In this week’s edition of Thursday Thoughts, Superintendent of Schools Dr. Mark Bedell gets a haircut from an Arundel High School student is also a licensed barber and discusses the many such opportunities available for AACPS students. #BelongGrownSucceed #AACPSFamily https://youtu.be/QpdLx4hN_o8

Save the date 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 host a cultural table or to attend this event: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdU5vAIr0DCPJtjS1IfTn5wKaW5sBqi9FTYcG-0Fy3iaZUnCA/viewform

Join us for the Teacher Recruitment Job Fair Saturday, March 29th at Severna Park High School 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Register now! www.aacps.org/teacherjobfair

Due to the school system’s switch to virtual operations, the Dance Festival concert scheduled for Wednesday, February 12, 2025, will be rescheduled for Saturday, February 15, 2025, at 2:00 p.m. at Crofton High School. Tickets are non-refundable. However, if you find yourself no longer able to attend this concert, please reach out to your school’s dance company director for additional details. We look forward to seeing you on Saturday for an amazing 2 p.m. concert to celebrate the outstanding work of our teachers and students!

Check out these creative Valentine’s Day cards! These were handmade by students last weeks for residents of assisted living communities in Severna Park! #ParkPRIDE #BelongGrowSucceed #NJHS #FunFriday

Fund February Week 2 Challenge: -Raise money for breast cancer research -Wear PINK on Friday, February 14th #ParkPRIDE #BelongGrowSucceed #NJHS #FundFebruary #PinkOut

Help us restock our school store, The Osprey Outpost! tinyurl.com/SPMSPBISWishlist #ParkPRIDE #AACPSAwesome #BelongGrowSucceed #PBIS

Our National Junior Honor Society is sponsoring Fund February! #ParkPRIDE #BelongGrowSucceed #NJHS #PinkOut

Shout out to our #AACPSAwesome School Counseling Team! #ParkPRIDE #BelongGrowSucceed #OspreyOfTheWeek #NSCW25

8th grade Marylanders survived “Osprey Island” by creating a successful desalinator that that turned salty ocean water into purified drinking water. #ParkPRIDE #BelongGrowSucceed

Ms. Werre’s 8th grade science students completed an engineering lab and they made fresh drinking water from saltwater! #ParkPRIDE #BelongGrowSucceed

It's Family Academy Friday! Check out the Family Academy Newsletter at https://aacps.edurooms.com/engage/family-academy/newsletters/family-academy-fridays-2-7-25. Visit the Family Academy anytime at www.aacps.org/familyacademy or in Spanish at www.aacps.org/academiafamiliar! #AACPSFamily #BelongGrowSucceed

Our National Junior Honor Society is sponsoring Fund February! #ParkPRIDE #BelongGrowSucceed

Tell us about your Super School Counselor! Celebrating National School Counseling Week #NSCW25 #BelongGrowSucceed

In this week’s edition of Thursday Thoughts, Superintendent of Schools Dr. Mark Bedell takes part in a clay art project at Davidsonville Elementary School and discusses the school district’s thriving visual arts program. #BelongGrowSucceed #AACPSFamily https://youtu.be/H9wEfFYJcBI

The latest episode of “The Next Level” premieres NOW on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/GrdgsBPqwtg. This episode features two runners who will be running in college next year, the University of Maryland and Princeton.

Thank you, to all of our amazing School Counselors Celebrating National School Counseling Week #NSCW25 #BelongGrowSucceed

#TBT Spotlight on CTE Ms. Wolf was a student at North County while attending CAT-North for Baking & Pastry Arts. She is now in her fourth year teaching Baking & Pastry Arts at CAT-North. "My student experience at CAT-North was truly life-shaping, and single-handedly the best decision I've ever made. I knew when it came to my career, it would be an honor and a privilege to come back to CAT North as an instructor myself. I consider myself lucky to get to show up and do the job I do every day with the staff and students I get to spend my time with. Baking is truly a work of art, a feat of science, and a job of love at the same time- an industry I love I get to share with my students daily." Bonus Image: My instructor giving me a hug when I was announced as the state gold medalist in Baking & Pastry my senior year of high school. A photo of one of my students giving me a hug. That same student also won the state gold medal in Baking & Pastry last year, in her senior year of high school. #fullcirclemoment Proud AACPS-CTE-Graduate-Turned-Teacher

Ms. Hughes’s Math 6 students working hard and collaborating to solve complex ratio problems. #ParkPRIDE #BelongGrowSucceed

Share a shout-out to your School Counselor! Celebrating National School Counseling Week #NSCW25 #BelongGrowSucceed