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July 15, 2019<\/p>\n

Welcome and Welcome Back MTS Elementary Families!\u00a0 I am so delighted that you have chosen to be a part of our amazing community.\u00a0 I hope each of you are experiencing a summer filled with joy and wonderful discoveries.<\/p>\n

Planning is well underway at school for another positive and productive school year.\u00a0 We have added a few new faces, contracted for new transportation and done some meaningful planning around instruction and social emotional learning.<\/p>\n

New to our staff this year will be; Katie Vergeront in Kindergarten, Mikala Schock in 3rd<\/sup>\/4th<\/sup> grade, Lee Metzger in Physical Education, Megan Lexen will be our Social Worker and Marisa Rivera Lugo has joined on as our Community Engagement Coordinator.\u00a0 We interviewed many candidates and are extremely pleased to have each of these bright and enthusiastic people join our community.<\/p>\n

After reviewing several transportation options, we have contracted with Collaborative Student Transportation of Minnesota to provide our morning and afternoon bus service.\u00a0 We will also be working with Coherent Transportation and Connections Transportation to meet some of our other transportation needs. We are confident that each of these companies will provide dependable, reliable service for all of our families.<\/p>\n

To support our standards based instruction, we have purchased several new Chromebooks so that every student will have one in the classroom.\u00a0 We are also venturing into ELearning so that when weather closes school students can still be learning and interacting with their teachers.\u00a0 Changes to Friday afternoons have also been made, while our teachers are engaging in professional development, students will be working on project based learning, handwriting, reading and math with support from MTCS staff.\u00a0 We will not be one of the early release sites mentioned in the Superintendent\u2019s letter.<\/p>\n

Finally, two important dates to add to your calendar.\u00a0 Thursday, August 29th<\/sup> will be our back to school night from 4:00-7:00 and Tuesday, September 3rd<\/sup> will be our first day of school.\u00a0 This year\u2019s school day will start and 7:45 and dismiss at 2:30.<\/p>\n

In closing, thank you again for choosing MTS Elementary.\u00a0 It is my honor and pleasure to have the opportunity to serve the students and families of our community.<\/p>\n

Sincerely,
\nSuzette L. Dornfeld
\nPrincipal \u2013 MTS Elementary
\nsdornfeld@emailmtcs.org<\/p>\n<\/div>

Download the Welcome Back Letter (PDF)<\/span><\/a><\/div>
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