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MUSTANG EXPRESS AUGUST 2 0 2 1 SAVE THE DATE August 17 - Elementary Schools - Virtual Open House August 18 - WELCOME BACK EVERYONE! WW & MHS - Virtual Open House August 24 - It is hard to believe that summer is over! For the 5 - 7 pm - Eads Back-to-School BBQ first time in nearly 18 months, our hallways and classrooms are filled with students. It is great to be August 24 - 6 pm - Elliott PTO Meeting back together again. The administrators, teachers and staff of the School Town of Munster could not August 25 - 7 pm - FHH PTO Meeting be more excited to have our students back in the buildings. As always, thank you for choosing STM August 26 - for your child’s education! We greatly value and 5 - 7 pm - Elliott Back to School Party appreciate your trust placed in us! August 26 - 6 pm - WWMS PTO Meeting THE SUPERINTENDENT'S MESSAGE It is time to ring in the school year! Another exciting school year is upon us, and I want to welcome students, parents, teachers, staff members and administrators back to school. Considering everything that we all went through last school year with Covid-19, I know that whatever this next year brings, we will handle it well together. Since last year, we have experienced several changes in our corporation. We continue to work on updating all of our facilities. This summer has brought about new paved parking lots, buildings being painted, new classrooms such as our Makerspace (Fab) Room and Incubator Room at MHS. We added new flooring in classrooms and hallways as well. These projects will continue into the next few years as we are able to do lots of much needed renovations. I hope that all of our STM students have taken time this summer to read books, visit libraries and museums, or have taken a vacation to a memorable place. Summer can be a great time for students to enjoy new experiences with family and friends. It is also a time for them to work summer jobs. Over the summer, many parents may not see the changes in their children, but our teachers do when they return to school. It is wonderful to see those changes in our students especially when they grow so much physically that we don’t always recognize them right away. We also notice how much our students have grown intellectually. It is surprising to find out what they have learned. Teachers know that their students have had numerous educational experiences over the summer, and that they will want to share those experiences with them and their classmates. I know that many of our parents and our students are looking forward to this school year. Returning to school for many students who were at-home learners may be challenging but our counselors, teachers and administrators have prepared opportunities for students to acclimate back into the school setting. This will add to our parents and our students’ anticipation of new opportunities for academic growth and learning. There will be many new adventures in learning that students can explore just by physically being back in class and participating in person. We encourage all students to participate. Best regards to all of our students, parents, teachers, staff and administrators this year, and have a successful 2021-2022 school year. Dr. Jeff Hendrix CURRICULUM & INSTRUCTION Greetings! Welcome to the 2021 – 2022 school year which will be marked by continued academic success. My name is Colleen Bergren and I began serving the School Town of Munster as the Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction on July 26th. I am thankful to work in a school district which values excellent instruction and sets high expectations for student learning. My previous professional experience includes Director of Student Services, Principal, Assistant Principal and Teacher with my most recent endeavor as a Senior Specialist with the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching. The School Town of Munster’s mission and vision align to my own core values in education which place student excellence in learning at the forefront. I look forward to serving our school community and continued growth and success in teaching and learning! The 2020 – 2021 school year brought change to the student’s learning environment and teachers transformed their lessons to meet the needs of both in-person and virtual learning. The innate ability of our school community to adapt led to some of the strongest ILEARN and ISTEP+ scores in the state of Indiana. I have highlighted the outstanding performance of our 3rd graders on ILEARN Math as well as our 10th graders on ISTEP+ ELA. Parents, thank you for your continued support of your child’s education and the School Town of Munster. Together, we are A District of National Distinction – Supporting Every Child Every Day! MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL Welcome to Munster High School! Recently, Munster High School learned that our students were second in the state in English Language Arts ISTEP scores among all public schools. MHS also finished as the fourth highest ranked school in Mathematics among all public schools and third overall for students who New MHS staff members passed both E.L.A. and Math. Well done teachers and students. Your hard work and dedication really paid off! There was quite a bit of construction at Munster High School also saw the Munster High School this summer. Sixteen addition of new staff members. Brad classrooms in the North part of the building Docter and Beth Raspopovich moved were renovated this summer. In addition, from the classroom to new administrative the following projects took place at Munster roles. Mr. Docter is now the Dean of High School: Students and Ms. Raspopovich is the Assistant Athletic Director. Student New Business Incubator classroom created Services will also see Mrs. Helen Fuller New Fabrication Lab (makerspace) was created Podcasting room created as a new Dean of Students. Film studio room created Parking lots were repaved Abby Brousseau - Family & Consumer Science Band tower was purchased and will be able to Amanda Czyszczon – Science transition from the South parking lot to the Koula Amanatidis – Computer Science Practice football field between the end of band Maria Bellahcen – Spanish and ELL camp and the start of marching season Dana Bell – Mathematics New storage sheds are currently being erected Catherine Gonzalez – Business Ceramics room was renovated Katelyn Propper – Family & Consumer Science Karen Schwartz – Credit Recovery Mr. Mike Wells Scott Stalbaum – Social Studies Kristen LaFlech – Business Alexander Radosavljevic – Mathematics Ian Marcusiu – Band Director Tanya Mead – Mathematics Cynthia Kielbasa – Counselor (maternity leave) Mark Dye – Social Studies Mike Bakker – Science MUNSTER HIGH SCHOOL LINK C R E W Link Crew is a high school transition program that welcomes freshmen and makes them feel comfortable throughout the first year of their high school experience. Built on the belief that students can help students succeed, this is a proven high school transition program that trains mentors from our junior and senior classes to be Link Crew Leaders. As positive role models, Link Crew Leaders are mentors and student leaders who guide the freshmen to discover what it takes to be successful during the transition to high school and help facilitate freshman success. Link Crew will be lead by Bri Sabaitis and Kristen Szafasz. WEB WEB, an acronym for Where Everybody Belongs, is a transition program designed to help 6th Graders adjust to life as a middle schooler. Selected 8th graders participated in WEB Leadership training over the summer to become WEB Leaders. Throughout the school year, WEB Leaders will serve as mentors to 6th grade students in a number of ways. The 8th graders will lead the 6th graders during morning check-ins as well as events after school designed specifically for WEB leaders and their mentorship of 6th Graders. The advisor of WEB this year is Bojan Jovanovic. MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL Welcome to the 2021-2022 school year! I am truly excited to get this school year started. It is going to be a great year. Wilbur Wright will continue to stay our course, providing an education that strives for personal excellence. We will do this in an intellectually challenging environment that supports a student's emotional WWMS New Hires wellbeing. We envision ourselves as a key part of the corporation's success in being a "District of National Distinction." We encourage our families to become partners in your child's education and engage with the Wilbur Wright Community. Please use our website, and its ongoing development as a resource and tool to MESSAGE FROM stay engaged and up-to-date on the Wilbur Wright Community. 21-22 is going THE PRINCIPAL to be a great year! Go Mustangs!!! Mr. Morgan Nolan WILBUR WRIGHT MIDDLE SCHOOL EADS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Eads New Hires MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL It is amazing how fast the summer weeks fly by. This summer’s construction project was removing carpet from the main hallway and replacing it with tile. The hallway is shiny and ready for 512 pairs of little feet to walk on. Brian Ayersman will be a new third grade teacher at Eads. Brian is a retired Munster Police Officer and former D.A.R.E. officer. We are happy to add him to our staff. LaToya Edwards will be the full-time assistant principal at Eads. While our students were enjoying the sun during summer vacation, our custodians worked hard cleaning the rooms, offices, hallways and windows to make the building sparkle before the students return. We would like to give a big shout out to all of the custodians in our district. The PTO is hosting our annual back-to-school BBQ on August 24th.

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