Newsletter #4 - April 2025
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Kids Say the Truest Things
What makes you feel included?
“If there was a group of fish, and you wanted to join the group of fish, and they said sure, would that be included?”
–LCH Kindergartener
“Well, if people ask me to play a game, or I ask them to play a game and they say, yes of course.”
–PDL 2nd Grader
When you notice someone being left out, what can you do?
“Sit with them, talk to them, play with them.”
–LCH Kindergartener
“I’d join their group, or I’d ask them to join our group.”
–PEC 5th Grader
What does inclusion mean?
“I think inclusion means that you care about someone and you want them to play with you.”
–LCH Kindergartener
“To just include anybody, no matter how they look.”
–PEC 1st Grader
What We’re Reading
about the Department of Education
Student Voice: What losing the Department of Education would mean for special education, by Romila Santra in The Hechinger Report
How Title I Transformed my classroom and students’ lives, by Sundjata Sekou in NEA Today
How dismantling the Department of Education would harm students | Cómo perjudicaría a los estudiantes el desmantelamiento del Departamento de Educación, by Tim Walker in NEA Today
Stay engaged, EUSD,
Talitha Matlin, Parents of EUSD Outreach Committee Member and PDL parent