MVLA Parent Newsletter 8/23/21

“Use your voice for kindness, your ears for compassion, your hands for charity, your mind for truth, and your heart for love.” Anonymous

“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.” Anonymous

1. Please do wellness checks on your students before sending them to school. Please do not send them to school if they are feeling sick.
2. Please make sure they have masks that they are willing to wear all day.
3. Please send kids with water bottles and have them put their names on them.

• The Kids Can Afterschool Program Starts August 23rd. It will be from 3:30 - 5:00pm. You may want to send snacks with your kiddos.

• Picture Day is August 26th. Please have your student dress to impress.

• OPEN HOUSE - SEPT 1ST

• PTO Meeting Via Zoom Sept 2nd.

• September 7th - Labor Day - No School

As we have already seen, we have quite a few kiddos that need to be out for various reasons. At this time, we are not having teachers do any zooms for at home learning. However, teachers are posting assignments and information in their canvas courses. Students can login to canvas to continue assignments and avoid getting too far behind on their schoolwork.

We do have one zoom students can login to Monday - Friday which is Morning Motivation. It will start at approximately 9:05. That zoom link is in the MVLA Student Canvas Course. Students will only be allowed into that zoom if they have their real name on their zoom account.

MVLA is in search of parents who would like to participate in PTO, School Advisory Council and District Advisory Council. If you have not already signed up and would like to, please click here:

https://form.jotform.com/211724591338154

If you would like more information about what the District Advisory Council is, please click here:

http://www.lcps.net/community-relations/district-advisory-council/

If you would like to serve as our District Advisory Council person, please email Mrs. Martos at amartos@lcps.net. We do already have some volunteers, but we can always use more in case someone is unable to attend.

We will serve breakfast from 8:45 - 9:30. If your student comes late, they can still pick up breakfast from the cafeteria.

If your child requires a special diet for any reason, please contact the school nurse Mrs. Hartshorn. You can call 527-6059 and ask for her and she will help set that up.

Also, please DO NOT have food delivered to campus. If you must bring food on occasion because your student has a special diet and forgot their lunch, that is fine, but please do NOT send deliveries, door dash, etc.

Students are only allowed to use their cell phones before school, at lunch and after school. If you need to speak to your child or get a message to your child during the day, please call the front office at 527-6059 and we will get the message to your student.

If your child does not feel well, please tell them they need to come see the nurse and she will contact you if they need to be picked up. Students should not be calling or texting parents during the day unless it is from the office with an adult present.

Most of the students have received a device from the school. Please have your student login from home to ensure they can do so. If you need assistance from the District for internet, please let us know.

Families on LCPS-Sponsored Comcast Cares This LCPS-sponsored service will end this semester.

Please sign up for the FCC Emergency Broadband Benefit Program here - https://www.fcc.gov/broadbandbenefit. Qualifying families will be able to continue Comcast service with the EBB program.

The NM Student Connect Hotline is available to assist families with sign up and any questions. If a student’s address in StudentVue is serviceable by a local Internet Service Provider, please sign up for the FCC Emergency Broadband Benefit Program here - https://www.fcc.gov/broadbandbenefit.

The NM Student Connect Hotline is available to assist. Your LCPS Hotspot will need to be returned to the school and checked back in. Once returned, the student fee will be removed.

If a student's address in StudentVue is NOT serviceable by a local Internet Service Provider, the family is eligible to check out an LCPS hotspot again for the 21-22 school year. To do this, families will need to return their current hotspot to your school. You will then be able to request a hotspot for the 21-22 school year. Schools will only check out hotspots to families that have an eligible address.

Parents are automatically signed up to receive messages through our District messaging system. Now we can get our students signed up for their OWN Remind 101. If they have their own phone, please have them sign up for this MVLA Remind https://www.remind.com/join/mvlast

Mesilla Valley Leadership Academy is a 6-8 school of choice here in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Started by Dr. Toni Hull, we are a RCA inspired project-based school. We have five houses who all compete to win the coveted Title of Champions each year.

Email: amartos@lcps.net
Website: https://sites.google.com/lcpsmail.org/mesillavalleyleadershipacademy/home
Location: 821 East Lohman
Phone: 575-527-6059

Please be sure to check out http://www.lcps.net/ for information about tutoring, meal services and other district initiatives available to the community.