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Mendon Center principal highlights culture, SEL and literacy initiatives
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Mendon Center Elementary principal Rich Albano described school-year programs focusing on social-emotional learning, family engagement and early reading practices, citing a welcome-back picnic with more than 1,000 attendees and new classroom routines to support phonics and reading-for-meaning.
Principal Rich Albano told the Pittsford Central School District Board of Education about efforts at Mendon Center Elementary to strengthen school culture, social-emotional routines and early literacy programs during his annual report.
Albano said the building leaned on three guiding mantras this year — “focusing on what's best for kids, supporting our colleagues, and also having fun” — and that staff used those mantras in leadership and student-support meetings. He described…
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