MARTIN COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT

🚗MONDAY MORNINGS WITH MAINE🚗 Begin your weekly commute by catching up on the latest Martin County School District news and information with Superintendent Michael Maine! Tune in to the WSTU 1450 AM Morning Show tomorrow at 8. #ALLINMartin👊 #PublicSchoolPROUD #MCSDBetterTogether🌟

📚PRESERVING MEMORIES📚 High school yearbook teams recently created their own memories as they gained experience to preserve the memories for their classmates. The yearbook teams at Jensen Beach High School, Martin County High School and South Fork High School ventured to Pompano Beach High School for the District 7 Florida Scholastic Press Association (FSPA) workshop. More than 850 students gathered to learn tips and tricks from professionals in journalism and yearbook production. Shout-out to Yearbook Advisors Laura Green (SFHS), Tammi Haynes (MCHS) and August Specht (JBHS) for leading their students on this fantastic learning experience! #ALLINMartin👊 #MCSDBetterTogether💫 #PublicSchoolPROUD

🏵️CELEBRATING HISPANIC HERITAGE🏵️ Willoughby Learning Center's Girl Talk Club was immersed in Hispanic Culture at a recent club meeting, thanks to special guest speaker, Ms. Pam Lopez, the school's English Language Learner Paraprofessional! Ms. Lopez provided a taste of delicious Hispanic cuisine and presented a history lesson, including how Mexico claimed independence from Spain. #ALLINMartin👊 #MCSDBetterTogether💫 #HispanicHeritageMonth

➕✖️📐MAKING MATH MEMORIES📐✖️➕ Last night, Port Salerno Elementary School kicked off the first Family Math Night of the 23-24 school year, and it was math-tastic! Families were lined up out the door, waiting to dive into fun math-related games. Students showed off their math skills, participating in a number of B.E.S.T.-aligned (Florida’s Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking) and grade-appropriate math games. Activities included counting money and determining whether there was enough to purchase an item from the 'store,' rolling dice and 'racing to 100,' duplicating patterns, and more! Students who attended even got to take math kits and math-related books so the fun could continue at home! What a great event our fabulous math department, PSE's Math Coach and PSE staff put on! Keep an eye out for a Family Math Night coming to your elementary school! Tonight is SeaWind Elementary's turn! 📐✖️➕ #ALLINMartin👊 #PublicSchoolProud

🏵️CELEBRATING HISPANIC HERITAGE🏵️ Felix A. Williams Elementary staff recently enjoyed celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month by sampling homecooked food prepared by Paraprofessional Ana Ocasio! Ana generously shared her heritage with her colleagues by making family recipes such as Pigeon Peas and Rice, Pork Shoulder, Elbow Salad, Chicken Rice Soup, and Flancake! She also set up a display in the media center with artifacts from various Hispanic cultures for all students and staff to explore and enjoy. #ALLINMartin👊 #PublicSchoolProud

📚DUAL ENROLLMENT ALERT📚 Questions about Dual Enrollment? IRSC - Chastain Campus is hosting a dual enrollment information session on Oct. 10 at 6 p.m. Can't make it in person? No problem! Tune in LIVE every Thursday at 4 p.m. to have all your questions answered! Your eligible child can earn college credit for FREE while in high school! Visit https://www.martinschools.org/page/dual-enrollment for more information, or tune into the weekly LIVE session offered by IRSC - Indian River State College. See the photo for QR and dial-in information. #ALLINMartin👊

📈CHARTING THEIR COURSE📈 Jensen Beach High School students enrolled in the Architecture, Civil & Survey Drafting ctemartin class use top-of-the-line technology to learn industry skills. These students are well-versed in AutoCAD 2023, designing and drafting residential projects. They are creating a home from the ground up, from planning the landscape and deciding on the residence style to choosing the type of staircases and roof elevation. #ALLINMartin👊 #MCSDBetterTogether💫 #PublicSchoolProud

Thank you, Judge Jennifer Waters of the 19th Judicial Circuit, for visiting Murray Middle School during Constitution Week! Here at the Martin County School District, students gain valuable information about the U.S. Constitution and learn how the courts work from the experts! #ALLINMartin👊

🇺🇸✅PLEDGE TO VOTE✅🇺🇸 Next week is the annual High School Pledge to Vote Voter Registration Drive with the Martin County Supervisor of Elections! During the first week of October, the elections office team will visit every high school campus! Eligible 16- and 17-year-olds can pre-register to vote, and students 18 or older can register right then and there. 🏫🗳️ This is a VOLUNTARY, NON-PARTISAN voter registration opportunity. This civic educational initiative is open to 16 to 18-year-old students. Watch the video to hear from Supervisor of Elections Vicki Davis about this initiative and what students must bring if they choose to participate. ▶️✅ https://youtu.be/kHOf3O-UV9U #ALLINMartin👊 #PledgeToVote

🧇TASTY TUTORIAL🧇 Ms. Rachel Armstead's class is at it again! These Dr. David L. Anderson Middle School students continue to learn how to make tasty treats! Ms. Armstead's class received a donation of two new waffle makers, and the students made good use of them! Students prepped batter the day before so it could chill overnight. The next day, they made waffles topped with chocolate chips, whipped cream, blueberries, and maple syrup. Yum! 😋🧇 Students also focused on kitchen safety, cleanliness, and etiquette while seated at their dining tables. Valuable lessons and tasty treats happen in this CTE class! #ALLINMartin👊 #PublicSchoolProud

🏵️CELEBRATING HISPANIC HERITAGE🏵️ What an incredible week at Warfield Elementary School as they celebrated Hispanic Heritage Spirit Week this past week! Students and staff dressed up in various themes, showing their love and appreciation for Hispanic culture. The themes included dressing up as Hispanic influencers or characters, wearing vibrant and colorful attire, sporting jerseys, showcasing shirts in Spanish or other languages, and wearing a country's flag. On Thursday, families joined in on the fun during Hispanic Heritage Night! #ALLINMartin👊 #PublicSchoolProud #HispanicHeritageMonth

🏵️CELEBRATING HISPANIC HERITAGE🏵️ What an incredible week at Warfield Elementary School as they celebrated Hispanic Heritage Spirit Week this past week! Students and staff dressed up in various themes, showing their love and appreciation for Hispanic culture. The themes included dressing up as Hispanic influencers or characters, wearing vibrant and colorful attire, sporting jerseys, showcasing shirts in Spanish or other languages, and wearing a country's flag. On Thursday, families joined in on the fun during Hispanic Heritage Night! #ALLINMartin👊 #PublicSchoolProud #HispanicHeritageMonth

👋💚💙START WITH HELLO💙💚👋 This past week, students, staff, and families at Felix A. Williams Elementary celebrated Start with Hello Week! During Start with Hello, the goal is to teach the children how to be more socially inclusive and connected with each other. The Start with Hello initiative asks students, educators, parents, and community members who interact with children to take steps in the classroom, the lunchroom, recess, and other times in their day to be intentionally inclusive and connected to each other. In other words, to make each person seen. To celebrate a great week and to encourage students to continue to “Start with Hello,” FAWE welcomed the Jensen Beach High School Band and JBHS Student Government Leaders Friday morning. Every student was greeted with a hello, a high five, a wave, a smile, and some amazing music, thanks to the incredible JBHS band! The week ended on a "high note" and with a full circle moment. Many of the JBHS students who visited are FAWE alum, leading by example. Not only were they alum, but some were also part of the very first Start With Hello Week initiative eight years ago! It was a beautiful and joyous display of our district’s efforts to be #bettertogether. 💙💚 #ALLINMartin👊 #MCSDBetterTogether💫 #StartWithHello

🍎SCHOOLS CLOSED🍎 All Martin County School District-operated schools and offices will be closed on Monday, September 25. View our complete instructional calendar for the 2023-2024 school year: https://martinschools.org/page/calendars For all of our employees and families observing, we wish you a meaningful Yom Kippur. #ShanahTovah! #ALLINMartin👊

❤️🖤ARE YOU READY?!💛💙 The Martin Bowl (Martin County High School at South Fork High School) is one of the most anticipated annual athletic events of our Martin County community. Our Facilities and Maintenance crews have worked tirelessly to ensure Joe Budd Staggs Stadium is ready to welcome our student-athletes and spectators this evening! We're #ALLINMartin👊 and ready for gridiron action! 🐅🐾❤️🖤💙💛 Watch preparations here: https://youtu.be/6FNEfWN1y9I #PublicSchoolProud #fridaynightlights

🇺🇸CELEBRATING CONSTITUTION WEEK🇺🇸 Students across the Martin County School District are gaining a wealth of knowledge about the U.S. Constitution from their teachers, local judges, and attorneys this week. 🇺🇸 Attorney Christine Moreno presented yesterday to fifth-grade students at SeaWind Elementary - Hobe Sound, FL. She demonstrated how a bill becomes law. 🇺🇸 Judge Alan Forst visited South Fork High School social studies students and took a deep dive into Article V of the Constitution, which describes the process for altering the historic document, like adding amendments. 🇺🇸 Attorneys Kathryn McHale and Jessica Van Valkenberg were impressed Hobe Sound Elementary School's students in Mrs. Cuscak's classroom! They were very knowledgeable about the U.S. Constitution. Thank you to our guest speakers for providing invaluable insight on the document laying the foundation for our great nation during #ConstitutionWeek2023! #ALLINMartin👊 #MCSDBetterTogether

🎉CELEBRATING NEW BEGINNINGS🎉 On Tuesday, Sept. 19, the Martin County School District hosted a reception the celebrate the opening of the brand-new boardroom. This state-of-the-art facility has been years in the making, with planning, design and development beginning when the building was purchased from TCPalm in 2019. We could not be more grateful to our School Board members, Paul Jacquin & Sons, Inc., Harvard Jolly Architecture, our Maintenance and Facilities Team, our Educational Technology Team, the community and community leaders, and every single person or business who helped this building come to fruition. This is a community space! We look forward to the many meetings, special events and memories made in this new room. Watch the reception here: https://youtu.be/6nb_WYAkgd8?si=y955WDB0iLKAcUjV #ALLINMartin👊 #MCSDBetterTogether💫

🇺🇸CELEBRATING CONSTITUTION WEEK🇺🇸 To commemorate Constitution Week, first graders at Bessey Creek Elementary School were treated to a presentation by Mrs. Abby Spears, an attorney at Nason Yeager Gerson Harris & Fumero, P.A. Mrs. Dorothy Hyland, a first-grade teacher, engaged students in celebrating the 236th anniversary of the U.S. Constitution by delivering lessons about the document's seven articles and 27 amendments. Students learned that this document is the "Law of the Land" and to always remember the significance of "We the People." They also created flags and mailboxes to illustrate the theme of Red, White and Blue! 🇺🇸🇺🇸 #ALLINMartin👊 #ConstitutionWeek

🎉🥦CELEBRATING HEALTHY ACCOMPLISHMENTS🥦🎉 We're thrilled to announce that the Martin County School District's Food and Nutrition Service team recently passed their Child Care Food Program (CCFP) sponsor review with flying colors! CCFP is a program that ensures qualifying schools receive after-school Supper and Evening Snacks to keep our kids nourished and energized. 🍎🥪 This 🎉perfect🎉 review covered crucial aspects like Financial Management, Program Administration, Sponsor Oversight and Monitoring, and even Department of Health (DOH) checks at J.D. Parker Elementary School and Pinewood Elementary. We're incredibly proud of our dedicated team for their hard work and commitment to serving our students. Together, we strive for excellence in providing nutritious meals and promoting healthier futures for our kids! #ALLINMartin👊 #MCSDBetterTogether💫

🎉📚 Celebrating 100 Years of Stuart High School 🏫🎉 Today, we commemorate the 100th anniversary of Stuart High School, a building that has shaped countless lives in our community. It's not just a building; it's a century of memories, learning, and growth! We look forward to the next chapter of this historical building! 📸 credit: Martin County Library System, Martin Digital History and Sandra Thurlow. #ALLINMartin👊