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Greetings
Dear RAUC families,
Happy lunar new year! We wish everyone good fortune in this year of the tiger! Please watch the video below or scroll down to read some updates for this week's news:
As always, if you have any questions or comments about the news or anything else, please don’t hesitate to email Family Liaison Julia Ho at [email protected] or phone at 617.352.5781.
Best,
Julie Craven, RAUC Principal
Julia Ho, RAUC Family Liaison
February Learning Previews
Please visit the links below for more information from your student’s teachers about what your students will be learning this month:
Click here for a printable version. In these learning previews, you can also find some conversation starters and questions you can ask your students about what they’re learning.
Semester News
Look out for Report Cards
- Report cards go live this Friday, February 4th, on Aspen.
- We will also be sending every family a paper copy in the mail. Please look out for it!
6th grade families: Art and Drama are each one semester in 6th grade. So if your students have been taking Art, they will switch to Drama; and vice versa. The first day of their new class will be this week–ask them how it went!
Celebrating Black History Month
 February is Black History Month. In this first newsletter of the month, we would like to share our approach to Black History.
At RAUC we are dedicated to teaching, learning, and celebrating Black history throughout the year and in every subject as an integral part of what we value and learn about. That means that Black History isn’t just a one month isolated event. Throughout the year, for example, we read books, stories, and poetry written by Black authors; we study and learn from Black artists, playwrights, and musicians; we learn about contributions in science and math; and we explore the wide scope of people, organizations, and leaders that have fought and continue to fight for racial justice.
In February specifically, through Advisory lessons, we honor and celebrate Black joy, beauty, achievement, resiliency, and the continued striving for social and racial justice. Our specific goals for the month will be to:
- Continue to increase comfort/ability to talk about race and racial justice
- Build critical thinking skills and awareness of current issues
- Continue to build understanding that there is no one Black experience in the U.S.
- Determine steps we can take as individuals and as a school to stay engaged in working towards equity
- Raise awareness and build understanding of what Black Lives Matter is and is not
Finally, and importantly, we aspire to be an anti-racist school. We acknowledge that we have work to do as a school, and as individual staff members, in our own and collective journey to becoming anti-racist. We are not perfect, but we are committed. We actively and continuously reflect and refine our thinking, practices and curriculum to better serve our students and to more fully live our intentions.
If you would like to explore some of the resources that inspire us for Black History Month and Black Lives Matters, here are some links: blacklivesmatteratschool.com; blacklivesmatter.com; facinghistory.org; Teaching Tolerance. We also invite you to share with us any resources you may know of!
Listening Conferences start next week!
- Families: Please reach out to your student’s advisor or to Julia Ho if you have not signed up yet for a listening conference or are not sure how to sign up.
- Reminder that the advisor will ask you to complete a short survey at the end of the the conference. We really want to hear how we are doing as a welcoming and inclusive learning community. Thanks in advance for completing the survey!
Cambridge Vaccine & Booster Clinics
 The city of Cambridge is now offering free COVID-19 vaccine and booster clinics
for eligible people who live or work in Cambridge on the G3 Level of the CambridgeSide mall parking garage on:
- Thursday, February 3 | 11AM-3PM
- Monday, February 7 | 4-8PM
- Thursday, February 10 | 11AM-3PM
- Monday, February 14 | 4-8PM
- Thursday, February 17 | 11AM - 3PM
Learn more here >>
Join FRAUC Block Party planning committee
FRAUC is planning a school-wide afternoon of fun for students in the spring. RAUC parents, caregivers, students and staff are invited to join the planning committee! Please reach out to [email protected] or [email protected] if you have ideas for this event, or can join the planning committee! Later on, there will be opportunities for parents and caregivers to help out at the event itself.
Register now for Courageous Conversations: Social Identity Workshop, Part 2
February 10 | 7-8:30PM | Zoom
For families, staff and the community of Baldwin, Peabody and RAUC and other interested community members!
Join North Cambridge Courageous Conversations for the second part of our workshop on social identities (e.g., the many overlapping identities we all hold and how they impact our experience in the world). Learn more >>
Register for the Zoom link. Register here >>
Questions? Contact North Cambridge Courageous Conversation.
CPS Lunch & Breakfast Menu - February Week 1
Click here for the full menu >>
 Healthy Snack of the Week
Pizza Stackers! Whole grain crackers with pasta sauce shredded cheese and sliced cherry tomatoes on top.
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