Redding School District

Partnership Educators,

The opening lines of our United States Constitution help us to understand our part in the current situation.  

Our current situation is tugging at those words and begging to see how we the People hold together.   I am here to give certification and I attest to the fact that those words of our constitution are alive and well within our partnership.  That the promotion of the general Welfare of our citizens is surely taking place in our community.  I have been witness to and have heard of the total dedication to what it means to be a citizen who embraces the idea of service to others. 

• Kitchen staff who leave their homes and prepare meals for families in need of support; custodians being flexible to come in on modified schedules to ensure the cleanliness of our buildings; administrators doing whatever it takes to help all the varieties of activities across the school; instructional assistants coming in to hand out work or help with meals.  These are just a few of the sacrifices made by the heroes among us.  

• Third-grade teacher is recording and sharing videos with students on chapter reads for the joint classroom reading activity. Parents are sending back pictures of their children listening to the chapter with huge smiles on their faces.

• Fifth-grade teacher had 100% of his students joining the Google Classroom this week and 13 of them have made every session because, as they put it.  "They like the daily connection."

• Kindergarten teacher started "Surprise Shares" on Fridays.  Her students can share something from home but they have to first tell what sound this item starts with and what it rhymes with. Then the students can guess before they share.   Let me try; It starts with a "P" and rhymes with Daisy.  Think about it, I will give it to you later.

• First-grade teacher who did a close reading activity with her students using the Tide Pools story and then showed up at the next meet with a background of tide pools behind her.  The kids were freaked out. 

• A First-grade team of teachers who are working together to utilize recorded videos of reading, youtube lessons for sounds, lessons around time all while opening up ClassDojo portfolios for students to share what they are doing at home around the weekly topics.

• Principal holding daily announcements each morning just like they did each day when we were on campus and parents are telling him that it is the reason why their kids get up in the morning.