We celebrated our outstanding School-Related Employees of the Year on Tuesday! Ms. Tina Jensen of Food & Nutrition Services earned this year’s top prize.🎉🥳
Learn more about our site-level award winners: https://www.martinschools.org/article/925743
Watch a video recap honoring the nominees: https://youtu.be/YLfUdRw0mnY
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🎨CELEBRATING EXCELLENCE IN ART🎨
Congratulations to these Warfield Elementary School students who entered the Congressional Youth Art Contest and shared what patriotism means to them!
Congressman Brian Mast awarded these talented artists with special congressional recognition 🇺🇸
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🇺🇲ALWAYS THANKFUL🇺🇲
SeaWind Elementary students recently performed a special program in honor of Veteran's Day.
Mr. Elliott Harris, SeaWind's Related-Arts Team, parent volunteers, teachers and students worked incredibly hard to ensure the show went on, despite a delay by Hurricane Nicole.
The special program included performances by ALL students, a few guest speakers, and special recognition of SeaWind veteran staff members. South Fork High School's JROTC students also participated by presenting the flags.
👀 Watch for a beautiful performance tribute to our veterans: https://youtu.be/lSLOdBgA-fA
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🤝GIVING TUESDAY🤝
Martin County High School junior Baltazar Juan-Pérez gives his time to volunteer with the Martin County Library System!
Baltazar has been volunteering since June, earning 41 hours of service by shelving materials in the children's department and assisting kids with school assignments through the Homework Helper program.
"He’s a GREAT asset to our team, always prompt, engaging, getting right to work, completing tasks thoroughly and quickly...He assists with special projects, always willing to do more – most appreciated by library staff and a joy to work with," library staff said about Baltazar.
Thank you, Baltazar, for creating ripples in our community!
📸 credit: Martin County Library System
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📅 2023-2024 SCHOOL CALENDAR📅
During its meeting held on November 22, 2022, the Martin County School Board approved the 2023-2024 school calendar.
Learn more: https://www.martinschools.org/article/922357
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🚒COMMUNITY HEROES🚒
First grade students at Warfield Elementary School are working on the Benchmark unit: Being a Good Community Member. For their lesson, "Firefighters to the Rescue," students met the very people they were reading about!
Shout out to the Martin County Fire Rescue of Indiantown for teaching students about the gear they wear, what to do in case of a fire and how to stop, drop, and roll. Students also toured three of the different vehicles used by MCFR, and learned about the important equipment inside each vehicle, like the jaws of life!
Students now better understand why people get involved in their community, and they had a blast learning about it!
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🍎SHARING IS CARING🍎
Crystal Lake Elementary School first grade students have been studying community helpers. To learn what community helpers look like in real life, Officer Glass, Nurse Benz, BAK Middle School's Assistant Principal Mrs. Connelly and Farmer Joe were just a few of the people who came to share how they support the community.
Thank you for taking time out of your busy days to help teach a great lesson!
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🦃TURKEY, OR NO?🦃
6th graders in Ms. Stein's class at Indiantown Middle School had a pretty tricky writing assignment before Thanksgiving break.
Ms. Stein asked her students to write from the lens of a turkey and use their persuasive/argumentative skills to write letters convincing a farmer (Ms. Stein) not to cook them for Thanksgiving Supper!
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📞CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW📞
For their sound energy unit, Ms. Zilly's fifth grade class at Port Salerno Elementary School read "Horton Hears a Who." The students wondered why everyone couldn’t hear The Whos like Horton could, so students investigated sound energy.
Students made and experimented with string telephones and found evidence that sound travels through vibrations! They wrote letters to Horton explaining sound energy and how it travels.
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🦃GOBBLE, GOBBLE, GONE🦃
So, that's what happened to the turkey!
1st Graders in Mrs. Lodes' class at Jensen Beach Elementary School completed a very important STEM challenge...Hide Mr. Turkey. They nailed the assignment 🦃
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"Be present in all things and thankful for all."
Happy Thanksgiving, Martin County! 🦃🍁🍂
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📚THANKFUL FOR BOOKS📚
Mrs. Cagni’s class is working hard to reach their goal of being the first class at Hobe Sound Elementary School with every student earning a book from the Education Foundation of Martin County's book vending machine.
We are thankful to the Education Foundation of Martin County for providing these awesome book vending machines that are students absolutely love!
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🚌 SALARY INCREASES APPROVED FOR BUS OPERATORS🚌
Last evening, the Martin County School Board approved Superintendent Dr. John D. Millay’s recommended salary increases for bus operators. The new starting pay of $20/hr. and pay raises for existing staff will rank MCSD drivers among the highest paid in the state.
An employee referral bonus program was also approved by the School Board.
Learn more: https://www.martinschools.org/article/918570
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🦃GIVING BACK🦃
The Martin County School District's Pre-Kindergarten Programs, with assistance from Martin County Sheriff's Office SROs passed out over 160 turkeys and baskets through a partnership with Elev8hope Compassion in Action to our Head Start families.
The District is so thankful to partner with amazing groups like these to help local families enjoy their holidays. We appreciate everyone who helped make this donation happen!
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🍎BEHIND THE SCENES🍎
Students at Warfield Elementary School took a tour behind the scenes of their school kitchen with Ms. Miriam Weaver, Food Service Manager. Serving more than 1,000 meals daily takes a lot of storage space and cooking equipment!
Thank you to all of our amazing Food & Nutrition Services employees for fueling our students’ bodies with nutrition!
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🍎SCHOOL BOARD REORGANIZATION🍎
The Martin County School Board conducted its annual reorganization meeting this evening. Re-elected and newly-elected School Board Members were inaugurated into office, and the 2022-2023 School Board Chair and Vice Chair were selected.
Learn more: https://www.martinschools.org/article/918443
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🍎ON THE AGENDA🍎
The Martin County School Board will hold its monthly Regular Meeting at 4:00 p.m. today.
The School Board will conduct its annual reorganization business during the meeting, including the approval of the 2022-2023 School Board meeting schedule, selection of the 2022-2023 School Board Chair and Vice Chair, and the inauguration of reelected and newly-elected School Board Members.
View the meeting agenda: https://bit.ly/3UWd2OW
Watch the livestream: https://youtu.be/PIe3yx22TJk
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🍂GIVING THANKS🍂
We wish all of our students, families and employees a safe and relaxing #Thanksgiving holiday! Classes will resume on Monday, November 28.
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🤖Why did the robot get upset?
Because everyone was pushing its buttons!🤖
Martin County School District School Board Vice Chair Tony Anderson (District 4) attended a Robotics event in Pahokee, FL, over the weekend and had a great time.
He enjoyed greeting the team from Dr. David L. Anderson Middle School and cheering students on as they participated in the competition!
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🚍SAFETY FIRST🚍
Today, Martin County School District transportation staff received safety training from one of our amazing School Resource Officers, Corporal Drew Porcelli. Staff said it was a great and informative training session!
Thank you, Martin County Sheriff's Office, for partnering with our Transportation team, and District as a whole, to help keep our students and employees safe.
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