• Collaborative Classroom ELA Curriculum: Academic and Social-Emotional Learning
• Needs Focused Enrichment Opportunities
• Field Trip Travel Opportunities
• Quiz Bowl
• Science Olympiad
• Team Teaching
• Breakfast in the Classroom (free breakfast for all students)
• Collaborative Classroom  (SEL)
• At Recess: Buddy Bench & Conflict Corner practices
• MMHS Mentors

• Expanded MRA Athletics
• Student Council
• Band
• Social Skills Group (Mondays & Wednesdays)
• Young Men’s Breakfast Club (2nd & 4th Tuesday before school)
• Ladies First Breakfast Club  (2nd Wednesday before school)
• Blessings in a Backpack (Fridays)
• Child Study and Student Staffings with TC, SSW, OT, PT, VI, etc. (varies)
• Lego Robotics team  (Thursdays after school)
• Student Council and student council fun events like Movie Night, Dodgeball, etc.
• Career Day during March Reading Month
• Swim & Growing Up lessons  (4 days in March)
• Fieldtrips:
  • Mackinac (3rd Gr)  (June)
  • Sleeping Bear Dunes (4th Gr)  (February)
  • Tall Ship (5th Gr)  (May)
• After School Opportunities: Boy & Girl Scouts, MRA, Cheerleading, Jr. Dance Team,  Annual Talent Show

Action Team for Partnership (ATP)

What is ATP?: ATP is our parent-teacher group for all of the MAPS Elementary buildings – Madison, Jefferson, and Kennedy.

The Manistee Area Public Schools parent group Action Team for Partnership (ATP) is a group of dedicated parents that spearhead projects to benefit our students. It is similar to a Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) only a little more prescriptive and based on committees, including:

• Parenting
• Communicating
• Volunteering
• Learning at Home
• Decision Making
• Community Collaboration

What does the ATP do?: We fundraise to help support our schools and students. We pay for field trips, school supplies, recess/playground equipment, books, staff appreciation activities, and more! We also organize many family events: Fall Carnival, Daddy-Daughter and Mother-Son nights, Holiday Caroling, Birthday Lunches, Book Fairs, and Santa Shop are some examples.

At Kennedy:

• Movie Night
• Popcorn Days
• Slushy Days
• Birthday Lunches
• Book Fairs
• Winter Carnival
• Books for Bikes
• …and more

Parents who become involved in their child’s education can make a positive difference. Contact or Kott kkott@manistee.org, or Kevin Schmutzler kschmutzler@manistee.org for more information or to join our ATP family.

Seesaw

Seesaw is a service that we use K-6 at MAPS and is a simple way for teachers and students to record and share what’s happening in the classroom. Seesaw gives students a place to document their learning, be creative and learn how to use technology. Each student gets their own journal and will add things to it, like photos, videos, drawings, or notes. When there are new Seesaw posts, families can be notified via app notification, email or SMS. Parents are only notified about their own child’s work, and all data is safe and secure.

Contact your student’s classroom teacher to get more information about how you can get connected via Seesaw.

Training and Practices:

• Safenet
• “Love & Logic” Jim Fey  (Ex: student choices, empathy, logical consequences, SRC, etc.)
• “No Such Thing as a Bad Kid” with Charlie Appelstein
• “Poverty’s Influence on Learning” Eric Jensen
• “Stewards of Children” Child Abuse and Neglect Training (Child Advocacy Center)
• “Take Time for You Self-care action plans for educators” Tina Boogren
• Restorative Justice practices and Professional Development for Administrators
• Teachers Involving Parents in Schoolwork practices
• QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) suicide prevention
• CRASE training (Civilian Response to Active Shooter Events)
• NightLocks installed throughout the building
• Emergency Operation Plan (in revision/updating process)
• Annual Staff: CPI/1st Aid, Nonviolent Crisis Prevention Intervention, Bloodborne Pathogen, AED, Concussion, EpiPen, Emergency Drill Schedule
• Annual Students: Cybersafety including OK2Say app, Stop-Walk-Talk anti-bully program,