This school year began walking on floors with no tile from the over summer NAI renovations. At this point in the year, the staff works hard to keep our new floors polished and clean making it the best place they possibly can. The renovations included new structural differences, more of our school colors spread throughout the building, and the North Allegheny logo in the front of the building when students walk through the main doors. But they don’t plan on stopping there.

NAEye recently interviewed Dr.Hyland, Principal of NAI and his intentions with the renovations this summer, was to make the building more aesthetically pleasing. Just recently, they added couches right outside the main office and patio. Along with these comfy hang out spots, he purchased two ottomans in hopes to “make it more modern and less ‘50s school classroom’”Dr.Hyland said. Hyland’s main goal is to make students enjoy coming to school instead of dreading it.

One of the spreading renovations that almost every classroom consist of right now are the tv screens with with wheels. The reasoning behind them was to eliminate the idea of “the front of the classroom” and enable teachers to be able to walk around more throughout the room. All of the classrooms also have two seat desks so students have more opportunity to work together and communicate better.

In addition to classroom furniture upgrades, Dr Hyland ordered “charging stations” for the couches in tiger hall. These stations will consist of all types of phone cables with the NA logo spread over top and painted with school colors. Hopefully this will allow students to lounge for a couple of minutes in between classes, during lunch or study hall and boost their phone battery percentages.

Dr. Hyland also  has come up with numerous ideas for the outside courtyard, one of which is to decorate it with lights, tables, and some other fun features.

The idea is to make it a hang out place for students especially in the fall and spring time. Dr. Hyland also has an urge to take out the awkward “tombstone” looking thing that has no real meaning to it. “You have to spend 7-8 hours in this building almost everyday, why wouldn’t we want you to like it here?” Dr.Hyland says. He then later tells us about plausible plans or ideas that we cannot yet publish for the student public yet because they aren’t confirmed.

Dr. Hyland and the rest of the staff intend to keep bringing in these new features for students to enjoy and look forward to advance their education.