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The Mooresville Graded School District Board of Education held their October meeting on Tuesday, December 10, 2019.  To learn more about what was celebrated and discussed, check out this post!

Leanne Rose, a second-grade teacher at Park View Elementary School in the Mooresville Graded School District (MGSD), was named the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT) Beginning Teacher of the Year in a special ceremony Thursday, December 5, 2019.  Rose was named the MGSD Beginning Teacher of the Year in August 2019.  Click the headline to read more!

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MGSD is excited to announce the possibility of a dual immersion program at our elementary schools starting next year.  Click the article link to learn more!

The Early College Application is now open! 

The link to the application and instructions can be found here.  The application is open until January 12, 2020.  Please remember that if you want to apply to multiple early college programs, you only need to complete one form and click on the early colleges you want to apply to.  There are printed copies of the teacher and counselor request forms and the data manager information form outside of Ms. Marshall's office.  References from Math and ELA teachers must be from the current year.  If you are considering applying, please do not wait to ask teachers and counselors for their recommendation.  The sooner the better.  Please see Ms. Buff or Mr. Genson if you have any questions. 

MGSD Board of Education member, Dr. Debbie Marsh, has been elected to the North Carolina School Boards Association's Board of Directors.  Click the title to learn more!

Link to Iredell Free News Article

The undefeated Mooresville Middle School Red Imps football team poses for a photo at Tuesday’s Mooresville Graded Schools Board of Education meeting.

BY MIKE FUHRMAN

Scott Van Pelt often leads off SportsCenter with a feature dubbed the “Best Thing I Saw Today.”

The segments are often related to a pivotal moment in the day’s biggest sports event — a late-inning homerun that helps win a World Series, a long putt that drops in the cup on the 18th hole to win a major championship in golf, or a miracle three-pointer that sends an NCAA tournament game to overtime.

Borrowing from SVP, I’d like to weigh in on the best thing I saw this week. It happened at a Mooresville Graded School District School Board meeting and had nothing — and everything — to do with sports.

Superintendent Stephen Mauney and the MGSD board regularly set aside time to honor students for their academic, artistic and athletic achievements. District employees are also recognized in public for their efforts.

Tuesday’s meeting was no different.

Among the honorees was the Mooresville Middle School seventh-grade football team. Under the leadership of beloved head coach Jason Chambers, the Red Imps had an undefeated season this fall, scoring more than 100 points while allowing their opponents a meager 14 all year.

Throughout my career as a community journalist, I’ve been to countless school board and local government meetings in which science fair winners, all-state band members and championship winning teams were herded through the meetings, quickly arranged for a picture and sent on their way. Rarely do these photo ops seem worth the time and effort required of parents and students.

Tuesday’s MGSD Board meeting could have been one of those occasions, but Superintendent Mauney had other plans for the Red Imps. Inspired by seeing the NFL players on Monday Night Football introduce themselves and plug their colleges or high schools, he thought it would be special to have each player step up to the mic, introduce themselves, and state the position they play and where they wanted to go to college.

It may have added a few minutes to the meeting, but it was a moment in time that the boys — and one girl — on the team and their parents will probably remember for a long time.

It was definitely the best thing I saw this week.

Mike Fuhrman is editor of Iredell Free News, an over-involved soccer dad and an Atlanta Braves fan. Contact him at iredellfreenews@gmail.com

The Mooresville Graded School District Board of Education held their October meeting on Tuesday, October 15, 2019.  To learn more about what was celebrated and discussed, check out this post!

On Tuesday, November 5, elections will be held for the Mooresville Graded School District Board of Education.  Community members living within the MGSD school district will have the opportunity to vote for up to three school board candidates. MGSD has a non-partisan, five-member board of education. This election cycle there are three seats up for vote with four candidates running for those seats. In this guide, our our community members have the opportunity to learn about the four candidates and read, in the candidates' words, their answers to four identical questions about themselves, the district, and education. Thank you!

The Mooresville Graded School District Board of Education held their October meeting on Tuesday, October 15, 2019.  To learn more about what was celebrated and discussed, check out this post!