McDowell Mountain Elementary School

05/13/2022

May 13, 2022 Home of the Falcons! "We Achieve and Celebrate Educational Excellence" Falcon Focus Photo courtesy of azcentral.com "The Phoenix Area's 5 Most Beautiful Schools" April 2015 McDowell Mount

04/29/2022

Happy Friday Falcons! Have an amazing weekend!

Take a look at this week's Falcon Focus:

April 29, 2022 Home of the Falcons! "We Achieve and Celebrate Educational Excellence" Falcon Focus Photo courtesy of azcentral.com "The Phoenix Area's 5 Most Beautiful Schools" April 2015 McDowell Mou

04/22/2022

April 22, 2022 Home of the Falcons! "We Achieve and Celebrate Educational Excellence" Falcon Focus Photo courtesy of azcentral.com "The Phoenix Area's 5 Most Beautiful Schools" April 2015 A Message Fr

04/21/2022

The Governing Board is pleased to announce Dr. Cain Jagodzinski as the new Superintendent for the Fountain Hills Unified School District.

In an email dated April 7th from the FHUSD Governing Board, it was announced that the Board had accepted the resignation of Superintendent Kelly Glass.

On April 6th & April 8th, the Governing Board met in executive session to discuss the hiring process for a new superintendent. After deliberation with legal counsel, consultation of policy, and with time being of the essence, the Board determined it would be in the district’s best interest to look at qualified candidates from our 2020 superintendent search.

At a special meeting on Wednesday, April 20th, the Governing Board unanimously approved a contract hiring Dr. Cain Jagodzinski as the new superintendent for Fountain Hills Unified School District. Dr. Jagodzinski was a finalist in the 2020 superintendent search.

Dr. Jagodzinsk (Dr. J) is well known to Fountain Hills as he previously worked in the district as a social studies teacher, the basketball coach and most recently the high school principal. While at the high school, Dr. Jagodzinski was instrumental at implementing the Capstone Program, AVID, Beyond Textbooks and working with his staff to achieve the A+ rating from the Arizona Education Association! As principal of Fountain Hills High School, Dr. Jagodzinski was well respected by his staff, students and community members. He made it a point to learn each student's name and had an open-door policy where he welcomed new ideas and collaboration with his team. Since 2020, Dr. Jagodzinski has been the principal at Arcadia High School in Scottsdale and we are very pleased to welcome him back to Fountain Hills! Dr. Jagodzinski’s official start date will be July 1, 2022 with interim superintendent Dr. Sweeney completing his contract June 30, 2022.

04/21/2022

Please welcome Jane Irwin to FHUSD!

She is one of the Reading Specialists at MMES and re-located to Scottsdale from Central Florida in June 2021. Jane is a graduate of Old Dominion University (K-12 Vocal Music Ed) and has been teaching since 1995 in several states and overseas. Jane has taught at nearly every level of education (except middle school!) in her 27 years of experience. Several years ago, Jane added Elementary Ed and both the Reading/ESOL Endorsements to her teaching toolkit. She is super excited to help the MMES 1st and 2nd grade students achieve reading success! Jane is also an active member of the FHUSD PTO and looks forward to helping organize the fun events supported by them.

Jane has a terrific (and active!) family. She and her husband, Dean, have been married 27 years and are a retired US Navy family (23 years in the Submarine Force). They have three fantastic sons, Phillip, Jack and Rory. Jack and Rory attend FHMS as 7th/8th graders and are avid athletes who keep their mom and dad VERY busy! Last, but not least, they have 2 grandsons from their oldest son, Phillip, who still lives in Florida.

The Irwins LOVE living the AZ life and are excited to be a part of the Falcon Family!

Welcome to the Falcon Family Jane!

04/14/2022

The District is currently evaluating a list of supplemental reading materials for McDowell Mountain Elementary School students in 3rd grade. The books will be on display at the district office for 60 days. If you would like to come in and look through the books, you may do so at any time Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Should you have any questions or comments, please contact Krista Andreae at (480) 664-5011 or [email protected].

The books will be on display through June 13th.

04/12/2022

Heads up Falcons! FHUSD has a district recess this Friday, April 15th. Schools and the district office will be closed.

04/08/2022

April 8, 2022 Home of the Falcons! "We Achieve and Celebrate Educational Excellence" Falcon Focus Photo courtesy of azcentral.com "The Phoenix Area's 5 Most Beautiful Schools" April 2015 A Message Fro