Patriot News
September 9th 2022
Message from the Principal
Dear Eisenhower Students and Families,
It was a pleasure seeing you and your students during the first week of school. As we have shared in our previous newsletter, our primary focus is student achievement. To do so, we must establish school-wide expectations to keep students safe as they learn to collaborate with others socially and emotionally. This week we reviewed school-wide expectations, classroom expectations, hallway expectations, lunch room, recess, bathrooms, and more. We expect students to follow our patriot code to be safe, respectful, and responsible. It is essential to have you support this work and review these expectations with your students. We want students to grow and learn this year, starting with being safe, respectful, and responsible. We look forward to an exciting month of September.
Parents, next week, we will launch our Positive Behavior Incentive Program and do a soft launch of our attendance system. Parents, we will begin to notify you via text or email when students are late to class. Please ensure that your emails and phone numbers are accurate so that you are notified of students being late to class.
The academic pace will pick up next week, so please help us to encourage students to be on time for classes, attend school, complete all classroom and homework, remain organized and have complete focus. We appreciate your support in our school year goals.
Sincerely,
Dr. Wilnic Gideon
Principal
Kate Vafaeezadeh
Assistant Principal
Pachomius Schmidt
Assistant Principal
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Big Changes with School Meals for 2022-23
There are big changes happening with school meals for the 2022-23 school year that are important for you to understand. As we continue to return to ‘normal,’ the USDA is no longer able to extend the ‘free meals for all’ waiver we have appreciated the last two school years.
However, our state recently passed a new bill that eases the transition, called the Community Eligibility Provision, or CEP for short. CEP is a free meal service option for schools and school districts who have a 40 percent or higher number of students who qualify for free and reduced lunch.
Everett Public Schools worked hard to group the largest number of schools possible that kept the average percentage above the program threshold and because of this, 18 of our schools qualify for this program, including our school.
This means that breakfast and lunches are free to all students at these schools, regardless of free and reduced lunch qualifications.
Families at these schools will fill out a household income report, which has been emailed directly to you, in place of the free and reduced lunch application. This report is important to provide students access to free waivers and other services.
We are so excited to be able to use this new program to offer free meals to the students in our district who may need some extra support and to all of our students, no matter where they learn, we will continue to offer nutritious and delicious meals that include seasonal fresh fruits and vegetables, scratch-made whole grain foods and lean proteins, with vegetarian and gluten free options too.
There has never been a better time to eat school meals. We look forward to serving you soon.
Community Transit free to youth 18 and under
Starting September 1, youth 18 and under can ride all Community Transit services for free. That includes buses, DART paratransit service and vanpools (if they belong to a vanpool). Teens aged 13-18 are strongly encouraged to get a Youth ORCA card to use for fare “payment.” Community Transit will be providing them at our high schools before school starts and middle schools when they get further shipments. For more information visit Youth Fares Community Transit.
Art credit: Chunqi Zhao , Everett Career Link summer intern at the transit dept. for the city of Everett and H.M. Jackson High School senior.
World Language Assessments
Can Your student Speak, Read, Write AND Understand a world language? Students in grades 7-12 can earn high school credit and special recognition through World Language Assessment.
Fall registration is open from now to September 30th. Register to the front office with Ms. Cornelius to take the WLA for just 10.00!!
Let's Connect October 6th 2022 4:30pm
Address:
1419 Trillium Blvd SE
Mill Creek 98012
Please give us feedback on the the following questions
1.) What are academic needs your student may have?
2.) What does student achievement mean to you?
Car Pick up and Drop Off
Athletics
All information regarding athletics has been updated on the school's website. You can find schedules, how to register for sports, and how to turn in a physical format:
https://www.everettsd.org/domain/1520
Question about athletics? - Contact Kate Vafaeezadeh, Assistant Principal / Athletic Director
425-340-1653
Volunteers Welcome Back!
School PTSA
Parents want to find out ways to support our students? Please Join PTSA? You can Sign up Easily online using this QR Code below.
Visit IKE PTSA Online!
https://www.facebook.com/IKEMSPTSA7365
https://www.instagram.com/ikeptsa/
For more INFORMATION & UPDATES about the PTSA, follow us on Instagram @IKEPTSA & Facebook https://www.facebook.com/IKEMSPTSA7365/ or visit our website at ikeptsa.weebly.com
Parent Technology Tools
CANVAS - Canvas is a learning management system (Canvas LMS) that equips teachers and students with a dynamic, easily accessible content portal. Parents may use the Canvas Parent App to keep track of their child's classes in Canva.
HOME ACCESS CENTER (HAC) - Home Access Center is an online application where K-12 students and parents go to:
update their own phone number or email information
enroll another child in school
complete annual update forms including emergency contacts, family military status, home language and more
access attendance, discipline, test results, IEP plans and transportation information
GRADEBOOK FOR FAMILIES - Gradebook offers parents and students secure online access to real-time information about how students in your family are doing in school. Gradebook allows guardians of students to sign up for email subscriptions to grade and assignment reports, view their student's current grades, assignments and attendance.
Please visit our Technology webpage for more information and to view frequently asked questions.
Hallway Expectations
Reminder of School Information
Start of School
School starts at 8:15 am. The school day runs from 8:15am-2:50pm. Students may come as early as 7:50am to get breakfast before school starts.
Bus Schedules
Please visit the district website to learn the routes and schedules for your student on the transportation page.
Transportation / Overview (everettsd.org)
Payments
You can make payments at school between 8am and 3pm. Also, you can send a payment (cash or check made out to Eisenhower Middle School) with your student and they can pay in the office before, after school, or during their lunch. You can also make payments online at https://wa-everett.intouchreceipting.com
Attendance
Please report all absences within 24 hours by sending a note with your student or sending an email: EISAttendance@everettsd.org Each day your student is absent from first period, you will receive an automated notification.
If you leave a voicemail, please provide a written note or email within 30 days of your student’s first day back to school.
Athletics
Fall Sports (Cross Country, Football, Softball) starts September 12th
Please visit Eisenhower Athletics 2022-2023 for more information. Also remember that all athletic registration forms are done online now at www.rankone.com