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Tri-Center Literacy Night on March 6th in the Tri-Center High School Gym from 5 to 6:30 PM!

This event is open to all families with students in Preschool through 5th grade.

Tri-Center Schools will have a 2 hour late start tomorrow, February 13th, 2025.

Tri-Center 4-Year-Old Preschool Sign-up and Early Childhood Screening will be held Monday, March 10th from 8:30 to noon. Screening will be at the Tri-Center Elementary School. 

Children ages 2-5 can have early childhood dental and vision screenings. Incoming 4-Year-Old Preschool students can also meet their potential teachers! Incoming 4-Year-Old Preschool students must be 4 by 9/15/25. 

Please follow these steps to register:

1. Complete the Tri-Center Pre-Registration Form here: https://tricenter.powerschool.com/public/formbuilder/form.html?formid=22594&request_locale=en_US
2. Call the Tri-Center Elementary School at 712-485-2271 to schedule a screening time slot.

Please share this with other families that would benefit from this information.

No school tomorrow, Wednesday, February 12th, 2025 at Tri-Center Community Schools.
 

Tri-Center Parent / Teacher Conferences will be held February 26th and 27th from 4-8 PM.

Middle School and High School:

Conferences are held in the High School Cafetorium by walk-in. Please email a teacher if you want to set a reserved meeting time.

Elementary:

Please schedule your conferences with your teacher in PowerSchool.

From the Public Portal of PowerSchool (on a computer or mobile device browser):

1. Select the elementary student in your PowerSchool dashboard.

2. Click Parent/Teacher Conferences in the left navigation column

3. Review any current reservations and teacher notes

4. Click the name of a conference

5. Select a teacher from the drop-down menu (lead teachers and co-teachers will be visible)

6. Enter an email address and select an “options” that display from the drop-down

7. Click Save

8. Repeat the steps above to select additional teachers and reserve other conference times

9. To delete the reservation, refresh the page and click the red minus button to the right of a reservation under “My Reservations.” The reservation list will list conference reservations from other family members as well.

Your parent PowerSchool account is the same one you have used to register your student in the past. If need assistance with your account, please email administrator@tctrojans.org.

There will be no school on Friday, February 28th.

FCCLA will be selling carnations for elementary, middle, and high school students from January 13th to February 7th. They will be delivered on February 14th during 8th hour. Carnations will be sold for $1.50 each and can be bought from any FCCLA member, by seeing Mrs. Lilley, or emailing mlilley@tctrojans.org.

All evening activities at Tri-Center Schools scheduled for Monday, January 20th are cancelled.

Due to an extreme cold warning extending into Tuesday afternoon, January 21st, Tri-Center Community School district will have no school on January 21st, 2025. 

Evening games on Tuesday, January 21st will be as scheduled with the warning lifting in the early afternoon Tuesday.

Stay safe and warm! 
 

Reminder: No school tomorrow, Monday, January 20th, 2025.

There is professional development for Tri-Center staff.

Hello, TC Family,

I am not sure if you have already heard, but the Governor has said she wants to ban all phones/smart watches/social media at schools during the school day.  I have no idea what this will mean for us, but as many of the teachers are currently reading, The Anxious Generation; How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, we thought this was a good time to perhaps do some research about the effects of those types of distractions for our students.  

In order to do this, I would like to find students in grades 6-12 that would be a part of our study.  I need kids that are willing to not use their phone/smart watch at all during the school day, from the time they get here in the morning, until the buses roll home in the afternoon.  I will ask those students who choose to continue to follow the current T-C rules which are dictated by each classroom teacher to be the “control” group.  Both groups will be asked to complete a questionnaire before, during and after the 2 week trial.  Here is a link to that questionnaire.

Additionally, we would like to invite parents to participate in Tech Time-Out for the same amount of time and complete the same surveys. 

If you would like to have your child participate in the Tech Detox group, please complete and return the permission slip on the next page or respond to this email including your child’s Name and Grade Level to ahuseman@tctrojans.org.  If you do not want your child to participate in neither the Control or Tech Detox group, please let me know that, too.

In the meantime, regardless of whether you and your child participate, you might want to know how to find out how much time you and your child spend on your phones and how much time is spent on social media.

If you have an iPhone: 

Go to Settings>Screen Time.  You will see a graph along with how much time you have spent on the phone that day.  Under the graph, you will see “See All App and Website Activity”.   When you click on that, you can scroll through several screens that will show you the most used apps, the number of times you picked up your phone and for what, how many notifications you got and what kind.  

If you have an Android or a Google Pixel:  

Go to your device Settings > Digital Wellbeing & Parental Controls; the dashboard will display your total screen time for the day, usually shown as a circle graph

Please see the permission slip here.

Sincerely,

Dr. Angela Huseman