What's Happening Weekly @ MRH
As we prepare to turn the page to a brand-new year, we want to hear from you! What are your hopes, dreams, and wishes for our school community in 2025? Whether it’s a wish for more kindness, a classroom goal, or a big dream for the year ahead, we want to know what you’re hoping for in the new year!
How to Share Your Wish:
Send your hopes and wishes to mrhwishes@mrhschools.net by Friday, December 27. We’ll be gathering them to share in our upcoming December 30 edition of "What's Happening Weekly @ MRH" newsletter. Feel free to submit photos of you, your family, your pet, whatever! Your words and images might inspire others and help make 2025 our best year yet! We can’t wait to hear what’s in your heart!
✨ Wishing you a bright and hopeful New Year! ✨
Two director positions, each holding three-year terms, are open on the Maplewood Richmond Heights Board of Education in the April 8, 2025 election. The filing period will continue through Tuesday, December 31, 2024, at 5 p.m.
Candidates must file in-person at the St. Louis County Board of Elections Office, 725 Northwest Plaza Drive, St. Ann, MO 63074. No filing will take place at the District office. Candidates may file between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Filing ends at 5 p.m. on the last day of candidate filing only. The Board of Election office will be closed on December 25, and may also close due to inclement weather.
If you have any questions regarding candidate filing, please contact Kat Norton at 314-644-4400 or kat.norton@mrhschools.net, or the St. Louis County Board of Elections at 314-615-1851.
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the virtual Community Conversation on December 10. Tap the video link below to watch a recording of the session. What is Personalized Competency-Based Learning? The Missouri framework includes the following eight elements that define a competency-based, personalized learning (PCBL) system: Students are empowered daily to make important decisions about their learning experiences, how they will create and apply knowledge, and how they will demonstrate their learning. Assessment is a meaningful, positive, and empowering learning experience for students that yields timely, relevant, and actionable evidence. Students receive timely, differentiated support based on their individual learning needs. Students progress based on evidence of mastery, not seat time. Students learn actively using different pathways and varied pacing. Strategies to ensure equity for all students are embedded in the culture, structure, and pedagogy of schools and education systems. Rigorous, common expectations for learning (knowledge, skills, and dispositions) are explicit, transparent, measurable, and transferable. Students engage in Authentic (Real World) Learning experiences that support high school, college, career and workplace readiness.
Save the Date!
Our next (and final) Community Conversation about Personalized Competency-Based Learning will be held at Schlafly in Maplewood on March 5, 2025, at 6:00 p.m. We hope to see you there!
Would YOU be willing to part with a gem such as this? Dick Ulrich did, for the sake of his alma mater.
Mr. Ulrich is a 1961 Maplewood Richmond Heights graduate who recently donated this letterman jacket, complete with pins and patches, back to MRH High School. Ultimately, the jacket will go on display in the refurbished gymnasium lobby along with the school’s collection of trophies and artifacts from decades past.
Dick Ulrich -- a four-sport athlete -- served as class president in his freshman, junior and senior years. He was active in the Honor Society, the school paper, and student council. After graduating from Grinnell College and the University of Missouri Law School, he continued to serve his community as a board member of the St. Louis Charitable Foundation, the West County YMCA, the Normandy Literacy Program, and a campaign that resulted in a new track being built at MRH. Mr. Ulrich went on to become an attorney who actually represented the MRH board of directors for seventeen years. He also represented the Special School District of St. Louis County during a class-action lawsuit designed to abolish SSD. In 2018, he was inducted into the MRH Alumni Hall of Fame. Today, he remains active in the Kiwanis Club of Maplewood, volunteering at events which benefit MRH students.
Thank you for your generosity, Dick Ulrich!
December 19: Board of Education monthly meeting
December 20: Teacher work day (no school for students)
December 23: Winter break begins
January 3: First day back for teachers (not students)
January 6: First day back for students
MRH Youth Sports' wrestling registration for 1st-8th grades is open through January 6, 2025, at MRHYS.org. Financial aid is available. Reach out to mrhyouthsports@gmail.com with any questions, and we’ll see you on the mats!
MRH Youth Sports
7616 Williams Ave
Maplewood, MO 63143
Maplewood Comprehensive Plan Community Survey (Closes Dec. 31)
The City of Maplewood is excited to announce the launch of its Comprehensive Plan update, an important document that will help shape the future of our community for the next 10-20 years! This updated plan will serve as a roadmap for Maplewood's growth and development, guiding decisions related to housing, land use, community and economic development, infrastructure, public services and more. By setting clear objectives and action steps needed to achieve them, the Comprehensive Plan will ensure Maplewood remains a great place to work, play, and call home.
THIS SURVEY provides an opportunity for community residents and stakeholders to get involved with the process, providing feedback and insight based on your experiences in the City. Please take a few minutes to answer the questions. The survey will close on the last day of 2024.
Questions? Visit the City's website for more information.
