Carolyn Tisdale is 'Really Cool' at Uthoff Valley Elementary School
Tisdale is an out-of-district parent who is making a difference in her daughter's lives and in the lives of her other "Backer Babies."
The following article was written by Peggy Magee for Parent Link, the newsletter published by the Voluntary Interdistrict Choice Corporation. If were possible to clone parent Carolyn Tisdale, school staff and students everywhere would jump at the chance. At Rockwood’s Uthoff Valley Elementary School, where Tisdale has two daughters, the faculty admires her for what teacher Julie Backer describes as, “going way beyond the average expectation of parent involvement.” This past year, Tisdale volunteered regularly in her daughter Trinity’s first grade class and, according to Backer, the kiddos always looked forward to her visits because of her “full out” participation, including working with them in the classroom, eating lunch in the cafeteria …
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