DMA Community Connection

Website: www.dallasisd.org/downtownmontessori
Location: 1901 Main Street, Dallas, TX, USA
Phone: 9727492500

School website: https://www.dallasisd.org/downtownmontessori

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DowntownIda

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DowntownIda

Mission: Our mission is to foster the emotional, intellectual, physical, and social development of the whole child by addressing the uniqueness of each in an authentic Montessori environment within a public school diverse educational community.

Vision: Our school will provide an authentic Montessori environment in an accredited Public Montessori School to meet the needs of the child through a commitment to the principles of Montessori education and full accountability to the public education standards.

Core Values: Love You, Love Others, Love Our World

Love You means; taking care of yourself so you can take care of others.

Love Others means; We are the example of what we want. We define our Excellence!

Love Our World means; Build other leaders in the spirit of Excellence, and you are cultivating a lasting legacy of LOVE to nurture our world and be kind to our world.

Dear DMA Giraffe Nation,

We are moving closer to our Spring Break Week. This week our Third and Fourth Grade Students will show what they know on the District Reading Common Assessment 3. Seeing our students grow and flourish in their work and independent learning makes me reflect on the quote by Maria Montessori, "The greatest gift we can give our children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of Independence." Thank you for trusting the work and the DMA Way to help each child develop their wings of independence to become a lifelong learner.

Please carefully read this memo, and check your child's weekly Wednesday Folder for flyers and handouts for upcoming events, as many great things are taking place in the land of DMA!

This important survey will obtain feedback to help improve schools in the district.

The survey will be emailed to parents whose addresses are available in PowerSchool.

Please help DMA reach its goal of 100 parents to take the survey.

Upcoming Events

03.07.23 – SBDM

03.08.23 – 3rd & 4th Grade Reading Common Assessment

03.09.23 – All Pro Dads Club Social Outing @ 4:30

03.13 – 17.23 – SPRING BREAK

03.20.23 – Campus Needs & New Building Committee Meeting @ 3:30

03.21.23 – Tea Talk & PTO

03.23.23 – Campus Needs Assessment Committee Meeting @ 3:30

03.22.23 – 3rd & 4th Grade Parent Meeting @ 5:00 pm

03.24.23 – PTO Play Date

03.25.23 – Second Session of Saturday School starts - Fam Jam @ Barack Obama

03.27.23 – SBDM Evaluation & Modification Committee Meeting @ 3:45

03.28.23 – 3rd & 4th Grade Math Common Assessment

03.28.23 – All Pro Dad’s Club Meeting @ 7:30 am

03.29.23 – DMA Report Cards for Cycle 3 go home

03.30.23 – Campus Improvement Plan Committee Meeting @ 3:30

Every school day counts in a child's academic life... A missed school day is a lost opportunity for students to learn. Together we are all aiming for our goal - 98% Attendance!

Here are our Grade Level Attendance Averages:

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Way to move the needle Giraffes!

Read more about attendance and the ways families can support student success here.

Please label ALL of your student's items! We want to keep hats, mittens, coats, sweaters, water bottles, etc. out of the lost and found. It is much easier to return misplaced items when they are labeled.

Our Instructional start time has changed to 8:00 am. Our dismissal time will start at 3:00 pm

• Arrival/Drop off will begin @ 7:15 am
• Students will be picked up from their waiting area @ 7:50 am
• Instructional learning begins at 8:00 am
• Dismissal/Pick up will begin @ 3:00 pm
• After school care begins @ 3:00 pm

• Always bring an ID to the office for all student pick-ups.
• Cut off time for early student pick-up is 2:30 PM.
• Parents must complete VOLY every school year in order to volunteer at our campus.
• No cupcakes or snacks high in sugar are permitted for Celebration of Life. Please bring healthy snacks the whole class can enjoy.
• No fast-food deliveries for students.
• Doors for students to enter the building every morning open at 7:15 AM.
• School starts at 8:00 AM, and tardies are distributed after this time.
• If a student arrives after 8:45 AM, this counts as a partial absence (T99).
• Always submit an excuse note anytime your student is absent.
• Please have your student adhere to the uniform policy.

• Stay tuned to the City of Dallas news and upcoming events at https://www.dallascitynews.net/

• Attendance Resources: Click here for Excuse Letter Parent services Attendance Matter

• Click here for the Food & Child Nutrition Services Forms

• Link for Voly: https://dallasisd.voly.org/

Checkout the news from Counselor Perryman! Click on her button below for the website and resources you need to have a successful school year.

The Great Lessons begin at DMA!

Check out the included video of the Importance of the Prepared environment for the classroom and how it can extend to your home environment. There are other videos, 2 articles, and then a book that you can purchase to help support your own family growth with our Downtown Montessori School.

Mr. Marvin invites you to visit his website. Click on the button below to begin a journey that has high heights!

Participating parents and stakeholders, please provide feedback to our afterschool program BGC.

School Club Survey links.

BGCD Parent & Caregiver Survey- School Campus

https://forms.office.com/r/RN6Vg3fRXg

School Administrative Partners Feedback Survey

https://forms.office.com/r/Yk5AEUHwh5

Boys & Girls Club will have Oratorical, Arts l, and photography. FEB 23 @ 5PM to 730 West Dallas Club 2060 Singleton Blvd Ste 104 Dallas Tx. We would like for DMA students to represent as well.

Math Blazers Grand Prairie Sat April 22 @9 am - Reach out to Mr. Dickerson for more information

For further information, please contact Mr. Dickerson @ rdickerson@bgcdallas.org

APD will meet twice this month on February 7th and February 28th. We hope to see you there.

· Downtown Montessori’s Amazon Smile Link:

https://smile.amazon.com/ch/85-2550090

· How to Change Your AmazonSmile Charitable Organization

To change your charitable organization:

1. Sign in to smile.amazon.com on your desktop or mobile phone browser.

2. From your desktop, go to Your Account, Amazon Smile, and then select the option to Change your Charity. Or, from your mobile browser, select Change your Charity from the options at the bottom of the page.

3. Select a new charitable organization to support.

Search: Ida B Wells Dallas PTO

SBDM

We feel the LOVE and are thrilled to report that over 19 million students in 115 countries were part of the 2023 Great Kindness Challenge!!! What an AMAZING celebration of kindness it was!

Because of your school's participation in The Great Kindness Challenge, we are honored to acknowledge you as a Kindness Certified School.

Way to Make A Tall Difference DMA!

#GiraffeProud