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Love, Kindness, Acceptance, and Hope

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MESSAGES OF LOVE, KINDNESS, ACCEPTANCE, AND HOPE Students had a blast showing acts of kindness last week during the Great Kindness Challenge! Check out these heartfelt messages of love, kindness, acceptance, and hope. 

Happy Lunar New Year, Year of the Rabbit

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HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR! 2023 is the Year of the Water Rabbit. If you were born in the year of the rabbit ( 2023, 2011, 1999, 1987, 1975, 1963, 1951, 1939, 1927...  )  you are vigilant, witty, quick-witted, and ingenious. Click here to learn more facts about the Lunar New Year, also known as the Chinese New Year.

In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“ If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way .”   ~Martin Luther King, Jr. Dear Community Families, In this year's  Proclamation on Martin Luther King, Jr. , President Biden spoke about Dr. King's 'Beloved Community'.  Dr. King believed that a Beloved Community, one in which everyone is cared for, absent of poverty, hunger, and hate, could be achieved. While I know that it is something that can be achieved, the problems in our world today seem insurmountable. On tv and the internet everyday, we see people all around the world suffering from poverty, hunger, and hate. What can we do to contribute to the great work of building a Beloved Community? Of course, we have to start where we are, in our own small Community, then join with another community, and another and another until our world is one united Beloved Community.  Maybe this is what Dr. King meant when he said, " If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way. "

Happy New Year!

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  Happy New Year, Community Families, Teachers, and Staff, I hope you've enjoyed the winter break. Why does it seem to go by so fast??  I'm happy to say that my break was fun and relaxing!! My daughter, Symone, and her kitty, Stewart, visited from Seattle for TWO WEEKS! We baked cookies at our annual pre-Christmas cookie bake, binged on Netflix movies (White Lotus and The Glass Onion are must-sees) and I was even inspired to bake a persimmon cheesecake after watching Season 13 of The Great British Bake-Off. It was delicious! On New Years Day, Symone and I had Swedish massages at Burke Williams. I think we'll have to make that an annual holiday tradition!  Now that we're thoroughly rejuvenated, the second semester of school begins! The first half of our school year has gone off without a hitch, so I'm confident that the second half will be just as wonderful. Looking at our school calendar, January seems to be a pretty light month with not many school-wide activities