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“Wednesday, November 13 is the FINAL Summer 2025 Belize Study Abroad Interest Meeting! Join us on ZOOM @5:30pm for your last chance to learn more about our exciting study abroad to Belize next summer! The trip is open to all CMCSS students AND parents! Trip highlights include:

• The Belize Zoo
• Xunantunich Maya Temple
• The Blue Morpho Butterfly Farm
• The San Ignacio Market
• Cave Tubing the Caves Branch River System
• Canoeing the Macal River
• School Service Project with students from PathLight International
• St. Herman’s Blue Hole State Park
• Two Day Overnight Stay on a Private Island to Snorkel the Southwater Caye Marine Reserve

Email [email protected] for more details!”

Zoom Link: https://cmcss-net.zoom.us/j/85255991838

This week is Fire Safety Week at NEMS. Talk to your parents about making a home escape plan in case of a fire. Draw a map of your home showing all doors and windows. Discuss the plan with everyone in your home. Safety First!

If your child is an incoming 6th grader and you have not signed him/her up for JumpStart, please follow the information below. We look forward to seeing our new Eagles!

https://bit.ly/northeastjumpstart2024

This week is our final Fire Safety week at NEMS for the year! As part of our focus on safety, we want to stress the importance of preparedness when it comes to responding to the possibility of a fire. With this in mind, remember that if a fire occurs in your home, GET OUT, STAY OUT, and CALL FOR HELP! Never go back inside for anything or anyone!

“This week is Traffic Safety Week at NEMS! As part of our focus on student safety, we want to stress the importance of driver, pedestrian, and bicycle safety for all students. With this in mind, we would like to stress the importance of safe practices regarding the following modes of student transportation:

• Parent Transportation (Drivers): Smartphones, handheld games, noise-canceling headphones, and other technology present safety concerns when students are distracted while traveling. It’s important for families to partner with us to reinforce safety. Drivers: Follow posted speed limits, school zone lights, other signage, and directions from crossing guards. Stay alert at all times. Be aware of the surroundings. Cut out distractions like texting while driving. Be patient.

• Pedestrian & Bicycle Riders: Look both ways before crossing traffic . Follow posted signage and directions from crossing guards. Use designated crosswalks. Stay alert at all times. Be aware of surroundings. Cut out distractions like texting while traveling, handheld games, and noise-canceling headphones. Be patient.

CMCSS is offering Open Enrollment in specific schools and grade levels with available capacity for the 2024-2025 school year. Space for Open Enrollment is limited to only the specific schools and grades listed below.

Each grade listed has a limited number of available seats. If more requests are received than available seats, a lottery drawing will be held. Open Enrollment is only open to residents of Montgomery County. Applications for the 2024-2025 school year will be accepted from Monday, March 25 through Wednesday, April 24, 2024. Please see below for the application. Completed applications should be delivered in person or mailed to the CMCSS Enrollment Center, 430 Greenwood Ave. Clarksville, TN 37040, ATTN: Director of Student Services.  This Open Enrollment process is separate from the application period for schools and programs of choice that took place January – February 2024.

2024-2025 Open Enrollment Application (STS-F023)

The application above has expired.

CMCSS Open Enrollment Policy (STS-A004)

Due to the comprehensive rezoning that changed capacities at some schools, the District had to delay the determination of open seats for Open Enrollment until spring 2024.

“This week is Fire Safety week at NEMS! As part of our focus on safety, we want to stress the importance of preparedness when it comes to responding to the possibility of a fire. With this in mind, ask your parents to install smoke detectors on every floor and in the sleeping areas of your home. Smoke detectors can save lives. Ask your parents to show you where each one is located.” 😊

The Tennessee Department of Education recently released school, district, and state data. Under the Implementation of the federal mandate of the “Every Student Succeeds Act,” the state accountability plan evaluates schools in five specific areas: Achievement, Growth, Absenteeism, English Language Proficiency, and College and Career.

Additionally, under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act the state is required to identify schools with struggling performance in a federally identified subgroup. These subgroups include each individual racial/ethnic group, students with disabilities, economically-disadvantaged students, and English Learners. These rules have remained in place as school districts across the nation have struggled through the pandemic and standardized assessment concerns since March 2020.

Northeast Middle has been identified as a Targeted Support and Improvement (TSI) school for the student subgroups of economically disadvantaged, black, Hispanic, Native American, and white for student achievement.

Our school is working strategically with the district and the Tennessee Department of Education to improve students’ performance by focusing on TIER I instruction, providing research-based, highly-effective interventions for struggling students, and utilizing strategic and ongoing data feedback. As our most powerful partner in this work, we invite you to help by participating in our school improvement efforts, joining us at school events, and providing feedback. Additionally, please partner with us to ensure your child is on time and present at school each day.

Sincerely,

Evan Stinson

The CMCSS Special Populations Department will continue its Family Engagement Series on Wednesday, February 7, with the session “What’s DIDD?” The District is joined by the TN Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and will share the programs offered at the state level. Services include early intervention, support for children with disabilities, services to transition to independence, and behavioral health support.

This free event is open to the public, and CMCSS families are encouraged to attend. The meeting will be held at the William O. Beach Civic Hall at Veterans Plaza (350 Pageant Lane, Suite 201) from 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

If you have any questions, please contact Shannon Peacock, CMCSS Director of Special Populations, at [email protected].

The first session in the series, “Understanding IDEA and Section 504,” was held in November 2023.

A Note from Mr. Rowe concerning fire safety at home:

“This week is Safety Week at NEMS! As part of our focus on safety, we want to stress the importance of preparedness when it comes to responding to the possibility of a fire. With this in mind, talk to your parents about making a home escape plan in case of a fire. Draw a map of your home showing all doors and windows. Discuss the plan with everyone in your home”. 

Parents, we practice fire drills all the time. Fires happen more in homes than in schools. Have a plan for how to get out of the house and where to meet. And Practice, Practice, Practice!