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Harmony Elementary School

Back to School Night 2019 - September 12, 2019

Strategic Planning 2020-2025

The District’s 2020-2025 Strategic Planning Process is officially underway. Information can be found on the District’s website under the “Strategic Planning” dropdown on the Board of Education tab: https://www.middletownk12.org/domain/110 This is a very important initiative for the District - we need input from all stakeholders!

• Please complete the Strategic Planning: 2019 Community Input Survey

https://www.middletownk12.org//cms/module/selectsurvey/TakeSurvey.aspx?SurveyID=122

• Attend our Strategic Planning Community Forums:

○ Forum #1 (repeated three times) ■ Thursday, October 17 - evening (7:00 pm) - Thompson Middle School ■ Friday, October 18 - daytime (9:30 am) - Bayshore Middle School ■ Saturday, October 19 - morning (9:30 am) - Thorne Middle School ○ Forum #2 ■ Wednesday, November 13 - 7:00 pm (Bayshore Middle School/central office) ○ Forum #3 ■ Wednesday, December 11 - 7:00 pm (Bayshore Middle School/central office)

General Information

• Please take time to visit the information tables in the front hallway
• PTO Information

○ Membership ○ Family Focused Events ○ Fundraising - October 18th is our Annual Basket Auction ■ Super 50-50 Booklets ○ Contact information on the website ○ Meetings ■ September 17th at 7pm (school aged babysitting available) ○ Save-Around Books

• New Website

○ Like any new device or technology...play around with it

• Drop-Box - Buzz the office, tell them what you are dropping off, the student’s

name, & the teacher.

General Information

• Morning Meeting

○ Responsive Classroom movement

• Parent Volunteer Training

○ Information will be shared when our online system

• Report Cards

○ Standards Based Grading ○ Pay attention to the rubric language that accompanies the report card

• Looking for parent volunteers at lunch time

○ Information at the first PTO meeting

• Student Attendance
• Elementary Student/Parent Handbook

General Information

• Student Start Time

○ 8:55 AM sharp for K-5 students ■ 10 minutes late a day equals 30 hours of lost instruction ■ 5 minutes late a day equals 15 hours of lost instruction

• As a reminder:

○ Critical input needed for the district strategic planning process ○ PTO Meeting Schedule: ■

September 17 and 20

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October 23 and 25

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January 8 and 10

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March 11 and 13

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May 13 and 15

• Thank you for coming tonight and enjoy getting to see your child’s learning

space for the 19-20 academic year!