The 2021-2022 School Year: Advancing Our Vision

In the MTSD, we are grounded by the principle that each student is valued, will learn and will experience success. We look forward to welcoming all students into our school buildings to engage in traditional on campus learning for the 2021-22 school year.

Next school year, our students and families can expect:

• A high-quality educational program that meets the needs of all learners, ensuring our students experience a wide array of possibilities both in and out of the classroom.
• Bell schedules and daily rotations aligned with best practice and designed to enhance our students’ daily experiences.
• Learning and instructional practices bolstered by the use of new technology and resources gained during the 2020-2021 school year.
• Continued support for our students' academic, social and emotional growth as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic.

To maximize each child's academic achievement and personal growth, we develop curriculum that builds on students' interests, challenges students based on their ability level, and correlates with individual learning styles. Educators strive to build relationships with students as individuals and seek to grow students through a personalized approach.

Dedicated math and literacy specialists in each school support teaching and learning in those critical core content areas. Research and Digital Learning Specialists work out of the Inquiry and Collaboration Center (ICC) at each school to maximize digital learning for each student, empowering them to embrace lifelong learning as critical thinkers, passionate readers, skillful researchers, effective technology users, and ethical users and producers of ideas.

Preparing students for success means nurturing critical thinking and exposing them to the widest array of possibilities. We provide an authentic exposure to art, music, theater, world languages, STEM curriculum, athletics and co-curricular activities.

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For the 2021-2022 school year, we recognize that some students may be unable to return to the on campus learning environment due to personal or family medical concerns. For these cases, MTSD is in the process of developing and finalizing a distance learning option that will be available for students who are formally approved for Homebound Instruction through a specific application process. In these cases, distance learning will be conducted through a partnership with a designated Wisconsin virtual school.

Click here to learn more about the Homebound Instruction considerations and application process.

Parents entrust schools not only with their child’s intellectual development and social growth, but also with their child’s safety, health, and well‐being during the school day. Maintaining safe and healthy educational environments for our students and staff members is of the utmost importance to us. Additionally, this last school year has provided us with new experiences to inform our approach to maintaining safe and healthy school buildings. To that end, we have established protocols and procedures for the prevention of, preparedness for, and response to emergency situations.

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A dedicated social emotional coach at each of our schools provides leadership and coaching to grow teachers' capacity in social-emotional welfare and support our school families. We believe that through attending to the social-emotional health of all students, students will grow in all facets of their lives.

Social Emotional Coaches focus on issues related to:

• Social acceptance of all students and families in our school community,
• Emotional health of all students,
• Development of tenacity and perseverance in our students and the staff who serves them, and
• Cultivation of a climate and culture where equity and social justice is the standard by which all student-related decisions are made.

Find out more about social & emotional support for our students

For the 2021-2022 school year, we will continue the implementation of our 1:1 Chromebook initiative by providing devices to all students in grades 3-12. The Chromebook Initiative supports the District’s strategic plan goals for ensuring academic achievement and growth for each student and providing each student with the opportunities and skills they need to access pathways toward their desired future. Individual Chromebooks provide students the opportunity to be assessed in a secure environment and provide options for expanded feedback from teachers and peers.

Learn more about our 1:1 Chromebook Initiative