So, I’m going through my email this morning, and up pops the Rosary High School newsletter — which I subscribed to in part because Vicki Danklefsen is the editor, and she’s really good.

As you’d expect, the newsletter is very well organized, leading with a message from Sister Ann and following with all those good beginning-of-school announcements. But it also strikes me is that, in some ways — and please excuse the vernacular — this ain’t your mother’s Catholic School.

I’m referring, first off, to the technology.

“Be sure to download your textbooks to your iPad before the first day of school. Step-by-step instructions can be found at www.rosaryhs.com under Academics —> Book Store.”

If I’m reading that right, at a time when a lot of schools are still married to expensive, heavy hardcovers, Rosary is downloading to iPads. Interesting.

Then, just to see what other folks are doing with social media, I click on YouTube and find the video you see here: the Rosary choir (and they are really good) singing, “Taylor, The Latte Boy”.

Which is, frankly, hilarious. And delightful. And again, something I might not have expected, based on the Catholic-school stereotypes I’ve seen and heard in personal anecdotes, movies and comedy routines.

The YouTube video also a small, glorious, example of the great stuff that takes place in schools throughout Kane County, at all times of the year. So I thought I’d share it here as a nice way to start your Thursday.

Since part of our mission at Kane County Connects is to support education, I would also like to invite educators, students, parents, administrators and all friends of education to share your “great stuff” with us.

If you’ve got a YouTube video from a school event, a batch of photos or just a good tale to tell about the great stuff that’s happening in your school, send an email (with links and/or attachments) to ricknagel23@gmail.com. And we’ll post as many as we can, throughout the school year.

As Sister Ann says in the newsletter (a bit more traditionally),”We are looking forward to seeing all of you and are praying that it will be the best year yet!”