EJMS Jaguar Weekly Feb. 17 - 21

Keeping our School Community in the Know

From Principal Pickerill's Pen

EJMS Families,

I hope everyone had a good weekend and enjoyed the three day weekend with President’s Day. We had a great Kindness week last week and celebrated our students who met their growth goals for the year on iReady - thank you to the many families who set aside time in their busy schedules to come celebrate this huge achievement.

Upcoming Dates (SBDM Meetings at 4:30 PM in the EJMS library):

Thursday, February 27 - Choir Concert
Friday, February 28 - Club Day
Friday, March 7 - PTO Spring Dance

NTI Reminders

As you know, NTI (non-traditional instruction days) allow students to keep working if we are out of school and not make up the day at the end of the school year. If an NTI day is called, students must complete one day of NTI work. Your child’s teacher will be available by email from 9:00 AM -12:00 PM to answer questions.

Since we have now had a number of NTI days, students should have completed work for each class each of those days. If this has been done digitally (through Google Classroom), then students will turn in that work through online submission. If students have worked with their paper packets that went home this fall, then each of the completed papers needs to be brought back to school on the day when we return. These will be turned into homeroom teachers and/or arts and specific content teachers as evidence of the work completed.

Remember, NTI work is the same as homework. If it is not completed, it carries the same consequence as not doing homework. Please remember that for us to receive full credit (all 10 days) for NTI, all students must complete the work from EACH NTI day for EACH CLASS this includes one assignment for EACH Arts class and turn it in that same day online or the paper copy the day we return to school.

Title 1 Parent and Family Engagement News

Title I Parent News

Families- We wanted to share some reminders about our Title I School-Wide program.

Title I is one of the largest federal programs supporting elementary and secondary education. Title I funding allows us to provide resources to students. These supplemental resources help ensure that:

• All children have a fair, equal and significant opportunity to obtain a high quality education,

• Support and resources are provided to achieve proficiency on challenging state academic achievement standards and assessments.

At East Jessamine Middle, we use our Title I funding to pay for technology devices and software, additional classroom teachers, resources for family events, iReady diagnostics and instructional program, and professional development.

Please reach out if you have any further questions about our Title I program.