Crossler Middle School

Hello Crossler Families!

This is Laura Perez, Interim Principal at Crossler Middle School. I have enjoyed getting to know the students and staff in my short tenure here, and I appreciate what a great school this is. So it is with great pleasure that I am able to announce that Jen Williams, will be the new Principal of Crossler Middle School!

The following is a message from Jen Williams to the Crossler Community.

I was raised in Salem-Keizer and started my career in education working for the office at McNary High School my senior year of high school in 1995. I was the first in my family to graduate college earning a bachelor’s degree from the University of Oregon followed by my master’s degree from George Fox. While in college and grad school I worked as an Instructional Assistant within the Salem-Keizer school district in a variety of classrooms and have enjoyed spending the last 20 years working in middle schools within the Salem-Keizer school district. In 2003 I joined the staff at Leslie as a teacher where I worked until 2012.. In 2015 I joined the Claggett Creek community serving as the Assistant Principal until 2020. For the past three years I have had the privilege to serve as the Assistant Principal at Crossler Middle School.

As we close out the school year and think ahead to the 23-24 season, I want you to know how much I am looking forward to providing opportunities to get to know you and about your experiences in our community. In doing so we will be able to continue to create a school where students thrive and feel welcome!

Congratulations to our incredible Cross Country coaches and atheletes. Our teams came in 1st and 2nd at the All City meet last week!
👟🏃🏽🐊 Crocs, we are SO proud of your hard work and perseverance! Through wind, rain, heat, smoke, and the complexities of being STUDENT athletes, you showed up and got the wins you absolutely deserved. Well done! 🐊🏃🏽👟

🏈🔴🏈 Football game DATES, TIMES, and LOCATION have changed! 🏈🔴🏈

🟢🐊 Picture retake day, Championship Football games, Dance Team, 7th grade Volleyball, and more during this week of Halloween! 🐊🟢

Don't forget that there should be no costumes at school today. We loved being able to celebrate our students' creativity and joy at our dance last-last Friday!

Halloween Dance!

Yesterday, the Leadership Class hosted an Honor Flight Assembly to kick off our Veterans' Day fundraiser!

The South Willamette Valley Honor Flight and Salem Star Valor Quilters joined us to recognize and honor two local veterans as well a few of our staff veterans. Students are collecting donations from now through Veterans' Day to help send local veterans to Washington DC with the Honor Flight Program. Last year we raised $5,333, sending 5 local vets. This year's goal is $6,000 to send 6 veterans. We hope you join us in honoring those that sacrificed for our freedom in donating to our fundraiser.

The new store link for Croc gear is: https://staytonsports.chipply.com/crosslerms2022/store.aspx?eid=84929

The store is open until October 21st!

Don't forget that there is no school for students on Friday!

PTC is selling Croc gear at this link: https://staytonsports.chipply.com/crosslerms2022/store.aspx
Check it out until Oct. 21st!

🟢 👟 Cross Country's final week and final meet, except for the athletes who might continue on to our county and state competitions! 👟 🟢

🐊 Good luck to all our Crossler athletes as they come into the home stretch of their fall sports! 🐊

PTC meetings, Dance Team, and Leadership students hosting a Halloween extravaganza—this week, we have it all here at Crossler!

🪨 🌎 Thursday is also the Great American Shakeout when schools will run earthquake preparedness drills and discuss earthquake safety. 🌎 🪨

Today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day, an official statewide holiday. It is our chance to celebrate and honor the histories, cultures and identities of our Indigenous students and families. We choose to celebrate the languages, the cultural practices, the viewpoints, the histories and unique gifts that all our Indigenous students and families bring to our schools and our community.

🐊 🏈 🏐 👟 🐊 Big week for our Football Teams this week, and the second to last week for Cross-Country! 🐊 🏈 🏐 👟 🐊

Please be cautious and patient finding parking this Wednesday as we will have many visitors for our football and volleyball teams! Consider parking carefully in the area around Crossler, and as always, leave the smaller parking lot for our buses to have access before AND after 4:00pm.

Don't forget that there is no school for students on Friday!

PTC is selling Croc gear at this link: https://staytonsports.chipply.com/crosslerms2022/store.aspx
Check it out until Oct. 21st!

🟢🟢 We don't have any specifics on Family-Teacher Conferences yet as they get settled across the district by our hard-working administrators, but mark your calendars for Wed. & Thurs. October 26th & 27th. 🟢🟢