Hi families!
We have made it to the last week of the 25-26 School Year! In this season of giving and gratitude, I wanted to share my deepest gratitude that you choose KIPP Paseo Prep as your school. We strive for the best possible educational experience and next week, we will wrap up our first semester. I know there have been several changes that you and your child have had to adjust to like teacher vacancies, new leaders, higher expectations on student behaviors, parents being required to shadow their students when they are not meeting behavior expectations, a stricter dress code, only being able to use credit cards/apple pay (no cash) at events, high accountability on attendance in order to earn credit, a strict law about cell phones, etc. But while I know change is hard, I believe that we can all do hard things. And these changes have been for the better!
We hold our students, families, teachers, and leaders to high expectations to provide a quality educational experience. It means we don’t take the easy way out. We work through challenges and we hold a high bar of expectations because our students, families, teachers, and leaders deserve that. This year, we have started our first ever school store, where our kids are able to purchase things like Paseo shirts & sweaters, and our famous Merit Field Lesson, our Middle Schoolers have an additional 70 minutes in their schedule to help them practice reading and math skills to get them on grade level, and when they complete those practices, they can earn their favorite reward: T-Bird Time! We always strive to bring joy to our school and increase belonging, and next week is no different, but learning is always at the core of what we do. Here are some important key points:
- AP courses (high school only) will have their Interim Assessments on Tuesday & Wednesday. These are mandatory, so plan to attend.
- Students who were absent this week must complete their make- up exams on Monday & Tuesday
- Thursday will mark our FIRST DANCE OF THIS SCHOOL YEAR (High school) and T-Bird Time + Holiday Parties (Middle School).
- Students must turn in their classwork by 12/16 so that teachers can grade it and have gradebooks updated by 12/18 before we leave on break.
- We have spirit week all week!
- Attendance is still required, so please don’t short change your child’s education for an early holiday break!
We will be back with our last newsletter on 12/19, but I hope everyone has a great weekend and rests up to kick off our last week of school next week!
Best,
MG
