December 9-13, 2024

Rocking Good Behavior

Rocking good choices, cutting bad behaviors, and covering all the fun! Jefferson Middle School students earned a school-wide Rock, Paper, Scissors tournament as a reward for positive behaviors! Winners, who earned a free meal coupon from Lebo Subs, included: Fred B., Oliver C., Claire F., Avery H., Cullen N., Garrett T., & Henry Z.

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Special Education and Student Services Departments Survey - Feedback Due On January 10, 2025

As part of our commitment to continuous improvement, my office will be conducting a comprehensive review of the programming within the Special Education and Student Services departments during the 2024–2025 school year.  

The initial phase involved an internal review of local program assessments and state-approved plans. Now, we are seeking input from families through a survey designed to gather valuable stakeholder feedback. 

Your responses will play a crucial role in identifying strengths, areas for improvement, training needs, potential programming adjustments, staffing suggestions, and budgetary recommendations. After the survey period closes, a committee will analyze the responses and compile the data. A summary report of the findings will be presented to the public in the spring.  

Please take a few moments to complete the survey using the link below. It should take approximately 10 minutes to complete and will remain open until January 10, 2025.

Family Survey- Special Education and Student Support Services

Thank you for your participation and for helping us enhance our services to better meet the needs of our students and community. 

MTLSD Board of Directors

Meeting on Monday, December 9

The Mt. Lebanon School District Board of Directors will meet on Monday, December 9 at 7:30 p.m. Meetings are held at Mt. Lebanon High School in Room D205.

For more information about upcoming Board meetings, please visit the Mt. Lebanon School District BoardDocs website.

New Year, New Career!

Become A Guest Substitute at Mt. Lebanon

Looking for a rewarding way to make a difference in our schools? Apply for our Guest Substitute Teacher Program!  Open to individuals without teaching certification, this 6-8 week training and employment program is for individuals who are not certified as teachers by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, to become day-to-day substitute classroom teachers in our District. The Guest Substitute program will kick off in January 2025

• Open House with on-the-spot interviews: January 8, 2025
• Flexible scheduling
• Earn $125/day or $62.50/half-day

Learn more on our website! 

Health Services

A Note From The School Nurse:

When To Keep Your Child Home From School

Healthy children are successful learners. Children work hard during the school day and need to be healthy to be able to put the needed energy into a school day. An ill child is not able to put forth their all to be a successful

learner during a school day. Knowing when to keep children home, helps protect everyone and gives the ill

child time to recover.

To protect all the children in the District, Mt. Lebanon follows the Allegheny County Health Department Guide to Infectious Diseases. (ACHD Guide to Infectious Diseases in Schools); the CDC Guidelines and the

AAP).

With the new Flu and Respiratory season upon us, please utilize the following guidelines when determining if your child is well enough or not to attend school:

• Acute cold/cough - where the student is unable to function or concentrate at school.
• Nausea/vomiting/diarrhea.
• Children should be free from vomiting/diarrhea for 24 hours before returning to school.
• Temperature of 100 degrees or above.
• Children should be fever-free for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medication to return to school.
• Contagious illness.
• Such as strep throat - conjunctivitis - any illness or disease process that the use of an antibiotic is required.
• If your child is started on an antibiotic for an infection…they need to be on the antibiotic for 24 full hours prior to returning to school, along with the above guidelines for fever, etc.
• The exception is for Pertussis (whooping cough) which is 5 days on the antibiotic before returning to school on Day 6.
• Suspected contagious disease/rash - if your child is sent to school with a suspected contagious disease/rash, a parent/guardian will be contacted to pick your child up, and a diagnostic referral will be given for your child to be seen by his/her health care provider. The diagnostic referral must be completed and the student cleared for re-admittance by a licensed healthcare provider before the student returns to school. The student must then be checked into school through the nurse’s office with the completed Diagnostic referral.
• The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends that “people with influenza-like illness remain at home until at least 24 hours after they are symptom and fever-free without the use of fever-reducing medications.”
• COVID - if your child is diagnosed with COVID - please follow the CDC guidelines for Respiratory viral illnesses…which is to keep your child home from school until symptoms improve for 24 hours prior to returning and your child is fever-free without the use of fever-reducing medication s for 24 hours prior to returning. Masking is recommended for 10 days from the start of symptoms or positive test.

Practicing good health hygiene is important. Please encourage proper handwashing and to cover your cough/sneeze.

Please make sure to contact your child’s physician with any symptoms or concerns and to notify your child’s school nurse of any illnesses.

Thank you for your support and cooperation in keeping our students safe and healthy.

Activities

Mt. Lebanon Continuing Education Winter Registration Now Open

New Year, New Goals! For over 50 years, the Mt. Lebanon Continuing Education Program has offered non-credit classes to adults in our community. Our winter courses are now open for registration! For more info, visit: MTLSD.ORG/AE 

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