The Baker Blast

This week Baker hosted a fantastic food & goods drive, and thanks to the generosity of our community, we were able to collect an incredible amount of food and personal care items for those in need! The counseling team and character committee planned a lesson and started advertising to Baker students and families right after Thanksgiving break.

Students collected items and brought them to their 4th hour classrooms. During 4th hour, WEB (Where Everyone Belongs) students were able to use their class time to collect donations, and track points. Donated items are going to the OneTroy Food Pantry at the Troy Center for Transition and to Troy People Concerned where they will have a significant impact on our local families this holiday season.

A huge shout out goes to our counseling department, WEB, and the character committee for their work in organizing the drive. A big thank you goes to everyone who donated, volunteered, and spread the word! Together, we are making a difference. Let's keep this spirit of giving alive!

Take a look inside the OneTroy Food Pantry and meet the amazing people who run it! For Troy families, by Troy families - this pantry is a community initiative. Learn how you can support its mission one meal at a time! You can call (248) 823-8373 or email tctfoodpantry@troy.k12.mi.us to schedule a donation appointment or request a food bag!

Jeffery Liu (8th Grader) competed in a figure skating competition in Texas during Thanksgiving break. He placed 7th at the Midwestern Sectional and 4th at the Eastern Great Lakes Regional.

Jeffery practices every morning before school, and his dedication is clearly paying off! You can watch his recent performance on YouTube. Click on the link below to access it.

Baker MS robotics team TechKNOWLogic (#15004) is the winner of the prestigious INSPIIRE AWARD and advanced to Michigan State Championship on November 16th at the OCCRA League qualifying event.

Several Baker teams qualified for the state competition! These teams include:

• Circuit Breakers
• Tech KNOW Logic
• DinoByte
• Troy Titans
  

Congratulations to all our incredible teams!

Have you ever wished you could give a gift to your student's teacher or the staff at

Baker for the holidays? It's a bit overwhelming when each kid has 6 teachers in middle

school! We thought as a community we could work together to make our Baker

teachers and staff feel the love, especially this year!!!

We hope you will join us in showering our Baker teachers and staff with gifts! Just sign

up below. This year we are asking for $25 gift cards. Please indicate on your sign up

where you intend to purchase the gift card.

There will be a box in the office for your student to drop off their gift card. We will

distribute to the staff before the break. Please bring gift cards to the office by Friday

Decembe 13th.

Thank you and Happy Holidays!

Please join the Baker PTO in Dining out December 11th, 2024 - Buffalo Wild Wings 1873 E. Big Beaver Road - Buffalo Wild Wings was a generous sponsor of our Teacher Appreciation Week last May, please show your support for them and the PTO by Dining out next week.

The Troy School District is committed to keeping our community informed as we review our attendance area boundaries. This fall, we formed a committee composed of community members, TSD staff, building administrators, and central office administrators. The committee has been actively engaged in analyzing data, discussing options, and reviewing potential adjustments to the TSD school boundary maps.

The committee’s three main goals are to:

• Analyze enrollment across all four middle schools to achieve balanced enrollment.
• Resolve “double splits” that affect students’ transitions between schools.
• Ensure that high school attendance boundaries remain unchanged.

The attendance area review has four phases, and we are currently in Phase 1:

Phase 1: Discovery - The committee was formed. Research, analysis, and planning commence. The committee develops potential recommendations.

Phase 2: Recommendation (January) - The committee provides the board of education with a recommendation (options). The board determines if the district should move forward with the work.

Phase 3: Feedback (February - April) - TSD will hold four listening sessions, one at each middle school, to obtain feedback from our community. We will also send out a community survey for additional feedback.

Phase 4: Determination (April/May) - TSD will provide the Board with a summary of feedback, and they will determine any future changes.

To date, the committee has reviewed and discussed several options. The group will come together again on Monday, December 9, to finalize a few potential options for the Board to consider. The committee recommendation will be taken to the Board of Education in January to begin Phase Two. TSD will continue to provide our community with regular updates regarding the attendance area review.