Published February 16, 2021 at 10:45 AM PST
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It's all hands on deck as schools continue to return to in-person instruction, slowly, across the region.
One school district in Shasta County is pressing non-teachers into service to augment the educational offerings for students. The
Cascade Union Elementary School District in Anderson recently started a reading program called "CHIRP," for Cascade Hero Inspired Reading Program.
It gives books to students, and provides Zoom reading sessions led by district employees, a couple of evenings a week. The employees who volunteer are from classified staff: bus drivers, janitors, and other non-classroom occupations.
Superintendent Jason Provence and district librarian Rita Reiley talk to us about the workings of CHIRP, and its creation.