Welcome Back!
All work has a rhythm, a predictable beat beneath the surface of the daily ins and outs of doing what must be done. After a while, the rhythm is internalized and only rises to consciousness once it stops. For me, the rhythm of school went unnoticed until I left teaching. In August of my first year of graduate school, I was walking to campus when I noticed children getting on a bus. It seemed like an out-of-place scene in August, but I was in Virginia, and schools follow a slightly different schedule below the Mason-Dixon line. Even if the buses were out of sync with my experience, their appearance provoked an uneasy feeling that I was supposed to be somewhere, that my short time in graduate school had come to an end, and that there was a classroom of kindergartners out there missing their teacher.
All throughout that first year, traces of my teaching life would catch me off guard. I’d look out the window during a seminar, see the fall colors, and find myself worrying about getting enough parent volunteers for our Autumn Feast. Or I’d catch myself singing or whistling songs that I used to sing with my students at particular times of year. Usually I was in the car, but sometimes in public, which always earned me a few confused stares. And then there was the worry. Teachers worry about their students… a lot. When I was teaching, I could walk down the hall to check on my former students, but I couldn’t keep tabs on them from six hundred miles away. It took me years to stop worrying about how they were doing or whether I had prepared them sufficiently for the years ahead. Read more >>
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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