January is School Board Recognition Month!
The key to a brighter future for Michigan’s children is a strong public education system. Every day, students count on public schools to help prepare them for a successful future. Whether they understand it or not, they count on adults across the state ensuring they have access to resources to help them learn, keep their buildings safe and have qualified teachers to guide them. It takes a pure, unwavering commitment to a community to make this all possible.
Yet, at the end of the day, the true superheroes contributing to the success of our students are just ordinary citizens with extraordinary dedication to public schools—our school board members. These individuals approach their volunteer work like it is a full-time job and, for some, they value their work on the board as more important than their chosen profession.
Their job is to establish a vision for the education program, design a structure to achieve that vision, ensure schools are accountable to the community and strongly advocate for continuous improvement in student learning. The job of a school board member is tough, the hours long and the thanks few and far between. Too often we’re quick to criticize school board members without really understanding the complex nature of their decisions. We have to remember to take time to thank them for their untiring efforts.
The month of January marks the observance of School Board Recognition Month. This is an opportunity to show our year-round appreciation for these servant leaders and begin to better understand how local trustees work together to prepare today’s students to be tomorrow’s leaders. We encourage you to join with others throughout our community, state and nation to salute the individuals who provide grassroots governance of public schools.
Thank you, Members of the Ironwood Board of Education!
Dear Families, Our school is participating in the life saving community service project, Kids Heart Challenge. Register your student today and help families in our community learn Hands Only CPR! Alongside this year’s heart heroes, we’re learning about healthy hearts and life lessons like getting active, resting well, and being kind. BONUS: your student will get a free wristband for joining at http://www2.heart.org/goto/LLWright or using the AHA Schools app.
On Tuesday, the sixth graders conducted experiments today to help them understand how force affects velocity.
Congratulations to Ironwood Middle School Band students who were selected for the NWMA All-Conference Band Festival in Maple, WI. Almost 80 Students from 11 participating schools across Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan spent the day rehearsing and performed an evening concert under the direction of Joe Kasparek. Link to the performance can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/live/gOWoU6jlnio?si=Bo40c9hC6hbUP5Fi
Thank you to Michael Hintzman and Northwestern High School for hosting these students and providing a great musical experience. Top Row: Aiden Agee, Landen Johnson, Harmony Escorpiso, Emily Saari Bottom Row: Isaiah Maus, Markl Robbins, Lucy Stehlik, Caydin Kangas
Red Devils in the news!
Red Devils in the news!
On the Monday before break, Mrs. Stempihar and Mrs. Boyd’s 2nd graders collaborated with the fourth grade students to build gingerbread houses - a challenging but fun-filled activity for all!
IAS is accepting applications for the following: Two (2) Assistant Varsity Track Coaches. Application form is available at: https://www.ironwoodschools.org/page/employment-opportunities
An IAS art student tradition! These are just a few of the many, many wishes for holiday cheer that 7-12 (and a few 4th grade) art students made for the residents of Westgate. What a great way to celebrate with people of all ages!
The Ironwood staff showed some extra holiday spirit by dressing up in matching Grinch shirts, a variety of ugly sweaters, and even some characters from the movie "Elf"!
The music department finished the music performances with a 5th grade band and choir performance on Thursday. Great job, students!
Next up from the music department: the Kindergarten through 4th grade music performance. It was so much fun watching the kids sing, and something even do some fun moves. Congratulations to all for a great performance!
The music department was incredibly busy this week, starting off with the sixth grade band and choir concert on Tuesday. Great performances by both groups!
Ironwood is hosting a 7th and 8th grade dance tonight in the first floor gym from 6-8pm. Admission is $5. This event is for Ironwood students only. Please see the flyer for more information.
Red Devils in the News!
The 7th grade students visited Michigan Tech today, to take part in a festival hosted by Mind Trekkers. Mind Trekkers brings communities together to support an educational ecosystem and strong future workforce in STEM. During the event, students discovered the power of science through experimentation. Experiments included skewering a balloon without popping it, being inside a bubble, and even playing a piano made of bananas!
On Thursday and Friday of last week, GCC instructor Glen Ackerman Behr and his AMD 101 students gave a presentation to Woodworking students. We learned how to interface between our design software and our new CNC router.
Thank you for this opportunity and for your expertise!
Congratulations to Accent on a fantastic performance Saturday evening!
Ironwood's Varsity quizbowl team moves on to the Cerebral 16 at the WNMU High School bowl competition by defeating Big Bay de Noc. 230-150! Congratulations, team!
Parents, some of you will see a flyer for Jingle Grams coming home today. This is a fundraiser for the Class of 2027 (not 2028 like the flyer says). Jingle away!
