With over 150 participants, 50 judges, multitudes of excited students and parents, it is easy to proclaim this years STEAM Fair a big success. Students presented projects from engineering, physics, computer science, biology, and scores of other scientific disciplines. Our judges this year included PhD's, engineers, scientists from federal agencies and alumni. We congratulate all the participants for their hard work and dedication for this year's competition. Currently we are busy tallying the numbers and will announce the projects which qualify for the next round of competition at our next honor roll assembly.

James Screven, Assistant Principal

8th grade students will begin their state mandated Hearing and Vision Screenings starting Thursday, January 31st. Please ensure that all students that are supposed to wear glasses bring them to school. Parents will be notified via mail of any failures. Crystal L. Anthony, BSN, RN Professional School Nurse

James Screven, Assistant Principal

Hello Parents/Guardians, In honor of Black History Month CMIT North Charter School is coordinating a HBCU (Historically Black College/ University Day). We are asking all parents, siblings of students family members/friends, and people that are interested to come out. If you are presently attanding a HBCU or have graduated from a Historically Black College please come out and particpate in this event. Speakers are urged to share the advantages of attending a Historically Black University. If you have a experience that you would like to share or feel would be beneficial to the students, we are asking that you come out and particpate in this event. This event will be held Friday, February 22, 2019 from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. If you have questions please contact Mr. Johnson at yjohnson@cmitacademy.org (best form of communication) Here is the link to sign up for this event. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FodQtfTqzyuaaCZtIZZEwf-7sfsNzL1miJjJ_CHxGyY/edit?usp=sharing

Mrs. Conde

The third quarter begins Monday. The third quarter's unit theme is "The US in Economic InjUStice: How does economic inequality affect all of us?" In the new unit, students will begin reading arguments on a variety of topics including pro-athlete's salaries and funding for space exploration. The unit will then lead students to conduct a research simulation task on arguments for and against raising the federal minimum wage. Towards the end of the quarter, the students will create their own TED Talk supporting their argument for or against raising the federal minimum wage. The new novel for the quarter will be The Pearl by John Steinbeck. The first assignment for the novel will be given Friday February 1. Please make sure students have a copy of the novel for the quarterly novel assignments. The Student Learning Objective exam and the winter Measures of Academic Progress for RELA have been administered. I will keep track of their progress on the classroom Data Wall. If you have any questions about the results or scores, please email me your questions and I will be glad to speak with you about your child's progress in Reading. We will be working through the third quarter to make any improvements for the spring MAP test and the upcoming Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) test.

Mr. Conde RELA 7 Teacher

Please join us for our next PTO Meeting. Date: Thursday, January 31, 2019 Time: 6:30pm - 8:00pm Location: CMIT Middle School, 6100 Frost Place, Laurel, MD 20707 Call in Option Below: 1. Dial In to the Conference (United States): (515) 739-1454 Access Code: 531867 International Dial-in Numbers: https://www.freeconferencecall.com/wall/cmitnorthpto#international 2. Join Online Meeting: Online Meeting Link: https://join.freeconferencecall.com/cmitnorthpto Online Meeting ID: cmitnorthpto Online Instructions: At the scheduled date and time of the meeting, dial in to the conference line. When prompted, enter the access code followed by hash (#). To join the online meeting, click the online meeting link and follow the prompts. For questions please contact the following: General - information@cmitnorthpto.org Membership - membership@cmitnorthpto.org Fundraising - fundraising@cmitnorthpto.org Class of 2019 (Graduation Packages) - Classof2019@cmitnorthpto.org

CMIT North PTO

The CLF Board will appoint two parent members from Prince George’s County to its Board of Directors. Interested parent candidates wishing to join are required to submit their resume along with a cover letter of intent to the board of directors by January 31. Cover letter items should include various ways the parent candidate believes they will best represent CLF’s public charter schools by contributing to the CLF board. Potential candidates are also asked to indicate how many children they have attending CMIT schools and how many years they have been involved with CMIT schools in their cover letter. Please e-mail your resume and cover letter to: awilson@clfmd.org with the subject line: “CLF Board Parent Candidate.” Board Executive committee will review resume submissions and select five candidates prior to the board meeting. The board will vote to elect two out of these five parent candidates recommended by the executive committee at the February 21, 2019 CLF Board Meeting. The parent board members selected will then serve a one-year term and parent board members may serve for three consecutive terms if re-appointed by a majority board vote at the end of each annual term.

Chesapeake Lighthouse Foundation

Q: Is CMIT North MS a public school? 

A: Yes We are a public charter school who is staffed by PGCPS teachers and administration, along with CLF staff. We 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 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.

Q: Do you offer everything the big middle and high schools 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, boy's softball, boy's baseball,  boys and girls track/field at the high school. With that said we recently (2017) won the girls county basketball championship and made it to the playoffs in soccer. Our High school recently opened a multi-million dollar, state of the art gym complex. 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. Services hours are delivered by special education teachers but are limited to literacy and math courses.