- Compass Award Recipients
- Teacher Appreciation Week in May
- CDL Interest - Co-Curricular Transportation Support
- Best Buddies Walk
- School Board Election Results
- Threats are Taken Seriously
- School Safety
- Master Planning Update
- Conversation with the Superintendent
Compass Award Recipients
Congratulations to our 2024 Compass recipients, who each day, through their efforts, focus on continuous improvement and bring us closer to realizing our mission of Every student, learning, growing…succeeding.
- Amy Reno - Educational Assistant at Bay Lane Elementary
- Todd Sobczyk - Technical Education Teacher at Lake Denoon Middle School
- Team Maria Parks & Grace Cawley - Learning Strategist and Speech/Language Pathologist at Muskego Lakes Middle School
- Karen Torbeck - Administrative Assistant at Lakeview Elementary
Teacher Appreciation Week in May
May 6-10 is Teacher Appreciation Week. We invite you to send a teacher a note of gratitude and/or participate in your school’s individual PTO celebrations if applicable. The dedication of our teachers is at the heart of MNS, and we are grateful to have a whole week dedicated to appreciating these individuals.
CDL Interest - Co-Curricular Transportation Support
Similar to districts across our region, we have experienced challenges being able to find bus drivers to cover after-school routes to co-curricular competitions. If you are interested in completing the CDL training and getting your CDL license, please review THIS DOCUMENT and contact Dairyland to get started. For some, this might be an ideal way to watch your children participate and get paid to do so. Thank you for your consideration.
Best Buddies Walk
You and your family are invited to join us for our Best Buddies Friendship Walk on Saturday, May 18, 2024 from 9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. We will meet on the east side of the MHS track (closest to the high school). Afterward, we will have a picnic together, so please bring your own picnic food as well as a store-bought treat to pass. If you would like to purchase the 2024 Friendship Walk shirt, you can order online now by Sunday, April 14!
School Board Election Results
The Muskego-Norway School Board spring election was held on April 2, 2024. Congratulations to our elected school board members, Kevin Zimmermann, Tracy Blair, and Terri Boyer. Their term of office is three years beginning on April 22, 2024.
Threats are Taken Seriously
Please remember that if you or your children see or hear something suspicious to immediately say something to an administrator, a School Resource Officer, or call the local police department. We are committed to ensuring a safe learning environment for our students, and we are fortunate to have great partnerships with you, our parents/guardians, in our district. With threats occurring more often in school districts, it is important that we take a moment to lean on this partnership and ask you to have a conversation with your children regarding the serious implications of making a threat on a school. Such behavior may leave a lasting impact on a child’s education and future. The impact on the entire family is profound. Rather than waiting, we are asking you to personally discuss this issue with your children now. Whether a student perceives making a threat as a joke or not a big deal, making a threat on a school could result in suspension, expulsion, and/or being charged as an adult with a felony. According to State of WI statue 947.015: “Whoever intentionally conveys or causes to be conveyed any threat or false information, knowing such to be false, concerning an attempt or alleged attempt being made or to be made to destroy any property by the means of explosives is guilty of a Class 1 felony.”
We continue to encourage our students and school community to report through Speak Up Speak Out (SUSO) anything that could constitute a threat to school safety. As always, we work closely with local law enforcement to assist in these situations. Thank you for taking a moment to have this discussion with your children.
School Safety
Please know that Muskego-Norway Schools have safety plans and practices in place to prepare our school community for a crisis. Safety efforts and practices include:
- Three (3) Muskego Police Officers, serving as School Resource Officers in our buildings. We lead Waukesha County and all rural school districts in southeast Wisconsin when it comes to staffing police in our schools.
- District and school-level Emergency Response Teams who meet regularly with the Muskego Police Department to research and implement the most up-to-date procedures in protecting our students and staff from dangers in a crisis, as well as disseminating to staff at all buildings our safety procedures and protocols to follow.
- Safety plans are reviewed and approved annually by the Muskego-Norway School Board.
- All external doors are locked during school hours and we have supervised main entrances at all of our buildings.
- Visitors need permission to enter school buildings using an official ID.
- Annually, MNSD conducts all state mandatory drills, including two "lockdown" drills.
- Background checks are required for volunteers and staff members to enter into our schools and work with students.
- Students who leave the learning environment during school hours and return are required to check-in through the front office.
We know that schools are safer when students, staff, and families work together to reduce violence and address potential safety issues. We are asking that you continue to monitor your child’s and others’ online and social media activity and report any school safety concerns to law enforcement and school officials immediately. We are grateful for your partnership as we work together to keep our children safe.
Master Planning Update
Construction at Muskego High School and Lakeview Elementary remains on schedule to be completed for the 2024-25 school year. We are excited for the dedicated gymnasium at Lakeview Elementary and S.T.E.A.M. & Health Science additions at Muskego High School and the host of opportunities these facilities will bring to students and the community.
Conversation with the Superintendent
Please contact Interim Superintendent Jeff Petersen at jeff.petersen@muskegonorway.org to schedule an individual meeting.
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With Gratitude,
Muskego-Norway Schools