Superintendent's Message
July 2021
Dear Alta Vista Learning Community,
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for visiting our website, and we are very proud of the progress we are making here at Alta Vista Elementary. We are fortunate to have a tremendously talented and experienced instructional staff delivering an appropriate standards-based education to our students. The skills of our instructional staff grew expeditiously during the 2020-2021 Pandemic with the rigorous training and implementation of instructional strategies related to distance learning. When the students leave Alta Vista and promote to high school, they possess the requisite skills to be successful in their secondary and postsecondary experience online or in-person, thus demonstrating their independence, their love of learning, their sense of community, and how to respectfully interact with others. It is a great place to learn, and we are proud of our community, our history, our traditions, and we strive to offer a small school experience that reflects the diverse needs of our community.
The State of California is constantly changing our course, and with COVID-19 and its variants, we are always reviewing and implementing the latest measures for student, staff and community safety. With our improvement process, we are looking at many new expectations to address the learning needs of the whole student: social, behavioral, and academic. A major focus is to include our community members as active participants in our future planning process. In this spirit, we invite you to participate in our stakeholder activities, which include the School Site Council, the LCAP Advisory Committee, and our Safety Committee to name a few. We will continue to offer our traditional parent activities that are more popular than ever and of course we invite you to visit at any time.
These are exciting times for Alta Vista. There are many exciting improvements forthcoming. We are always seeking community input on our funding and our plans to improve. We welcome you to join us as we continue forward! Please feel free to contact me at 559-782-5700 at any time.
Sincerely yours,
Brandon Chiapa
Superintendent