Teacher Convocation Goes 3-D for 2010
Go Determined – Go Dynamic – Go Digital was this year's theme for the Teacher Convocation. Over 500 teachers are determined to get students engaged in learning by designing rigorous and purposeful lessons.

The district remains on the cutting-edge of the digital world.  Learning is a continuous process for both students and teachers.

However, it is not just about facts, figures and the digital age.  According to Superintendent Dr. Stewart, it is about building relationships and seeing the value in each individual learner. 

The audience was privileged to hear Dr. Ray McNulty speak about the 21st Century Learner.  He is the President of the International Center for Leadership and Education.  Prior to joining the International Center, he was a senior fellow at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where he worked with leading educators from around the country on improving our nation's high schools.  Dr. McNulty encouraged MISD teachers to get the future ready today and to be the agents of change. 

Throughout the event, teachers and staff wore 3-D glasses and watched several digital videos come to life on stage. 

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MEF Kicks Off "Good to Grow" Campaign
The Midlothian ISD Education Foundation is kicking off a new annual drive campaign to raise funds to help MISD students be "Good to Grow." View our new commercial.

Contact Kristin Zastoupil, executive director, at 972-775-8296 x1281 to make a contribution today, and help MEF reach it's 2010-2011 goal of $125,000. (MISD Staff can contribute through payroll deduction. Click here for the Staff Drive form.)

A $61,875 Texas Education Agency Grant to Benefit New MISD Teachers
Posted: 8/12/10

Midlothian students and teachers are ready to start the 2010-2011 school year.  Chelsea Gildea, a MHS graduate, is beyond ready – she is excited to start a career as a first year 3rd grade teacher at T. E. Baxter Elementary. More

MISD welcomed seventy new teachers at the New Teacher Orientation

MISD Selected as Finalist in “Best Places to Work” Contest
Midlothian ISD was selected as a finalist in the "Best Places to Work" contest through a recent Dallas Business Journal survey taken by MISD employees in June.  In 2009, MISD was ranked as the 4th “Best Place to Work” among big businesses and was the only school district ranked in the top five. To earn the prestigious DBJ Best Places to Work designation, companies have to earn a national best practice score for their category. This score is based on its work environment, innovations/new ideas, people practices, personal growth and development, leadership, employee recognition and the structure of the day-to-day operations. The 2010 rankings will be revealed at the annual Dallas Business Journal 2010 Best Places to Work Awards Luncheon on September 23, 2010

Message concerning FlashAlert
Many Midlothian parents and staff are subscribed to receive FlashAlert emergency emails and/or text messages.  Once a year, they must confirm that they wish to continue receiving these messages.

If you wish to continue and have not already done so, please go to www.flashalert.net/login.html and enter your primary email address and password. Check that all your addresses are correct and then select "Click here to send test messages and complete the registration process" to update. If you do not update your account, it will be deleted on September 15.

Please make sure that your cell phone text addresses are formatted correctly with 10 digits (AT&T example: 5035551212@txt.att.net). Or, consider a new, even faster option: Twitter.

FlashAlert now can distribute messages through Twitter. Twitter's relationship with the cell companies mean that our messages go through the cell companies' faster "back door," so we encourage you to use Twitter instead of registering your cell phone in the FlashAlert system. You can register for Twitter by cicking on the blue Twitter logo next to Midlothian's name in your FlashAlert account.

Again, to continue receiving FlashAlerts, please log in to your account and launch a test message by September 15, 2009.

MISD conveniently has a print shop with two duplicators and two copiers designed to produce large amounts of print jobs. The print shop stores different colors of paper: light blue, light pink, yellow, light green, and goldenrod. All other color of paper, transparencies and card stock must be provided by the sender. We have two different sizes of white paper: 8½X11 and 8½X14. The district encourages teachers and staff to submit print jobs that exceed 20 or pages per master to the print shop.

Intra-district mail
Cover sheets are available at each campus or you can download the coversheet  here. Attach cover sheet and send master copy to print shop.

Email attachment of master copy
Please make sure the cover sheet (see above PDF link) information is provided in the email section.

The center is open to all district employees, and school-aged parents of the district. It is currently licensed by the state of Texas for 125 children, from 6 weeks of age to 5 years. We are recognized as a four-star facility by the Child Care Services division of the Texas Workforce Commission.

Lunch may be brought from home, or purchased from the J.R. Irvin cafeteria at $2.10. We observe the same calendar as the district. We pro-rate Summer Break, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Spring Breaks (no charge for the times we are closed).

To register your child,  download this form and return to the Laura Jenkins Development Center. Next year's supply list will be posted once finalized..

The daycare is located inside the Laura Jenkins Development Center, 315 East Ave. E, Midlothian, TX 76065, (972) 775-8955 with operating hours 7am to 4:30pm. For further details or to ask questions, please contact Daycare Director Glenda Dooley.

Gallery

Good friends Makayla and Jaci are having fun in the class at the MISD Jenkins Development Center for MISD teachers' children.