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A Community That Sells Itself
We held a job fair recently as a tool to recruit talented educators to join our outstanding staff. …
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Choosing Our Attitude
There is no doubt that the last several years have been a greater challenge than we ever wished they would…
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COVID-19 Update 1.12.22
Mount Vernon Community School District Families, Staff Members, and Community Members: Recently, the Centers for…
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The Greatest Gift
If you went back and thought about it, what is the greatest gift you have ever received during the holiday…
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Mount Vernon Performs Well On Yearly Report Card
Mount Vernon Community School District Families, Staff, and Community Members: Each year, the Iowa Department of Education publishes the Iowa…
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A Message of Thanks
During staff meetings at the beginning of this school year, we discussed the importance of social-emotional learning, and the need…
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School Improvement Advisory Committee Meets With the Community
On October 25th, the MVCSD School Improvement Advisory Committee (SIAC) invited community members to join in a conversation on the…
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Coming Home
The great poet Robert Frost once shared that, “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they…
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A Civics Lesson in Civility
On September 21st, the Mount Vernon Community School District School Board held a special meeting to discuss the possibility of…
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So Where Were You? A Reflection Twenty Years Later
On September 11, 2001, I was the principal at Barnwell Middle School in St. Charles, Missouri. I arrived at work,…
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Reflections on the First Day
I started the first day of school this year by getting in an early morning run, pounding the pavement at…
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COVID-19 Update 8.2.21
August 2, 2021 Mount Vernon Community School District Families, Employees, and Community Members: Remarkably, the calendar has switched over to…