Dear North Reading School Community,

It's been another very eventful week for us and I appreciate the efforts of everyone in our community. I want to thank all of the doctors, nurses, drivers, food and grocery workers, safety, town administrators and other essential providers in our community for all that they are doing to support us during this challenging time.

I have been continuously impressed with the dedication of our food services team who prepared lunches for our families this week as well as our digital learning team who prepared Chromebooks for those who needed them. I am overwhelmed by the outpouring of creative and inspirational and motivational thoughts that have been shared with me from our school community, including the giving and thoughtfulness of so many individuals. Many have expressed the positive aspects that they are thankful for in these otherwise challenging times. I'm in a group of friends posting daily thoughts of gratitude. It's been a wonderful experience and I highly recommend journaling and capturing the highlights of this experiences with your children.

Following the information we have received this week from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education our teachers and administrators have been hard at work developing a plan to begin to transition in the coming weeks to remote learning opportunities for our students. We appreciate the many comments and suggestions that have come from our parents and staff and we will be working through the weekend and into early next week to thoughtfully develop a plan that meets the needs of all of our learners in North Reading. We thank you for your patience as we develop this model for our students.

Please see the attached letter from our Merrimack Valley Superintendent's Association. This is a joint statement of the unified vision that North Reading shares with our surrounding districts as we all look to take the next steps with remote learning.

Thank you and have a wonderful weekend. I will be in touch next week with many more details about our remote learning plan.

Dr. Daly

File attachments:
MVSA Statement 3-27-20 .pdf