Titan Families,

This week we are putting the spotlight on our cafeteria crew. Valorie Ramirez, Ashley Aguilar, and Evelyn Manzano are our staff who take care of our cafeteria for our Titans. We extend a warm thanks to them and hope you will spend this week getting to know them more and find ways to show gratitude for their service to our community.

Have you heard? Our feeder zone is holding its first annual Four Points Middle School and Canyon Ridge Middle School Football Elementary School Night! Come on out on October 25th to Monroe Stadium. A few minutes before the game, at about 5:45 PM, each school will be highlighted and introduced. Tickets go on sale at 8 AM that morning. All elementary students wearing school spirit gear with a grown up gets into the game free, so only buy tickets for the other members of your family. The QR code purchase tickets is on the flyer in this newsletter. We look forward to seeing our elementary schools come together so we can celebrate!

I want to end expressing my gratitude for everyone's service to our campus. Thanks for volunteering countless hours to our run club, cafeteria, literacy partners network, PTA leadership and service projects, campus and district committees, classroom teachers, and much more. Thanks for coming out to our first Spirit Night at Chick-fil-A last week! Our PTA reported that our campus raised $291.83. Woohoo! We will have another spirit night in December, so please be on the look out for information about it in the upcoming weeks. How you all serve with your time and financial means does not go unnoticed. It is seen daily in our Titan Community, and again, I just want to say, "Thanks!".

Let's make it lovely week of learning and serving in our community! Please feel free to reach out if you wish to connect, collaborate, and/or celebrate.

Take care,

Dr. Amy Sharp

Proud RPE Principal

Car Rider Arrival

• Please remember that the street in front of our school becomes ONE WAY during arrival (7:05 - 8:00am) & dismissal times (2:20-3:00pm).
• During this time the traffic in front of our school on Sitio Del Rio Blvd should flow one way ONLY--traffic entering from River Place Blvd. and driving towards FM 2222.
• If parking in the parking lot in front of our school for drop off or pick up during these times, you should follow the flow of traffic, making a LEFT turn as you exit the parking area.

Car Rider Dismissal

In order to speed up the line and distance students more effectively, we have a 2-lane pick-up system.

• Kinder - 2nd (and families who have a K-2 student and a 3-5 student)- Enter car rider via River Place Blvd & stay in the left lane. These children will be picked up under the awning like they currently are. If they have a sibling in an older grade, the older sibling will also get picked up here. After pick up, they will turn left like always, and exit out the back of the school. A teacher will be posted to help you merge.
• 3rd - 5th- Enter car rider via Sitio Del Rio stay & stay in the right lane. Your students will be picked up on the field side of the blacktop (passenger side of the car). You will then continue straight and exit out the back of the school.
• Teachers will be placed along the route directing and helping merge as well.

If you have any questions, please call our offices. Thank you!

The ballot for this November’s elections will include two Leander ISD propositions.

Proposition A is an Attendance Credit Election. Due to an increase in local property values, the state is removing about $31.2 million from our district through a mechanism that is often called Robin Hood. If LISD voters approve Proposition A, the district will make its required recapture payment to the state. If Proposition A fails, the state could remove dollars from our schools by forcing some taxpayers to start paying taxes to a different district instead of LISD.

Proposition B is a Voter-Approval Tax Rate Election. By approving Proposition B, voters would ratify the tax rate set by the LISD Board of Trustees and generate an additional $32 million for academics in LISD, including teacher pay and the continuity of programs.

For much more information about these propositions, please visit LeanderISD.org/elections.

We are expecting to have our C2 t-shirts ready to distribute on Thursday, October 26th. For each family who placed an order, those shirts will be delivered to their teacher's classrooms for them to take home. If there is a delay in the printing or a schedule modification parents will be notified. We do not oversee the ordering processes, so if a family is interested in making a late order that has to be directly organized through Big Frog T-shirt Company and is not done by RPE.

What is River Place Run/Read Club:

• A morning walk or jog is a great way to start the day and a healthy habit to form. Encourage your kids by volunteering for this event!
• It is also a great way to see your kids interact with friends in their grade level.
• We need parent support to keep this program going strong. Your words of encouragement as they run laps go a long way to encourage the students.
• Students will either run around the track and earn prizes, OR they may read silently to self in the gym.
• Volunteers and teachers will help set up the tables, help students get their badges, log laps run, motivate kids, give out rewards for laps run, and collect badges and take down tables when Run Club is finished.
• After Run Club, at 7:50, Mr. Grace will pick up the students and take them to the cafeteria. Students who have not had breakfast yet will do so then.

Time: 7:10-7:50

Place: Check in at the front receptionist desk and then head to the MPR (Multi-Purpose Room across from the cafeteria)

Questions: please contact/text Tracey Schalscha at 602-558-0248

YOU MUST BE A REGISTERED LISD VOLUNTEER. Read below this Monday Memo for more info on how to register. Watch for the "Click Here for LISD Volunteer Registration" button.

Run or Read Club Schedule:

(May dates may change due to STAAR testing)