📣 New Remote Learning Plan Approved! Here’s What Families Need to Know 📣
Mitchell County Schools has adopted a new Emergency Remote Learning Plan for the 25-26 school year! 🎉 With this new plan, all K–13 students will now take their devices home in the event of school closures due to weather, emergencies, or other events. The full Remote Learning Plan can be found on the Mitchell County Schools' website under Departments > Technology.
💻 To support this initiative, a non-refundable $20 User Fee will now apply to ALL students in grades K–13 beginning this school year.
✔️ This fee covers one accidental incident per year
✔️ K-8 devices will NOT be sent home daily but only in preparation for remote learning instruction
✔️ 9-13 devices will continue to go home on a daily basis as usual
✔️ Families needing support can contact their school for assistance
✔️ A limited number of hotspots are available for those needing assistance with connectivity
Your child’s access to learning—no matter where they are—is our priority. Stay tuned for more info coming home soon, and thank you for partnering with us!
📲 Don’t forget to:
✅ Download the Mitchell County Schools App
✅ Follow us here on Facebook and on Instagram
✅ Make sure your phone number and email always stay up to date in the school's student information system
Mitchell County Schools has adopted a new Emergency Remote Learning Plan for the 25-26 school year! 🎉 With this new plan, all K–13 students will now take their devices home in the event of school closures due to weather, emergencies, or other events. The full Remote Learning Plan can be found on the Mitchell County Schools' website under Departments > Technology.
💻 To support this initiative, a non-refundable $20 User Fee will now apply to ALL students in grades K–13 beginning this school year.
✔️ This fee covers one accidental incident per year
✔️ K-8 devices will NOT be sent home daily but only in preparation for remote learning instruction
✔️ 9-13 devices will continue to go home on a daily basis as usual
✔️ Families needing support can contact their school for assistance
✔️ A limited number of hotspots are available for those needing assistance with connectivity
Your child’s access to learning—no matter where they are—is our priority. Stay tuned for more info coming home soon, and thank you for partnering with us!
📲 Don’t forget to:
✅ Download the Mitchell County Schools App
✅ Follow us here on Facebook and on Instagram
✅ Make sure your phone number and email always stay up to date in the school's student information system
Mitchell High School Class of 2026 Senior Portraits will be July 23 & 24! Each rising senior's scheduled portrait time can be found in multiple emails that have been sent out to the upcoming senior class. There is also an informational booklet included in the email. If your scheduled portrait time conflicts with vacation, work, sports practice, transportation, or anything else, please get in touch with TPS Photography at service@tpsphotography.com as soon as possible and we will be happy to reschedule you. If you can't make it either day, don't worry! We will get you on the make up day in the fall - but please let us know you can't be there so we can open up your time for someone else. Summer senior portraits are more relaxed for you during the summer than they are on make-up day, so definitely make it if you can. Also, each senior who attends during the summer will be entered in a drawing to win a 20x24 custom wall portrait!
Mitchell High School Class of 2026 Senior Portraits will be July 23 & 24! Each rising senior's scheduled portrait time can be found in multiple emails that have been sent out to the upcoming senior class. There is also an informational booklet included in the email. If your scheduled portrait time conflicts with vacation, work, sports practice, transportation, or anything else, please get in touch with TPS Photography at service@tpsphotography.com as soon as possible and we will be happy to reschedule you. If you can't make it either day, don't worry! We will get you on the make up day in the fall - but please let us know you can't be there so we can open up your time for someone else. Summer senior portraits are more relaxed for you during the summer than they are on make-up day, so definitely make it if you can. Also, each senior who attends during the summer will be entered in a drawing to win a 20x24 custom wall portrait!
We are proud of MHS teachers and students who are representing our school with the WNC Youth Service Corps! Check out this update we received from them!
The Youth Service Corps' wheels have left the tramac and we are in full flight!
22 WNC students will receive their first paycheck next week for internships they have been doing on nine farms across our service area. A full list of those farms is below.
Our students have been weeding, planting, fertilizing, and mulching. They're building fences and trellises and relationships with mentors in their communities. They're shearing rescued sheep, moving lumber sawn from hurricane-downed trees, and setting tomato plants in fields whose soil has been scraped and replaced. We're very proud of them.
Importantly, they're also arranging schedules with each other, meeting deadlines, and practicing communicating in the adult working world.
This past Saturday was our first all-program service day; we were at Soil Shine Farm in the South Toe area of Yancey County. In addition to weeding and fertilizing with biochar, the kids and teachers planted a new riparian zone on a creek that didn't exist before the storm. They also removed a football field of rhododendrons to make a space for forest farming. I've attached two pictures to this email: one of the brush piles we made—notice the child for scale—and a nice group shot.
Throughout, the teachers with whom you connected us have been invaluable in the ongoing planning and execution of this pilot program.
Next week, we'll host the first in our series of career readiness workshops, and we look forward to onboarding a 10th farm and a 23rd student. Teachers have expressed interest in getting kids to write articles about the program for public consumption, so we will contact your communications departments about that before too long.
Kylie Roy, a senior at MHS, was in a car accident and flown to Johnson City Medical Center, where she underwent emergency surgery and was placed in the ICU. She has since returned home and is doing better. We are having a BBQ fundraiser to support Kylie and her family. Please use the link below to complete the Google Form and place your order for a BBQ plate. Thank you for supporting our students!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1fzYxirzA5DigNMvFDAKvviQ4sXiDLH28Qwi62fV7d1s/preview
Check out the winter edition of The Mountaineer Gazette!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vaSGHgFHuE-DQHMOLg-hbDAmPlAV2ql1/view
Cap and Gown reshoot.
When: 3/24
Where: Mitchell High School Library
Time: 8-11:00
Seniors received an email to sign up for an appointment.
This is only shared with the seniors.
Mitchell High School's CTE Teacher of the Year, Mrs. Katie Boone!!!
CTE Teacher Spotlight Mitchell - CTE Month February 2025
CTE Month - Teacher Spotlight
CTE Month - Mitchell CTE Teacher Spotlights!
CTE Month - CTE Student and CTSO Spotlight
Jostens has extended the yearbook deadline until tomorrow!
Quickly go and pre-order your yearbook so you will be guaranteed to have one to remember this wild school year.
https://www.jostens.com/apps/store/productBrowse/1052361/Mitchell-High-School/2025-Yearbook/2024070304212634763/CATALOG_SHOP/
CTE teacher Spotlight at Mitchell High School.
Today is the last day to order a yearbook!
https://www.jostens.com/apps/store/productBrowse/1052361/Mitchell-High-School/2025-Yearbook/2024070304212634763/CATALOG_SHOP/
