Five schools and four school districts in Contra Costa County were named winners of the
newly created 2022 California Pivotal Practice (CAPP) Award Program by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond.
The award program is being utilized by California in 2022 in place of the California Distinguished Schools Program. It celebrates schools and districts that implemented an innovative practice during the 2020–21 school year, when California required schools to offer distance learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rocketship Delta Prep, Antioch Unified School District; Rocketship Futuro Academy, Mt. Diablo Unified School District; Diablo Vista Middle School and Quail Run Elementary School, San Ramon Valley Unified School District; and West County Mandarin School, West Contra Costa Unified School District were the five county schools to receive the award.
Antioch Unified, John Swett Unified, Mt. Diablo Unified and San Ramon Valley Unified school districts also received the award.
The schools and districts are being honored for their demonstrated efforts to support students in four target areas: Student Engagement, Distribution of Technology, Nutrition Services and Social Emotional Well-Being of Students.
CAPP Award winners completed an online application highlighting an innovative practice in one of the four target areas that was implemented during the 2020–21 school year.