Super's Update

Picture a Venn diagram with three circles. Those circles are education, safety and taxes.

For 10 years, the Rockford School Board and RPS 205 administration has lowered the tax rate and increased the investment in our staff and our buildings.

Labor shortages are not limited to bus drivers. Rockford Public Schools has employed strategies to attract and retain workers, and they promise to pay benefits for the community as well as RPS 205.

What happens in classrooms on any given day in Rockford Public Schools is inspiring. When that inspired work happens during a pandemic, I am even more grateful for our district’s teachers.

Subscription boxes aren’t just for food and clothes any more. Instructional coaches at two elementary schools in RPS 205 have applied the subscription box concept to teaching strategies.

A bilingual teacher at Washington Elementary School is still making his former fourth grade teacher proud. And she is still saying it with chocolate.

Erik Manriquez remembers the day in fourth grade when his teacher’s belief in him became apparent. He was new to the class and, more importantly, new to learning in English.

The experience of mentoring third grade students at Ellis Elementary School convinced Jaszmin Minneyfield that she made the right choice to pursue teaching as a career.