Dear Rye Neck Families,
September is synonymous with the return to the routines of the school year, but few routines are as exciting as the first few days back to school. Like our students with fresh haircuts and new back to school outfits, our buildings are polished, painted and ready to meet everyone. Faculty and staff spent most of last week at school getting everything else prepared and the first day of school was a great start. Of course, it helped that we all had ice cream on Day 1.
Strategic Plan
Our Board of Education will soon have the opportunity to formally adopt our new Mission Statement, the product of our Rye Neck Strategic Planning process put into motion last year:
Rye Neck is a close-knit school community that values local and global voices, and is committed to providing a learning journey that inspires an adaptive mindset where learners thrive academically and personally.
Our three interrelated Strategic Planning goals will help us achieve that mission. At all levels we seek to
Equip all learners to approach problems by asking questions, exploring solutions, taking action, and reflecting on outcomes
Build transformative environments that foster empathy, compassion, and connection to the world. Create learning experiences that instill a sense of purpose inside and outside of the classroom
Design systems for our professional learning community to develop practices and expertise that lead to transformational experiences for themselves and their students
Above is a version of the winning “Head, Heart, and Hands” graphic submitted by senior Abby Ramos for our student logo contest. We will be using variations of the new image to help graphically represent and enact the ideas of each goal.
To help create time for our staff to learn and share the skills associated with our plan, we proposed a Professional Learning calendar last spring that featured student “release time” from school. Based on community feedback and a survey in June, we made two major changes. First, we eliminated all delayed openings and reduced our release time to six early dismissals over the course of the year for our 2024-25 Professional Learning Calendar. Next, we partnered with the Rye Y to provide aftercare on those early release days for grades K-5. Please use these links for Daniel Warren After Care Registration and FE Bellows After Care Registration if you would like to take advantage of this service. If you have any questions, please contact your building principal, or our Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction, Corinne Ryan, at cryan@ryeneck.org.
Rye Neck Schools
Email: info@ryeneck.org
Website: www.ryeneck.org
Phone: 914-777-5200
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