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able to communicate everything he needed to.” She enrolled her second child, who needed no support, in Innovative as well—and she got her special education credential. This is her sixth year teaching TK at Loma Vista. Harris had seen the exterior of the new building but only photos of the interior last Thursday. She’s held the view that “it’s not just a shiny new box”; echoing the administrators, she expressed excitement about revisiting methodologies. “I really see this as an opportunity to leave behind the reasons why we can’t do things and hold on to what we definitely take with us, the dedication to the profession—and then reach higher,” she said. “So, if the logistics are not reasons … let’s keep going. And, then, what’s next?” Ω
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Loma Vista will host a grand opening reception tuesday (March 26) at 4 p.m. at the new facility, 1560 Manzanita Ave., neighboring the current campus. Visit lomavista.chicousd.org and innovativepreschool.org for more information about the schools.
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Since Loma Vista also houses school psychologists, speech therapists and other districtwide specialists, “this is a central location,” Sauberan said. Families from all schools come for initial assessments. (Therapy provided by California Children’s Services will move to Little Chico Creek Elementary.) The co-location of Loma Vista and Innovative, he continued, “benefits both of us, because they have a place to be, and have their staff and students exposed to kids with special needs, and our kids with special needs have exposure to those typical preschool things happening.” Harris has witnessed this from multiple vantage points. She first visited as a prospective parent whose preschooler didn’t communicate beyond a single sound. A high school teacher who’d taken a leave with the birth of her second child, she “felt it like a whoosh when I first walked into the building that this was a special place, that teachers were working at a high level to meet kids with a variety of needs.” When her first-born finished at Innovative, she said, “he left being
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