CC#6: Mr. Chris Rinehart - Plainville Elementary School

***Note: There is an audio *hum* beginning just after the first minute and ending right at 10 minutes (AC unit)***

Mr. Chris Rinehart, principal of Plainville Elementary School, shares about his path to the chair, spirit day dilemmas, and Plainville's successful district operated daycare system that is now 3 years in operation. He explains how the community rallied around the concept and how it has benefitted USD 270. 

Pictures and a post of "The Nest" in Plainville

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• 00:00     Introduction and Homecoming Spirit
• 02:47     Chris Rinehart's Journey to Administration
• 09:05     Navigating COVID as a New Principal
• 12:13     The Need for District-Operated Daycare
• 20:00     Building a Community Solution: The Daycare Initiative
• 30:07     Involving High School Students in Early Childhood Education
• 35:55     Celebrating the Community and Staff of Plainville

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FULL TRANSCRIPT (approximate)

Rick Sola (00:02.414) Welcome to Cool Coffee. We are on here today with Mr. Chris Reinhart from Plainville Elementary School, USD 270, home of the Cardinals. Chris, welcome.

Chris Rinehart (00:15.306) Yeah, thank you very much, but I'm thankful to be here and perceive the opportunity,

Rick Sola (00:20.59) Well, I appreciate you reaching out and being willing to do this. I still feel like we're very new in this and I was just sharing with you. Certainly I am learning a lot. I am not a professional podcaster, but we're getting through this, but been a lot of fun. And I'm excited to talk about what you had brought up earlier in a communication we had as far as a district operated daycare, but we'll get to that here in just a little bit. We are sitting here recording

on September 17th. Chris, what's got you feeling really good right now at this point in the year?

Chris Rinehart (00:59.346) well, I tell you what, so today or this week is homecoming week for Plainville. So we've got all the Spirit Week, of course, is kicked off.

enjoying that or even though our our elementary building of course doesn't get involved in all things homecoming but it's always fun just to give the elementary kids the opportunity to do the fun things throughout the week, dress up. It worked out today where today was also fall picture day and somebody was smart and thinking they made spirit spirit dress up day was dress up day so we we all looked good today we're in our ties we had several boys walking around in bow ties and looking good looking spiffy and and everything.

So tomorrow is, I had to look, tomorrow is PJ Day. So I'm excited, I'm looking forward to PJ Day.

Rick Sola (01:47.18) great. We a