Student Medications

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Please be aware that the school clinic is unable to store any medications at school during the summer.  McKinney ISD has a policy against sending medication home with a student; therefore, you must come in personally and pick up any medications remaining in the clinic.  Medication WILL NOT be sent home with your child.
All “as needed medications”, like Tylenol or Advil, will be destroyed starting at 12:00 PM tomorrow, May 21st.
All “emergency medications” - Asthma medications, Seizure medications, and Epinephrine pens must be picked up before 4:00 PM on tomorrow at which time they will begin being destroyed.
Please remember you will need to complete new medication forms for the 2021/2022 school year.  The forms will be available when you pick up your child’s medication.  You can talk with your child’s doctor and complete the forms before school starts in August. 
Please contact the nurse with any questions at:
ecieminski@mckinneyisd.net.

Leading Lion - 10 May 2021

Our Leading Lion this week is Jessica Watson, the DMS LSSP. Many of you may not even know Jessica, she helps us to determine qualifications for our sped students. Her job is multi-tiered as she does initial evaluations, three year re-evaluations and helps us with manifest determinations. This is a busy time of year for her! What you also probably don’t know is that she is also a new mom! She has a lot going on and she comes to work everyday with a smile on her face even though she is exhausted beyond words! We are so proud to have her as a member of our Dowell family!!!

Academic Planning Canvas Course for Parents and Students

Virtual Learning Expectations

  • Student must have their camera on at all times or your student will be marked absent.
  • Student must respond to a teacher’s questions and remain engaged in classroom activities.
  • Student will use the chat feature on Zoom to communicate with teachers regarding questions, etc. if they are not able to address questions verbally
  • Student must be on time for class. Bell Schedule
    • If a student experiences technical issues, student will email teacher via Canvas to report issue, so they are not counted absent/tardy.
    • If a student enters class 8 - 10 minutes late, he/she will be marked tardy
  • Student must be passing courses at each Interim Progress Report unless communication between teacher and administration has occurred.
  • Parents are encouraged to sign up for Canvas alerts and to continuously monitor HAC.
Dowell Middle School may revoke the virtual learning opportunity if the above expectations are not met.

Drop-off and Pick-up Procedures

  • Students not riding buses should be dropped off in the front of the building and doors open for the school at 8:15 a.m. The back parking lot is for MISD buses only from 8:00-8:30 am. 
  • There are 2 entry lanes at the front of the school next to each other. The right lane is for dropping students off.  Please be patient and read/respect the signs posted to help understand the procedures.  The left lane is for vehicles going to the south parking lot or exiting onto Ridge Road. For the safety of our students we ask that you never cut into the right lane from the left lane and that you never unload students from the left lane. 
  • After 8:30 am, parents are welcome to drop students off in the back. 
  • The procedure will be the same after school with 2 lanes and we ask that no cars enter the back parking lot until buses have left. Please see the above directions for maneuvering through the drop off/pick up lanes in the front.
  • Vehicles exiting from the front or back of the building will be directed to turn right only on to Ridge Road. 
  • Please be careful and watch for students walking in front of your car.
  • As it gets closer to 8:45 am the traffic increases, so please try to arrive earlier for more convenience and a shorter wait.
  • Be courteous to one another and help us keep our Dowell community safe!

Box Tops for Education 

​Clipping Box Tops is an easy way for you to help our school earn cash.  Our school receives two checks from the Box Tops for Education™ program each school year based on the box tops we submit.  Hurry, clip your Box Tops and turn them in to the office.  Thanks for your help!  

Tardy Policy

Our goal at Dowell Middle School is to maximize learning time. One of the ways we do this is by establishing a standard of students' arrival in the classroom. When a student arrives late to class, we call this "tardy”.
This year we are using a new communication tool, which will email a parent each time the student is tardy to a class. The tardy count resets each quarter.
Policy :
·         First Unexcused Tardy is a warning
·         Second Unexcused Tardy is a 30 minute after-school detention
·         Third Unexcused Tardy is a hour after-school detention
·         Fourth Unexcused Tardy is a two hour after-school detention
·         Five or more Unexcused Tardies per quarter, are a three hour after-school detention each occurrence
* All detentions are served on Thursday afternoons

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