School Board Brief - May 15, 2017

The board reviewed Stowe’s and Elmore-Morristown Unified Union’s math and literacy progress monitoring tools. Lamoille South Supervisory Union (LSSU) has recently begun using the STAR assessment, which takes 20 minutes and will be given three times a year, with the flexibility to add screenings for some students. Students progress through the assessments once they have demonstrated proficiency.  These screenings provide data that enables more focused instruction in areas where students haven’t mastered skills and provide ongoing indicators of the extent student learning is on track to meet our goals.  

The board began discussion of the formation of a committee to address our capital improvement needs. The board will solidify plans over the summer.

Emily Rosenbaum was named the Stowe School District board representative to the Regional Advisory Board.

Monday, May 15, 2017

Parent Announcements

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• Garden Work Session Thu. 2:45 - 4:00 - Community Service hours will be awarded. See Mr. Smith or Mr. Grogan to let him know you can help out

• A World of Difference Students will be meeting this Friday the 19th in the art room during active study.

• Memorial Day Poem Wanted: We seek a poem to be read on Friday, May 26th. The poem will be posted on our school's blog and read aloud. The poem theme is "The Meaning of Memorial Day." Please email or give a copy to Ms. Ortiz elisabeth.ortiz@lssuvt.org.

• Annual Remembrance Run 5K: June 11th, 9:30am, at PA.  Registration available here.

• Special Olympics Torch Event: Walk/Run with the torch at SMS during Active Study, Friday, June 2nd.  $20 gets you a t-shirt and allows you accompany the torch around the track.  Turn in money to Mrs. Marshall or the MS Office.

• Fall sports registration is now open! Please register your athlete by July 1, 2017.  Register info here.
  
  

• Yearbook Ordering DEADLINE is May 26th!!! Yearbooks can still be purchased. Orders can be placed online or you can drop off $20 (cash or check made out to Stowe Middle School) to the office.

• Band/Chorus Rehearsal - TUESDAY, 9:50-11:15am, mandatory

• High School Transition Night - Tuesday, the 16th, 6:30pm in the auditorium (for 8th grade parents and students alike!).

• Stowe Bible Camp Registration open: June 19-23, 9am-12pm, Register here.

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• Adventures in Public Art Making HDAC Camp: Maisie and Georgia Schnee, together with artist Kelly Holt, are launching a public art project, in our community to activate interest artists in a response to advancements in global warming.  They are leading a camp at Helen Day Art Center in July. If you are interested, please sign up! Join the team and bring a powerful idea to life to share in our community! Campers will get to work in various media and collaborate on something BIG. The group will create a mural responding to the idea of BELONGING. The sky's the limit! In this camp, we will look at what artists are putting out into the world and share ideas of how we respond to art as we live alongside it. Instructor: Kelly Holt  

• July 10th-14th

• Ages 9-13

• 9:00am-3:00pm

• $275 (member) | $300 (non-member)

• Also, you can sign up to help with this project on Beautification Day!  Stay tuned for more details on Beautification Day activity sign-ups. This group will participate in painting part of the canvas!

• Type 1 Diabetes Presentation: Thursday, May 18th, at UVM, 6:30-8:30pm.  Living well with Diabetes in the Family presentation given by Moira McCarthy Stanford.

• Call for Substitute Teachers: Do you know someone who might like to be a substitute? If so please contact LSSU and get on the sub list (very easy application packet).  We now use an electronic sub system (AESOP), so you can look at and sign up for vacancies from wherever you are at any time of day.

Summer Camps

• *NEW* Stowe Bible Camp Registration open: June 19-23, 9am-12pm, Register here.

• Summer Camps at HDAC: For more information, see their brochure!

• Musical Theater Camps at PA:

• June 19th-24th - Aristocats, ages 6 and up

• June 26th-30th - Pirates of Penzance, 6th grade and up

• Registration information

Visit Stowe Middle School Music website for upcoming events and details.

Community Service Opportunities

• The Friends of the Stowe Free Library Book Sale July 5th thru July 24th. Your hours can be flexible and we will work with your schedule. We need volunteers to get boxes out of the library basement, via an elevator, to the porch or gazebo, and also to shift boxes around on the porch. Please email  Bonnie Knight me for more information or if you think you can help. bonniesknight@gmail.com

• Leadership/Community Service: 6th/7th Graders interested in helping on 5th Grade transition night on TUESDAY, May 16th at 6:30pm please sign-up outside the office. This is an opportunity to be help teachers tell our 5th grade parents about SMS.

Calendar - Full calendar on website

May 17th-18th: 6th-8th SBACs

May 16th: 5th Grade Parent Transition Night, 6-7pm

May 18th: SMHS Spring Concert, 7pm

May 22nd: 6th Gr Field Trip to Fairbanks Museum

May 24th-25th: 8th SBAC

May 26th: Beautification Day

June 2nd: 6th Gr Field Trip to Montpelier

June 7th: Step Up Day

June 9th: 8th Gr Field Trip to Great Escape

June 12th: SMS BBQ

June 15th: 6th Gr Field Trip to Smugglers Notch / 7th Gr Field Trip to Spare Time / 8th           Grade Graduation, 6pm

June 16th: Last Half Day, Field Day!

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Meeting Attendance Codes: AE,AU,EAM,EPM,ET,FT,IAES,ISS,ISSAM,ISSPM,SAM,SPM,SU,TU,UAM,UPM,UT,XC,

Student Grade Phone 1 Bowen, Macklin Tait 7 802-253-2890 AU   Collins, Caleb Michael 8 802-793-9538 UT   Cooney, Thomas Harvey 6 443-831-4223 ET   Fitzgerald, Ava Lorraine 6 802-760-0473 AU   Fuss, Alexander Thomas 7 802-888-5539 UT   Glanz, Adam 7 516-455-3404 AE   McNeil, Brodey Patrick 6 603-998-7100 AE   Nissenbaum, Benjamin Isaac 6 207-316-9601 AU   Ogden, Oliver 8 802-730-3923 UT   Riley, Henry 6 802-253-0801 UT   Taylor, Rowan Grace 6 802-224-6348 AU   Wahler, Gemma Marin 8 802-586-2009 UT   Wheelwright, George William 8 802-793-3200 AU

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Elisabeth Ortiz

Administrative Assistant
Stowe Middle School

413 Barrows Rd.
Stowe, VT 05672-4740

802-253-6913 x2330

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School Board Brief - May 08, 2017

In a joint meeting with the Elmore-Morristown Unified Union (EMUU) and the Lamoille South Supervisory Union, the Stowe School Board interviewed Peter Clarke, a consultant who specializes in Act 46. After discussion, the Stowe and EMUU boards voted to hire Mr. Clarke to help structure the process of our Act 46 study and response.

The boards added two new meetings to discuss Act 46. The next three Act 46 meetings are:

• May 31, 2017, 6:00 PM, Morristown Elementary School
• July 10, 2017, 6:00 PM, Stowe Elementary School
• August 16, 2017, 6:00 PM, Morristown Elementary School