Parents as Partners - December 7th @ 5:30 in the CMS Library

Dear Parents,

Chadron Middle School is planning a Parents as Partners meeting on December 7th at 5:30 PM in the CMS library.  CMS staff, public library staff, and UNL Extension have also been invited to attend. 

The intended outcomes of this meeting are:

1. Enhance parents' voices and engagement at CMS.

2. Develop strategies to: "witness the good" in our students, grow leadership opportunities for students and parents, enhance school/parent/community communication, identify barriers to better partnerships with school/parent/community and ideas to overcome them.

3. Develop a core parent advisory team to disaggregate data from the meeting and help plan next steps.

Agenda:

5:30 - Introduction

5:35 - Setting the Stage - confronting the past and moving forward

5:45 - World Cafe Discussion - What do we want our school/community culture to be?

6:35 - Debrief World Cafe Discussion

7:00 - Closure 

I'm looking forward to this meeting and I hope that you are able to attend.  

Best,

Nick Dressel

Chadron Middle School Principal

(308) 432-0708

nichlas.dressel@chadronschools.net

Caring for Sharing Food Drive

The Chadron Middle School Student Council kicked off the 2016 Caring for Sharing Food Drive on November 28th.  Students are encouraged to bring non-perishable food items to school through December 13th.  All of the collected food items will be donated to the Shepard's Pantry at the Chadron Immanuel Lutheran Church.

2014 and 2015 Results

As in years past, the Caring for Sharing Food Drive is a grade level competition.  The grade that collects the most non-perishable food items will compete against the staff in the "Nothing But Net" games on December 21st, which is the last day of school for the semester.  This has been a really fun event that students and staff look forward to. Parents are welcomed to attend the games and we will also do end of the quarter student awards including Cardinal Effort and Perfect Attendance.

NPPD Makerspace Arrives at CMS

NPPD set up 11 Makerspace labs in the CMS library on 11/28.   Mrs. Waugh's 4th block, 8th grade class was the first to try out the labs and it looked like a lot of fun!  CMS will have the Makerspace labs available for student use until December 16th.  We invite parents to stop by and check it out.  I think that you will be amazed at the technology that students have the opportunity to work with.

Kelton, Vince, Wyatt and Tom working in the electronics lab

Vince and Nathan programming robots

Becca and Emily working on coding

Keagan and Dylan working on wiring a speaker

Zach getting some instruction on how to run the laser cutter

Cobie and Aidan working on the 3D printer