January 2017

Shamrock Center Marshall and Albion Michele Morgan, Director

Shamrock Center Child Care, Preschool and Great Start Readiness Programs

We are looking forward to a partnership with Albion College, during Maymester. We will

have one Albion College student interning at our Marshall GSRP program in Mrs.

Racheal Barnes’ classroom.

Last spring, we applied for a Farm to School Grant for our GSRP classrooms, in

partnership with the Paul Yettaw in the Food Service Department, and Michigan State

University. We have just completed mid-year reporting. Our grant project was entitled

Healthy Food + Healthy Experiences = Healthy Life. Some of our activities that we have

completed so far this year include a pre-survey of eating habits, a family night

introducing our grant project, fruit taste testing with apples, experiments with seeds

and more.

We have our second family night scheduled for each of our GSRP sites. These are

scheduled during the first two weeks in February. All of our family nights this year are

focused around “Growing up Healthy”, thanks to our partnerships and our Farm to

School Grant.

During Winter Break the Shamrock Center was open six of the ten days from 6:30 am to

6:00 pm, Staff enjoyed the other four days off for the Holiday to celebrate with their

families. During break children enjoyed making masks, creating their own puzzles,

playing games, gym time as well as many other activities all thanks to our dedicated

staff.

We are continuing our partnership with the Americorp’s Vista Workers in Albion on two

projects. The first is project is to seek partners to help to support the addition of

playground equipment at the Crowell building site. The equipment could be used for

children at the Crowell building and for children within the Crowell Neighborhoods.

The second project is supporting the interest in a community garden in Albion, by

offering a possible location for a shared community garden, at the Crowell location.

We currently have two Battle Creek Career Center students working in our classrooms

several days per week. They will intern with us for the remainder of the year. They are

putting into practice what they have learned in their Early Childhood Classes at the

Career Center.

Tuesday, children at the center enjoyed a visit by Mrs. Doud and thirteen Early College

Students. The students volunteered at the Shamrock in Marshall. They played with

children, participated in crafts and other activities, providing children with some

individual attention, while providing the older students from the Early College,

opportunities for career exploration, while obtaining volunteer experience.

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GORDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL A Rich Tradition of Excellence

Michael Leathead, Principal Gordon Elementary School ● 400 N. Gordon Street ● Marshall, MI 49068

Phone: 269-781-1270 ● Fax: 269-789-3700

TO: Dr. Randy Davis FROM: Mike Leathead, Gordon Principal REASON: Monthly Report to the Board of Education DATE: Thursday, January 19, 2016 The following is an update in regards to what is happening or has happened at Gordon Elementary School in December and January. PTO Our PTO met on January 18th to discuss upcoming events as well as fundraising successes. Our t-shirt fundraiser brought in over $1,000. Our Fall Book Fair brought in over $2,300. Our Hungry Howie’s fundraiser has been a great success and we have brought in over $200 each month. Plus, the winning class with the most orders has been receiving a class pizza party provided by Hungry Howie’s. Also, our fifth grade teachers have started doing a popcorn Friday fundraiser every other Friday. The teachers pop the popcorn and their students are helping to deliver. They are averaging around $90 revenue from this! Child Study Our Child Study Team, comprised of our School Social Worker, School Psychologist, Counselor, Special Education Teacher, Reading Specialist, General Education Teacher, and building Principal, have met 4 times this year to discuss ways in which we can further support students struggling academically, emotionally, and behaviorally. From this larger group, we have created a smaller group focused on implementing Tier 2 Interventions as a bridge between Tier 1 behaviors and referrals for Functional Behavioral Assessments and Behavior Intervention Plans as well as referrals for Special Education testing. Holiday Concerts On Tuesday, December 13th, we had our school wide holiday assembly featuring Joel Tacey the magician and on Wednesday, December 14th, the MHS music department did their annual Holiday Concert for the elementaries at the MHS auditorium.

GORDON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL A Rich Tradition of Excellence

Michael Leathead, Principal Gordon Elementary School ● 400 N. Gordon Street ● Marshall, MI 49068

Phone: 269-781-1270 ● Fax: 269-789-3700

Community Service/Charitable Giving We collected food items, mittens, hats and puzzles for MACS. Our 2nd Grade students visited one of the assisted living establishments as well as dropped off food donations to MACS on December 13th. DPPD Monday, January 16th we did activities and instruction surrounding diversity and inclusion in honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Walk to School Day Gordon is promoting healthy living with our monthly walk to school days. December 7th was our third one this year. January 11th was our fourth. We also give daily health focused messages. PBIS January’s theme is Responsibility. Out PBIS team decided to have an assembly on January 19th to help kickoff this month’s theme. One of our 3rd Grade teachers put together a fantastic video showcasing some of our other staff exhibiting the unwanted behaviors in the hallways, while students were filmed showing the STAR student behaviors in the hallways. These all centered around our theme of Responsibility. GOTR Girls on the Run had their shoe fitting on January 17th. Their first meeting will be held the week of February 27th with 25 girls signed up to attend. This year a GOTR team will led by our two fourth grade teachers, Val Bowman and Emily Wight.

Marshall Public Schools

Harrington Elementary

100 S Clark St

Albion, MI 49224 269-629-9166

Mrs. Sandy Kingston, Principal

skingston@marshallpublicschools.org

Date: January 19, 2017 To: Dr. Randy Davis, Superintendent From: Sandy Kingston, Harrington Principal Ref: January Report to Board of Education P.B.I.S. This week’s school-wide lesson focuses on cafeteria expectations. Teachers have been reviewing these procedures with students each day and the lunchroom supervisors have been helping children practice their B.E.S.T. behavior during lunch. Next week’s school wide lesson will be on arrival and departure expectations. The children are enjoying getting the yellow Bee your B.E.S.T. tickets for positive behavior and often show them off to me at lunch or when I see them in the hall. They are so excited to be recognized for their positive behaviors and it is a joy to celebrate with them each week during our weekly drawings. You can see pics of our weekly winners on the Harrington Facebook page which was created and is maintained by our amazing counselor, Ms. Bailey. Report Cards The end of the marking period is coming up soon and conference scheduling is well underway. We are in the process of collecting our mid-year benchmark data, which I will report to you about next month when everything has been turned in and we have had a chance to analyze the data and determine next steps. The Success Room PBIS is a foundational piece of our work here at Harrington. Teaching children how to behavior appropriately through positive classroom and school experiences is critical to a successful school program. It takes the human brain several dozen exposures to something new in order to have it committed to long-term memory. That means that children need many opportunities to practice how be behave and supportive practices in place for them when they make mistakes. In order to address some of the behaviors that need to be extinguished we have created the Success Room. Since October, we have had Mr. Bonnell and Mr. Culliver working together to create the Success Room at

Harrington. This is a place where a child may go if they are struggling and need a time-away from the classroom.

There is much more to the success room than just a time-away though. There is also a teaching component. Our CISD Social Worker, Mrs. Lemon piloted a program to help students learn expectations for positive behaviors in all sorts of situations. The curriculum has simple and to the point lessons that go through different scenarios and help the children learn more strategies to deal with frustration and anger. Mrs Lemon has been working with Mr. Bonnell and Mr. Culliver to teach the children positive conflict resolution skills. Mr. Culliver and our counselor Ms. Bailey have also started pushing into classrooms and working with small groups to help the students who are more frequent visitors to the Success room in order to help them be more successful in school. They are teaching lessons on positive behaviors that support our Harrington B.E.S.T. slogan. Since the Success Room has been in operation, our classrooms have been running much smoother and our teachers have been able to spend more time on curriculum than behaviors. The data that has been collected for our children who need to visit the Success room has provided useful information for our Child Study team to determine where to put Tier II interventions in place. Most of the children who have needed to take a break in the Success room have only had to visit a couple of times so far this year and those who have had more frequent and/or severe issues are receiving Tier II support and are also on our Child Study case load. Child Study Our child study team has met six times so far this year. Our teacher consultant, Melissa Swan is doing an excellent job of organizing the files for the team and keeping track of the interventions that are being put in place. She is supporting the teachers with data collection, implementation, and monitoring progress. Reading Recovery Our two reading specialists are enjoying their ongoing training to become Reading Recovery Specialists. The training is intense but Mrs. Samra and Mrs. Rugg are enjoying the rigor. They are doing a wonderful job of using what they are learning with children in their groups and with other teachers in the building.

H U G H E S E L E M E N T A R Y S C H O O L A Rich Tradition of Excellence

Matthew Lefebvre, Principal

Hughes Elementary School ● 103 West Hughes Street ● Marshall, MI 49068 Phone: 269-781-1275 ● Fax: 269-789-3704

TO: Dr. Randy Davis FROM: Matt Lefebvre, Hughes Principal REASON: Monthly Report to the Board of Education DATE: Thursday, January 19th, 2017 The following is an update in regards to what is happening at Hughes Elementary School in January. Academic Focuses As I have mentioned in the previous report in December, the staff at Hughes has worked to dig through our state testing data in an effort to give us insight on necessary instructional focuses. Based on our review, there is a need to provide a greater emphasis in the following areas of instruction: ELA Defining Character Traits in Literature Comparing & Contrasting Based on Common Experiences Drawing Conclusions From Text Math Decimal and Fraction Relationships Addition & Subtraction of Fractions Whole Number Multiplication Science Drawing Conclusions From Data Understanding the Scientific Method Social Studies Identification of Key Vocabulary Reviewing Michigan History Comparing & Contrasting Michigan to Other U.S. Regions The staff will provide focused instruction, review, and targeted intervention for our students in these identified areas. Our goal and mission is to see improve in these areas in the 2017 M-STEP spring assessment data.

H U G H E S E L E M E N T A R Y S C H O O L A Rich Tradition of Excellence

Matthew Lefebvre, Principal

Hughes Elementary School ● 103 West Hughes Street ● Marshall, MI 49068 Phone: 269-781-1275 ● Fax: 269-789-3704

Girls On the Run Hughes has had record sign up for our Girls On the Run program! Starting in the last week of February, 41 girls from Grades 3-5 will be participating. Four groups, taught by 10 coaches, will be learning and practicing throughout each week until the Race Day on May 12th.

WALTERS ELEMENTARY

M A R S H A L L P U B L I C S C H O O L S A Rich Tradition of Excellence

Paul Holbrook, Principal

Walters Elementary School ● 705 N Marshall ● Marshall, MI 49068 Phone: 269-781-1280 ● Fax: 269-789-3703

TO: Dr. Randy Davis

FROM: Paul Holbrook, Walters Principal

REASON: Monthly Report to Board of Education

DATE: Thursday, January 19, 2017

The following is an update in regards to what is happening or has happened at Walters School in the month of January.

� Do to a lack of volunteers to help organize and run the all elementary school carnival the parent committee leading this activity has decided that the carnival will be cancelled this year. The group is planning to meet again in the spring to determine if there is an alternate way to raise funds for the schools. This is a concern because the carnival raises over $5,000 for each school and the funds are used to pay for transportation for our field trips at all grade levels, classroom supplies, and library books and resources.

� We continue to make progress at Walters with our Positive Behavior Interventions and Support Program (PBIS). We recently added monthly assemblies for the purpose of student recognition. All students can earn LEAD (Learn Respectfully, Ensure Safety, Act Responsibly, and Demonstrate Kindness) certificates throughout the month. All of these certificates go into a drawing and students are randomly selected to win small prizes and certificates. Our latest assembly was this last Monday and we recognized over 30 students.

� Right before break Walters third grade students enjoyed hosting exchange students from Chile, Thailand, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, and Germany. They shared a lot of information about their home countries including their traditional holiday celebrations. This was a wonderful experience.

� For the holiday season the staff and families at Walters Elementary raised money so that we could help those in our area in need. This year we adopted two families to support and at the same time we wanted to support one of our local agencies that assist people as well. This year we selected the Marshall Fountain Clinic. In total we raised around $1,500. When we went to shop at Meijer to make our purchases we were surprised to find that we had been randomly selected for a Very Merry Meijer Christmas. This means that Meijer paid for the entire $1,000 purchase in our carts for our families. Meijer does this once a year at each store. We feel blessed to be selected. Especially because this allowed us to purchase $100 gift cards for 10 families of need at our school. Lastly, Meijer gave us a $100 gift card to pay it forward to an organization of our choosing. We combined the gift card with over $400 in cash to present to the Marshall Fountain Clinic that supports so many needy families with health care needs.

MMS WEEKLY UPDATE … 1.16.17 TO 1.22.17

CALENDAR ITEMS: B WEEK

Monday, 1.16.17 Tuesday, 1.17.17 Wednesday, 1.18.17

HALF DAY (7:40 a.m. - 10:55 a.m.)

8th Hour 2:35 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

7th G-BB practice (2:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.)

7th G-BB @ Harper Creek (4:30 p.m. - away)

7th G-BB practice (2:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.)

8th G-BB practice (4:15 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.)

8th G-BB vs Harper Creek (4:30 p.m. - home)

8th G-BB practice (4:15 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.)

Wrestling Practice (2:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.)

Wrestling Practice (2:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.)

Wrestling Practice (2:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.)

No running club today will resume Monday, January 23rd

Thursday, 1.19.17 Friday, 1.20.17 Saturday, 1.21.17

8th Hour 2:35 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Regular Day Schedule (No Advisory Schedule)

Wrestling @ Lakeview (9:00 a.m. - away)

7th G-BB practice (2:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.)

7th G-BB practice (2:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.)

8th G-BB practice (4:15 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.)

8th G-BB practice (4:15 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.)

Wrestling Practice (2:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.)

Wrestling Practice (2:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.)

Robotics Club meeting (2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.)

CU in School available

CONGRATULATIONS TO 7TH GRADE CHARITY SPEECH WINNERS ! The following students were chosen by their classmates to share their speeches with the entire 7th grade. They did an amazing job! Each charity will receive a donation from the MMS staff. A panel of teacher judges chose the top speech.

Overall winner: Caroline Westfall - Random Acts of Kindness.

● Kylie Brown - St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital ● Mallory Tucker - American Foundation for Suicide Prevention ● Ava Isham - Feeding America ● Lucas Mongan - American Heart Association ● Molly Adler - Relief International ● Logan Murphy - Abode Services ● Brooke Waito - National Down Syndrome Society ● Joni Bagale - Room to Read ● Paige Crull - Down Syndrome Society of Indiana ● Fletcher Robson - Alzheimer’s Association ● Madelyn St. John - National Canine Cancer Foundation ● Cam Nessel - Angel Cheeks Foundation ● Maia Bedwell - Humane Society ● Lauren Lyon - Michigan Youth Opportunities ● Amyah Walker - Michigan Anti-Cruelty Society ● Helene Hilton - Project ALS ● Grant Rupp - Mosaic

FOOD SERVICE INFORMATION The Food Service Department at all Marshall Public Schools offer breakfast daily to all students.

The current prices are:

● Reduced Price is .30¢ ● Paid is $1.55

Daily Breakfast Times:

● 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. at the elementary schools ● 7:00 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. at the middle school and high schools

WRESTLING AND GIRLS BASKETBALL INFORMATION Girls Basketball and Wrestling will begin the day we return from the Holiday Break, Wednesday, January 4th. All athletes must have a physical on file in the Middle School dated after April 15th of 2016 to be able to participate. There are no exceptions to this MHSAA rule. WRITING OLYMPICS WORKSHOPS Author Alan St. Jean will work with all middle school students to create an original short story. We will hold an assembly where students will share their stories. Parents are welcome to attend. GEEKEND INFORMATION - JANUARY 28TH The Marshall Opportunity High School will be hosting a Geekend on January 28th, 2017 from 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Junior High students from Marshall, Albion, and Mar-Lee will be able to work with Drones, Go-Pros, Video Production, and go SCUBA diving. This is a wonderful and FREE opportunity to get exposed to STEM technologies and skills. Registration is limited to 30 participants, so register here before spots fill up. If you have questions, please contact Mr. Raddatz (jraddtaz@marshallpublicschools.org) at the Opportunity High School. RUNNING CLUB Are you interested in running this winter? Join the middle and high school running club! We will run OUTSIDE on Mondays right after school. Please meet in the LRC! ROBOTICS CLUB The Robotics Club will meet Thursday, 1/19 from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Thursday 1/24 from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Dates for February will be announced at a later date. SCIENCE FAIR MMS Science Fair is scheduled for Wednesday, March 22 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Set up will be in the MMS gym on Tuesday, March 21 from 2:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Science teachers will discuss procedures and entry form information with their students. If you have any questions or would like to help out in any way please contact your child’s science teacher or Jenn Russell (russell1023@gmail.com or 269-753-4016). WATER AEROBICS CLASSES: January 3rd – February 9th The Albion Recreation will offer 6 weeks of classes on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Albion Community Center located at the Marshall Opportunity High School. The cost for the classes is $30.00 if paid in advance or $3.00 per session at the door. You can register on-line at https://albion.recdesk.com/community or by calling the Recreation office @517-630-1369 WINTER TENNIS Are you interested in playing tennis?

Everyone is welcome to participate in a winter tennis clinic, 6th through 8th grade! All ability levels from beginners to advanced players! For more information, please see the form in the middle school office. The clinic starts on Sunday, Jan 22nd at the Y-Center in Battle Creek!

MARSHALL HIGH SCHOOL

Improving Tomorrow by Inspiring Today!

Over 100 Years Accredited by the North Central Association

701 N. Marshall Ave. Marshall, MI 49068 SCOTT HUTCHINS, Principal Phone: (269) 781-1252 / Fax: (269) 781-5304 GREGORY T. TATROW, Assistant Principal

http://www.marshall.k12.mi.us/MHS DANIEL A. CODDENS, Athletic Director

JANUARY 2017 MARSHALL HIGH SCHOOL BOARD REPORT

The following MHS students were selected as Students of the Month for December : ● Freshmen: NaShanti Weatherall and Emmett Rosenzweig

● Sophomores: Annabel Westfall and Carter Peek

● Juniors: Kaitlyn Lawhead and Matteo Solis ● Seniors: Madelyn Martinson and Joseph Kurtz

L-R: Kaitlyn Lawhead, Joe Kurtz, Matteo Solis, Emmett Rosenzweig, Carter Peek, Madelyn Martinson, Annabel Westfall, Nashanti Weatherall

Scott Hutchins secured a $750 Marshall Community Foundation Grant and with matching funds from student fundraisers and a donation from the MHS Environmental Club, we were able to purchase multiple recycling bins to place around the school cafeteria and hallways. Four bins were also purchased with wheels for easy transport so they can be taken outside for extra-curricular events. In the pictures below, senior Cole Varvatos helps construct the bins and Junior Tyler DeKryger tries out the new bins.

Donned in costumes purchased by Oaklawn Hospital, these Marshall High School student "elves" helped Santa this holiday season as he visited with families around downtown Marshall, an event sponsored by Marshall Area Downtown Economic Alliance (MADEA). Special thanks to Jill Koyl for organizing this opportunity for our students.

L-R: Mara Wilson, Santa, Emily McLane, Liberty Arnouts, Shea Morgan (seated)

Members of our music department put on an impromptu holiday music show for staff and students December 20 at Four Corners.

L-R: Brady Perian, Alumnus Jontaj Wallace, Andrew Warriner, Calvin Smith, Camden Gardner, Joe Kurtz, Jack Merucci, Thomas Hellman, Laura Willard, Maria Ruedisueli, Felipe Martinez.

Congratulations to senior Andrew Warriner for being selected as a Semifinalist in the 2016-2017 Coca-Cola Scholars Program. Only 1,914 Semifinalists were chosen among nearly 86,000 applicants this year because of their outstanding leadership, academic achievements, and dedication to their community. They are currently submitting their Semifinalist applications to be reviewed by the Program Reading Committee in January. After this review, 250 Semifinalists will advance as Regional Finalists, with 150 becoming Coca-Cola Scholars. The Coca-Cola Scholars Program Scholarship is an achievement-based $20,000 scholarship awarded to graduating high school seniors. Students are recognized for their capacity to lead and serve, as well as their commitment to making a significant impact on their schools and communities.

Congratulations to senior Joseph Kurtz for receiving a full ride scholarship to Columbia University where he will study engineering.

Congratulations to junior Tristan Wichowski for being named Employee of the Month for the second time in the past 3 months at Marshall Wendy’s.

Our annual holiday MACS FOOD DRIVE brought in around 1500 items and $168.00 this year, but we have a special event coming to MHS on March 4 to help feed our community and combat the issue of hunger. Our goal is to partner with community sponsors in Marshall and Albion to raise at least $12,500 so we can distribute 50,000 meals to MACS, AIM, and other food pantries in Calhoun County through a Meals of Hope food packing event. United together, volunteers will assemble to package economical, nutritious meals that will stay local and provide comfort and serve hungry friends and neighbors. To donate or volunteer, please visit marshallffa

The US Department of State recognized MHS as a Medallion Program Partner for Global Diplomacy in appreciation for us enrolling Albina Taalaibek Kyzy from Kyrgystan of the Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) Program.

Andy McCormack and Claire Banfield secured a $5,000 College and Career Readiness Grant from the Calhoun ISD Vocational Millage Funding Program to increase exposure and promote various post-secondary options and future planning for all K-12 students and their parents. Events they have planned include an elementary Parent Night, Middle School “Future Fair,” Community College visits for students in grades 6-8, and a celebration event for high school students that have committed to post-secondary learning.

30 MHS Band and Orchestra students will be performing at MSBOA District Solo and Ensemble in Schoolcraft on Saturday, February 11. Additionally, one MHS Band student will be performing with the State FFA Band at the State Convention.

Our 3-2-1 Team competed in December and we ranked 95th out of 155 schools nationwide. We are trying to increase our ranking for our April competition. 3-2-1 is a visual clue quiz bowl that is completed online.

The middle school did a big assembly in conjunction with the Franke Center for MLK on January 16. As part of the event, a group of students from Albion performed through their 4H group. The following students from MHS participated: Aniyah Caldwell, Tamya Vines, Joseph Kurtz, and Jaytion Wallace .

During the first few months of school, the MHS library has been running various promotions in hopes to increase students' leisure reading and book circulation. Using vibrant displays, contests, and regular announcements regarding events in the library, we have seen a significant increase in student engagement of the library and our resources, namely books. Both the overall circulation and book renewal has increased from last year by 114%, which tells us students are reading! Since the beginning of the school year, we have yet to see a day in the library without students utilizing our resources. Whether it’s an entire class, or students on their own, each day we have students in the library checking out or renewing books, using computers, or working collaboratively with their peers.

In addition to classes and individual students, the library is home to many of the virtual high school students throughout the day.

Students working with the EV3 robots in Shelly Densmore’s Business Math class are pictured below. The students programmed the robots to perform like factory robots. They calculated distance using tire circumference and created programs to move through a "factory," transporting materials.

The Marshall Community Credit Union hosted a Reality Finance Fair for Shelly Densmore’s Personal Finance class. The students were given a career, marriage status, number of children, and loan debt. They had to find a rental, car, food, furniture, clothing, "surprise," and technology plan. Each student was asked to save 10% of their income. Once it was over the students totaled their expenses and compared it to their income, but most students did not save any money.

On January 16, Scott Hutchins met with all seniors during their English classes and encouraged them to, “Commit 2 Graduate.” Various students donned a class of 2017 gown that all seniors signed as

their commitment to graduate, and each senior received a rubber band bracelet and tassel with a “C2G” logo from Josten’s.

Michael Vezmar in back with classmates and Scott Hutchins Dymond Stokes collecting signatures

Carlos Robinson “strikes a pose”

Marshall Opportunity High School “An Educational Alternative”

To: Dr. Davis Re: Board Report for October From: Ben Wallace

• Jason Raddatz’s Anatomy class is in the process of CPR training with Kim Muggio, R.N.

• On Wednesday, January 18 the Army, Navy and Marines visited during lunch.

• On Monday, January 23 Mrs. Aisha Ridley-Melton, Family Service Advocate for Community Action will be at the MOHS from 5:00-6:30 p.m. helping our students complete FAFSA (Federal Student Aid).

• Men from the Haven of Rest Life Recovery Program in Battle Creek are coming to the Marshall Opportunity High School on January 20th to share with some of the male students their struggle with drug addiction and homelessness. This is an opportunity for both the men and the students to learn from each other. The importance of graduating high school and making good choices will be the theme of their visit. English teacher Susan Fox works as a mental health therapist at the Haven of Rest and has coordinated this and other occasions for these two programs to partner for the benefit of lifelong learning.

• English teacher Susan Fox from the Marshall Opportunity High School has partnered with Albion's American Legion Post Commander Harry Root to bring Vietnam War era veterans to talk to her senior class. The students just finished reading the novel, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. The novel details the struggles and triumphs of men fighting in the Vietnam War. This will be an awesome opportunity for literature to come to life for high school students.

225 E. Watson Street Ben Wallace- Program Director Albion, MI 49224 Phone (517) 629-9421 Fax (517) 630-3305 19 January 2017

• Early College Students Volunteer at Albion and Marshall Shamrock Centers The students of Eastern Calhoun Early College gave children one-on-one time Tuesday, Jan. 17. Some children played Lego’s with their buddies, while others did a color coordinating activity. A few of the children and their buddies did crafts, such as painting, coloring and Play-doh. Several children also read books with their helpers, and other fun activities. The reason they volunteered is to give children individual time, something busy parents don’t always have much time for. These service learning projects also help early college students give back to the community, and provide exposure to different job and career options. Written by Sheryl Cook, 2nd Year ECEC student

• Mid-December through mid-January has been College and Career Readiness time at Eastern Calhoun Early College, since KCC classes have not been in session. Every afternoon students have had lessons and speakers directly related to preparing them for college, careers, and life. We have completed the majority of the Career Cruising online curriculum, taken the KCC Career Test, and an Emotional Intelligence Test. We have done the Enneagram Personality Assessment and had a speaker explain that, as well as values inventories at the Ludington Center with Troy Case from Albion College. Additionally, we have had a current medical school student and also an orthotic and prosthetic masters graduate (both who graduated from Marshall High School) discuss their journeys from high school to college and graduate school and into their careers. Mrs. Davis, KCC Academic Advisor, has also met with us two times where we learned about transferring to four year colleges. Other lessons have been about stress and time management, finding a career through one's challenges in life, and team building. We have worked with the VISTA volunteers on a district wide mailing about options for MHS students, and learned about AmeriCorp from them. We have also been volunteering at the Albion and Marshall Shamrock Center, see the student-written article and photos included.

• ECEC students at the Ludington Center with Troy Case learning how values impact career choices.

Michigan Youth ChalleNGe Academy • Cycle #36 kicked off with 144 Candidates eager to seize a second chance.

Michigan Job ChalleNGe Program • MJCP accepted 52 Associates for Cycle #3 with hopes of earning valuable job skills and

credentials in their chosen field. We are excited to see what great things our students will do as they progress though these life changing programs. Stay tuned….

Marshall High School Athletics

Board Report January 19, 2017 Some notes about the Winter thus far:

o Our Girls, Varsity Basketball team is currently in first place of the Interstate-8, and

ranked in three different polls.

o The Boys’ Varsity Basketball team is tied for first place in the Interstate-8.

o The Wrestling team is continuing to improve and is competing at a high level with very

good competition in the Interstate 8. We hosted the first Annual Joe Wheeler Invitational

and finished 2nd on January 7th. The event was a huge success.

o The Boys’ Swimming team is currently in 1st place of their league, the Southwestern and

Central Michigan Swim Conference. Many swimmers have already qualified for the

state meet.

We are excited about a couple of things in the Athletic Department. First, the gomarshallredhawks.com web-site and the Twitter account of @MHSRedhawks is gaining momentum. Marshall made the top 20 for the state of Michigan for the first time and we are up to 400 followers on Twitter. Please see the links below for upcoming activities and recent news. http://gomarshallredhawks.com/2017/01/09/gomarshallredhawks-com-soars-to-new-heights/ http://gomarshallredhawks.com/2017/01/19/girls-varsity-hoops-on-saturday-january-28th/ http://gomarshallredhawks.com/2017/01/19/boys-basketball-this-friday-harper-creek-special-event/ Second, our Marshall Athletic Boosters are hosting our annual Dinner and Cash Drawing at Cornwell’s Turkeyville on Saturday February 4th from 6:00-10:00 pm. Tickets are still available. Please see link below. http://gomarshallredhawks.com/2017/01/09/marshall-athletic-boosters-2/ Submitted by: Dan Coddens Athletic Director Marshall Public Schools

To: Dr. Randy Davis, Superintendent

From: Linda Bennink, Office of Curriculum and Instruction

Re: January Board Report

Date: January 19, 2017

The following information summarizes the work taking place within the Office of Curriculum

and Instruction…

• Within the Office of Curriculum and Instruction, we are focusing on Harrington

Elementary School as we align our curriculum expectations into each classroom.

Elementary curriculum alignment coaches (teachers from Gordon, Hughes, and Walters)

have been meeting one-on-one, with the Harrington teaching staff in the past several

weeks. The focus is conversation and increased understanding around curriculum

offerings, classroom instructional processes, materials, support resources, and potential

needs and alignment. This work will go on throughout the school year and the

Harrington teachers are in the process of visiting the classrooms of their “Teacher Next

Door” partner.

• Our office has been involved with the hiring of needed staff, particularly at Harrington

Elementary School, the implementation of our current curriculum and supporting

materials, and the professional learning that has taken place during the Back-to-School,

New Teacher Orientations, and our recent MLK Day in-service.

• As our Curriculum Director, I am representing the Marshall Public Schools at a variety of

meetings within the CISD. I serve on the LEA Implementation Committee, the Instruction

and Curriculum Council, the DnA Key Contact Committee, and the District School

Improvement sessions and the Homeless/Foster Care Liaison (along with Kimberly Van

Wormer). Several of these meetings are held on a monthly basis.

• Much of my time has been focused on the implementation of the Early Literacy

interventions that we have put into place at Harrington Elementary School, this fall. We

have excellent interventionists and an instructional coordinator to focus on the literacy

needs of our youngest students (Kindergarten). This month, we are taking data on our

Benchmark assessments in order to determine next instructional steps.

• This office is now in the process of implementing our grant of $23.265 (based upon

2015-16 data) and $10,395 (based upon our annexation with Albion) for the Additional

Instructional Time and Interventions. This grant has been awarded to assist school

districts with the cost of additional instructional time to those pupils in grades K-3 who

have been identified by using the MDE approved screening and diagnostic tools as

needing additional supports and interventions in order to be reading at grade level by

the end of third grade. We are utilizing some of the funds to support an additional

literacy coach for our Kindergartens at Harrington Elementary School.

• We are already preparing for the upcoming state assessments that will be administered

in April and May of this spring term. Time flies when you’re having fun!

• This week, I will be meeting with representatives from the Michigan Department of

Education regarding our upcoming on-site review and audit for all of our titled

programs.

• I continue to chair the following District-Level committees that meet on a regular or as

needed basis…

� PBIS (Positive Behavior Instructional Support)

� Science

� English Language Arts

� Curriculum Council

� Reproductive Health (now completed until 2017)

� Title I Reading and Reading Recovery

� Professional Development

� Social Studies

� M-STEP, PSAT, Work keys, and SAT testing

� DnA Illuminate

� Special Education

Marshall Public Schools

Technology Department

January 19th, 2017

RE: Board Report

We are continuing to resolve technology issues across the organization. I have listed a

few of our current projects and challenges.

Over the last month, we have continued to address the problems with the older desktop

and laptop deployments from Albion that were not compatible with our network

infrastructure. Because of this, and after we performed a soft deployment for the start of

school, we have since had to rebuild each of these computers. We are fortunate enough

that we have tools which allow us to re-deploy computers fairly quickly. In an attempt to

minimize interruptions, we have tried to find times when staff and/or students are not

working on the devices.

In December, shortly before the holiday break, the virtual host on which our primary

domain controller resided, failed. In layman’s terms, this server which hosted three virtual

servers within our environment had a hardware failure. Fortunately, we had back ups of

the servers and were able to restore them to another host.

We also have a secondary domain controller in place just in case these types of

scenarios occur. If we did not have this secondary server, no one within our network

would be able to logon to their respective computers, authenticate to the wireless or

access systems tied to the domain controllers.

However, we have seen compounding issues due to the device re-deployments and the

primary domain controller failure. This failure has had an unforeseen ripple effect. The

Windows computers joined to our domain have now began to see an occasional error

message on the logon screen. This error message keeps staff, or students, from logging

onto the computer until a set of commands are performed by one of our technicians.

Because of this, our technicians, as well as myself, have been running between buildings

to perform commands on these computers so users can continue to login. As I am sure

you can guess, this has put a strain on our department’s response time to other issues

across the organization.

Last week, we opened a paid for support case with Microsoft to address this issue within

our environment. We are working with them, but still do not have a resolution yet and are

hopeful it will be soon.

Aside from the re-deployment and domain issues, we have been working to replace

hardware failures within the classrooms: bad cabling, projectors, document cameras,

laptops, and desktops failures, etc.

We have been successful in our re-deployment of the almost 800 iPads across our

organization. We are now able to remotely deploy apps to these iPads without ever

stepping foot in the classroom.

For the approximately 300 Android tablets from Albion, we have yet to deploy these

devices. They are aging, as the iPads are as well, are no longer receiving all of the

updates newer devices are. This means that software and deployment vendors are no

longer making management a priority in their solutions. We believe we have found a free

solution to manage the Android devices and are hoping to have these deployed to

classrooms by March.

Lastly, we have began preparing student desktops, laptops, and Chromebooks for the

upcoming M-Step testing cycle. We are updating all devices, as well as the servers, to the

latest testing software so students can begin the practice sessions and familiarize

themselves with the devices prior to the opening of the official testing window.

As always, if you have questions or concerns as a result of this report, feel free to reach

out to me with those.

Sincerely,

Terron Erwin | Director of Technology Operations

E: terwin@marshallpublicschools.org | V: 269.781.1295

FOOD SERVICE BOARD REPORT

Month Lunch

December 15-16 16-17 Free & Red Ala-Carte Vending Federal

SCHOOL Count Count Percent Sales Sales Reimbursement

Serving Days 14 12 (2)

HIGH SCHOOL 4838 3097 (1,741) 33 7263 910

MIDDLE SCHOOL 2981 2738 (243) 47 3695 494

GORDON 2258 1683 (575) 30 191

HARRINGTON 0 2251 2,251 85 0

HUGHES 2618 1786 (832) 45 209

WALTERS 2328 2037 (291) 34 174

M A S 657 489 (168) CEO 0

Total 15680 14081 (1,599) 54.8 11532 1404 $51,778.02

Month Breakfast

December 15-16 16-17

Increase /

(Decrease)

SCHOOL Count Count

Serving Days 13 11 (2)

HIGH SCHOOL 1514 916 (598)

MIDDLE SCHOOL 1385 1196 (189)

GORDON 659 471 (188)

HARRINGTON 1753 1,753

HUGHES 1417 661 (756)

WALTERS 805 679 (126)

M A S 520 409 (111)

Total 6300 6085 (215)

Increase /

(Decrease)

Accomplishments in Food Service:

1. Michigan Department of Education audited

the Fruit and Vegetable program at Harrington

Elementary. There were no findings in the

audit.

2. Over winter break new tile was installed at

the high school kitchen at Albion. Carpet was

removed from the two offices. The food

service office had tile under the carpet, Hi Tec

removed the glue. The walls are being

repainted.

January 2017 Facilities Report

from Tim Wise

• Working on work orders as they come in.

• Dealing with heating issue's as they arise. We had been having quite a few heating complaints from Crowell, Harrington Elementary and the Marshall Opportunity High School but those complaints have slowed down tremendously.

• Moving furniture at the opportunity high school, from locker rooms and other areas that had been used as storage, into a few unused classrooms so it is easier to get to as we need additional furniture.

• Enjoying this January thaw so we don't have to worry about snow for a little bit at least.

Transportation Board Report for January 2017

• We are getting ready for the next class of MYCA students

to start up. February 8th all MYCA students will attend the CACC center and choose classes they would like to attend. We will be running three buses three days a week to transport students back and forth to class.

• The student count has been holding steady at around 1,150

riders traveling around 950 miles daily. We have several homeless students that we are providing transportation for. We are reimbursing the parents for transporting some of these students because it is less expensive than using a school bus.

• Winter and potholes have not been kind to our equipment.

We are seeing a rise in repair cost to steering and suspension parts for our buses.

• I attended a meeting at the county road commission and

they are changing things in the way they schedule drivers. From this point forward they will be putting trucks on the road at 4:00 a.m. This will help them get to our roads cleared much quicker than before.

Thank you, Mike Walbeck Director of Transportation