Passport to CMMS.....come and meet your students teachers and see what we have been working on all year. Passport is an "Open House". Come take a trip and get your students Passport stamped! Current 7th & 8th graders from 5:30-6:30. Incoming 7th graders 6:30 - 7:30 after your Intermediate dance. Concessions will be available for your trip!
An education task force in Sonoma County, California kicked off Women's History Week in 1978 on March 8, International Women's Day, according to the National Women's History Alliance. They wanted to draw attention to the fact that women's history wasn't really included in K-12 school curriculums at the time.
Cheer tryouts today after school today have been cancelled.
MS track practice is canceled for this afternoon due to impending inclement weather. Students will be released @ 3:20 pm.
February 28, 1909 marked the first Woman's History Day in New York City. It commemorated the one-year anniversary of the garment workers' strikes when 15,000 women marched through lower Manhattan. From 1909 to 1910, immigrant women who worked in garment factories held a strike to protest their working conditions.
Case and his brother Colt showed their Ag Mechanics project at the San Antonio Livestock Show this weekend. The boys received another Blue Ribbon and won 2nd place in their class.
Mrs. Parker's students are building prior knowledge by participating in a murder mystery. They are gathering facts, making inferences, and asking questions to solve the case! We cannot wait to find out who solved the case next week!
Having a burger luncheon was just what CMMS staff needed! We even had a few visitors join us for a burger. #2710
Mae Jemison (1956- )
Mae Jemison isn’t just the first African American woman who orbited into space aboard the shuttle Endeavour. She's also a physician, teacher, and Peace Corps volunteer; after her work with NASA, she founded the Jemison Group, which develops scientific and technological advancements. Jemison continues to work toward helping young women of color get more involved in technology, engineering, and math careers.
Bring Chromebooks and Chargers
Maria P. Williams (1866-1932)
Thanks to the early accomplishments of Williams, who has been called the first woman of color producer, we have female directors and producers like Oprah, Ava DuVernay, and Shonda Rhimes. Williams's 1923 film The Flames of Wrath had a team of all people of color, and beyond that, the former Kansas City teacher was an activist and writer (she detailed her leadership skills in My Work and Public Sentiment in 1916).
Mr. Hervey had a Q&A with some Leadership classes today about himself and what it's like being a principal. Building relationships while building our students into leaders. Taking care of #2710
Jane Bolin (1908-2007)
A pioneer in law, Jane Bolin was the first Black woman to attend Yale Law School in 1931. In 1939, she became the first Black female judge in the United States. One of her significant contributions throughout her career was working with private employers to hire people based on their skills, as opposed to discriminating against them because of their race. She served on the boards of the NAACP, Child Welfare League of America, and the Neighborhood Children’s Center.
Our drill is complete.
We are conducting a lockdown drill
Gordon Parks (1912-2006)
Parks was the first African American photographer on the staff of Life magazine, and later helped found Essence. He also was the first Black writer and director of a studio film, and his second movie, Shaft, helping to shape the blaxploitation era in the '70s. Parks famously told Life in 1999: "I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera."
Pickle Ball has made it to CMMS! Coach Welch's PE class is trying it out.
Our science class is needing supplies for composting!
Please join us in celebrating our students and teacher of the month! Alan Evans and Jailyn Gonzales are our February students of the month and Mrs. Parker is our teacher! Congratulations! #2710
Alice Coachman (1923-2014)
Growing up in Albany, Georgia, the soon-to-be track star got an early start running on dirt roads and jumping over makeshift hurdles. She became the first African American woman from any country to win an Olympic Gold Medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. She set the record for the high jump, leaping to 5 feet and 6 1/8 inches. Throughout her athletic career, she won 25 national titles—10 of which were in the high jump. She was officially inducted into the National Track-and-Field Hall of Fame in 1975 and the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 2004.
