our Archdiocesan Superintendent of Schools to begin a search for candidates. I assembled a well-represented team of parishioners, including school parents - past and present, as well as teachers, the superintendent and our parish business manager, to collaborate with me in interviewing prospective candidates and be my counsel in the hiring process. I am so grateful to our team for their love of Nativity Parish and School, their professional insight, their trust in the Lord and discernment in the Holy Spirit, which they brought to the interview process.

God blessed us with three strong candidates to interview and discern. The decision was made to offer the position to Luke Jennison, who accepted our invitation to serve as principal of Nativity Parish School. Luke has served as vice principal of Ascension Catholic School in Overland Park, for the past four years, and was an elementary teacher in the Blue Valley School District for 14 years. Luke comes highly recommended by his principal and pastor at Ascension. We warmly welcome Luke as our new principal and pray God’s abundant blessings upon him as he begins his leadership of our school.

With trust and gratitude for the providence of God,

Fr. Michael Hawken

Pastor
From the Principal:

Hello Nativity community!

I feel so very blessed to be writing this and to introduce myself to you. My name is Luke Jennison and Fr. Mike has offered me the opportunity to join your community and school. In meeting with some of the teachers and parents, it is evident that your faith community and school are thriving and I am humbled to become part of it.

My wife, Nicole, and I both attended Kansas State University. I earned a Bachelor of Science degree in elementary education while there. After college, we married and planted our roots here in Overland Park. I was hired as a third grade teacher in Blue Valley and Nicole began working for Children’s Mercy Hospital as a dietitian after graduate school. During my 15 years of teaching in Blue Valley, I decided to further my education to best build my teaching skills and earned a Master of Arts in Education and a Master of Science in Educational Leadership.

Faith has always been the cornerstone of our family life. Our involvement in various ministries at Ascension throughout the years is one way we have been able to continue to grow in our faith, individually and as a family. As a result, Ascension became more than our church community, in many ways it became like family.

We have been blessed abundantly with five amazing and rambunctious sons. Kiernan, our oldest is a sophomore at St. Thomas Aquinas, followed by Christian who is in 8^th grade, twins, Augustin and Fintan in 6^th grade and our youngest, Cohen, in 3^rd grade, all who attend Ascension Catholic School.

I am so excited for this opportunity and to be a part of this wonderful community. I look forward to serving the Nativity community, getting to know you and for the opportunity to share my passion for our Catholic faith and my love of education. Thank you.

Blessings,

Luke Jennison

Since opening our doors in 1991...

Nativity Parish School has been committed to ensuring that our students succeed in this life and the next by providing a Christ-centered learning environment in which traditions of excellence are instilled and a family community is formed.
Catholic Schools Week 2021
Nativity Designated as an Archdiocese Premiere STREAM School