Portrait of a Graduate represents MUSD's vision for the 21st century skills, character traits, and/or social-emotional competencies that students need to succeed in college, career, and life. It is a community's vision of the essential skills or attributes that students will learn before they graduate.

As a school community, we work together to help students develop these important skills and traits in many ways, some of which include:

Academic Achievement:

• We do regular progress monitoring, hold quarterly academic achievement awards for 3rd-5th grades, and have AZ state testing in the spring.

• We offer Intervention, Resource, EL, Gifted services to meet the needs of all students.

Attendance:

• Each minute of the school day provides opportunities for learning, and it's noticeable when students miss time. When a child doesn't show up for school regularly, they miss out on vital instruction that can make it difficult to catch up when they return. When absent, children also miss out on the opportunity to form meaningful relationships with peers and staff that can help them feel better about school and themselves.

• You can review your child's attendance at any time by logging into your ParentVue account.

SEL (Social Emotional Learning) is the process of learning essential life skills to be able to form healthy relationships, recognize and manage emotions, develop empathy for others and make responsible decisions. Research indicates that SEL instruction helps students have better motivation, academic performance, and behavior, while reducing emotional distress. As a result, students have the crucial social skills to navigate both their academic and personal lives. There are 5 core categories of SEL:

1. Self awareness: the ability to recognize and understand one’s emotions, thoughts, values, strengths, and weaknesses

2. Self management: the ability to manage one’s own emotions, thoughts and behaviors in different situations

3. Social awareness: the ability to understand, respect, and empathize with others

4. Relationship skills: the ability to form and maintain healthy relationships with peers, family members, community members, and others
5. Responsible decision-making: the ability to make thoughtful, ethical, caring and constructive choices

Mrs. Graham - Nathaniel, Ms. Hamili - Athena, Ms. Swanno - Melanie

Third Grade

Ms. Isenberg - , Ms. Palmer - Khalissee, Ms. Perio - Darian

Thanks to all who joined us for Donuts with Dad and supported our Fundraiser at Barros!

Front Office: 520-568-7150

Attendance: 520-568-7154

Health Office: 520-568-7153

Front Office Email: PBESrecords@musd20.org

42202 W. Rancho El Dorado Parkway, Maricopa AZ 85138