Marion County Schools

New Year...New Beginnings! 💚🐊 A great Open House at Mannington Middle School tonight. Thank you to Mannington Middle School PTO, Mannington Middle School staff and all the parents and students that came out tonight. It's going to be a great 2023-24.

Make a pledge to grow this year! Blackshere staff made a hands-on, team-building approach to growing together after completing traiming on Being a Writer today.

Efficient, hardworking, and an example of a P.O.W.E.R. team in Marion County Schools, the bus operators receive a review on chaining up a school bus and adjusting the mirror grids, hosted at North Marion High School today.

East Dale is abuzz as the highly anticipated classroom additions are coming together to greet students on the first day of the 2023-24 school year. Hard working teaching assistants, teachers, and the Maintenance Department do the final pushes to kick of this special year.

Besides being the face that greets each of our students and visitors daily, this team of hardworking Marion County Schools secretaries is so vital in each of our schools, in so many ways. They kick off a training session on a meal service program from WVDE today.

Thank you to WV State Trooper Celiphino for kicking off the morning session with Marion County Schools bus operators today. Your expertise and support of our students, families and staff is appreciated.

And into the evening tonight, Marion County Schools Healthy Grandfamilies team of support works together to plan grandfamilies dates for 2023-24. Keep bringing the P.O.W.E.R.!

Keep coloring our worlds! It's been a P.O.W.E.R.-packed day in Marion County Schools as the county's art teachers worked with Annie McFarland, Ph.D., ATR-BC, Assistant Professor | Art Therapy + Therapeutic Arts, Art Therapy Program Coordinator to learn strategies for classrooms.

Erin Day, Behavior Support Specialist through the West Virginia Behavior Mental Health Technical Assistance Center, working with Prek-1st grade teachers and ECCATS on Classroom Strategies with PBIS today.

Making bridges for Marion County Schools students, instructors of Marion County Technical Center spent the day visiting the facilities and programs of Pierpont Community Technical College in the area to broaden awareness and soar into our partnership.

We're counting on you! Marion County teachers attended a session on math strategies for Pre-K through grade 1, presented by Teacher Kylie Reesman today. And Principal Mel Coleman and Admikistrative Assistant LD Skarzinski got into the fun, learning alongside teachers.

A student's first connection with Marion County Schools and it's a good one! Marion County Schools Pre-K teachers and ECCATs reviewed Policy 2525 and how to differentiate activities for young learners today.

Dr. Jason Gossett and Dr. Angela Munroe from the WVU School of Music present a session on vertical teaming among music educators to Marion County Schools Music teachers today.

Dr. Vince Mancuso works with Marion County Schools secondary teachers who are utilizing a block schedule format in delivery of instruction in Marion County Schools today.

MCS Families: Students entering 7th & 12th grades for 2023-24 are required to have the Tdap & meningitis vaccines to return on the first day of school or to participate in summer practices/activities. Students may not attend school without proper verification of vaccines. PreK, K, 2nd, 7th, and 12th grades are required to show proof of Health and Dental exams. Please send documents to your child’s school as soon as possible. ALSO, state law requires that any student who has Emergency Medications ordered must have the medication administration form AND the medication available at school or the student may not attend school. Ensure these are given to the school nurse.

Health/PE teachers in Marion County Schools discuss tools, resources, and strategies for Vape Prevention and Cessation training with WVDE's Josh Grant today.

We recognize the P.O.W.E.R. in our own expertise to help others in the profession as Mary Kuretza, a retired counselor, leads a session with counselors on crisis response planning in Marion County Schools.

Continuing the theme today that Marion County Schools rises by lifting others as we use our own, proven experts in training sessions, Margie Suder offers Code.org training to teachers, hosted at East Fairmont High School.

JoDonna Burdoff provides Trauma Informed Care sessions for our educators to continue to build our student support framework and cultivate resilient students and staff in Marion County Schools.

Tools down for a day as Marion County Schools Custodians and Maintenance Department are participating in their mandatory Safety and Asbestos trainings for 2023-24.