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ONE HOUR EARLY DISMISSAL – FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 2017

Please note: This article was originally published on 1/6/2017. Information and/or dates from past events may be not be relevant for the current school year. Clarksville-Montgomery County Schools will dismiss one hour early today, Friday, January 6. This allows time for the city and state street and highway departments to clear roads, and helps us avoid delivering students home at dark. Please work with us as transportation may be slower since the whole community is dealing with this unexpected snowfall and our buses may be running at a slower pace. Schools will remain open to receive students if the bus cannot deliver children to their stops. Parents will be contacted by the school if their child is taken to a school. Buses may not be able to follow the inclement weather routes if a road is not passable.


CMCSS HALF DAY DISMISSAL SCHEDULE – THURSDAY, JANUARY 5

Please note: This article was originally published on 1/5/2017. Information and/or dates from past events may be not be relevant for the current school year. JANUARY 5, 2017 – CMCSS WILL OPERATE ON THE HALF DAY DISMISSAL SCHEDULE FOLLOWED BEFORE WINTER BREAK. EACH SCHOOL’S HALF DAY DISMISSAL TIME IS LISTED ON EACH SCHOOL’S WEBPAGE LOCATED AT WWW.CMCSS.NET .  BREAKFAST WILL BE SERVED.  LUNCH WILL NOT BE SERVED.  PRE-K DOES NOT ATTEND TODAY.


Draft ESSA Plan Now Available for Feedback

Please note: This article was originally published on 12/20/2016. Information and/or dates from past events may be not be relevant for the current school year. Message from Commissioner Candice McQueen: Tuesday, December 20, 2016 As you know, we have been working over the past year to draft our state plan to transition to the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and build on the work we’ve started in partnership with you through Tennessee Succeeds. I am happy to share this draft plan with you today. We believe this presents a strong vision for the work ahead, clarity on how ESSA will strengthen our schools in Tennessee, and concrete strategies for how we will achieve our shared goals.


CMCSS Scores Top Marks in Student Achievement Growth

Please note: This article was originally published on 12/13/2016. Information and/or dates from past events may be not be relevant for the current school year. CMCSS SCORES TOP MARKS IN STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT GROWTH (Dec. 13, 2016) — The Tennessee Education Department today released its annual report card, which includes 2015-16 high school end of course exams and eighth grade algebra achievement and growth data. CMCSS is one of only two systems of the 15 districts serving more than 10,000 students which scored perfect fives in the growth categories of literacy, numeracy, the combined literacy and numeracy, and composite. The CMCSS graduation rate remains above state and national levels at 94.8 percent.


Education Department Unveils Redesigned Report Card

Please note: This article was originally published on 12/13/2016. Information and/or dates from past events may be not be relevant for the current school year. Education Commissioner Candice McQueen has announced the launch of a new district and school report card, which has a redesigned layout to help educators and families better access and understand information about their schools. The new site also includes results from the 2015-16 TNReady End of Course exams, which are coupled with the release of redesigned student reports that are available today for high school families to learn how their child performed on TNReady. The report card highlights a number of data points that capture the academic success of our districts and schools, and it also includes updated data from the 2015-16 year. One of those updated pieces is a new public school ACT composite average for the class of 2016: 19.9. This is higher than previously reported because the earlier number was limited to the last score a student received on the ACT, not necessarily their highest score, which is included in the new figure.


Announcement from Director of Schools Dr. B.J. Worthington

Please note: This article was originally published on 12/7/2016. Information and/or dates from past events may be not be relevant for the current school year. Dr. Worthington has served as Director of Schools since August 2012. He has been with CMCSS for 31 years as a science teacher, school administrator and chief academic officer. He received the Bob Grossman Leadership in School Communications Award from the National School Public Relations Association in 2013, the Mid Cumberland Superintendent of the Year, and was the Tennessee Department of Education Supervisor of the Year in 2011. He has received numerous awards in Tennessee for his leadership.


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Anticipatory Calls on School Closings and How to Set your Call Preferences in SchoolMessenger

During the winter months, bad weather sometimes impacts our area during the night or early morning, making it difficult to make a school closing announcement in the afternoon or early evening.  In an effort to help parents prepare, the Communications Dept. will make a call to all stakeholders on SchoolMessenger in the afternoon or evening before an anticipated weather event that could cause the closing of schools. This is to let stakeholders be aware of the possibility, and alert them to make plans “just in case.”  If schools will be closed, you can expect a call the following morning (between 5 and 5:15 a.m.) as you have in the past.  If you do not receive a phone call, schools will be open. If the information about a school closing is known earlier than 5 a.m., information will be posted to the CMCSS website, the CMCSS Facebook page, Twitter, and released to Nashville TV stations and local radio. When weather moves in early enough to make the decision on the afternoon/evening before, we will continue to follow our procedure of sending out a notification then.You can now choose how you want to be contacted by your school or the district. SchoolMessenger’s InfoCenter allows the ability to view and listen to messages from your school or district, add, delete and verify your contact information, and personalize how you receive school communications such as this one.  InfoCenter centralizes these communications in a unified inbox where you may access the contents of emails as well as voice and text messages.  If you are associated with students in different schools, all matching records will be linked to your account.  Simply set your communication preferences inside the SchoolMessenger InfoCenter parent portal.


Montgomery County Needs TNPromise Mentors

Please note: This article was originally published on 11/18/2016. Information and/or dates from past events may be not be relevant for the current school year. Want to make a big difference? Can you give 1 hour each month? Be one of 9,100 @TNPromise mentors! There is a week left for mentors to apply to assist the Class of 2017. Montgomery County still needs 72 mentors to meet the amount needed of 269. People can register to be a mentor here: https://tnachieves.org/mentors/apply/


Northeast Middle School Semifinalist for National STEM Grant Contest

Please note: This article was originally published on 11/16/2016. Information and/or dates from past events may be not be relevant for the current school year. Northeast Middle School has been chosen as a top 25 finalist in the Northrop Grumman Foundation’s 2016 Fab School Labs contest, with a chance to win an extreme science lab makeover! Mark your calendar to visit http://www.facebook.com/fabschoollabs and support Northeast Middle with your vote on Tuesday, December 6. Please share to encourage friends and family to participate because this is a community effort and every vote counts!


Principals Appointed at Byrns Darden, Hazelwood

Please note: This article was originally published on 11/3/2016. Information and/or dates from past events may be not be relevant for the current school year. Jessica Harris, who has served as principal at Hazelwood Elementary School for three years, has been appointed to the Byrns Darden principalship, replacing Andy Lyons who has accepted another position overseas. Cynthia Rogers, currently assistant principal at Hazelwood, will take on the leadership role at that school.