Dear SCCS Families

I had to stop myself from trying to sum up this year. Sitting down to write a closing message, as I do every year, my thoughts are overwhelmed with a desire to make sense of all the work, challenge, inspiration, resilience and loss we’ve endured alone and together.

And, although I cannot adequately sum up this year, I want to thank you for the patience you were able to find, and remind you that running out of it happened to all of us. I’m so proud of what our community accomplished, and as always, I wish we could have done more.

I think school is a kind of window—between lives and living rooms, into and out of places we couldn’t see otherwise. In our work as educators, we get to know people like and unlike you, and joys and hardships are often shared with us that can’t be seen from the sidewalk.