Little Red School House
and Elisabeth Irwin High School

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Letters from LREI@home #4

Margaret Paul

Dear Families,

We’re pretty sure you know this, but in case you haven’t heard it recently, your kids are amazing! With all sincerity, we can’t say enough about all the ways they are showing up for school everyday. They are making it to advisory each morning (albeit with very sleepy faces) and are moving through their school days with ease, as if they have been doing this for years.

And when kids have had tough days, parents have been so great too. You are responsive and supportive when we write and call. We are extremely grateful for your partnership and encouragement.

This week, we want to highlight some of the ways your students are stepping up with creativity and care for our LREI community.

Initiated by a 9th grader, students across all grades have spent their advisory periods this week writing notes to essential workers in our city.

A junior started a “Good News Newsletter” that is being sent to students weekly, and is a collection of news reports of creative, innovative solutions to problems, and reports of ways people are helping and caring for one another.

Upperclassmen are continuing to show up to support science learning for 9th and 10th graders through peer tutoring sessions. Moving to LREI@home has not kept our kids from their commitment to this program.

At lunch, juniors have been organizing activities and games for students --they have created a super fun cross-grade space to hang out together!

And finally, we have more students that ever before on the slate for next year’s Student Government. We are thrilled to see so many students stepping up for these leadership positions.

As we said at the beginning--your kids are amazing! The above notes represent only a few examples of how their resilience, creativity, and care of our community are helping them connect to one another during LREI@home.

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