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RPS Chief of Curriculum Heidi Dettman says the big difference this year isn’t just more offerings but placing them at community center sites across Rockford.
“That takes our RPS teachers and it puts them right in the neighborhood of where their students live. And they can interact with them in a completely different way,” she said.
Dettman says it also let them align their curriculum with the community centers’ learning programs.
Anisha Grimmett is the executive director of Alignment Rockford. She says that the pandemic is going to affect students long after this school year. They want to make sure new student engagement programs like this don’t fade away.