Pursuant to Executive Order 2020-142, Char-Em ISD has developed the following Preparedness & Response Plans for the 2020-2021 school year:

• Char-Em ISD's Special Education & Alternative Education Plan
• Northern Michigan Community Action Agency GSRP Plan
• Women's Resource Center of Northern Michigan GSRP Plan

If you are a parent or caregiver concerned about your young child's development, the Charlevoix-Emmet Intermediate School District’s Early Childhood Department has a team of specialists available to help children along their educational path.

• If your child is between birth and up to 3 years of age, please complete an on-line referral at https://1800earlyon.org/online_referral.php, or call (800) EarlyOn (327-5966).
• If your child is between 3 and 5 years of age, call Taylor School (231) 439-6937. Please leave a message and a staff member will return your call to gather more information. You may also email Shannon Quinn, at quinns@charemisd.org.

Services for eligible children include speech and language assistance, occupational therapy and physical therapy. Services are provided in the home for children up to age 3, and in preschool for children ages 3-5. We welcome the opportunity to work with you and your child!

Char-Em ISD remains committed to providing meaningful professional learning opportunities for educators across Charlevoix, Emmet and northern Antrim counties in the school year ahead.

The ISD’s Professional Learning team has gathered feedback from local district administrators and ISD staff and has carefully considered guidance documents about how to best deliver professional learning in 2020-21. It has been decided that all professional learning for the first half of the school year – from August to December 2020 – will be delivered virtually in an online format. The annual Area-Wide Professional Learning Day, scheduled for Nov. 6, 2020, will not take place in person.

While we value the time spent learning together as professionals, we know that during this coming school year your students will need you more than ever. Your time in the classroom will be critical in supporting our children both academically and emotionally. You can be assured that Char-Em will continue to offer learning opportunities needed to maintain certifications required by state and federal mandates/law.  Whenever possible we will continue to offer continuing education credits in conjunction with these opportunities. 

Visit the Professional Learning page

Char-Em ISD road testers are scheduling driving tests for those seeking auto, motorcycle and CDL licenses. Students and adults are encouraged to contact the test administrators directly; their contact information can be found on the Driver License Road Testing page. 

Learn about Google Classroom, Zoom, Google Meet, Loom, and much more by checking out the videos on the Video Tutorial Links page.

Parents and caregivers play an invaluable role in keeping their children on track to meet career and college readiness goals. To help in those efforts, Char-Em ISD's Career and Technical Education Department developed the "Step Up to Success" Career Staircase. This interactive tool takes students on a journey from kindergarten through graduation and beyond in goal setting and awareness of career and college readiness activities and events. It provides resources that families will need along the journey, and it lets community members and professionals know where they can step in and be part of creating bright futures for our youth.

Check out the Career Staircase!

Char-Em ISD is hiring!

View complete details about the following positions and other job openings in several Char-Em ISD school districts:

• Rider
• School Social Worker (updated through the 2020-2021 school year)
• Special Education Teacher
• Special Education Teacher Assistant
• Speech and Language Pathologist
• Substitute Speech and Language Pathologist
• Transporter

Precious cargo aboard! Char-Em ISD is looking for substitute bus drivers and riders/aides for our multiple bus routes to and from Char-Em programs. Flexible hours and days mean you choose when you can provide coverage of routes. Char-Em pays for all required driver training (written testing and on-road testing), so experience is not necessary. Experience working with special needs children is not required, but is helpful, as is a compassionate personality. Because of the wide geographical area covered by Char-Em, we pay you from when you leave the house to get to your assigned transportation route each day that you work. Routes may be in Charlevoix, Emmet and northern Antrim counties. Those interested may also start as (paid) aides rather than driver, to see if the job is a good fit.