A School Is Only As Strong As
Its Neighborhood.
Eddie & Danielle Othon teach your 2nd and 6th graders at Craycroft Elementary and Summit View. This is their newsletter — and your community's.
The Sunnyside Community Insider
By an educator. For the community. Independent & free. Serving the Craycroft & Summit View neighborhoods of the Sunnyside Unified School District.
A Living Laboratory
Eddie's work spans classroom walls into parks, gardens, crosswalks, and playing fields. Here's where the action is right now.
Working with Pima County Health & Parks to install permanent soccer goals at Summit Park. The Summit View soccer team just won a co-championship with 23 players — Summit FC is next.
Read the story →Advocating with Pima County Transportation for solar-powered flashing crosswalks (RRFBs) connecting Summit View Elementary directly to Summit Park. Kids deserve safe streets.
Read the story →Campus gardens at Craycroft and Summit View are rooted in 4,000 years of Santa Cruz Valley farming history — in partnership with Mission Garden and Native Seeds/SEARCH.
Read the story →A newly planted Ash tree at Summit View — donated by Civano Nursery — serves as a living memorial for a beloved 1st-grade student, woven from a Holocaust education project by 6th graders.
Read the story →State Rep. Consuelo Hernandez visited 2nd-grade Hawks at Craycroft to speak about "The Power of Words" — reinforcing vocabulary skills the kids have worked on all year.
Read the story →New "Walking & Jogging Path" signage is now installed at Summit Park, funded through the CDC REACH Grant in partnership with Christina Flores at Pima County Health.
Read the story →"Every child in our district deserves a rich life, both inside and outside the classroom. Let's build it together."
— Eddie Othon · The Sunnyside Community Insider, Vol. 1 Issue 1Your Neighborhood Needs You
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