UPCOMING EVENTS
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Thursday was amazing for Mohawk FFA. Congrats to Peyton Robinson on her 3rd place finish in advanced job interview and qualifying for Sectionals. GOOD LUCK! Our Advanced Ag Mechanics team finished second both Kayson Eck and Lile Eisele were in the top ten individuals. Emma Romane finished second in the Beginning Job Interview. All participants work really hard and representing Mohawk High School with pride.
All robotics teams, IQ and EDR, are competing this Saturday in Sandy. This is a large and important tournament, and all team member should be there.
Students should be at the school by 5:00 AM to load the bus, departure at 5:15 AM.
TEAM 76124G Team Squated Pants won the Excellence Award! This is the top award, and qualifies them for Nationals in the spring! Congratulations !
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DISTRICT NEWS
Superintendent’s Newsletter
Happy New Year to the MSD community Marcola School District and community continues to move forward with changes and innovations that are in the best interest of the students we serve. As I prepare to hand over the Superintendency to another very qualified and innovative leader, I will be leaving with a strong sense of pride for our accomplishments the past 6 years. We worked…
Letter from the MSD School Board
Dear Parents and Community Members: Our district Superintendent Bill Watkins, is retiring and will be officially leaving the district on June 30, 2020. Finding a new chief executive officer is now the board’s most important task. Before the search begins, the board wants to explore what qualifications our staff and community believe our new Superintendent should have. We’re inviting you to help develop the list…
Marcola School District Embraces Technology
Marcola School District Embraces Technology Students are learning the skills necessary to be successful in a digital world. It was quiet on a morning in the Middle School English classroom at Mohawk Middle/High School, where everyone was coming to class half awake. That was until teacher Renee Klein made the same announcement her students would hear throughout the school day — and have been hearing…
Curt Irish, Long Time Marcola Resident, Supports the Marcola School District Farm to School and Career Technical Education Program.
Marcola School District (MSD) is leading the way when it comes to Career Technical Education (CTE) programs in rural schools. In the past 5 years, MSD has implemented 5 Career Tech Education Programs of Study; Agriculture, Construction, Engineering, Computer Science and Health Occupations. Recently, MSD purchased Curt Irish’s farm to expand our CTE programs. Curt has always been a huge supporter of CTE programs -…
Nathan Crompton returns to Marcola School District as Director of IT for MSD and TNW
For the past 5 years, Marcola School District has contracted with Ambient IT Solutions to provide all IT services to our district including TNW. Nathan Crompton was a Tier 3 Network Engineer for Ambient and for a few years he was assigned to Marcola (1-2 days per week). We have appreciated Nathan and his co-workers at Ambient and have now come to the conclusion that…
Social Emotional Learning, A letter from the Superintendent
Dear Community, I am writing this short newsletter to explain the purpose and success of our Social Emotional Learning Program. Today’s schools are increasingly multicultural and multilingual and full of students from diverse social and economic backgrounds. Marcola School District is not experiencing the advantage of having an increase of multicultural and multilingual students, however, we are experiencing an increase of students with diverse social…