Greetings Parents, Students, and Community members,

The 2017-18 school year is complete. Rio staff were excited to serve our students, families, and community as we co-created “world class” learning opportunities for all our students. This year we continued to develop our schools and classes such that they guide students in becoming excellent communicators, collaborators, creative and critical thinkers and doers as well as caring citizens, community members, and learners. Our focus aimed at developing 21st century practices built on a foundation of literacy. Along these lines, we doubled our efforts to assist all our students to develop literacy levels to meet the very high expectations of California standards. Our continued focus on guiding students to become interested and competent readers is at the core of these literacy efforts.

We look forward to engaging learners in 2018-19 school year as well as our many summer programs.

John Puglisi, Ph.D.

Superintendent – Rio School District – Educating Learners to Thrive in the 21st Century