Hiring for 2024-2025! Check out our openings and apply at https://www.applitrack.com/nwcs/onlineapp/default.aspx
Hiring! Cafeteria Squad Members @ NHS! Contact Raina @ 260-622-4125 x1004 or apply online @ https://www.applitrack.com/nwcs/onlineapp/default.aspx?Category=Food+Service
Online Kindergarten Enrollment for the 2024-2025 School Year is OPEN! To enroll, visit https://www.nwcs.k12.in.us/ and select Enrollment in the top right. Students must be 5 by August 1 to enroll in Kindergarten.
Hey Coach Thornton, these LES 4th graders say they're making it to Indianapolis their senior year, too. Fun at the LES Hoops for Heart this morning! Thank you to Mrs. Bloomfield for hosting this and Jump Rope for Heart this week.
Nice story from Fox55 highlighting Norwell's new Precision Machining class in coordination with our Area 18 Career and Technical Education Cooperative.
https://www.wfft.com/news/local/rural-schools-in-northeast-indiana-are-offering-career-based-education/article_f0599b7c-d690-11ee-81ff-576d595c52f4.html
Surf's Up Breakfast Week--March 4 - March 8
Check out our planned events and treats!
ALL SCHOOLS WILL BE CLOSED - APRIL 8th
Asynchronized eLearning Day - Bear Care and Bobcat Care will also be closed.
The cafeteria at the middle school looks great with the new tables!
Love seeing our LES and OES teachers engaged in a deep dive into the five IDOE-approved ELA curricular adoption options. Our elementary admin team has organized a very detailed review process, and our teachers are working diligently through the process. Great work!
Indiana’s eLearning law is House Bill 1093, which was passed in 2022. The law limits the number of eLearning days school districts can have in which less than half the day includes live instruction from teachers. Under this law, districts are only allowed to have three (3) asynchronous (simply posting assignments, etc.) eLearning days. School districts may have as many synchronous (live instruction) eLearning days as they want, and all will count toward the 180-day student instruction requirement. However, any asynchronous eLearning days (beyond the 3 allowable days) will not count toward the 180-day student instruction requirement. If a school needs to implement more than three (3) asynchronous eLearning days per school year, they are able to apply for a waiver, but it is only supposed to be approved for extraordinary circumstances. In 2022, Norwell Community Schools, in collaboration with building administration and teachers, made the collective decision that ALL eLearning days would be synchronous with live instruction from teachers. It was decided that asynchronous learning (posting assignments, etc.) would only be used in rare circumstances including for teachers who may have had a planned personal leave day or who are too ill to lead live instruction that day.
Unfortunately, there have been no positive developments with the dense fog forecast. Norwell Community Schools will move to eLearning for 1.25.24. Bear Care and Bobcat care will remain open through normal times.
LOVED competing against these two students at Ossian Elementary's Chess Club yesterday. I won one and lost one. Can you tell by the photos which match I won? 🤣
Good participation at last night's strategic planning session. We returned to the small table discussion format which produces better feedback. Groups identified new strengths and affirmed the great accomplishments of the past two years.
Norwell Community Schools will be on-site for in-person learning following today's 2-hour delay. Continue to allow additional time as you travel to school and work. 1.23.24
Due to hazardous road conditions for some of our county roads, Norwell Community Schools will start on a 2-hour delay schedule for Tuesday, 1.23.24. Bear Care and Bobcat Care will be available on regular schedules.
Tuesday, January 23rd, at NHS H200 at 5:30PM, we will spend approximately 1 hour in breakout groups reviewing progress on the 2021-22 SWOT analysis of our school system. Anyone connected with Norwell Community Schools is welcome to attend. We want your in-person participation.
Due to hazardous road conditions in many parts of our school district, Norwell Community Schools will implement eLearning for Friday, January 19, 2024.
Due to the expectation of overnight snow and slick road conditions, Norwell Community Schools will be on a 2-hour delayed start for Friday, January 19, 2024. Bear Care and Bobcat Care will be available at normal start times.
Norwell Community Schools will be on a 2-hour delayed start schedule for Wednesday, January 17, 2024. Bear Care and Bobcat Care will be available at the normal start time.