Drawn to the Library
Celebrating National Library Week
April 6-12, 2025
#NationalLibraryWeek
Celebrating National Assistant Principals Week!
#APWeek25
Enrollment for the new AACPS Learning Together Peer Program for 3 & 4-year-olds opens Monday, April 7, 2025. The Learning Together Peer (LTP) Program offers an inclusive preschool experience where all young children can learn, play, develop friendships, and thrive in a diverse and engaging environment. This program provides specially designed instruction/special education services for preschoolers with disabilities in classrooms that also include children without disabilities. The program is Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday with classes for 3-year-olds in the AM and 4-year-olds in the PM.
Apply at https://forms.office.com/r/c1vaUATHMy.
**This program and application are NOT for AACPS Prekindergarten.**
For more information, contact the Birth to Five Office at 410-424-3260.
Yes, that's our #AACPSAwesome Elizabeth Heist among her Teacher of the Year colleagues from across Maryland this week as the group was honored for their work by the Maryland State Senate. Congratulations to Elizabeth and all the honorees, and thanks for all you do! #BelongGrowSucceed #AACPSFamily
Anne Arundel County Public Schools has established a website to provide key information about its new long range facilities plan and is collecting input from families, students, employees, and community members through June 1, 2025.
For details, go to https://www.aacps.org/article/2129766.
Anne Arundel County Public Schools’ kindergarten registration for the 2025-2026 school year will get under way next week, and parents and guardians can reserve their child’s seat by enrolling online beginning at noon on Tuesday, April 8, 2025.
For more details, go to https://www.aacps.org/article/2129293.
Celebrating National School Librarian Day! #NationalSchoolLibrarianDay ❤️👓📚
#BelongGrowSucceed
The latest episode of “The Next Level” premieres NOW on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/rcebVDyTB4I. This episode features two athletes from Crofton High School.
Congratulations to Rachael Bricker of Four Seasons Elementary School, AACPS’ April Volunteer of the Month! To read more about this #AACPSAwesome volunteer, go to www.aacps.org/volunteerofthemonth. #BelongGrowSucceed #AACPSFamily
Congratulations to Sheryl Neville of the Center of Applied Technology North, AACPS’ April Employee of the Month! To read more about this #AACPSAwesome employee, go to www.aacps.org/employeeofthemonth. #BelongGrowSucceed #AACPSFamily
Congratulations to Valerie Gottschalk of Ridgeway Elementary School, AACPS’ April Educator of the Month! To read more about this #AACPSAwesome educator, go to www.aacps.org/educatorofthemonth. #BelongGrowSucceed #AACPSFamily
To accommodate another event in the Parham Building later that evening, the start of the debate between finalists for 2025-26 Student Member of the Board of Education on April 9, 2025, has been moved to 4:30 p.m.
For details, go to https://www.aacps.org/article/2126807.
In this week’s edition of Thursday Thoughts, Superintendent of Schools Dr. Mark Bedell and Board Member Dawn Pulliam discuss the Board’s Military Service Award in honor of Candace C.W. Antwine. #BelongGrowSucceed #AACPSFamily
https://youtu.be/rDgbNfBaDTk
10 a.m., 4/3/25: Due to a burst water pipe at the school that will need to be repaired this evening, there will be no classes at South River Evening High School tonight, April 3. Classes will resume at the evening high school campus on Monday, April 7. There are no planned interruptions to regular day classes at South River High School today or tomorrow.
SMOB Minute –Quarter 3 recap with Hafsa Hamdaoui, Student Member of the Board
https://youtu.be/uPt0CyEppdo
Celebrating Paraprofessional Appreciation Day
Thank you to all of our #AACPSAwesome Paraprofessionals supporting our classrooms.
#BelongGrowSucceed
Join us for the 2nd Annual Multicultural Festival on Thursday, April 3, 2025, 6pm - 8pm at Severn River Middle School! This event is open to all AACPS families! Enjoy games, prizes, food, crafts, music, and dancing from around the world! Register to attend this event or to host a cultural table: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdU5vAIr0DCPJtjS1IfTn5wKaW5sBqi9FTYcG-0Fy3iaZUnCA/viewform
Congratulations to Lori Fowler, our Manager of Service Learning, for earning the year’s Service Learning Practitioner Leadership Award from the National Youth Leadership Council. The award is presented annually “to a teacher or community member who has created a living legacy through service-learning practice.”
Join us now for the latest episode of “School Sounds”
This episode features “Here Lies” from Crofton High School
“School Sounds” is produced and directed by student intern Kailyn Beath
https://youtu.be/yOl9Cj8O4_o
April is...
Month of the Military Child
PURPLE UP for military kids!
Wear purple to support our Military students!
Our Purple Up day is Wednesday, April 9.
