Celebrating Mrs. Ciocca for Teacher Appreciation Week

Teachers are a trusted academic resource for students and families. We’re excited to celebrate some exemplary educators who are regularly and meaningfully engaging families to support their children’s learning. Happy Teacher Appreciation week!

Centering support for Multilingual Students and Families

Mrs. Ciocca, a First Grade Math, Science, and Social Studies Teacher, was nominated by her co-teacher Mrs. Atkins. Mrs. Ciocca is easy to spotlight, she is an amazing educator and co-teacher who is an advocate for Multilingual Learners. Mrs. Atkins highlighted that Rosie is always seeking out the best ways to support students based on their language needs and wants to make sure they have the supports they need to be successful and comfortable in the classroom.

Mrs. Ciocca takes special care to work closely with Mrs. Atkins when communicating with families. They use the FASTalk, parent-teacher communication software, to preview messages and field parent requests. Mrs. Ciocca is great at making sure that all resources and correspondence with families is being delivered in their home language to ensure that the information is accessible for all families. This type of collaborative support is a phenomenal example of warmly inviting families into the learning community.

We’d like to extend a special thank you to teachers!

Thank you for all of the visible, and oftentimes invisible, work that you do on a daily basis to engage students and build relationships with families. Your efforts make the difference for students each and every day!