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North Marion Middle School Is Transitioning to Short-Term Distance Learning/La escuela secundaria North Marion está en transición al aprendizaje a distancia a corto plazo |
The rapid rise in COVID-19 cases driven by the Omicron variant has contributed to a fast rise in absences of students and staff at North Marion Middle School. The ability to fully staff and safely operate our schools is a key factor that has resulted in the difficult decision to transition North Marion Middle School to short-term distance learning. |
Press Release | Mon, 01/10/2022 | |||||||||
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Celebrating Our School Board |
Please take a moment to say thank you to a member of the all-volunteer, seven-member North Marion School Board Directors: Chair Glenn Holum, Vice Chair Heidi Torian, Bill Graupp, Kristie Buckland, Richard Goddard, Ricardo Verastegui, and Crystal Rostocil. |
Press Release | Mon, 01/10/2022 | |||||||||
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Welcome, Kira Luscher! |
North Marion Middle School’s one counselor was supporting 400 teenagers in the midst of “these trying times” for several months. But no more! Despite a national labor shortage, the school’s co-principals were able to recruit a second Middle School Counselor, Kira Luscher, who came on board in December. |
Press Release | Wed, 01/05/2022 | |||||||||
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Join the Grow This! Oregon Garden Challenge |
From microgreens to pole beans! Home gardening is part of Oregon’s history, but more than ever before, Oregonians can benefit from growing gardens and sharing garden knowledge and skills. The Grow This! Oregon Garden Challenge is a call to action to families, schools and other groups to garden together and eat what we grow. What is the 2022 Challenge? Anyone can join using their own seeds! While supplies last, Oregonians who sign up and request seeds will be mailed seeds free of charge: |
Press Release | Tue, 01/04/2022 | |||||||||
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Michael Stewart: An Unusual Educator with a Mountain of Experience |
It’s safe to say that North Marion High School’s Michael Stewart isn’t exactly a typical high school counselor. In fact, he’s not typical at all. |
Press Release | Wed, 12/15/2021 | |||||||||
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Charting the District’s Course to the Future |
A group of North Marion community members have banded together to create a vision and plan for the future of the children in our school community, kicking off a strategic planning process with an initial planning meeting on Dec. 13. |
Press Release | Wed, 12/15/2021 | |||||||||
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Giving Tree Project Success |
Students and teachers at the Middle School take a moment to appreciate the toys that the North Marion community contributed for children in need during the annual Giving Tree Community Service Project. Remember, you can donate to Love Santa Inc. anytime (www.lovesantainc.org) to support this effort. |
Press Release | Thu, 12/09/2021 | |||||||||
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North Marion Middle School Students Explore the Wonders of the Working World |
North Marion Middle School (NMMS) AVID students dove into an examination of potential careers this past month, connecting with organizations in key local industries ... |
Press Release | Wed, 12/08/2021 | |||||||||
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Gentle Signs in Sometimes Difficult Times |
There were several student suicides in North Marion and neighboring areas in the early weeks of 2019, prompting the community to pull together to grieve ... |
Press Release | Wed, 12/08/2021 | |||||||||
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North Marion Primary School Teachers Win Maps Grant! |
One night, Primary School teachers were discussing improving instruction when they had a realization ... |
Press Release | Wed, 12/08/2021 | |||||||||
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Coming Soon! Family Tech Talk Offers Support to Parents |
Check out a free Family Tech Talk event this month on Zoom at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan 25, 2022! |
Press Release | Tue, 12/07/2021 | |||||||||
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Finals Schedule for 2021 |
Here is the detailed Finals Week schedule for the High School: Thursday, Dec. 2
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Press Release | Wed, 12/01/2021 | |||||||||
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Part 4: ‘I Really Didn’t Know the Meaning of School, and Now I Do’: A Visit to a Middle School Classroom |
Some things just work better in person, including teaching a class on one of the hottest topics in tech: robotics. |
Press Release | Wed, 11/24/2021 | |||||||||
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School District Launches New COVID-Specific Email Address |
Do you have COVID questions? Well, you're in luck! The North Marion School District has just created a new COVID-19-specific email address! If you have COVID questions, we have COVID answers. Find us at: covid.help@nmarion.k12.or.us. |
Press Release | Thu, 11/18/2021 | |||||||||
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School District Launches New COVID-Specific Email Address |
Do you have COVID questions? Well, you're in luck! The North Marion School District has just created a new COVID-19-specific email address! If you have COVID questions, we have COVID answers. Find us at: covid.help@nmarion.k12.or.us. |
Press Release | Thu, 11/18/2021 | |||||||||
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Part 2: ‘All My Teachers Know Me,’ a Visit to a High School Classroom |
When Petula Clark belted out the “Downtown” soul hit of the 1960s, she could never have known that “Calculus: The Musical!” would set math lessons to the earworm ditty. (the mathematical lyrics include “derivatives of constants are always a slope of zero.”) But earlier this month, North Marion High School seniors were whispering or subtly mouthing the 2013 numbers-centric version in Math Teacher Remy Strapp’s Calculus Class. Strapp says that returning to in-person learning makes it easier to reach students through teacher or peer support and to offer more dynamic lessons, such as those that use singing or movement, or even a Jeopardy!-style math competition. |
Press Release | Wed, 11/17/2021 | |||||||||
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Part 3: ‘It’s About How They Treat You,’ a Visit to an Intermediate School Classroom |
Earlier this week, North Marion Intermediate School Teacher Jana Giles’s third-grade students enjoyed a hands-on lesson in cause and effect. Giles began with the cause. “What happened because we ate too much pumpkin pie?” |
Press Release | Wed, 11/17/2021 | |||||||||
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Giving Tree Community Service Project |
North Marion Middle School and High School, in partnership with Love Santa Inc., are extending the donation date for the Giving Tree event to help those in need. Here’s how to help ... |
Press Release | Tue, 11/16/2021 | |||||||||
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Part 1: ‘I’d give it a 10,’ a Visit to a Primary School Classroom |
So much makes a classroom great, the principals and teachers — but especially students like North Marion Primary School first-grader Valeria Guijosa, who helps her peers when they’re struggling with an assignment. |
Press Release | Wed, 11/10/2021 | |||||||||
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Announcement: Notice of Instructional Materials Review for English Language Arts Curriculum Adoption |
This notice serves to inform the North Marion community of the review of English Language Arts Instructional Materials. |
Press Release | Tue, 11/09/2021 | |||||||||
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The School District Academic Calendar Has Changed |
The North Marion School Board on Monday approved a request to adjust the Academic Calendar to change an instructional day to a Professional Development Day focusing on curriculum (January 3, 2022). “Teachers and IAs and everyone are working super, super hard,” K–5 Literacy Coach Page Gianella said at the Monday School Board meeting. “There is just not enough time to do what they need to do, so thank you to the administrators for recognizing that.” |
Press Release | Tue, 11/09/2021 | |||||||||
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Richard Goddard, a Longtime Community Leader |
One of the newest directors on the North Marion School Board is not only a former City Councilor for Wilsonville — he’s a local dad who’s engaged to a current Aurora City Councilor. |
Press Release | Tue, 11/09/2021 | |||||||||
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Bill Graupp, an Advocate for Equity |
Part 2: North Marion School District’s Three New School Board MembersRemember to View the Profile on New Director Kristie Buckland That Ran Last Week!Look for the Profile on New Director Richard Goddard Going Live Later This Week!By Jillian Daley Although he’s the newest addition to the North Marion School Board, Bill Graupp is a seasoned Director. |
Press Release | Mon, 11/08/2021 | |||||||||
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Kristie Buckland, a Major Asset to the Community |
One of the latest additions to the North Marion Board of Directors is a former U.S Air Force Major with a PhD and seven scientific publications to her name. But the community mostly knows her as Kristie Buckland, a married mom of a 10th-grader and a fifth-grader, who began her term on the School Board on Dec. 14, 2020. |
Press Release | Thu, 11/04/2021 | |||||||||
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Celebrating North Marion’s Principals |
National Principals Month seems like an annual fixture in October, but it’s actually a fairly new celebration. Launched in 2009, the tradition is one that already feels embedded in the North Marion School District culture as staff quietly honor our local heroes each fall. This year, we sat down with our building leaders to find out what it’s like to be a principal. Here's what they had to say ... |
Press Release | Wed, 10/27/2021 |
