Marshall County CSD

The school board is holding its August regular meeting in the High School Library. Due to StaySafe MN rules, the public is not permitted to attend the meeting in-person. Public can access meeting by contacting Superintendent Lund by 3:00 p.m. Tuesday, August 18 and he will send a Zoom Link to access meeting. There will not be a traditional open forum. However if you share something with the school board, you may submit your item to Superintendent Lund by 3:00 p.m. Monday, August 17 and he will share it with the board. Here is the link to the meeting agenda: https://5il.co/jkrt

We made a few adjustments to the 2020-2021 School Calendar. The school board approved changes at Monday's special Board meeting. Changes were made to provide more teacher work time at beginning of the year for additional planning time due to safety measures and other protocol. You can download a printable version of the calendar: https://bit.ly/33TcX7i Overview of Changes: Created a floating in-service for teachers August 24-28 August 31 - Becomes Teacher In-Service Day November 9 Becomes Day off for students/staff December 7 Becomes Student Day December 23 Becomes Day off for students/staff

MCC is still looking to fill the following positions for the 2020-2021 School Year: - Special Education Paraprofessionals (3) - After School Cleaner - Bus Drivers (Full Route, Half Route, and Subs) - Substitutes (Teacher, Cooks, Paraprofessionals) - Coaches (JR High Boys Basketball, JR High Girls Basketball, C-Team Boys Basketball) Interested Applicants can go to: http://www.newfolden.k12.mn.us/o/mccsd/page/job-postings--41 for more information. Submit employment application and background check form to jlund@mccfreeze.org or mail to: Marshall County Central Schools, ATTN Jeffrey Lund, PO Box 189, Newfolden, MN 56738. Please apply promptly, positions open until filled.

MCC Families, MCC School Board met in special session last night and based on MDH Guidance and our Safety Plan they authorized the start to school model: All Students In School. Please go to our school website and view our Back to School 2020 Page: http://www.newfolden.k12.mn.us/o/mccsd/page/back-to-school-2020--15 This page contains our Parent Guide and updated school supply lists. Please review our Parent Guide as it contains key information about returning to school safely. We will continue to add information to the page as we approach the school year. Secretaries are beginning to call families to see who can still help with transportation and confirm details about returning to school. We are working hard every day to be ready for the return of our students!! We are in this together!! Thank you for your patience and support. #mccstrong Mr. Lund

MCC Families, Good morning. This message is to provide an update to families about our back to school planning. The county released new data yesterday and our county case numbers went down which is great. MDH is releasing data weekly now instead of every two weeks. There is a lag in this data but we are watching numbers closely. If things remain where they are at there is a good chance we will have school with all students in school when we return. On August 10, the school board has a special meeting planned to review and discuss back to school planning. Based on our procedural set up, our safety planning, survey results, and MDH Health data, it looks like we would start school with one of these two possible scenarios: Either all students come to school in-person (Scenario 1) or all elementary students come to school in-person and and High School in a Hybrid mode. We ask that families keep that in mind as you are getting ready. Please note the school board may make the final decision for our schools starting model during its regular meeting on August 17. I know everyone is anxious to know where things will start, but taking the extra time will let us see MDH data released on August 13. This will help the board make a more informed decision. Right now things look good. We ask that our families and the MCC community to continue to do your part wearing masks, washing hands, maintaining social distance, and staying home when you do not feel well. We are in the process of changing our COVID 19 page on our website to a Back to School page. We will post a parent guide for our back to school planning, school supply lists, Chromebook Handbook and other items on this page. That is coming soon but you should start seeing some information posted on it by Monday. We will use our notification system and Facebook page to post updates. We will not host open house back to school nights this year. We are targeting a mailing home for August 20-21 to provide detailed back to school information. There will be some process for orientation and will be Chromebook Distribution for grades 7-12 prior to school starting. Thank you for completing the survey. We did have 80% of our families complete it. Your responses have been very helpful in our back to school planning. We were especially thankful for the amount of families that noted they can help with transportation. Very soon secretaries and transportation director Adam Lokstad will be checking in with families to confirm transportation details. Thank you for your patience. We will be sending out more frequent updates to keep you informed. If you have questions feel free to call our district office (218) 874-8530. You may also e-mail Mr. Nelson at mnelson@mccfreeze.org, Mr. LB at blongerbone@mccfreeze.org, or me at jlund@mccfreeze.org. We are in this together!! #mccstrong Superintendent Jeffrey Lund

MCC Families, I want to thank all our MCC families for your patience waiting for the Governor’s announcement regarding the start of school. We are committed to continuing our hard work to ensure our plans will work within state guidelines to provide a safe learning environment for our students and a safe workplace for our staff. The governor’s plan is fluid allowing for local control with guidance. This will require a whole community commitment. Our ability to best serve our students is dependent on everyone. The more we can keep cases down in our county, the more likely we are able to have learning take place in person in our schools. I know not everyone agrees in all the mandates and rules, but our survey data shows nearly everyone wants to have our students back to school. Please follow recommendations of staying home if you are sick, wearing a mask in public settings indoors, washing your hands, and maintaining social distance. Following these recommended practices will help our school open with students in school and help us remain in school throughout the year. We appreciate our families participation in our planning survey. We have received 212 responses which represents about 75-80% of our families. Key results so far: -94.3% have indicated they will be sending children to school under scenario 1 or 2. - 138 families have indicated they can help with transportation to school and 121 have indicated they can help with transportation home from school. - 93.4% have indicated they have internet at home available for child(ren) to use for school work. - 93.4% indicated they can supply masks for children to attend school. (We have secured a supply for any staff or student that needs a mask) - 98.1% are accepting responsibility for staying home if sick. (We will have temperature and health screenings upon entrance to school each day for extra assurance). - 75% indicated a preference of in-person learning; 25% preferred distance learning. - Over 100 comments have been provided to help consider improvements during our planning There is still time to complete the survey if you haven’t completed it. To complete survey: https://forms.gle/TzURumpxuhiWq5wg9 Our department managers and administration will work diligently this week updating school policy and preparing guidance specific to our start of the school year. We will meet with our teachers to make some final adjustments. The school board has a special meeting scheduled for August 10 at 7:00 p.m. to review and approve our back to school planning. Zoom access to the board meeting will be available to the public. To close, our goal is to provide the best education possible to all our students. Based on the state’s planning recommendations and our preparations in person learning with planned safeguards is realistic. Please remember your role in following safety protocols as it will take an all around community effort! Thank you, Jeffrey Lund, Superintendent

Please take time to review the image along with this note. It is a letter from MCC Superintendent Lund regarding Governor's announcement. The letter can also be viewed on the district website: www.newfolden.k12.mn.us and Facebook page: www.facebook.com/mcc441 If you have not yet completed the Planning Survey, it is still available and remains open until August 3. You can access it by going to: https://forms.gle/TzURumpxuhiWq5wg9

Marshall County Central is seeking bus drivers. Full Route, Half Route, Substituting, and Extracurricular driving opportunities are available. Paid training, license and physical reimbursement, PERA retirement, and sick time available. If you are currently working from home and have a flexible schedule, now is the perfect time to explore this opportunity. If you are interested in driving bus for the school district please contact Transportation Manager Adam Lokstad at alokstad@mccfreeze.org or by calling (218) 874-7291.

MCC Families: This is a reminder to help us by taking time to complete our planning survey: https://forms.gle/p4qbUgcYY87hh2m79 The survey remains open until August 3. We have had 109 responses so far. Note: Some people have had a broken link when trying to reach survey from the app notification. Access is also available on our Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/mcc441 or by going to www.newfolden.k12.mn.us and viewing this reminder in the Live Feed section.

We are seeking two special education paraprofessionals, one for Newfolden Elementary and one for MCC High School for the upcoming school year. Preferred applicant has 2 years post high school experience and is a person who enjoys working and helping children and teachers. Benefits include: PERA Retirement, Personal Time, and Sick Time. Application is available at http://bit.ly/2mIk4Mo. Completed applications can be e-mailed to jlund@mccfreeze.org or mailed to PO Box 189, Newfolden, MN 56738. Application deadline is August 14.

MCC Families, We need your help in understanding your needs as we work on our back to school plans. Your answers will help ensure that we meet the needs of as many families as possible. Please take time to complete this survey: https://forms.gle/p4qbUgcYY87hh2m79 The survey will remain open until August 3. We will send out reminders throughout the week next week. PLEASE SHARE this to help ensure other MCC families can complete the survey. Our school secretaries will call and follow up with families we do not hear from. Thank you very much for taking the time to help us. We look forward to hearing from you! "We are in this together." Sincerely, Jeffrey Lund Superintendent/Elementary Principal

The MCC School Board met last night in regular session. A briefing of the meeting is available: https://bit.ly/3bO777x.

The school board will meet on July 21, 2020 in the high school library. Here is a link to the agenda: https://5il.co/idv2. Due to Stay Safe MN rules and CDC recommendations, the meeting is not accessible to general public in person; however, we will provide an audio feed via Zoom. If you are interested in attending the Zoom session to hear audio, please e-mail Superintendent Lund by 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday and he will send you access instructions. Since there is no public forum, if you have an item you would like the board to discuss and address during open forum time, please provide a document in writing or via e-mail to Superintendent Lund by 12:00 p.m. Monday and he will share with board members.

MCC Families, I am sure all of our families are anxiously awaiting news about school this upcoming Fall. We are as well. As we wait, we have been studying recommendations and guidance and working hard on all three scenarios described by state to help plan for the upcoming year. School will definitely look different this fall than "normal". If school is in person, we will have to maximize our spaces by spreading children out, we may have to change some rules regarding transportation. There may be times students have to wear masks for everyone's safety. We encourage you to start thinking about how you can help with all of this. We will need your help. This school year we will truly continue the mantra we used last spring, "We are in this together." Definitely take time in the next couple of weeks to do some planning in your households. The state will share with us which of the three plans districts across the state can start with the week of July 27. One plan has everyone return. One plan has a hybrid schedule (some kids come and some kids distance learn with a rotation). One plan is distance learning. Depending on the plan established we will need to gather information from families. Some planning questions to think about while we wait: If we return to school, does your child have any health conditions that would require them to distance learn? If we are back in school, are you able to transport your own child(ren) to school and pick them up? If we are on a hybrid schedule, can your workplace or your family accommodate a schedule in which some days are in school and some days students are distancing learning? If we are distancing learning, what improvements can we make to have the experience better than last spring? If we have a hybrid rotation, will I have someone to watch my child or help my child on days they are not at school? We also encourage you take time in the coming weeks to have your child wear a mask around the house and in public spaces so they get used to wearing a mask. We are not sure what final requirements will come forward, but the more everyone gets used to this practice, the easier it will be for your child to adjust. Please know we are working very hard purchasing personal protection items, cleaning supplies, adjusting procedures, adding signage, increasing safety measures, developing plans, ordering curriculum and school supplies, and examining our systems so we are ready. After the announcement from the state we will take time to share our plans. We will post them on the school website and share them with you. We will also start contacting you to ask some questions in regards to school, share transportation requirements, and how you can help us make everything work. Thank you for your patience as we all wait for news from the state. If you have questions feel free to call the district office. We are open Monday-Thursday from 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Sincerely, Jeffrey Lund Superintendent/Elementary Principal

There is still time to apply for P-EBT Benefits to help offset your families meal costs. Check the image to view qualification criteria. Apply at mn.p-ebt.org

Elementary Parents - Accelerated Reader will be down for 3 to 4 business days while the company upgrades its system. We will send an alert when the system resumes working.

NOTICE OF FILING DATES FOR ELECTION TO THE SCHOOL BOARD INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO.441 (MARSHALL COUNTY CENTRAL SCHOOLS) STATE OF MINNESOTA NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the period for filing affidavits of candidacy for the office of school board member of Independent School District No. 441 shall begin on July 28, 2020, and shall close at 5:00 o'clock p.m. on August 11, 2020. Reminder: Office Hours during summer are from 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday - Thursday. We will keep office open on August 11 until 5:00 p.m. The general election shall be held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. At that election, four (4) members will be elected to the School Board for terms of four (4) years each. You can download an Affidavit of Candidacy: https://5il.co/i7nv or by stopping into high school lobby at Marshall County Central High School, 310 West Minnesota Ave. Newfolden, Minnesota. Press call button and ask office staff for assistance. Completed Affidavits are due with filing fee of $2 by 5:00 p.m. on August 11. A candidate for this office must be an eligible voter, must be 21 years of age or more on assuming office, must have been a resident of the school district from which the candidate seeks election for thirty (30) days before the general election, and must have no other affidavit on file for any other office at the same primary or next ensuing general election. The affidavits of candidacy must be filed in the office of the school district clerk and the filing fee paid prior to 5:00 o'clock p.m. on August 11, 2020 in order to be eligible for election. Dated: June 30, 2020 BY ORDER OF THE SCHOOL BOARD CLERK Kayla Nelson School District Clerk

​NOTICE OF FILING DATES FOR ELECTION TO THE SCHOOL BOARD INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO.441 (MARSHALL COUNTY CENTRAL SCHOOLS) STATE OF MINNESOTA NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the period for filing affidavits of candidacy for the office of school board member of Independent School District No. 441 shall begin on July 28, 2020, and shall close at 5:00 o'clock p.m. on August 11, 2020. Reminder: Office Hours during summer are from 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday - Thursday. We will keep office open on August 11 until 5:00 p.m. The general election shall be held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. At that election, four (4) members will be elected to the School Board for terms of four (4) years each. Affidavits of Candidacy are available from the school district office, located within Marshall County Central High School, 310 West Minnesota Ave. Newfolden, Minnesota. The filing fee for this office is $2. A candidate for this office must be an eligible voter, must be 21 years of age or more on assuming office, must have been a resident of the school district from which the candidate seeks election for thirty (30) days before the general election, and must have no other affidavit on file for any other office at the same primary or next ensuing general election. The affidavits of candidacy must be filed in the office of the school district clerk and the filing fee paid prior to 5:00 o'clock p.m. on August 11, 2020. Dated: June 30, 2020 BY ORDER OF THE SCHOOL BOARD CLERK Kayla Nelson School District Clerk

FYI - The MCC district office will be closed on Wednesday, July 1 as office is getting carpets clean. We will resume our regular office hours 8-3 on Thursday. The district regular summer hours are 8-3 Monday-Thursday. If you have any questions or need assistance we are also available those hours via phone (218) 874-8530.

Basketball shootaround for upcoming 7th & 8th grade boys Northern Freeze from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm at MCC High School on Monday, June 29. You must call the school to sign up at 218-874-8530 or email Mr. LB: blongerbone@mccfreeze.org by 3:00 6/29. Participation limited to first 24 that sign up.