November MVLA Parent Newsletter

You all are amazing! I appreciate all that our families have done to continue to support our school. Our teachers have received most everything on their wish lists. Students are getting to participate in parent led My Times and the Full Scale Evacuation went off without a hitch! Thank you for that.

November 7th and 8th are remote learning days for students. The 7th is a planning day for teachers and the 8th is election day.

November 16th - MVLA will be hosting a Career Fair at the school from 1:00pm - 3:10pm. Employers will have booths set up to allow students to learn about opportunities they have available to them right here in Las Cruces. If you would like to put up your own booth, or know someone who would like to, please contact Mrs. Martinez, Mrs. Binkley or Mrs. Martos.

November 21-25th is our Thanksgiving Break.

(Please check out our webpage for updated events throughout the month.) mvla.lcps.net

Mrs. Binkley has offered our students so many incredible opportunities. She has helped students organize Community Service Projects such as the food drive for Casa De Peregrinos, obtaining and now painting the Little Library and collecting for one of our local animal shelters.

The AES group has also had the opportunity to have guest speakers and go on a field trip down to Cruces Creatives. Although it is not just for AES, Mrs. Binkley is also working with a local artist to create a mural during one of our upcoming My Times.

Lilah Berkson explains Social Studies:

In social studies, we have been working on our projects for the National History Day Competition. The topic this year is frontiers and we have been watching videos on how to improve our presentations to have them more concise. Other than that we have been learning how to take notes so that we can identify the keywords better when we are reviewing them.

Our last PTO meeting was on October 27th. Please be on the lookout for the date of our November meeting as it is TBD.

Below is the schedule for the District Advisory Council Meetings.

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.

Cell phones can be a huge distraction at school and we need your help to address this very real problem.

For this year's parent newsletters, my goal will be to have one go out at the beginning of each month. If I need to add information to it during the month, I will do so and send out the same newsletter with the updates.

If I ever leave anything out that you need information about, please feel free to email me at amartos@lcps.net or call me at 575-527-6059.

If you or someone you know is in need of community resources, basic needs, English/Spanish Classes, GED classes or are just curious as to what other resources LCPS has to offer, please call our Parent Hotline at 575-468-8279.

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: mvla.lcps.net
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.