Montezuma Elementary

Public Meeting of the Board of School Trustees of the Southwest Parke Community School Corporation November 3, 2023 at 7:30 a.m. at the administration building at 4851 South Coxville Road, Montezuma, IN 47862 The School Board will host a meeting to discuss the terms of the tentative agreement of the teacher collective bargaining agreement, which will be posted at https://www.swparke.k12.in.us/ no less than 72 hours before the meeting.

Job Opening - Certified Special Education Teacher - The Southwest Parke Community School Corporation seeks a full-time special education teacher for Montezuma Elementary School. Qualified candidates are invited to complete the application at https://form.jotform.us/70934380547158. Please direct questions to building Principal Mr. Emmert or Superintendent Dr. Harrison.

Job Opening - Southwest Parke Community School Corporation has an opening for a full-time custodian at Montezuma Elementary School. Anticipated start date is November 10, 2023. Please complete the application at https://form.jotform.us/70934380547158. Please direct questions to the building Principal Mr. Emmert or to the Superintendent Dr. Harrison.

Friday, September 29, 2023 - The Southwest Parke Corporation Office will experience periodic closures throughout the day as personnel attend meetings off site. Please call before making the trip so that you are sure someone is present to assist you. As always, you may leave voice messages or emails for office personnel. Have a great day!

Rosedale Elementary School will be closed tomorrow, Wednesday, August 30, 2023, due to plumbing issues that will not allow for occupancy. All other schools in the corporation will be open and run as usual. Rosedale picture day for will be rescheduled.

The Corporation Office will close at 12:30 PM today - Monday, July 10, 2023 - to accommodate off-site obligations of personnel. The Corporation Office will reopen Tuesday, July 11, 2023 at 8:30 AM.

The Southwest Parke Board of School Trustees will meet in Executive Session Tuesday, July 11, 2023 at 6 PM. The Executive Session will be held in accordance with IC 5-14-1.5-6.1 (b)(2) for discussion of strategy with respect to litigation. Please remember that Executive Sessions are closed to the public. The next public meeting of the Board will be Wednesday, July 12, 2023 at 7 PM.

Monthly Board Meetings are going to be available via livestream on our website starting tonight (May 11th) at 7pm! On the website homepage, you will now find a link pointing to the livestream page, which is also found here: https://www.swparke.k12.in.us/o/district/page/board-meetings.

Partnership Parke County is studying the needs of Parke County parents. Please consider taking the survey they have provided. Information may be found in the flyer linked below. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sYImulW_WeFf9hxd1W3YuQfmbSpx71wB/view?usp=sharing

Rosedale Elementary and Montezuma Elementary Families: If you would like to receive meals for Wednesday, January 19, 2022 through Friday, January 21, 2022, please complete the form using the link below. One form per student. MEAL DISTRIBUTION WILL BE ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19TH, FROM 11:30 TO NOON at the school your child attends. https://forms.gle/gmDyQpTpiRFJ2bjg9

Montezuma Families: Please see January's newsletter from Mr. Livers. This coincides with sending home our report cards last Friday. If you have questions about your child's report card grades, please contact their homeroom teacher or the Main Office! https://www.smore.com/ap5b0

Please see Dr. Harrison’s message regarding updated quarantine procedures.

Parents/guardians and students: I hope you all have a Happy and Healthy Holiday break! I do have a few reminders for you though… If you student becomes ill and is tested for Covid over break, please send me an email to let me know. Even though we will not be in session, I will still be in contact with our local health department and will still be tracking any Covid cases we may have in our corporation. Please send me an email with the date your student first started having symptoms, what day they were tested, and then results once you get those back. My email address is hasbrouckm@swparke.k12.in.us. Also, if you have received a letter from me regarding your student needing immunizations, please try to get those completed during the break. The State of Indiana still requires that our students meet immunization requirements or they can be excluded from school. We have had enough student absences so I would like to avoid anyone having to be missing school because of immunizations. If you don’t remember what your student might need, please email me and I will let you know. This includes all Virtual students. Thank you for your help! Nurse Marla

If interested in participating in the meal program during the school closure, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/mEFCZXbs9Vf1nGha8 - more details will follow once we have this information. If you have any questions, please email mcclintockj@swparke.k12.in.us.

Please see the memo from the Indiana Department of Education regarding the cancellation of Spring 2020 state assessments. Find it here: https://5il.co/dyh2.

Please note there are new immunization requirements that have been posted for the 2020-21 school year. You can find them on our website under Parent Resources or by going to https://5il.co/curi

All Southwest Parke schools will be closed tomorrow - Tuesday, November 19 - so that teachers may participate in the Red for Ed Action Day at the Indiana Statehouse. The Indiana State Teachers Association organized this Red for Ed Action Day, and teachers from all across the state will be participating in this historic event. The action day is intended to make legislators aware of continuing concerns with the current teacher compensation model, excessive and punitive state testing, and professional growth requirements that focus on matters unrelated to classroom instruction and improvement. Thank you for accommodating tomorrow’s school closure.