Greetings from Julie Craven

Dear RAUC Families,

We look forward to seeing you at Back to School Night this Thursday, September 29 from 6 - 8PM. We will start with pasta and salad in the cafeteria. Please mark your calendars!

We want to make our school community stronger. Please help us create RAUC Core Values by completing a very short parent/guardian survey (5-10 minutes!). We need the voices of our families! Take the Survey >> 

http://tinyurl.com/RAUCCoreValues

I will close by sharing something I overheard as I greeted families and students in front of school. In general, mornings are my favorite time of day. I get to exchange good mornings with lots of smiling folks and I get to see our community in action: parents and guardians hugging their students goodbye, students of all ages eagerly greeting their friends, and middle schoolers reaching out to hold the door for others who need help. Last week I was watched as a father hugged his son and said to him: “Remember your job--listen, learn, lead.” Apparently that message has been repeated every day since kindergarten. That interchange left me thinking about how, in some ways, that is what school is all about, supporting students in listening, learning, and leading. I also thought about those are three actions I can always get better at. What nice reflection to start my day!

Best,

Julie Craven 

Family Contact Books
Connect with other families! Sign up and customize 
your entry in your school's directory/family contact book. Deadline is October 5th. Learn more >>

Learning Previews – Specials 
Hear more details about what's going on in our classrooms at RAUC! Read the Specials Learning Previews >>

RAUC Core Values: What are they? How can families help create them?
We want to identify the key ideas we all believe will keep our school a caring community where everyone can get a great education. In other words, we want to identify RAUC’s Core Values. We believe that having core values we all care about makes us feel safer in the community because we know what it stands for. Feeling safe empowers all of us to learn, take risks, and grow together. We want staff, students, and families to help choose these values together because then we share responsibility in staying true to them as individuals and as a community. Each group--staff, students, and families, will come up with their ideas for core values. Then representatives from each group will come together to create RAUC's final core values. Read more >>

Back to School Night
Thursday, September 29 | 6 - 8PM
Please join us for Back to School Night, when we gather as a community that works together to support all our students. We hope to see all of you there! Child care will be available--please help us plan by letting Linette Maloney know if you would like child care by phone (617.349.4060) or email her.

Goals for the Evening: Build relationships and sense of community Strengthen school-family partnership by hearing from families What they need/want from the school Their hopes and dreams for their students. Make sure families leave the evening with a concrete way to support their student’s learning. View the Schedule >>

English Language Arts (ELA) Curriculum News from Jan Tingle, district ELA Curriculum Coordinator
We are excited to share with you information about a new curriculum that will be implemented this year in ELA classes in grades 6-8. In 2014, English Language Arts entered the CPS Curriculum Review Cycle. A design team composed of teachers and coaches worked together over the course of the last two years and, in the spring of 2016, recommended a curriculum that was designed by EL Education.
Read more >>

Getting a Message to Your Student
RAUC is happy to help you get a message to your student if plans change during the day. Please note that we cannot guarantee that we can deliver the message in time. Schools are busy places and we have to attend to urgent matters as they arise. Note that 2PM to the end of the day is our busiest time. Messages sent before then are most like to be delivered in time. In general we suggest the following:

• As much as possible, make plans with your student before your student leaves in the morning.
• If plans change, call the school as early as possible. We will do our best to get the message to your student.
• Leave a message/text on your student’s phone that they will see when they get their phones from the locker at the end of the day. 

What's Happening Outside of CPS?
Made with Code @Google Cambridge: 
A Program for Middle School-Aged Girls
October 4 | 4 - 6PM
Learn more >>

Girl Scouts Of Eastern Massachusetts
Register online at www.Hergirlscouts.org
Call at 844.306.GSEM (4736) 

FREE Bike Workshops!
The City of Cambridge is proud to offer free bicycle education workshops. Upcoming workshops are on September 29, October 5, 17, and 23. Learn more >>

FREE Fall Cambridge Wrestling Clinics
Begin on October 1st and run until November 19th. 
Learn more >>

City Wide Middle School Activities Club
Free Scary Movie Night at Moses Youth Center
Grades: 6th - 8th
When: Friday, October 7 | 6:30-9:30PM?
Where: Moses Youth Center, 243 Harvard Street
Deadline for registration is Wednesday October 5th. Register at your local youth center or call Patricia Bradshaw at 617.498.1289. 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Community Open House and 150th Anniversary
Saturday, October 8 | 12Noon - 4PM
Free Admission
Event details >>

Science Club for Girls Sisterhood
8th Graders! Are you interested and STEM and want to be a leader? Join the Science Club for Girls to be a Junior Mentor 
Visit: http://www.scienceclubforgirls.org
Call: 617.391.0361

Learn to Skate or Play Ice Hockey
Check out these Cambridge programs >>

Cambridge Historic Society presents Housing for All
A 3-part symposium about the past, present, and future of affordable housing in Cambridge. Learn more >>

Affordable Housing Opportunities in Cambridge Information Sessions
Attend an upcoming information session to learn about the City’s rental and homeownership programs. Learn more >>

Cambridge Community Learning Center Offers
English Classes for Parents
Learn more >>

Cantare Choir for Middle School Singers
A Division of Boston City Singers 
Tuesdays | 4:30-6:30PM | St. John's Church
Directed by Joshua DeWitte 
Contact [email protected] if interested.

TTT Mentor Program
Saturday program for grades 4 - 7 children interested in STEM and eager to learn. Learn more >>

Simoni Skating Rink Learn to Skate Program
Click here to download a one-time free skating pass.