It is hard to believe we are already at the point to say, "Happy Spring Break!". It has been so wonderful to have our students in our classrooms. I hope that you have been enjoying our updates and pictures.

When we return from Spring Break, we will be back to our regular weekly schedule. I know that it can be confusing with our campus having multiple levels and different schedules, so if you are ever in doubt about your student's schedule, please reach out to us. The next time we will have schedules look a little different will be the week of April 26th, so you can be assured that until then your student will attend like we were prior to this last week. When we get closer to the week of April 26th, I will include the details and what will change for that week due to having no school Friday because of secondary conferences.

I hope that you all have a restful spring break and we cannot wait to see you on March 29th!

Karen Mitchell

Principal

StepUP

In the 7up classroom, students decorated cupcakes to celebrate all the hard work and progress they've made in school over the last term. They each got to talk about ways in which they've grown as a student, and then took turns complimenting other student's cupcake creations.

Tina Payne Bryson

Dr. Tina Payne Bryson is the author of Bottom Line for Baby and co-author with Dan Siegel of The Power Of Showing Up and The Yes Brain, as well as two New York Times bestsellers, The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline.

Tina is a psychotherapist and the Founder and Executive Director of The Center for Connection, a multidisciplinary clinical practice, and of The Play Strong Institute, a center devoted to the study, research, and practice of play therapy through a neurodevelopment lens. A graduate of Baylor University, she earned her LCSW and Ph.D. from the University of Southern California, where her research explored attachment science, child rearing theory, and the emerging field of interpersonal neurobiology.

Tina’s professional life now focuses on taking research and theory from various fields of science, and offering it in a way that’s clear, realistic, humorous, and immediately helpful. As she puts it, “For parents, clinicians, and teachers, learning about how kids’ (and their own) brains work is surprisingly practical, informing how they approach discipline, how they help kids deal with everyday struggles, and ultimately how they connect with the children they care about.”