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Dr. Tony Lux
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ISTEP+ results
improve over time
As ISTEP+ test scores are analyzed more
closely, more and more insight is being
gained into student achievement.
Overall student performance for each
grade level tested has been publicized in the
local media. At every grade level except one,
a higher percentage of all Merrillville students met State standards than one year ago.
However, there are additional ways to
analyze student test performance.
A second method of analyzing student test
performance is to look at the performance
of the same group of students over time,
known as the “cohort” comparison. This
takes a group of students and looks at their
ISTEP performance in 3rd grade, then 6th
grade, then 8th grade and so on. What we
see is that the current groups of students at
each grade level have higher percentages of
students passing ISTEP+ than in previous
years (see graph below).
A third method of analyzing student test
performance is to look at the breakdown of
Merrillville students according to the subgroup of students to which they belong. This
breakdown of student test results is known
as “disaggregating” the data.
It is becoming more and more apparent
that Merrillville students, sub-group by subgroup, are performing as well as, if not better, than students both across the State and
locally.
The “Achievement Gap” is a national
phenomenon that exists almost everywhere.
This is the phenomenon where some sub-
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IN THIS ISSUE
ISTEP+ Graphs ............................. Page 2
Doing What is Right ...................... Page 3
Kindergarten Registration ............ Page 3
Around the School Corporation .... Page 4
Did You Know ................................ Page 5
Summer School Dates .................... Page 6
Jobs Hotline ................................... Page 6
Mark Your Calendar ...................... Page 6
Education Foundation Grants ...... Page 7
2004-05 School Calendar ............. Page 8
groups of students do not have the same percentages of students meeting State standards
as other groups.
One of our primary goals is to eliminate
this achievement gap among different
groups of students.
In Merrillville, we expect that all students
are capable of meeting State standards.
While we have not yet achieved this goal,
we are making better progress towards this
goal than many.
The graphs on the next page demonstrate
that each sub-group of our students not only
exceeds the State averages for each subgroup, but compares very favorably to other
area schools as well as comparable school
systems in the Indianapolis area (see graphs
3, 4, 5 & 6) These graphs represent only a
handful of all the graphs that are available
to view on the school corporation website,
http://www.mvsc.k12.in.us.
Because of the efforts and expectations
of our teachers, the implementation of new
instructional strategies based on teaching,
assessing and then re-teaching, and the increased number of students who are taking
more responsibility for their own learning
through the use of quality tools, we are seeing exciting increases in the number of students meeting grade level State standards.
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The Time is Always Right to Do What is Right
--Martin Luther King Jr.
Michael J. Berta Jr.
Associate
Superintendent
Ask most educators what the number one
issue with kids is and the answer may most
likely be that many kids today lack discipline.
Ask “What is discipline?” and most likely
you will hear descriptions such as the willingness to be responsible for what one does
(so it’s not always someone else’s fault),
working hard to accomplish what is ex-
pected, following instructions, and respecting other people and the environment.
Discipline is very important, as most
adults realize. It is learned by children in a
variety of ways, primarily from parents and
other significant role models in their lives.
If children are to learn discipline they must
be taught it, and that instruction must be a
priority.
Recently, three men died who were role
models and impacted the discipline of generations of children. Fred Rogers (Mr.
Roger’s Neighborhood), Ray Rayner (The
Ray Rayner Show), and Bob Keeshan (Cap-
Kindergarten registration
scheduled March 8-12
Kindergarten registration in the Merrillville Community Schools will begin
March 8. Anyone with a child entering kindergarten in August 2004 is urged to register.
In order to enter kindergarten in the fall,
children must be five years old on or before
July 1, 2004.
At the time of registration, parents should
present their child’s State Board of Health
birth certificate (a hospital certificate of birth
is not acceptable), an updated record of the
child’s immunizations, and a record of a recent tuberculin skin test.
Three of the following are needed as
proofs of residency: water bill, NIPSCO bill,
conservancy district/sewer bill, Indiana
driver’s license with current address, deed,
or contract.
If the person registering the child is a legal guardian, a copy of the court-issued custodial papers must be presented. Also needed
are a driver’s license or state picture identification for the school to photo copy.
Parents need to bring their child with them
to registration. Vision and hearing screenings will be done at that time.
Immunization, physical and dental forms
are available at each elementary school office. Parents may obtain immunization from
their family doctor, or call the Lake County
Board of Health (755-3655) for an appointment.
Registration hours at each school are 8:30
a.m. to 12 noon, and 1 to 2:45 p.m. Those
whose last names begin with the letters A-N
should register in the morning, and those
whose last names begin with the letters O-Z
in the afternoon.
Dates for registration are:
March 8
Wood Elementary School
650-5305
6100 E. 73rd Avenue
March 9
Salk Elementary School
650-5304
3001 W. 77th Avenue
March 10
Fieler Elementary School
650-5301
407 W. 61st Avenue
March 11
Iddings Elementary School
650-5302
7249 Van Buren Street
March 12
Miller Elementary School
650-5303
5901 Waite Street
Anyone not able to register on the date
specified should register at one of the other
schools.
Because of the immunization restrictions,
new students will not be able to enroll on
the first day of school.
tain Kangaroo) used the television media to
teach millions of children the message of
love, acceptance, kindness, and hard work.
These men, day in and day out, year after
year, spoke to children at their level. Most
kids and their parents anticipated the shows,
which were “low key” in comparison to
many other children’s shows today in that
violence, sarcasm, and profanity were absent. The material was slow paced and always designed for the young viewers to be
engaged in age appropriate learning. I was
always amazed at how young children, my
own included, were absolutely mesmerized
over the years by the characters and messages of these three men.
One possible theory for the growing lack
of discipline in the younger generation today is the diminishing availability and demand of role models like Mr. Rogers, Captain Kangaroo, and Oliver O. Oliver. Instead
the demand and availability of negative material that results in lack of discipline may
be on the rise.
Perhaps, if more children were exposed
regularly to more entertainment role models
at a young age who taught self-worth, caring for others,and respect instead of self-satisfaction, aggression, and the path of least
resistance, discipline would improve. When
discipline improves so does productivity and
learning. The result is higher student achievement and satisfied, happy learners.
As consumers, we have great control of
the content of what our kids watch, read, and
listen to. Tune in to violence and the next
thing you know more violent programs and
video games are produced. We get what we
ask for.
We have Fred Rogers, Bob Keeshan, and
Ray Rayner to thank for stepping up to the
plate and being excellent role models for
kids. We have the parents of kids to thank
for making sure their children were engaged
with these quality men. Many children benefited.
I’d like to believe that if aired today, the
messages delivered in programs pioneered
by Fred Rogers, Bob Keeshan, and Ray
Rayner would not be cancelled in a month
due to lack of interest and support. We are
in control of that.
A Wood second
grader, right, figures out a math
problem with the
use of a Smartboard in the computer lab. The
Second grade
classes are using
educational
websites to help
them learn the Indiana Math Standards for their
grade level.
Iddings second graders Kiera Shackelford and Precious Perez ready their chopsticks for a Chinese New
Year celebration that included egg rolls, fortune cookies and ramen noodles. All three second grade classrooms participated.
Around
the
School
Corporation
Fieler kindergarten
students each made
their own Indian
headband to wear at
their feast of homemade butter and
bread. Each feather
represented a mastered skill (closeup
at right). Shown are
Dakota Shelton,
Devonte Davis and
Becky Burford.
Students from the Early Childhood Education and Training
Program at the high school
joined relatives of daycare children for a special craft-making
project. Here, Laura Stewart,
center, assists her niece, Crystal Cruse, and nephew, Calvin
Cruse.
Sixth grader Zachary Edwards finds a
railing to hang onto during a physical
education field trip to an ice skating rink.
Each year teachers Kim Jones and Bobi
Cole take 5th and 6th graders on a field
trip to learn a lifetime skill most of them
have never experienced.
Merrillville Police Chief
Nicholas Bravos, right,
shows Intermediate School
Principal Paul Mikus one of
the new vests donated by
the police department to
the MIS Parent Patrol.
About 15 parents have volunteered to serve on Parent Patrol, walking the
halls before and after
school and the cafeteria
during lunch hours to keep
potential behavior problems from happening.
Did you know . . .
**Fieler Elementary School had more student poems printed in the new edition of
Young American Poetry Digest than from
any other elementary school in the nation.
The school received a monetary award from
sponsor National Schools Project to commend the efforts of the faculty to promote
writing and creativity.
**The MIS Band achieved a first this year.
At the ISSMA District Solo & Ensemble
Instrumental Festival, all six soloists and nine
ensembles received first place ratings. Soloist were: Paula Laordin, Clarinet; Tristan
Russell, Baritone Sax; Armando Miller,
Trumpet; Zach Swierc, French Horn; Juan
Rivera, Trombone, and Kevin
Wojkovich,Tuba. A total of 120 students
participated.
**The MHS Academic Decathlon brought
back four medals from state competition.
Ryan Miller received silver medals in math
and essay and a bronze in language/literature, and Joe Sobek, a bronze in essay. The
team took 1st place in the area meet, qualify-
ing them for state. At area, Lorne Grimmer
received three medals and Joe Sobek took
five medals including bronze overall in the
varsity division. The scholastic division was
a clean sweep by Merrillville as Willis
Chiang took third with five medals, Lindsey
Harreld took second with eight medals, and
Ayriole Frost took first with ten medals. In
the honors division, Jamie Kistinger and
Randy Johnson both won four
medals.Ryan Miller received first overall
with nine medals.
**Several MHS students took honors at the
Indiana Special Olympics Bowling Competition. Erin Coughlin and Russell
Parkhurst both earned Gold medals, and
Meredith Harris and Justin Burgess, silver medals. Rebecca Robinson took 5th
place; Paul Terrebonne, 6th, and Eli
Kookich and Tommy Phifer, 7th.
**A community service project done by
Jacquie Demaree’s Pirate Power class at
Pierce collected the most money among Lake
County classes participating in the Pennies
4 Paws project, designed
to raise money for the
Humane Society Calumet Area to help homeless animals. The students collected $206.50
in pennies. Volunteers
from the humane society
along with their mascot,
Goldie the golden
retreiver, went to Pierce
and gave the class a
pizza party.
The Merrillville Intermediate School Spell Bowl team took
first place in their division at the Elementary Spell Bowl regional competition, and their score ranked 9th in the state
out of 115 schools. Members included, back row from left,
Tyler Ochi, 5th grade; Matt Barenie, 6th; Ali Van Cleef, 6th;
Brittany Hardy, 6th; Kim Tapper, 5th, and Jeremy Villareal, 5th;
middle row from left, Najeb Arifee, Elizabeth Szymanski,
Alaina Matson, and Khadija Farooq, all 6th, and, front row
from left, Ana Bellman, Ariana Williams, Derek Bailey and
Meredith Dobes, all 5th. Coach was Joyce Whittemore.
**Twenty-three MHS
students participated in
the mock trial process in
the Lake Superior Courtroom of Judge Jesse
Villalpando. The students, from the Advanced Placement Government and regular
Government classes,
spent two weeks formulating questions, opening
and closing statements,
and cross examinations
for a real case that involved a hit-and-run
driver.
Senior Ben Graves performs his solo,
“Ava Maria,” at the District Vocal/Piano
Solo and Ensemble Festival. He received
a perfect score and qualified for state.
Members of the choral department earned
27 first places and 34 second places. Fifteen soloists and four ensembles qualified to participate at state.
**Kayla Williams, a sixth grader, was the
first place winner in the Project S.A.V.E.
(Stop America’s Violence Everywhere)
poster contest. Her poster, “A Roadmap to
Peace,” includes a school bus on a road with
a rainbow in the background and features a
poem. It will be displayed on 23 billboards
in the area.
**MHS junior Justin H. Williams attended
the Presidential Classroom (PC) Scholars
Program in Washington, D.C. During the
week-long program, PC
Scholars interacted with
Washington insiders, including members of Congress,
presidential appointees, senior military officials, top
business leaders and journalists. Students observed the U.
S. Congress in action, visited
their congressional offices and debated current issues with peers from the United States
and abroad. They also visited the White
House (by special invitation), the U. S. Department of State, and Arlington National
Cemetery.
**Janel Barsich has been chosen as this
year’s MHS sophomore ambassador to the
2004 Indiana Leadership Seminar in June.
Summer School begins June 7
Dates for this year’s summer school registration and sessions
have been set.
Elementary sessions (Gr. K-4) will be from 8 a.m. to noon at
Iddings, and Intermediate School sessions (Gr. 5-6) from 7:45-11:45
a.m. at MIS. Both sessions are June 7-July 2.
Middle School (Gr 7-8) sessions will be from 7:30-11:30 a.m.
June 8-July 9 at Pierce. And, high school classes (Gr. 9-12) at MHS
will be from 7:20 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. June 9-July 23
Beginning Band and Orchestra (Gr. 5) will meet July 6-23 at
MIS from 8 to 11 a.m., and Jump Start classes (Gr. 2-5), July 26August 6 at MIS from 8 to 11 a.m.
There will be no classes on July 5 because of the Independence
Day holiday.
Essential Skills registration forms for students in grades K-6 will
be sent home with report cards on April 2, and are due back by
April 16. Letters will be sent to parents of middle school students
(Gr. 7-8) on April 2 informing them they must register with the guidance office by April 16.
High school students may register between May 28 and June 3 in
the guidance office or June 4, 7 or 8 in the student services office
from 7:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
New Job Postings Hotline
Beginning March 1, anyone
seeking information about available job openings in the Merrillville Community School Corporation may call the “Job
Postings Hotline” at (219) 6505491. Callers will be offered a
menu to select the category of
job they are seeking.
Current job openings for certified teachers, clerical, food services, custodial, maintenance,
transportation, day care, and
evening school high school
teachers will all be listed on the
Job Postings Hotline.
In addition, copies of job
postings are available at the Administrative Services Center,
6701 Delaware St., or, during the
school year, at school offices.
Persons applying for certified
teaching positions in Merrillville
must apply online at http://
www.mvsc.k12.in.us click on
“JOBS” and follow the directions to access the online application system.
Additionally, callers will be
directed to the Merrillville
School Corporation website,
http://www.mvsc.k12.in.us
where they can click on “JOBS”
and view each detailed posting.
Also, Job Postings Hotline
users will be able to obtain the
Merrillville Schools Personnel
Office mailing address to submit
letters of application.
The Job Postings Hotline will
be updated every Friday by
noon.
Education Foundation Dinner
Food and Wine
from Around the World
Friday, April 30, 2004
7:00-11:00 p.m.
Radisson Hotel-Celebrity Ballroom
Donation $25.00 per person
For tickets, call (219) 650-5492
Mark Your Calendar . . .
FEBRUARY
28 STAND International Dinner, Pierce, 6-8:30 p.m.
MARCH
6 FAME NW Festival of the Arts, MHS, 9 a.m-5 p.m.
7 FAME NW Festival of the Arts, MHS, Noon-5 p.m.
8 Grades K-12 Teacher Professional Development
Dismissal:
Morning Kindergarten
No School
Afternoon Kindergarten
Noon
Elementary
Noon
Intermediate School
12:45 p.m.
Middle & High School
11:00 a.m.
9-11 ISTEP Retesting Gr. 11-12
24 End of 3rd Grading Period
APRIL
1 High School Parent Conferences
Student Day:
High School
11:30 a.m.-2:54 p.m.
Morning Kindergarten
8:00 a.m.-Noon
Afternoon Kindergarten
No School
Parent Conferences 9:00-11:00 a.m. & 4:30-7:30 p.m.
2 High School Parent Conferences
Student Day:
High School
7:35-10:40 a.m.
Morning Kindergarten
No School
Afternoon Kindergarten
8:00 a.m.-Noon
Parent Conferences
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
5 No School/Spring Break begins
13 Return from Spring Break
22 Grades K-12 Teacher Professional Development
Dismissal:
Morning Kindergarten
Noon
Afternoon Kindergarten
No School
Elementary
Noon
Intermediate School
12:45 p.m.
Middle & High School
11:00 a.m.
30 Education Foundation Dinner, Radisson, 7-11 p.m.
MAY
3-5 No Kindergarten Classes/Kindergarten Testing
14 Grades K-12 Teacher Professional Development
Dismissal:
Morning Kindergarten
No School
Afternoon Kindergarten
Noon
Elementary
Noon
Intermediate School
12:45 p.m.
Middle & High School
11:00 a.m.
20-21 No Kindergarten Classes/Parent Conferences
31 No School/Memorial Day
JUNE
1 Last Day of Kindergarten
2-3 Half Days for Students
3 Last Day of School
Education Foundation awards new grants
The Merrillville Education
Foundation has awarded grants
to five student projects designed
by teachers to enhance the
school corporation’s programs.
Music Function Junction
Stations, developed by Iddings
music teacher Leslie Bier, is an
opportunity for 3rd and 4th graders to work on musical skills.
At each station, students will
do an activity designed to develop a particular skill such as
moving to the beat, learning
music symbols, and studying
musical families.
Enhancing Communication
Skills & Awareness of Current
Events in the Moderate/Severe
Disabilities Students at MHS
was designed for grades 9
through 12 by special needs
teachers Melissa Szczerba and
Barb Dlouhy. Its purpose is to
help the students function more
independently/appropriately in
their home, school, community,
and work settings. One of the
major resources will be a current event newspaper that is published weekly.
Let’s Share the Love of Reading--Providing Family Literacy
Kits in Grade K, 1 and 2 was
developed by Wood reading
teacher Bridget Gates.
The project involves purchasing Family Literacy kits that can
be checked out by students for a
week. It is designed to promote
reading and sharing literature
with family members; togive the
parents a chance to be positive
role models when it comes to
showing their children what reading is all about, and to give the
parents and students the materials in order to enjoy different
types of literature through the use
of the videos and book collections and by creating books with
tapes and activities to share as
families.
Another project, Breaking
Barriers, was written by MHS
Key Club sponsor Carrie
Bedwell and involves Key Club
members working with three
third grade classrooms, teaching
the importance of tolerance
through the use of children’s literature, art, and music.
Students in Maryann Foster’s 8th grade French Art Humanities
class performed the play “Impressionism: A Revolution of Artists” with a previous education foundation grant. This scene
features, from left, Renoir (Cordero Anderson); Manet (Eduardo
Torres); Mary Cassatt (Cassie Conway), and Whistler (Marc Wilson) discussing their theories on art at the cafe Guerbois.
The final project involves
MHS English teachers Connie
Lewis, Courtney Hardin, and
John Lambersie.
The project, Archetypes and
Diversity in Myth, involves the
purchase of additional copies of
the book “Parallel Myths,” to
Reporters respond to the recently-released autopsy report on 21-year-old Matthew
Sheppard in a scene from “The Laramie Project” presented at the Indiana Thespian
Regional Conference. The play deals with the aftermath of the hate killing of the University of Wyoming gay student. Based on a 30-minute clipping of the play, the high
school was ranked first among the 20 schools involved in the two regional conferences and was given the “golden” Saturday night prime-time slot to perform the entire
play at the state convention in March in front of about 600 students. Shown are, from
left, Jesse Koon, Courtney Albright, Sharise Rogers, Jon Wargo, and Khalisa Williams,
all seniors, and Felice Graves, junior.
allow sophomores and juniors in
the classical literature honors
sections to take home the book
and read it during the summer.
Students will be tested on it during the first week of school in
the fall.
Discussions of material in the
entire course will be enriched
because students will have
learned about a different method
of analyzing literature and the
cultures they represent.
The grant awards total
$2,197.
The education foundation has
two goals--to develop business
and community partnerships to
support the Merrillville schools,
and to fund individual classrooms and/or schools to broaden
innovations at the school level
and educational opportunities
for students.
For further information about
the foundation, visit http://
www.mvsc.k12.in.us and click
on “education foundation”.
Grants are awarded each semester.
February/March, 2004
RESIDENT
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2004-2005 School Calendar
August
25 First Day of School
25 Half-day Gr. K-4; Full-day Gr.5-12
September
6
17
20
21-23
No School/Labor Day
Half Day K-12/Teacher Professional Development
ISTEP Testing Gr. 3 - 9 begins
ISTEP Testing Gr. 10 & Retesting Gr. 11-12
October
1
26
28
29
ISTEP Testing Gr. 3 - 9 ends
End of 1st Grading Period
No School/Fall Break (Teacher Prof. Development)
No School/Fall Break
November
4-5 Kindergarten & Gr. 5-12 Parent Conferences
17 Half Day K-12/Teacher Professional Development
25-26 No School/Thanksgiving Holiday
December
20 No School/Winter Holiday begins
January
3
17
19
20
21
21
21
Return from Winter Holiday
No School/Martin Luther King Day
Half Day 9-12/Teacher Professional Development
Half Day Gr. 9-12 - Final Exams
Half Day Gr. 9-12 - Final Exams
Half Day Gr. 1-4
No School K & Gr. 5-8
21 End of 2nd Grading Period/End of Semester
27-28 Grades K-8 Parent Conferences
February
8 Half Day K-8/Teacher Professional Development
18/21 No School/Winter Break
March
14
15-17
23
25
31
Half Day K-12/Teacher Professional Development
ISTEP Retesting Gr. 11-12
End of 3rd Grading Period
No School/Spring Holiday
Gr. 9-12 Parent-Teacher Conferences
April
1
4-8
11
21
Gr. 9-12 Parent-Teacher Conferences
No School/Spring Break
Return from Spring Break
Half Day K-12/Teacher Professional Development
2-4
13
26-27
30
Kindergarten Testing
Half Day K-12/Teacher Professional Development
Kindergarten Parent Conferences
No School/Memorial Day
May
June
8-9 Half Days for Students
9 Last Day of School
9 End of 4th Grading Period
Adopted 1/20/04