Mohr celebrates 2020 California Distinguished School award

Mohr Elementary School celebrated their recent designation as a 2020 California Distinguished School with a special ceremony to commemorate the occasion last week.

Hundreds of students, staff and community members filed into the school’s multipurpose room for the morning event on March 4, which included a rambunctious music-filled rally and congratulatory words from Mohr principal Julie Berglin.

“The heart of the work we do at Mohr is to improve how students feel about themselves as learners,” Berglin said. “There is an instrumental shift in a student’s mindset when learning moves from a passive experience to one filled with choice and voice.”

The California Distinguished School Program recognizes the top 324 schools — over 6,000 in California — that show the best academic achievement. The scores show that “students are making more gains in learning and testing standards set by the state Board of Education,” according to Berglin.

“Our school believes that the best staff are those who are motivated to improve their teaching to help student learning,” she said. “Students, you observe your teachers as they work hard inside and outside the classroom, and then you do the same, resulting in your own motivation for teaching.”

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