Gabrielle
I am a parent to children being raised in the district.
For now — I found it hard to obtain information on how to sign my kids up for UPK — and when. I’d like to address that.
I am here to be an ear for other parents in the district, or local area, so we can better not only our children’s education — but overall learning environment.
Jessica Lantigua
I am a mother who has children in a different school district, but, I am interested in what I can learn from RASi to implement in my own district.
I am concerned with improving students’ social outcomes by creating a diverse community. I am also interested in improving curriculum for students with different educational needs.
I am hopeful for RASi to grow and expand. Community solidarity, inclusion, and empowerment will create the change we need to better our children’s future.
An Anonymous Dad
I go to Stotzky Park a lot. I am a dad and we attend a different school district, but I’m interested in helping so that maybe the program will get used in our school district.
Area schools should work on: Curriculum, Diversity and more options for life preparations. Skills, such as: basic money and how money works; logic; and decision making.
I hope that the school can fix as many issues that there are, so that we can make all schools on Long Island better.
Jonelle
I am a mom with two children who attend Riverhead Central School Distric.
Some of my areas of concern are:
-Diverse teaching styles
-Better parent-teacher communication styles
(Perhaps utilizing the Remind App)
-Resources should be easily available to families
For example, school services and school resources offered to parents
at hospital when new babies are born. So, a new family would get information about how UPK might be available through their school district, and/or the contact for the Welcome/Registration Department at the school district.
I hope that the schools will provide a better and more diverse community where families/students can learn/grow with one another.
A mom, educator, and reformer
Kimberly Wilder
Coordinator of Riverhead Area School Info/RASi
President of Wilderside, Ltd.
Kimberly Wilder has always had a complicated relationship with schools. She went to a great public school, though had difficulties with some of the social factors and with the levels of competition in academics and other programs. In addition, she realized as an adult that her school had been greatly lacking in diversity.
Kimberly has had several turns at making the world a better place, including devoted teaching and nurturing of children as a: music teacher, summer camp staffer, nanny, auntie, and late-life mom. Kimberly also had a college-age reckoning with her childhood school’s board of education and was once part of a school sponsored community panel where she published an underground newsletter.
Kimberly has also been a Teacher, Substitute Teacher, and 1-on-1 Aide in public schools, traditional private schools, a special education preschool, and an alternative, child-centered school.
She has published a poetry book about education, had her poems published in education newsletters, and had newspapers publish her education-focused letters to the editor.
In addition to all of that, Kimberly worked as office-support at an educational advocacy center, where she absorbed lessons and strategies from the professionals around her…and, learned to care fiercely for fairness in schooling.
Kimberly has also been a community organizer and a third party candidate for political office.
Kimberly hopes to use RASi to empower the caring and inspiring parents around her to demand the best from our educational system.
Kimberly and her family have a company called “Wilderside. Ltd.” She is using that structure as a starting point for Riverhead Area School Info/RASi. Our group of parents and concerned citizens is working out ways to financially support our work.
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