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Mustangs In The Middle: 4-17-20
April 20th starts SCS Spirit Week!! Be sure to include #WeAreStrongsville in your social media posts.
SMS Track Uniforms
If you ordered a uniform for your athlete please fill out this survey. The same survey was sent to your email address too. So please only fill it out once. Thank you!
SMS Track Coaches
Chromebook Issues or Concerns...
Parents can report the issues that they are having, by using this form.
One of Our SMS Students Working On-Line at Home
Reading Club On-Line
Mrs. Gundlah Works with her 7th Grade Social Studies Class - Remote Learning Style!
Wondering how our Wellness Team is doing?? Here they are, working on Remote Learning Plans and Activities for our SMS Students!
Good Afternoon Everyone,
I hope you and your family are healthy, safe and enjoying this valuable time with one another. With our first official week of online remote learning in the books we will be making one small change to our presentation. Each FRIDAY if you could please go into the presentation and on the second slide where it says Step 2, click on the link to the google form and answer a few questions for us. Please click here to watch a short video outlining the directions for the new changes and additions starting this Friday.
With this being so new to all of us please make sure you are checking our presentation out at the beginning of each week for new changes, assignments, and activities. As always we are here for you, if you have any questions please feel free to reach out via email and we will get back to you in a timely manner.
Have a great week!
SMS Wellness Team
Dr. Novak Designed and Played Kahoot with Her Algebra Class
Ms. Arsenault, Ms. Elliott and Ms. Wolf showing some love to their students
SMS Remote Learning Plan - Repeat
All prior communications from the district level, as well as all remote learning plans and resources can be found on the district website and any building websites. They are located on the mainpage under the first two “shortcut” links on the right side of every page. As a reminder, links for the remote learning plans started on April 6th at 8:00 a.m. and will continue to be updated by 8:00 a.m. the beginning of every week.
Extended closure information with all communications coming from the district level click here.
District Wide Remote Learning Plans website click here
The middle school remote learning plan detail remote learning for all 6th - 8th grade students. It is housed on a Google Sheet titled SMS - Remote Learning Plan (click here). You will utilize the tabs at the bottom to navigate. The sheet is organized by grade-level and course. So, if I am an 8th grader, all I need to do is click on the 8th grade tab, find the classes I am taking in the fourth quarter, and follow the linked plans. The remote learning plans are organized with one week of plans in each column. As a parent, you can support your learners in engaging with the learning experiences one week at a time. As a general rule, middle school students should only be spending about 2-4 hours per day engaged in remote learning experiences.
Students taking high school credited or College Credit Plus courses at SMS will follow the high school grading procedures below. With regard to the middle school grading procedures during this closure for students taking non-high school credited courses, remote learning experiences assigned from April 6th until such time as schools are physically reopened will not be formally assessed and/or graded by the teacher. Teachers will ask that work completed be submitted in a manner that they would communicate with you, so that the teacher can provide descriptive feedback. With regard to third quarter grades, they will be finalized based on all work submitted by students up to March 12, 2020. Even if we return on May 4th, no report card grades will be issued for the fourth quarter for any course. Student report cards will only have grades for Quarters 1, 2, and 3.
Athletic eligibility for Fall 2020 will be based upon third quarter grades. Teachers will be working with individual students to accept and grade any missing work from the third quarter or with those students at-risk to fail a course based on the fact that no fourth quarter grades will be taken. We will always work to do what is in the best interest of the student.
Strongsville Middle School
Thank you for your continued support!
Website: https://www.strongnet.org/Domain/411
Location: 13200 Pearl Road, Strongsville, OH, USA
Phone: 440-572-7090
Twitter: @TheSMSMustangs