The CMIT faculty and staff are excited to welcome back our students for the 2022-2023 school year. We’ve been hard at work preparing the school and classrooms for your return on Monday, August 29, 2022. This week students will receive their schedules, meet their teachers, get their lockers, and begin striving for excellence in their courses. Monday: Receive schedules, introductory activities in classrooms. Tuesday: Code of Conduct Assembly by grade level, classroom activities. Wednesday: Locker Assignments, general classroom activities Thursday & Friday: Begin regular classroom instruction If you missed my Welcome Back Letter you can find it attached. I look forward to a successful school year full of learning, school spirit, and community.

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Andrew Brauer, Principal

Parents/Guardians, If you have questions on who to go to use the following list of professional to go to Schedules For 6th grade students and 7th grade students whose last name starts with N-Z, go to Ms. Nekesa Matlock, Assistant Principal, Nekesa.Matlock@pgcps.org For 7th grade students whose last names begin with the letters A-M, and all 8th grade students, go to Mr. James Screven, Assistant Principal, James.Screven@pgcps.org Section 504 Mr. Yuhance Johnson, Professional School Counselor, yurhance.johnson@pgcps.org IEP/Special Education Ms. Wanda Dennis-Fuller, special education chairperson, wanda.dennis@pgcps.org Late/Early Dismissal/Absence Notes Ms. Lisa Torres, School Secretary, lisa.torres@pgcps.org Mental Health Resources Mr. Yurhance Johnson, PSC, yurhance.johnson@pgcps.org, Ms. Nicole Jones, Mental Health Clinician, njones@interdynamicsinc.com Records/Transcripts Ms. Ronina Spence, Principal's Secretary and acting registrar, ronina.hodges@pgcps.org

James Screven. Assistant Principal and Editor.

Educators, staff members, and student volunteers have been hard at work this past week preparing their classrooms and hallways for the return of our students. While the outside canopy project is still under construction and is expected to be completed by October 1, the rest of the building is looking great! Take a look here: https://youtu.be/Qt-bpPcRFFM Credit to Mr. Field for creating this video clip.

Andrew Brauer, Principal

The federal waiver providing free meals for all students during the pandemic has expired. Families must complete the Free or Reduced Price Meals application for students to receive free breakfast and lunch at school. This school year, families who do not qualify for free or reduced meals will be required to pay using www.myschoolbucks.com Visit https://www.pgcps.org/offices/food-and-nutrition/how-to-pay-for-lunch to apply for Free and Reduced Meals (FARMS).

Andrew Brauer, Principal

Under advisement of the Prince George’s County Health Department, PGCPS buildings and offices require masks to be worn. Students, staff, and visitors must wear a mask while inside CMIT North MS. The Health Department and PGCPS executive leadership are continuously monitoring the rise of the BA.5 Omicron Subvariant. As updates are provided to school level leadership I will share that information and procedural updates with our community.

Andrew Brauer, Principal

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.