Friday Letter - November 3, 2023

This week's MDUSD Friday Letter highlights:

• 7 Latina staff members including counselors emphasize influential Latinx educators in Día de los Muertos ofrenda (altar);
• District news including November is Native American Heritage Month, Board discusses arts plan, District reaches Tentative Agreement with teachers' union, and upcoming events;
• School news featuring Shore Acres Elementary families create Día de los Muertos diorama ofrendas and some staff and students dress as "Catrinas";
• Student news including Concord HS students participate in the school's 13th annual "Scare Away Hunger" campaign, Monte Gardens students trick or treat at the District Office, and a Robert Shearer Preschool student is in the news;
• Staff spotlights on Sequoia Elementary's "bewitching" Halloween costumes and Oak Grove MS Filipino Heritage Month staff party;
• And more!

You can read it here.