CREC Annual Report

COPY EXCERPT: Excerpt from the Annual Report Welcome Letter:
Copywriting by Zoë Stetson

One of the more exciting changes at CREC during the 2016-2017 school year was the revision of our mission, vision, and core values. Given the growth that CREC has experienced since its inception as a grassroots organization more than 50 years ago, we felt the need to refine our mission, vision, and core values to better reflect our purpose and objectives. These powerful phrases are meant to keep us focused on providing our families and communities with the best possible education.

When reading this year’s annual report, I hope you see the many examples of how the CREC team strives towards, and is embracing, these goals. Our core values— expect excellence, demand equity, act with courage, and embrace collaboration— are foundational to many of the programs and services provided last year, from the social justice audits developed by CREC Institute of Teaching and Learning in order to address racial conflicts in schools, to training in deaf education that CREC Soundbridge provided for teachers from Kuwait.

We expected excellence in our magnet schools. Students created complex online apps to help Syrian refugees in Connecticut and learned about space by studying meteorites and rocks from the moon. CREC Construction Services completed a new facility for CREC Museum Academy and is now embracing collaboration, working with the town of Stratford and the city of West Haven on high school renovation projects. Our staff and team of volunteers demanded equity during our Back to School Block Party that equipped 1,200 students from dozens of communities with the supplies they needed to ensure a successful start to their school year.

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