The Spring 2021 Parent Workshops were a big success with presentation on internet safety form the US Secret Service, middle school to high school transitions and saving for your child's college. Below is a link to the recorded event should you want to view it. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UiZf1ATKi7ceS8-sP7RAFkhaNEIUYEhI/view?usp=sharing

James Screven, Assistant Principal

Middle School Families, The 4th quarter is now underway! Checking your students' grades via SchoolMax and monitoring their google classroom for work submission is an important part of staying up to date with student progress. Directions on how to do both of these can be found below. Please see the following important dates for the 4th quarter. May 21 - Progress Report Grades Published by Teachers May 28th - All Progress Report Grades Available for Parents to View June 18th - End of 4th Quarter July 2nd - Report Card Grades Mailed Home

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Medical research has shown that eating a diet rich in fruits, vegetables and whole grains can help decrease the symptoms of Asthma. Researchers have also learned that avoiding certain foods, like meat and salt, can help improve symptoms. For more information on the topic, visit https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322438.

CMIT Nurse

Finally, CMIT North Middle school completed the 2020-2021 Science Olympiad year last weekend. We competed against so strong 23 teams among Maryland and received an award from the Food Science category. As Science Olympiad coaches, Ms. Nhyirani, Ms. Crespo, Ms. Inci, Ms. Hinton, and Ms. Lawal, we are so proud of our team and happy to be with them while our scholars were building critical skills during this school year. We all witness how our scholars and coaches worked hard and did not even stop during these pandemic months. We are excited to see what these scholars can do for the future. Thanks to our CMIT community and CLF for always supporting us.

Esra Kocaslan-Inci Science Department Chair

Students and Parents, Don't miss out from ordering this monumental piece of CMIT history! 1 day left to order by April 26, 2021 to purchase a copy of the 2020-2021 Yearbook. Theme: "This is US" The life of students during distance learning. ORDER YOUR YEARBOOK NOW!! To order your student's yearbook, parents may go to - The web address is: ybpay.lifetouch.com The access code is your job number: 12970821

Ms. Spence

Students enrolled in hybrid learning should have received a COVID-19 Testing Consent form either this week or last week, depending on their in-school days. This is in preparation for the testing program PGCPS will be rolling out soon. Attached you will find a Testing Guide for Parents and Guardians, as well as a Sample Consent Form. When completing your student's form, please ensure that you initial next to each statement, check the consent/do not consent portion, and you sign the bottom of the form. Each form was pre-filled with your student's information at the top (not visible on sample copy). If you need a duplicate form, please email Mrs. Spence at ronina.hodges@pgcps.org. For any other questions regarding testing, please email Nurse Anthony at crystal.anthony@pgcps.org.

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The Virtual Health Room has been updated to include important information about in-person learning. Check it out!

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All 3rd quarter grades can be viewed on the Family Portal Friday now The grade appeal window will open April 23rd and will close Friday, April 30th. If you choose to complete a grade appeal form you must attach evidence and send it to the teacher of record and Mrs. Linnenkamp. The grade appeal form can be found attached below. Please contact Mrs. Linnenkamp (jessica.lash@pgcps.org) if you have any questions.

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Q: Is CMIT North MS a public school? 

A: Yes We are a public charter school who is staffed by PGCPS teachers and administration, and support staff who work along side of a limited CLF staff. We have access to PGCPS support but also benefit from additional guidance, management and financial support from Chesapeake Light House Foundation, whose educational concept this school is based on. 

Q: Do siblings get preference in applying to CMIT?

A: The process of gaining entry to any charter school in Prince George's County is through a lottery. However, siblings of already attending CMIT students are weighted differently during the lottery process. This different weighting gives preference to siblings. 

Q: What makes CMIT different then any other school in the district? 

A: Although we are a PGCPS public charter, we are given some autonomy over curriculum. This autonomy allows us to fast track students, who are academically ready, through selected high school courses in math, foreign language, science and technology. It is that fast tracking that opens up opportunity to more advanced  coursework on the college level while still in high school.  Additionally, we offer students supports and enrichments to every student, not available at most schools. Lastly, we are a uniform school which takes away the distraction, the competition and the social stratification that is brought on by non uniform dress in a school. 

Our test scores oustrip not only county averages but also state avaerages. This, along with other metrics has made us a 5 star school. 

Q: Do you offer everything the big middle and high school's offer? 

A: Unlike many school in Maryland, we do not have a  full spectrum offerings in sports.  Instead, our focus is on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics). Therefore, our sports offerings are more limited.  We offer, boys and girls soccer, basketball, girl's softball, boy's baseball and club lacrosse in the middle school. Additionally, boys and girls basketball, track/field and volleyball at the high school level. With that said we recently (2017) won the girls county basketball championship and made it to the playoffs in soccer. Our high school opened a multi-million dollar, state of the art gym complex, competitive with all schools of their size. The middle school has also added an indoor gym space.  Lastly, we do offer special educational services, but becuase we are a school of choice, the amount of service hours we can provide is limited to 7.5 hours a week, split between literacy and math. Services hours are delivered by special education teachers but are limited to literacy and math courses.