The Panther Pride

McMillen High School takes pride in preparing our diverse community of students in a safe and supportive environment to inspire them to be successful lifelong learners.

Relationships. Relevance. Rigor.

Website is still being renovated. Thank you for your patience!

Parents, please remember after school pick up is in the back parking lot only, NOT the bus lane. We appreciate your attention to our students' safety.

Who is your counselor?

Sarah Davidson Last names A – F sarah.davidson@pisd.edu

Brandon Rogers Last names G – K brandon.rogers@pisd.edu

Allison Youderian Lat names L – Q Allison.youderian@pisd.edu

Lissa Testa Last names R – Z lissa.testa@pisd.edu

Please click on this link to watch our Counseling department's Plano East 11th Grade Course Selection Zoom video.The access code is 8kA&RmCR

Please click on this link to watch our Counseling department's McMillen 10th Grade Course Selection Zoom video. The access code is z&Z5aFun

Parents have the ability to review instructional plans for their child’s classes. Visit https://www.pisd.edu/students-families-a6/instructionalplans to view the instructional plans and learn more about your child’s learning experience.

Hello McMillen Families,

Hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving and some time to enjoy family and friends.

We are currently at 243 members strong- yay! Based on this engagement, we continue to exceed the Texas PTA enrollment goals with monthly awards. Don't forget student members for both 9th and10th grade have a chance for a senior year scholarship toward college. You can register a friend or student as a holiday gift: https://mcmillenhsptsa.membershiptoolkit.com/join

• We really need your help on the survey questions for our School of Excellence application. Can you take 5-7minutes and fill this out? Your feedback is very important so we can strengthen our family-school partnership. Please encourage others as well, its very much appreciated.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1mN72XuRdmWx4zGL96qyqfjkzQkBianCkLk7rdOPBvG4/edit

• Join us Dec 15th for spirit night at McAlisters:

• Order spirit wear, new styles for the winter and great for gifts: https://mcmillenhsptsa.membershiptoolkit.com/packet/7198

• Our next General Membership Meeting is Jan 14th, we will review and vote on our Bylaws!

Have a great weekend,

Jamie Heise

McMillen HS PTSA benefits as a result of the placement of a shoes and clothing donation bin at our school in the parking lot. We are paid by the pound for each pound of shoes, clothing, belts, purses, wallets, hats, caps, backpacks, hard toys and stuffed animals placed in our bin. Please help our PTSA raise funds for school projects, teacher training, new technology and to generally support the children who attend our school.

Learn more how you can make a difference and clean out your closets.

The superintendents have voted and the results are in!

We are proud to announce this year's winners, but first let us relay a message from Dr.Theresa Williams. "Oh. My. Goodness!!! These. Are. Beautiful!!!"

As you can tell, she was thrilled with your submissions. Without further ado...congratulations to our winners:

- Overall District Winner - Kim Nguyen, McMillen HS
- Elementary Division Winner - Yadami Hinojosa, Thomas ES
- Secondary Division Winner - Irene Liu, PESH

McMillen's own Kim Nguyen beat all other students in entire PISD that entered!!! AND her card design will be used for the PISD Administration to send out!

K-2 Division Winner

Judge Me By My Heart

Ashton Chloupek

Hunt ES

2nd Grade

3-5 Division Winner

Four Sides of Freedom

Horseshoe Art Club

McCall ES

4th-5th Grade

MS Division Winner

Great Expectations

Otto Advanced Art 3

Otto MS

8th Grade

HS Division Winner

The Dream is Within Us All

Briana Hernandez

McMillen HS

9th Grade

Every year in AVID one of our most impacting components of the program is having guest speakers share about their profession. McMillen AVID students are always thinking about college majors, and they love exposure to as many as possible. That's where guest speakers help the most. Whether you own a business, are in the medical profession, the world of transportation, hospitality, engineering, law, human relations, trade professions…we would love to schedule you to speak to our students. They are always interested and have an abundance of questions. If you would be willing to come share your profession with us, or if you know someone who would like to come be a guest speaker in our AVID classes, please contact Sherika Gaines, our AVID Coordinator, at sherika.gaines@pisd.edu with questions. You may click the Google Form or scan the QR code on the flyer. Please consider sharing what you do with our students! We look forward to hearing from you.

On Tuesday, December 9, the McMillen Orchestras will perform our Winter Concert at First United Methodist Church Plano. We are sharing this concert with Otto Middle School. Otto Orchestras will begin at 6:30, and I anticipate that the McMillen Orchestras will begin around 7:30.

On Thursday, the Plano East Symphony Orchestra will perform their Midwest Preview Concert. The PESH Symphony Orchestra was selected to perform at the Midwest Clinic, which is an international band and orchestra conference held annually in Chicago. Each year schools from around the world apply and submit recordings to be invited to perform on this international stage. It is a great honor to be selected, and we are so excited for our kids to be able to have such a memorable experience! That concert will be on Thursday, December 11, 7:00 PM at the Robinson Fine Arts Center.

The McMillen Theatre Department invites you to its annual Night of Improv! Join the McMillen Theatre Rising Stars on Thursday, December 11th at 6:30pm as they perform improvised scenes, play games, and make it all up right there on the spot! Tickets are $6 and can be purchased online at https://finearts.pisd.edu/fine-arts-tickets. You won't want to miss out on this evening of zany antics and downright silliness!