Superintendent Messages
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Community Message about the events at the U.S. Capitol
Here in Sunnyvale, we continue to value the beauty of all of our diversity, including the diversity of our perspectives. Critically, we also value our ability to discuss and share diverse opinions and perspectives with civility.
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December Message: Celebrating our teachers and recognizing the importance of self-care
Our teachers have taught me how important it is to take more time to check in with students and to listen carefully to what they are saying and what they are not saying so we can help them continue their trajectory of social-emotional growth.
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October Gradual Phased Reopening of School Campuses Update
During the weeks leading up to the December vacation, District staff will be developing plans for the potential, gradual, phased reopening of campuses to students for in-person instruction during the month of January.
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September Gradual Phased Reopening of School Campuses Update
We believe a phased, gradual approach is important to maintain the health and safety of our community while continuing to provide the best possible instructional program under the circumstances.
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Welcome to the 2020-2021 School Year
Even in these challenging times there should be no greater center of community, and of optimism, progress and hope than our local public schools.
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July 17 Reopening Update
This week we determined that our health and safety conditions and community needs have evolved and now dictate that we begin the school year with only the Virtual School and Independent Study options for at least the first six weeks of school.
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July 1 Reopening Message
Though my tenure begins in challenging times, my experience with the Sunnyvale community has taught me that we have the resilience, compassion, and creativity to pull together and to emerge stronger and more united than ever, but such an outcome will require us all to move forward as one.
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Farewell Message from Dr. Picard
It has been a genuine pleasure to work alongside you in serving our children. I am grateful to you. I am also grateful for the children themselves, for infusing my work with joy every day.
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Special Message from the Sunnyvale School District
At this moment, we each must decide what we can do – individually and collectively – to drive change…meaningful, deliberate change.
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Superintendent Search Webpage
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December Message: Helping all children become enthusiastic proponents of their own learning journeys
I think being an educator is the best job in the world. We have the rare honor of helping children develop from curious school newcomers to confident, sophisticated learners.
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September Message: The power of story
Children need to know that their stories have value, just as they themselves are innately and immeasurably valuable.
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Retirement Message
It has been an honor and joy to serve this district, students, and families, for all of these many years.
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June Message: Embracing and Celebrating Diversity
Our single greatest asset is the diversity of our student body; when our children join us each day, they bring the world directly to our doorstep, enriching our classrooms and offering an array of perspectives that contribute to every student’s learning.
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March Message: Giving a boost
As educators, we now know that to offer that sameness in opportunity, we must embrace the differences in our students and give that all-important boost to those students in need.
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December Message: Thank you for supporting Measure GG
With your vote for Measure GG, you told our children that they matter — a message that will resonate for decades to come in our community, first in our bright and modern classrooms and ultimately through student voices as they step forward to take their places in the world.
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September Message: Welcome back to a new school year!
This year, we consulted the real experts — the children themselves — to learn what behaviors they especially appreciate from their teachers. No two answers were the same, but there is one message we heard loudly and clearly in every child’s statement: when it comes to working with children, every interaction matters.
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June Message: Sophisticated World Citizens
I will always advocate for our children, yet I know that the greatest gift we can offer them is the ability to advocate for themselves — to shape their own futures in a world of their own design.
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March Message: Measures of a quality school
A quality school is one that not only successfully supports all students with the traditional subjects but also nurtures the whole child and instills all of the traits necessary to be successful in the 21st Century.
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