C&I Connections Newsletter

Dear Tiger Nation,

Thank you for an amazing 2025-2026 school year! We have enjoyed partnering with you through our ongoing professional learning times and communicating via these biweekly newsletters.

Save the date for these upcoming professional learning opportunities:

• Teacher Collaboration - August 5-6, 2026 | 9:00am-3:00pm at Delisle Options Center

• Back to School Tech Time - August 10, 2026 | 10:30am-12:30pm at Delisle Options Center

As you prepare your end of the school year communication to families, please promote our summer reading opportunities. All of the information is provided below & will be posted to the district website this week.

Happy Summer!!

Hello Tiger Nation!

My name is Chris Keating and I will be the Coordinator of Learning beginning with the 2026-27 school year. I come to the Cleveland Heights-University Heights City School District with 25 years of experience in public education. I spent 22 years with the Parma City School District as a classroom teacher, Dean of Students, Assistant Principal, Summer School principal, and Elementary building principal. The past three years I have been an Elementary building principal with the Stow-Munroe Falls City Schools. I am licensed to teach Elementary Education (grades 1-8) and Middle School Math (grades 4-9). I also have my license to serve as Principal for grades K-12 and I just received my license to serve as a School Superintendent in Ohio.

I am excited to join the Curriculum & Instruction team. I have experience serving on curriculum adoption committees and piloting new curriculum materials through my years as a teacher and an administrator. I have also served on curriculum writing teams that have created curriculum maps for multiple subjects and grade-levels. I look forward to working with building leadership teams and building teaching teams to support them with implementing high quality curriculum and instructional practices.

If you have a question or want to reach out, you can contact me at my CH-UH email address - c_keating@chuh.org. I hope you have a relaxing and restful summer break.

The Heights Library Summer Program is open to people of all ages! Register at https://heightslibrary.org/challenge/.Then visit the library to receive a book to own and enter raffles!

Read throughout the summer! Here is our summer reading letter for all students.

Rising Kindergarten through rising 5th graders

• Use this graphic organizer to capture your thinking while reading.

• Here’s a list of titles to consider for students in grades K-2 and students in grades 3-5.

Rising 6th, 7th, and 8th graders

• Check out this list of titles.

Rising 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th graders

• Here is our summer reading letter for all students.

By participating in the Heights Library Summer Program, you are automatically entered into The Superintendent’s Summer Reading Challenge and fulfilling summer reading requirements for every grade level!

We are excited to announce the Superintendent’s Summer Reading Challenge. From June 1st through August 14th, we are inviting students to enter the Heights Library Summer Reading Challenge. When entered in the Reading Challenge, students are participating in the Cleveland Heights-University Heights School summer reading assignment and the Superintendent’s Summer Reading Challenge!

Please see the flyers below for additional information.

As summer approaches, some families may be looking for optional ways to help students keep skills fresh during the break. Both Lexia and Zearn provide opportunities for students to continue practicing and building skills over the summer in a flexible, self-paced way. A Family Letter with Login Directions is linked and can be shared with families.

📖 Lexia

No additional setup is needed for Lexia. Students can continue working on their personalized learning path throughout the summer using the same login information and access they currently use during the school year.

➕ Zearn

For Zearn, we recommend re-assigning students to specific missions. These summer learning recommendations focus on essential math concepts that help build a strong foundation for the upcoming school year.

These missions were selected to reinforce key “big ideas” in their current math and help students build confidence heading into the fall. This Summer Work Tracker is available to help encourage and organize optional summer learning.

Students will continue to have access to their current classes and assignments until approximately August 6, when classes will roll over for the new school year.

Optional summer practice can help students maintain routines, strengthen foundational skills, and build confidence heading into the fall.

Want time to work on aligning your instruction to your curricular tools? Looking to collaborate with your team or explore new resources? Join us for Collaboration Days! Designed to give you time and space to do what matters most to you, with support available when you need it.

• No registration required

• Members of Curriculum & Instruction, Data, Research and Assessment, and a Tech Coach will be on-site to support you

• Voluntary & compensated

If you have not yet participated in the Clarity Cohort and are interested in joining next year, please add your name to the interest form. You only need to do this once.

If you have already been part of the Clarity Cohort (last year or this year), you do not need to add your name here.