Gratefulness and Hope This Holiday Season

Dear Parents/Guardians and Staff Members:

I want to take a moment to express my gratitude this holiday season to all of our students, parents, and staff members for incredible work during this most extraordinary of years. The District has continued to provide targeted support for small stable cohorts of students to ensure our most vulnerable populations can access distance learning with the assistance of partners such as the YMCA. We have more than 1,000 students participating in the Distance Learning Support Program and the Special Education Support Program on school campuses. I have heard from so many parents who expressed gratitude for these programs! The real “thank you” goes to all the staff members who made this possible. This includes the 96 instructional aides who have worked on-site with our special needs population. This includes the YMCA staff for ensuring general education students from our families in need can access distance learning support. And I want to publicly thank and appreciate our Facilities and Child Nutrition Services staff for ensuring our campuses are cleaned and sanitized and our students are fed, respectively.

Let me reassure you that District staff, from principals to classroom teachers to facilities workers, gardeners, transportation, and front office personnel—are all working together to ensure that teaching and learning can resume safely in person once COVID-19 rates improve. Our District has been busily preparing for in-person instruction in a “hybrid” instructional format—meaning a limited number of students return to school in cohorts that alternate with other students who are participating in distance learning. Parents will have the option to keep their child(ren) in distance learning for the remainder of 2020-21 school year. Click here to learn more about our campus preparations.

Until then, we need every resident in Chula Vista to help ensure the Four Pillars are followed: Physical Distancing, Hygiene and Disinfecting, Health Screening and Monitoring, and use of Personal Protective Equipment—wear a mask, please. There is also a fifth element to our safety efforts. We call it CVESD Safe! and it consists of our testing and tracing program to detect and mitigate the spread of COVID-19. For this holiday season, my fondest hope is you will each stay positive, stay safe, and stay #ApartTogether. If you can do this, we will see you and your children soon!

Warm regards,

Francisco Escobedo, Ed.D.
Superintendent

Ready for Students’ Return

Learn how our District has been busily preparing for in-person instruction in a “hybrid” instructional format. We are “Ready for Students’ Return.”

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Using simple art supplies and a large dose of creativity, students in Ms. Westfall’s art class at Hilltop Drive Elementary expressed their genuine appreciation and admiration for everyone who is working so hard to keep people healthy during the pandemic.