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Superintendent praises staff response during tornado incident, urges summer learning
Summary
The superintendent commended staff and bus drivers for rapid response during a tornado-related event, described communications efforts while sheltering, and urged enrollment in summer enrichment or daily 20-minute reading to prevent learning loss.
The superintendent told the Raytown Quality School District board on June 9 that staff and families responded quickly during a recent tornado-related event and thanked employees across transportation, facilities, operations, schools and communications for protecting students.
The superintendent said the district practiced drills but the real event required rapid, on-the-spot responses: administrators opened school doors and sheltered parents and students, bus drivers took cover while still safeguarding students, and staff used every available communications channel to notify families. "We used all of our communications tools, whether it was a text message, Facebook posting, social media posting, phone calls," the superintendent said, adding that staff worked to make sure families outside Raytown understood where students were located.
Turning to learning, the superintendent urged families to enroll students in summer enrichment or summer school and recommended "20 minutes a day" of reading to help prevent the "summer slide." The superintendent concluded the report by thanking staff, families and students for a successful year and noting items 8.1–8.5 on the agenda were informational.
No formal action accompanied the report; it was presented as the superintendent's regular update to the board.
