Las Cruces Public Schools will be collecting general hygiene donations via drive-thru from 11am-2pm today out front of the Karen M. Trujillo Administration Complex to supply Care Kits for Kids to help support LCPS students. Please stop by to help support this great cause.
Please take this brief Assessing & Grading survey to help determine what's most effective regarding our assessment, grading, and reporting practices for our students: https://www.research.net/r/LasCrucesPS.
From October 17 to November 4, you can help make a huge difference in the lives of Las Cruces Public Schools high school students! Our healthcare community is proud to come together to support the Las Cruces Public Schools Foundation, Inc. Care Kits for Kids personal hygiene supply drive. See the image for the two ways in which you can support this great cause. Drop-off bins will be located in the main lobbies of MountainView Regional Medical Center and Three Crosses Regional Hospital, and at Central Office in the Karen M. Trujillo Administration Complex. #MakingCommuntiesHealthier #CareKits #ForKids
Students get ready for the return of the Las Cruces Space Festival poster contest!! The Las Cruces Space Festival is an annual celebration of space-related activity and interest in southern New Mexico and beyond. The mission is ‘Making Space for Everyone’. The festival is free to participate in, and open to all, with the cost of activities, presentations, displays, and exhibits all covered by sponsors. Please see the flyer for contest details. For more information, please visit: lcspacefestival.com.
Happy Monday MVLA!
Here's our November Newsletter!
https://www.smore.com/72xup
Hi MVLA families! This month's PTO meeting is tonight at the school. If you can't make it in person, the zoom link is in your email. Hope to see you at 6pm!
Las Cruces Public Schools was invited to the Doña Ana County Commissioners meeting today to accept the proclamation for Diabetes Awareness Month in Doña Ana County. Doña Ana County Commissioner Manuel Sanchez honored LCPS for the work and commitment the district has done to serve students and staff living with diabetes. LCPS provides a registered nurse in every school and educates staff to recognize the signs of diabetes while actively helping those living with diabetes.
Doña Ana County Commissioner Shannon Reynolds stated that LCPS exemplifies what Senate Bill-48 was designed to do.
Whereas, worldwide, we acknowledge November as Diabetes Awareness Month to bring attention to diabetes, and awareness of all forms of this chronic condition and over the past 10 years, the risk of developing Type 2 Diabetes has significantly increased.
Today, we highlight diabetes because of its detrimental impact on our community, as pre-diabetic. Yearly, 12,484 people in New Mexico are diagnosed with diabetes; and amount adults, Type 1 Diabetes accounts for 5% of diagnosed cases.
Nationwide, an estimated 110 people are diagnosed with T1D every day, half of them are children. These children live with the daily struggle of continuous monitoring, anxiety, caused by difficult-to-maintain sugar levels, and a need for timely snacks with a continuous risk of potential complications.
SB-48, the Student Diabetes Management Act of 2019 provides guidelines for school districts to follow in managing students with Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes and allows for needed training for school staff, so they can recognize early signs of a potential emergency. The requirements help standardize the type of care and management parents can expect for their children while they are at school; and whereas, statewide, free diabetes prevention or self-management program classes are available at www.pathstohealthnm.org. The Southern New Mexico Diabetes Outreach helps prevent and manage diabetes and hosts a monthly T1D education group for youth and a yearly conference scheduled on October 29 featuring wellness and vision screenings, talks about diabetes medications, cooking and more.
Click the link for the full proclamation: https://5il.co/1jt0l
Register at SNMDO@snmdo.org.
On October 25, the Doña Ana County Commissioners gave a Proclamation designating November 26, as Ronnie Granados day in Dona Ana County.
Sgt. Granados passed away after a brief illness on September 12, 2022. He was a Sergeant for the Doña Ana County Sheriff Office and Public Servant who started his career in law enforcement in 1990 as a codes enforcement officer. He transferred to the Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Office 5 years later, where he served with honor and integrity for the next 13 years, working as a patrol deputy, a detective, expert crime scene processor, and a member of the bike patrol.
After retiring in 2008 as a sergeant, he returned four years later to do contract work as a D.A.R.E. and G.R.E.A.T. teacher. He started at Tombaugh Elementary, and then spent the next 25 years with LCPS students, Hatch Valley Public Schools and also in the Gadsden Independent School District.
Being in the classroom was Ronnie's true passion, and tens of thousands of students will remember him fondly. The district is grateful for his service and sends our deepest condolences to his family.
Click the link to view the proclamation: https://5il.co/1jt0k
Community Partners and Parents making things happen at MVLA. Pickleball and refinishing our outdoor furniture!
Incredible things! Ms. Mikesell has had the students "adopt" a calf! So precious!
Today, NMSU’s Department of Family and Consumer Sciences honored Anita Cummings from Las Cruces Public Schools as the Department’s 2022 Outstanding Alumni.
Anita is highly involved in the career and technical education (CTE) program at Las Cruces High School and is the lead for Educators Rising, an education pathway program that is designed to encourage and recruit students to come back to our district to become educators and give back to their community.
The goal is to raise up a generation of teachers that understand the needs of our community. NMSU’s College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences hosted the Homecoming Recognition Breakfast for NMSU alumni on October 21.
MVLA alum Sophia Chlumsky brings in a labor of love, the Audaz crest. This beautiful work took 3 years and has paid off in spades! We are so very proud of her and so thankful for her determination and amazing talent!
This week, the Technology Division and the Teaching & Learning CTE Team are proud to share the latest LCPS #TELLTHESTORY Exhibit. Please stop by the lobby of the Karen M. Trujillo Administration Complex sometime this week and check it out! Featured are LCPS students from 16 campuses.
Special thanks to Andres Chavira and Matt Dawkins for helping set up the exhibit.
Four educators from around New Mexico were selected as finalists for the 2023 NM Teacher of the Year award! Join us in celebrating their achievements and commitment to education.
Meet Catherine Turietta-Huber. Ms. Huber is in her 22nd year with Las Cruces Public Schools and teaches 5th grade at Tombaugh Elementary. She holds a Master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction, coordinates Tombaugh’s annual Stargazing event and STEM week, and works to provide excellent instruction for students.
Ms. Huber received the 2018 Jose M. Serna Teacher Impact Award and was a member of the 2019 Social Studies Dream Team. She also received the 2022 Teacher of the Year Award for Tombaugh Elementary and was named the 2022 Teacher of the Year for Las Cruces Public Schools.
Thank you for your hard work, Ms. Huber!
#2023NMTOY
MVLA Parents are the BEST! Thank you everyone for the very successful Evacuation Drill today! We appreciate your cooperation and understanding.
In other news, if your student is headed out to Spaceport tomorrow, please make sure they have their field trip forms in hand when they get here if they have not already turned it in.
Finally, good luck to our chess team who is headed out to Organ Mountain tomorrow! Show them what you can do!
Attention MVLA Parents! You may now pick up your students at the Administration Buildings at 505 S. Main. Thank you for helping us with this important drill.
Good morning MVLA! Today is our Evacuation Drill. Please remember you will need to pick up your student from Central Office today at 505 S. Main Street. Pick up time will be approximately 1:30. You will receive a notification from the District when it is time to pick up your student. If you need to make other arrangements, please contact us this morning.
Hi MVLA Families! Please make sure to call the school if you will need us to help make arrangements for pick up from Central Office tomorrow for the Evacuation Drill.
Assessing & Grading Student Learning Survey
Dear Parents, Teachers, Administrators, and Support Staff,
Las Cruces Public Schools values continuous growth and learning and is committed to examining all practices in light of their impact on student learning. Over the last school year, we’ve begun to explore and evaluate the way we assess, grade, and report student learning to
ensure our practices consistently, accurately, and meaningfully assess student learning. To this end, we are seeking your input to ensure that any refinements in our approach to homework, assessment, and grading are reflective of your views.
To support this work, we’ve partnered with GradingRx® https://gradingrx.com/ to help ussurvey stakeholder views and determine what’s most effective regarding our assessment, grading, and reporting practices for our students. Together with your important feedback, we’ll work to improve our assessment and grading practices for our students’ benefit.
All information collected in this survey is completely anonymous, and it should take approximately 10 minutes to complete. Only fully completed surveys (all questions answered) will be included in the results. Survey responses are collected using a 4-point rating scale with an option to include open comments. All input is strictly confidential and greatly appreciated!
*Parents: If you have more than one child enrolled in Las Cruces Public Schools, please select ONE of your children and choose responses according to his or her grade level. If you would like to submit a response for each child, please complete one survey for each child.
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f you are both a Las Cruces Public Schools’ employee and a parent of a student who attends Las Cruces Public Schools, please first complete the survey as an employee. Then, please retake the survey as a parent. Indicate your role when prompted in each survey.
This survey will close on October 31st
. Thank you in advance for your valuable input! Please be
sure to complete the survey through to the end, as incomplete or partial survey data cannot be used.
Please take this brief online Assessing & Grading survey:
https://www.research.net/r/LasCrucesPS
GREETINGS MVLA FAMILIES!!
Happily I was mistaken. You can still order MVLA SWAG until NEXT Monday, October 24th! Happy Shopping!
To order you can use this link or go to the menu and click MVLA Sales: https://www.boosterclubsales.com/collections/mesilla-valley-leadership-academy
Also, please remember that Thursday (October 20th) is our Full Scale Evacuation Event. Your child will need to be picked up early from Central Office that day! Need more info or updates? Check out our current Newsletter with the latest: https://www.smore.com/2qm6n