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Thank you, voters!

NCSD Families,

Yesterday was a historic day for our school district. Thanks to the support of all of you and the Novi community, NCSD passed our 2025 Bond program! This will bring world-class facilities and opportunities to our children and help us continue our positive momentum. Thank you to each of you who helped provide feedback, talk about it with your neighbors, stay informed and ask great questions, and every little thing that was done to support this bond passage. We are truly blessed to be part of a community that is united in a vision of educational excellence, and we cannot thank you enough for all that you have done! 

Our construction and design partners, our staff, and our leadership team are excited and ready to get to work. As a school district, we want to bring you in and help you be part of this exciting program, so we will keep you well informed as things get started and we begin executing the plan. Again, we want to thank you with the most sincere gratitude, and we look forward to the exciting things to come!

Sincerely,

Ben Mainka, Superintendent
Novi Community School District

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92% of current NATC students work at least one job

When students are not at work sites they are working in house on job skills and participating in preparing for our micro business opportunities throughout the year.

Some of the businesses NATC stufdentds work at during the week include:

  • Macy's
  • Emagine Theater
  • Novi Civic Center
  • Novi Public Library
  • Novi Public Library Cafe
  • Henry Ford Providence Hospital
  • St. James Church
  • Novi High School Cafeteria.

When students are not at work sites they are back working in house on job skills and participating in preparing for our micro business opportunities throughout the year.

 

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NATC microbusiness opportunities

Novi Adult Transition Center students have the opportunity to participate in the "Novi 4 All" Mobile Mart microbusiness.

Through this experience, students practice key skills such as greeting customers, answering questions about products, handling money, and managing conversations.

By engaging in sales, they gain valuable customer service experience, which emphasizes effective communication.

Additionally, students contribute to the microbusiness by assisting in the creation of products, further developing their teamwork and entrepreneurial skills. 

 

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Learning and living at the Apartment

Novi Adult Transition Center work on life skill and communication skills in "the apartment" classroom at the ROAR Center.

They work as a team to cook, baking cookies and cakes, as well as hot dogs, fries, nachos and personal pizzas.

Students begin with a lesson about the process for completing various tasks, before they practice communicating with each other about what they need in the kitchen.

 

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SEPAC honors six winners with Above & Beyond Awards

SEPAC, the Special Education Parent Advisory Committee, recently honored six winners with Above & Beyond Awards, in recognition of their outstanding efforts, positive attitude and the impact make on our students with disabilities. 

Two students were recognized -- Colin Mutch of Orchard Hills and Julia Peck of Novi Meadows. 

Orchard Hills student with SEPAC and NCSD admin after being named a SEPAC winner.
A Meadows staff member and student with others for SEPAC Above & Beyond award.

Four staff members were also recognized -- ECEC teacher Nancy Montales, Meadows paraprofessional Johanna Werth, George Lemanski from Transportation and Speech Pathologist Abby Rea for ancillary staff. 

Over 100 students and staff members were nominated this year for the Above & Beyond Awards. 

Transportation award winner with SEPAC and NCSD admin.
Abby Rea surrounded by NCSD Admin and SEPAC reps.
SEPAC award winner surrounded by SEPAC and NCSD staff.
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