Category: Principal’s Message

In an effort to provide information about plans for reopening for in-person learning, I offered to respond to questions submitted by a group of parents representing active PTA members.  Responding to individual, specific questions is very difficult at this time Read More …

It is impossible to listen to the news, read the newspaper, or chat with neighbors or friends without having the topic of school reopening be front and center.  Many of us have spent hours watching panels of experts weigh in Read More …

Tomorrow we will kick off Black History Month with our  Black Lives Matter at School commemorative event.  During tomorrow’s morning meeting (10:00-10:30), teachers will show a short video put together by our Kensington PTA with support from our AAPAC (African Read More …

Last week, a group of us met on Zoom for the first Principal’s Chat of 2021.  After I gave a short recap of what’s been going on around the school community, I opened the conversation up for questions or concerns.  Read More …

A friend of mine wrote, in a holiday letter a few years ago,  that one of the advantages of growing older is that you can experience things over and over again as if for the first time!  In addition, research Read More …

Tonight is Parent Education Night! Please join us at 7:00 PM on Zoom to hear John Zabala, school psychologist and Dewight Johnson present: “Positive Parenting Techniques for Distance Learning and Beyond” Principal’s Message Happy New Year!  I look forward to seeing you this Read More …

It has become an annual tradition to write a version of this letter at this time each year.  It still feels pertinent. so I have updated it and hope you will once again find it thought-provoking. As 2020 winds down Read More …

As we are all working and learning at a distance this year, communication is critical to keeping our community together.  I think we do a pretty good job of getting information disseminated within our school family — our Thursday Packet, Read More …

Next week you will receive your child’s report card in the mail.  There will be no grades or other marks as we have typically had in previous years.  Instead, there will be a section that will explain the standards that Read More …

I’ve been thinking back to the day after the election in November, 2016.  I was personally distressed by the results but, as many of us did that day, I put my own feelings aside as I drove to work that Read More …