Welcome Back!
Welcome to the 2015-16 school year! This year the first day of school
for Grades 1 - 5 is Tuesday, September 8, and the first day for
Kindergarten (JK and K) is Thursday, September 10.
This year our staff will continue to focus our work on developing
engagement, growth mindsets, and agency in our students and with our
families. I am looking forward to working with our teachers and our
families on developing a “Baldwin Way” of consistently approaching
topics such as arrival and dismissal procedures, homework, and parent
communication, to name a few. Our Site Council continues to be a place where parent engagement both occurs and is a topic, and I invite you to consider joining. Please contact Susan Tiersch, our Family Liaison if you are interested in participating. Our Site Council would be the venue for parents to be able to share their input in helping us identify “The Baldwin Way”.
Teachers and staff will continue to be a part of a Lesson Study Cycle,
and we are looking forward to developing our teaching skills by working
together, which we hope will be a model for how we approach our work
with our students. We will continue to implement Student Led Parent
Conferences in November/December and March/April, with a focus on the
feedback we received from parents through our survey last year.
I’d like to welcome the following summer hires to our staff.
Music – Adam Epstein (K-2) and Lauren Ingram (3-4). Lauren is a new hire
this summer, coming to us from the John Winthrop School in Boston.
Prior to that she taught in Newton and also in Beijing. You may remember
we hired Adam last May. He joins us from Somerville Public Schools.
Structured Academics Teacher - Crista Graves. Crista comes to us from
the Kindergarten Autism Spectrum Program at the FMA, prior to that she
has worked as a special education teacher at the elementary and middle
school grades. She has clinical experience as a behavioral consultant
and specialist at Boston Medical Center.
Nurse – TBA
School Psychologist – Megan Martin. Megan joins us this year while
Christine Moloy pursues her PhD. Megan is an experienced school
psychologist in Cambridge and comes to us from the Cambridge Street
Upper School most recently, and Cambridgeport School prior to that.
Principal Intern – Rachel Harris – I am happy to welcome our Harvard
School of Education Principal Intern Rachel Harris to our school this
year. Rachel has taught seventh grade science for several years in
Spring Branch, TX. She is looking forward to broadening her horizons
outside of middle school and in this new country of Cambridge, MA.
I look forward to seeing everyone on the first day! Enjoy the rest of your summer!
Nick Leonardos
Summer Reading...Did you reach the moon yet?
It's
not too late to complete your summer reading challenge. Read 20 minutes
per day to help reach the goal of half a million minutes of reading per
grade level! If minutes = miles, we'll read to the moon and back this
summer! Remember to keep track of your minutes and books on your summer
reading log. Learn more >>
Superintendent Search Process
The School Committee invites and
welcomes community involvement and engagement, and is offering a number
of ways in which Cambridge Public Schools stakeholders can have an
important voice in the Superintendent of Schools search and selection
process, including an online survey, a community-based Superintendent
Search Interview Committee, focus groups, community forums, and more.
Learn more >>
Did You Know?
You can view several calendars at
once on the district website-- two different schools, district-wide
events, even programs or libraries. Look for the instructions at the top
of the page. >>
School Bus Information
Bus letters will be
mailed out very soon. If you rode the bus last year, or are pretty sure
your child will qualify, you can also look up the current list of bus
routes and bus stops here.
Questions? Concerns?
Check out the New & Improved For
Families section of the CPS website. Email feedback, locate resources,
read family engagement updates, and more! >>
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