Manatee Musings

Week of May 5-May 9, 2025

Author

Rick Mohrien
May 04, 2025

The Week Ahead

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Teacher & Staff Appreciation Week!

We are excited to partner with our community and our PTA to celebrate our amazing teachers and staff! We’ve been hard at work in the Wonka Lab to come up with some wonderful treats, celebrations, and surprises to show you all how much we appreciate you!

Thank You!

Our students, under the direction and support of Amie Davidson, Chris Pringle, Liz Jenkins, and Haley Hutchens presented Spongebob: The Musical (Youth Edition) this past weekend and it was AMAZING! Thank you to everyone who attended and got to see our students do such a wonderful job! Special thanks to Kim Deseve for her set design and Karissa McLaughlin for her costume making skills! Missed the show? Don’t worry—we are planning a school-wide assembly on Thursday, May 8 to share the show as well! Exact time will be shared on Monday, May 5.

Yearbook for Sale!

CMS ServiceNow Transition

CMS has now transitioned from Cherwell to ServiceNow for all support requests. ServiceNow will make it easier and faster for you to get the help you need! You’ll use the Employee Service Center to send in and track your support requests. Employee Relations will still use Cherwell until it moves to another system called Guardian. Building Services will continue to use their MP2 portal to help with building needs. What is the MySupport ticketing system used for in CMS? MySupport provides a platform for managing tickets from Technology Services, Human Resources, Language Services and more.

Next steps for staff:

Negative Annual Leave Balances

Any employee with a negative annual leave balance will have charges deducted during the April and (if needed) May pay periods. If there are sufficient earning in the April Pay Period, the entire balance will be deducted in April. Any balance remaining after the April pay period, if necessary, will be deducted from the May pay period.

For biweekly paid staff, negative annual leave charges will deducted from May and June pay periods, beginning with the first pay period in May.

Questions about this should be directed to the payroll department at 980-343-1839.

This legal alert provides information impacting every CMS employee when they create, share, and destroy records. Public records policy and law affects everything from emails, to text messages, to lesson plans, and beyond. Because records management is a part of North Carolina law, make sure you are aware of the following wildly important facts that are linked below.

Clothing Support For Students (MHES PTA)

The PTA understands the importance of having clothing items readily available in classrooms to address students’ needs quickly and discreetly. This ensures that if a student has an accident and needs a change of clothes, they won’t have to walk to the front office in wet or soiled clothing to access the Manatee Care Closet.

The MHES PTA is committed to minimizing classroom interruptions and supporting you in addressing these situations effectively. To help, we will help provide essential 2-4 sets of clothing items that can be kept in your classrooms. To request clothing for your class, please complete the form linked below:

You can use this form to restock as needed throughout the school year. Since this is a work in progress, we may adjust the form based on your needs and feedback. While the MHES PTA will do its best to fulfill all requests, please understand that our ability to gather and distribute these items depends on donations, volunteer support, and available funding. We respectfully ask for your patience as we work to meet these needs.

We also strongly encourage you to remind families to include a change of clothes in their child’s backpack, regardless of grade level. The PTA will share this reminder in our weekly updates to help ensure students are prepared for unexpected situations. Thank you for your unwavering dedication to our students. Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions or if you have additional needs.

CMS Good News Submissions

Share good news with CMS Communications!  Did you win an award? Have a colleague you'd like to give a shout-out to? Or maybe you have a classroom strategy you think is unique? Let us know! We'd love to hear from you.

Reminder: Atrium Clinic for Staff 

As a reminder, our Atrium Virtual Health Clinic isn’t just for students—staff can utilize it as well! If you need to see a provider, please reach out to Rick and/or Nurse Haley.

FAC Notes & Updates

Previous FAC Notes

Updates & Information

MHES Resources
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