This week, our nation honors the contribution of teachers, school nurses, and school nutrition employees: May 4-8 marks Teacher Appreciation Week and School Nutrition Employee Week, and May 6 is School Nurse Day!

During this annual recognition week, please join me in celebrating our school nurses and teachers, who every day make fit our learning environment to extraordinary purpose. Thank you for making our county more welcoming, more safe, more uplifting, and more rewarding for those we serve. Read the Superintendent’s message of thanks »

This week also honors school nutrition employees across the nation for their daily work to provide healthy meals and a positive welcome to children dining in our school cafeterias. Many children receive a hot meal daily and breakfast because of the school cafeteria program. For some, the food we provide may even be their only meals on some days.

Our school lunch employees offer smiles to our learners, check in on how they are doing in school, listen to their “family and friends” stories, and help teach about good nutrition in a variety of ways, all in support of our lifelong-learner competency to live a healthy and fit lifestyle. Please join me in thanking our school nutrition employees for their dedicated service in our schools to our young people.