From Mrs. Meader: My first grade class has been following along on the Wreaths Actoss America adventure. 🇺🇸 My students were so passionate and serious about the WAA mission, that they were able to sponsor 22 wreaths with the help of our superintendent, school staff, and their generous parents. Yesterday was our culmination to this great service project. We got to FaceTime with my parents as the wreaths were placed at the Pentagon. This was truly an emotional and impactful journey for all of my littles. Thank you to Perry Mattson and Pearl, Mark Kenney, Tanya Arsenault, Wreaths Across America - Official Page and all of the supportive parents of students in my class.
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We are all very proud of Mrs. Meader, her students, and their families for participating in this project!
Join us for SAD #44 day at the Maine Mariners!
Wednesday, December 11, 2024, due to icy road conditions this morning, a 2 hr delay for all MSAD#44 schools.
2hr delay for MSAD44 today, Tuesday, December 10, 2024
No school today in MSAD#44, Thursday, December 5, 2024.
Last chance to put in a bid on surplus vehicles here in SAD44. If you are interested, PLEASE send in a bid by this Friday 12/6/24 to the Central Office! Thank you.
No after school activities in SAD44 this afternoon, Tuesday, November 26th. This includes MKA at the elementary level. Thank you and have a Happy Thanksgiving!
Mt. Abram and the Bethel Food Pantry are looking for helpers for Turkey Tuesday!
Here is a public posting that will also be in the Bethel Citizen for surplus MSAD44 buses, a pickup truck with a plow and a van that are up for bids. All vehicles are sold as is and will need to be removed from the property by the deadline on the posting.
November 7, 2024
Telstar Middle School is actively looking for a JV Girls Basketball Coach and Telstar High School is in need of an Alpine Coach. If you or someone you know is interested, please contact Gail Wight at 824-2136 x 1304 or email at wightg@sad44.org
Thank you!
I was able to skip out and see the annual Halloween parade through town this afternoon for grades k-5 on this gorgeous day! It never disappoints and was awesome to see Main Street lined with family and friends to watch. Job well done and thanks to our THS volunteers to help out!
Last Thursday, October 24th, Clean Cut Painting was recognized in front of the state MSMA conference in Augusta as one of the MSBA Business Friends of Education Awardee. They were one of three companies from the state to receive this award. We appreciate their partnership with SAD44 and are thrilled for their recognition.
This bond is to help our students and programs at Region 9. Your support is appreciated when you go to the polls on November 5th.
We are looking for the following winter coaches for the 2024-2025 season:
HS Alpine Race Team
MS Girls Head Basketball
MS Girls Assistant Basketball
For more information, please contact Gail Wight at wightg@sad44.org or 824-2136 x1304
Thank you!!
I was fortunate enough last week to catch the release of the classroom Monarchs with Mrs. Fitzmorris's class. Their excitement was priceless!
Please consider joining our team! We have a great insurance and benefits package, good hours and great people/students to work with!
This evening at 5pm we will be conducting a test of the emergency alert system for MSAD44. We are rebuilding the data base from scratch to hopefully get all of the kinks worked out. Your students were given a paper form we ask you to fill out and return tomorrow please to help us identify who this is and is not working for. We are also posting the same information and a picture of the form to our websites and Facebook pages to try and make sure we are getting the word out to all families and to see if the system is working properly. If you do not receive a call, text, and email this evening, and you believe you should, please contact your school office in the morning.
Thank you for your patience through this process.
Mark
Good morning,
I wanted to give you an update, following the cancellation of school this morning, Monday, September 9, 2024 in all MSAD#44 schools. We have been working with the OCSO all morning following up on a report that came in overnight from a student/parent who saw a post on Snapchat. We were not able prior to school opening to talk to all parties involved and come to a conclusion about the credibility of the threat made so I made the decision to close schools while we continued to investigate. The reason the elementary schools were also canceled is similar to last week, if we do not have 50% district attendance, the day would not count, and without the middle and high school in session, we fall below that mark.
Unfortunately we have been in the process of changing over our Student Information Systems from Infinite Campus (IC) to the new system PowerSchool. There have been some big glitches with that transfer and unfortunately our Instant Alert system is not working properly which is making it difficult to consistently get the word out to all staff and families. We are working on this as I type and apologize for that communication break down.
We have made the decision along with the OCSO now that the threat is not seen as credible to allow for the Telstar High School home soccer games to still take place today as well as other HS practices. There will be no MS sports tonight .
The biggest take away we can ask is that if you or your student hear information about this or any situation that poses a safety risk that they tell an adult, teacher, coach in the moment and no continue to talk about rumors, post things to social media, etc. so we can investigate quickly and thoroughly to help avoid situations like this morning. Helping to have that conversation at home would be appreciated greatly.
Starting tomorrow OCSO will have deputy presence on the Telstar campus for the remainder of the week while students are present. School will resume for everyone tomorrow morning, Tuesday, September 10, 2024. This does count as our first snow day cancellation of the 2024-2025 school year.
This incident has nothing to do with our issues last week with the fire alarm system at Telstar. That was successfully fixed and inspected on Saturday.
Thank you,
Mark
Unfortunately, MSAD#44 schools will not be able to open today, Monday, September 9, 2024.
Sorry for the late notice. We had a credible threat come in towards the Telstar complex that we are working on with OCSO.
My apologies. and yes, this will have to count as our first snow day for 2024-2025.
Good luck to Telstar High School Class of 2024 Cruze Kimball as he prepares to particpate and play in the upcoming Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl Classic football game tomorrow, Saturday, July 20, 2024!
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