US News & World Report announced CMIT North Middle School as a Best Middle School for 2022 performing in the top 30% of all Maryland middle schools. https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/maryland/chesapeake-math-and-it-public-charter-200387 In December, Laurel TV did a story to cover the award. You can view it on their YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/3UGdJTkeQeU Thank you to our dedicated educators for providing the best for our students, our parents for their continued support, and to our students for their outstanding academic performance.

Andrew Brauer, Principal

Middle School Families, Quarter 2 progress reports are now available for viewing on SchoolMax. If you need assistance with locating the grades for viewing, please access the guide below. If you are unable to log into schoolmax please contact me at jessica.lash@pgcps.org 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. Please see the remaining important dates for the 2nd quarter below. February 2 - End of 4th Quarter February 16 - Report Card Grades Released

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Mrs. Linnenkamp Grade Manager

Dear Parents and Students, Students, please be sure to read and or review the stream notes posted in google classroom, as it pertains to zoom, absence, reminders, etc. Parents if you can remind your scholars to not have other sites up or added distractions during class time, becasue they tend to miss out on what is being covered during class, not to mention it creates poor work habits. Your assistance would be greatly appricated. Lastly, remember if you do not have your full first and last name, as it appears on my roster, you will not be admited into zoom and you will be marked accordingly. Same goes for being more than 10 minutes late.

Mrs. Curry

PTO Meeting - Our next Monthly (Virtual) PTO Meeting is on **THIS** Wednesday, January 12th at 7pm. Looking forward to seeing you there!! Registration Information to follow... ‐------------------‐----------------------------------------------------------------- Join the PTO - Membership is our biggest fundraiser and the best way to keep you connected to the Tiger community. Your membership dues help us to support our Students and Teachers throughout the school year and beyond. Dues are $10 per family per school year and donations of any amount are welcome and encouraged 😊. Please pay the $10 dues for your family by using our QR Code above or via the following PayPal link: http://paypal.me/cmitnorthmspto by choosing Payment Type: Friends and Family (to avoid incurring a fee) and entering your Name and Email in the payment message (*very important*). ‐------------------‐----------------------------------------------------------------- PTO Volunteers - We still need Committee Volunteers for Spring Parent Workshop, Teacher Appreciation Week, 8th Grade Promotion, Teacher Wish List/Teacher Share, Fundraising, and Spirit Wear Sales! Please send your Name, Email, Telephone Number, and Committee you'd like to join to: cmitnorthmsptovicepresident@gmail.com.

Thank You, MS CMIT PTO

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.