▶ Reminders and Updates for our community: ▶ Student Information Update Form This year, BPS will be asking parents to go online and complete the Student Information Update Form that you typically would sign and return to school. The information is now to be entered here: via this link. ▶ Help us help you⤵ Remember about Media Clearance While you are filling out this form, I just wanted to mention something about Media Clearance. This is often an area where parents do not grant BPS permission to photograph their child. If we do not have media clearance for your child, we will not be able to use their photo in any of the social media posts that we send out. I don't want anyone to be disappointed, if they don't see their child in the pictures we send. | ▶ Planning ahead...September 2017 ▶ Breakfast and Lunch Menu for September 2017 (a combined menu) ▶ Family Guide
Each year, BPS sends home the Family Guide to BPS for parents and families in hard copy. This year there will not be hard copies. Instead, BPS is providing access to this resource online here: https://www.bostonpublicschools.org/familyguide If you have any questions regarding information in the BPS Family Guide or anything else, please contact me at: 617-635-8532 or email: atuite@bostonpublicschools.org. We are here to support you. Together we build our school! Thank you, Andy Tuite, Principal |
Jackson | Mann welcomes Ms. Marissa Akason!  | A note to the community from Marissa... Hello Jackson-Mann community! My name is Marissa Akason, and I will be Mr. Tuite’s principal intern this fall. I am currently pursuing my masters in School Leadership from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Before coming to Massachusetts, I worked as a first grade teacher, a second grade teacher, and as an administrator at a K-8 public charter school in Chicago. I look forward to working with the Jackson | Mann's families, students, and staff this semester! I'd love to meet you and learn about your ideas, your children, and your hopes for the school this year. My intern schedule allows me to be at school on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Let's plan to connect and thank you for welcoming me to your school. |
WE build our school together. ❆ Everyone belongs at the Jackson | Mann. We welcome and value our students, our families, and our community.
We learn and build together every day. Watch! Celebrate our students, our staff, our families, and our whole community!
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▶ Ms. Clare Hanagan | Director of Instruction  If you would like to learn more about our curriculum, please contact me by email (here) or by calling the school's office: 617-635-8532 | ▶ Ms. Anita Moore | Assistant Principal Hello Jackson Mann Family, I am a native Bostonian, born and raised in Roxbury. This year I started my 30th year as part of the Boston Public School system. During most of these years, my teaching home has been at the Jackson Mann School (25 years). I taught physical education and health before moving into administration. Both I enjoy immensely. The Jackson Mann community is and has been a wonderful environment to learn and grow for myself and the many students who have been educated here. It is most rewarding to see our students grow, in knowledge and independence, from elementary to middle school, as they prepare to be successful in high school. There is no greater feeling than to have students visit and tell of their success in high school and college. This is something I hope for every student at the Jackson Mann K-8 School. |
▶ Dr. Simone Kotraba | Assistant Principal | ▶ Mr. Andy Tuite | Principal On September 7,1977, I took charge of my first classroom as a teacher at Sacred Heart High School in Weymouth, MA. For 40 years, I have been lucky enough to teach and be taught by children and families from Boston and Brockton and Weymouth and Quincy. I never wanted to do anything else! Well, I did want to be a Beatle or a Green Bay Packer, but those are stories for another day. Only one job is more important than teaching and that is parenting, and I've been lucky enough to do that, too, for 33 years. Every day that I can be with children is a great day, and I thank all of you - all of the families, who've trusted your most precious possessions, your children, to me. I look forward in my 41st year of teaching, beginning on September 7, 2017 (amazing, right?) and to another awesome year at the Jackson Mann! As Malcolm X said, "Education is the passport to the future for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today." Welcome back! |
| ⨠ Boston College's art museum has relocated to 2101 Comm Ave. They have programs for elementary age children the second Saturday of every month. Admission is free. Some programs require preregistration. More information on the museum is here: www.bc.edu/artmuseum | ⨠ Lots of wonderful and worthwhile events at the Harvard Ed Portal. Please check out this link for all sorts of events and happenings! The Harvard Ed Portal offers many events for children and families throughout the year. Find events here. |
Learning Never Ends at the Jackson | Mann
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⫸ You and your children make a difference at the J | M!
❏ Watch our slide show about the opening of school-2016.(click here)▶ City Councilor Tito Jackson visited school recently as part of the Big Cheese Reads program. Councilor Jackson engaged our eighth grade students in a spirited discussion about the city budget and the rights and responsibilities needed to ensure success for all citizens of Boston.  |
⫸ Our Parent Council works with our school community Please keep your eyes on this J-M Community website for the work, opportunities, and events of our Parent Council. Thank you. 
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Students and Staff honor all learners and the values we live by:
 Our school embraces all learners. We all live by our TIGER values. Join us. Learn more about our program to create a school community where everyone belongs and is respected. (Learn more about our TIGER program-here) |
