Daily Schedule

Office Hours:
​Discovery’s main office hours are 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

10050 Brummitt Road Granger, IN 46530

Phone: (574) 674-6010
Fax: (574) 679-4214
 

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Elementary student on first day of school

We’re thrilled to welcome back all of our 11,000+ students and are excited to help all our students achieve Excellence.

The first day of school will be Wednesday, August 20, 2025 for grades 1 – 12.

  • All students in 1st through 12th grades will report to their school buildings that day, and all those who are signed up for transportation services may ride the bus that day.  
  • Kindergarten orientation takes place on Wednesday, August 20, 2025 with the first full day of kindergarten being Thursday, August 21st.

BACK TO SCHOOL EVENTS. MARK CALENDAR & ATTEND! 

  • Our elementary schools are hosting many fun Back to School family events starting the week of August 11. Be on the lookout from communication directly from your school principal. 
  • All three Middle Schools are also planning a Walk-Around on Thursday, August 14th. Be on the lookout from communication directly from your school principal. Make sure you mark your calendar and plan to attend!
  • Penn is hosting a “Walk Around” to help parents and students get familiar with the school:
    • Penn High School’s “WALK AROUND” on Saturday, August 16, from 9 a.m. – Noon gives students a chance to familiarize themselves with the school and find where their classes and activities are located.

The BACK TO SCHOOL INFORMATION listed below will help P-H-M parents and students get ready for the 2025-26 School Year! 

CONTACTING SCHOOLS OVER THE SUMMER

REGISTERING STUDENTS

BACK TO SCHOOL PACKETS & FORMS

  • Back to School packet & information sheets
  • Parent/guardians will sign these three forms in ParentSquare:
    • Photo Consent
    • Mandatory Curriculum Consent
    • Handbook Certification   
  • These forms will be in Skyward Family Access:
    • CHIRP Release
    • Chromebook packet
    • Authorization to administer non-prescription medication at school
  • Back to School Info Sheets

Click here for more information on how to login into your Skyward Family Access account

SCHOOL CALENDARS

  • Here is the SY 2025-26 one-page calendar showing “at a glance” the start and end dates, as well as scheduled recess and vacation dates.
  • All P-H-M families are mailed a District Activities Calendar early August. It lists key school and district events throughout the year.
  • Our online (Google) calendars are the most up-to-date. You’ll find a link to the P-H-M Corporate Calendar posted on the home page of the District website. It’s a Google calendar that can be added to your personal calendar.
  • Each school also maintains an online Google calendar on the home page of each school website that is updated frequently with the school’s scheduled activities and event details. You can also the school’s Google calendar to your personal calendar to remember important dates.

SCHOOL SUPPLIES

  • All P-H-M schools provide basic school supplies to our students, free of charge. Therefore, our schools do not issue supply lists. You will need to purchase a backpack, water bottle, lunch box, and other items you want your child to have at home or take with them to school. If other specific items need to be purchased for a class or lab, your child’s teacher will inform you after school starts.  

IMMUNIZATIONS AND HEALTHCARE SERVICES

TRANSPORTATION

  • School bus route times and locations will be shared with parents in a Transportation letter to be emailed before school starts
  • Parents can check EZRouting to see your child’s bus route information online
  • Here Comes the Bus provides real time GPS bus location info so parents know when to send their students out to the bus stop
  • Have more questions about Transportation? Visit their webpage for contact information.

FOOD SERVICE

PARENTSQUARE

  • Penn-Harris-Madison uses ParentSquare to send urgent alerts, such as school closings and delays.
  • Principals and teachers also use it for noncurricular school and classroom communications.
  • Click here for instructions on setting up your account.
  • Once your account is set up, families can chose their preferred mode of communication for non-urgent notifications–app, text, email, phone. You can also chose to have all communications automatically translated to your preferred first language. Click here for details on how to personalize your account and check your notification settings.

CLOSINGS/DELAYS PROCEDURES

 

PHM's Triangle of SuccessPenn-Harris-Madison’s culture of excellence, what we call #PHMExcellence, is built upon the “Triangle of Success”– linking students, teachers, and parents for the the best outcome for students. Success depends on supportive parents … help us help your children!

PARENTS Click here for ways to stay informed, as well getting connected and volunteering. 

Virtual Tour of Discovery

Speaker: Brandon King (Tour Guide)

[0:00 – 0:23]
Hello and welcome to the virtual tour of Discovery Middle School. My name is Brandon and I’ll be your tour guide. Whether you’re coming from North Point, Mary Frank, Horizon, or somewhere else, I hope this tour will be informative and interesting.
[0:23 – 0:38]
You will most likely arrive at school on the buses in the back parking lot, walk through the main bus door and into the commons, where you’ll begin navigating your first experience at Discovery.
[0:23 – 0:38]
This is the commons. Here, nearly every place in the school connects together. To the left of the large display on the wall is the cafeteria, but most people just call it the cafetorium.
[0:39 – 0:52]
This large room doubles as a cafeteria and an auditorium, hence the name. This is where you will eat lunch. For 6th graders, lunch will occur after third period. For 7th graders, after fourth period. And for 8th graders, after second period.
[0:53 – 1:10]
Each period, you will attend a different class for 55 minutes, then have 5 minutes to travel to your next class. There are 6 periods in a day. This is the lunch line. Here you can buy lunch if you decide not to bring it from home.
[1:11 – 1:30]
If you went to a PHM elementary school, any funds you currently have in your lunch account will be transferred to Discovery. Contact the main office to add money to your lunch account. Now let’s get back to the tour. The commons also connects to the gymnasiums, the music rooms, and the various offices, but we’ll get back to that later.
[1:31 – 1:43]
For now, let’s head up the stairs to the left of the bus door to reach the hallway that serves as the hub for upstairs activity. Remember, whether you’re going up or down the stairs, always take the right side to help with the flow of traffic.
[1:44 – 2:06]
In this upstairs area we’ve just reached, you can access the health labs and the sixth and seventh grade hallways. You can turn left to access the seventh grade hallway and turn right to access the sixth grade hallway. Don’t worry, we’ll show you how to get to the eighth grade hallway later. We’ll use images of the sixth grade hallway as an example since the three grade hallways are set up mostly the same.
[2:07 – 2:39]
All the hallways are shaped like a half circle. This is a locker. There are three metal hooks on the walls for hanging backpacks and coats, as well as a metal shelf towards the top. You will leave your backpack and most of your textbooks in your locker during the day, and you can pick up needed textbooks from your locker during the five-minute passing periods that you use to get from class to class.
[2:39 – 2:55]
Cell phones and other electronic devices should be placed in your locker during the day and turned off. Some teachers will ask you to BYOD, or Bring Your Own Device, on certain days. This is the only time where such electronic devices will be allowed outside of lockers during the day. Don’t worry if you don’t have a device. Teachers who ask you to BYOD will have a plan for those students who don’t have devices.
[2:56 – 3:10]
Many new students worry about getting their locker open. This is relatively a non-issue at Discovery. Many people are able to easily open their locker within the first week. If you do happen to be unable to open your locker during the day, just find the nearest teacher. Many teachers have keys that can unlock your locker. Those teachers who don’t have keys can direct you to a teacher that does.
[3:11 – 3:49]
Now let’s head to the top of the main stairs where we found the central upstairs area. From here we can access the IMC, meaning Instructional Materials Center, or library. This is where you can check out books to read. You may take them home and read on your own time, or you can read IMC books during our daily read time. This is a time before first period where you can read a book from home or from the IMC for 30 minutes. You will have read time with your first period teacher, so report to his or her classroom first thing in the morning.
[3:50 – 4:03]
Also connecting to the library is Computer Lab A. You can head out the back door of the library and turn left to get there. This is where your Media Explorations class will be. We’ll talk more about that in just a minute when we get to rotations.
[4:04 – 4:55]
The final place of interest upstairs is the health labs. Depending on your grade, you’ll have health class with different frequencies. For sixth grade, health is a rotation. For seventh and eighth grade, health alternates every two weeks with gym.
[4:56 – 5:12]
No matter what grade you’re in, you’ll have two periods of the day that are not taken up by core subjects (math, language arts, science, and social studies). Sixth graders will have one music class that alternates every day between gym and rotations. The only class choice in sixth grade is which music class: Band, Orchestra, Choir, or Piano Lab.
[5:13 – 5:45]
Seventh and eighth graders have one elective (either rotations or music) and one period that alternates between gym and health. Rotations classes change every nine weeks and may include Media Explorations, FACS (Family and Consumer Sciences), World Languages, Health, and Art.
[5:46 – 10:11]
The tour continues through the music and gym areas, locker rooms, two gyms, guidance office, main office, health office, eighth grade hallway, and rotations hallway (including Computer Lab D, FACS, and the World Languages/Art room). The video concludes with a summary and credits.

Full detailed narration is available in the video.

School Location

Alexandria

For accessing our library resources at DMS please use the link below.
 

Access DMS Alexandria

Contact Us

10050 Brummitt Road
Granger, IN  46530

Phone: 574-674-6010

Fax: 574-679-4214

Elizabeth Cunha, Principal
Troy Kauffman, Assistant Principal
Kevin McMillen, Assistant Principal
Melissa Horvath, Treasurer
Jennifer Tebell, Secretary
Laurie Ruoff, Office Aide

P-H-M District Contacts

Click here for a list of school staff and Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation contacts.

Just FYI – Special Education Community Resources

Pediatric Study Group

Fall series hosted by Memorial Children’s Therapy Center

Technology for Children with Special Needs: Keeping It Simple

Location
Innovation Café in the Navarre Building
100 Navarre Place, South Bend, Indiana
Directions
Just south of Memorial Hospital. Turn west off Michigan onto Navarre and into the Navarre parking garage (free parking). Drive to the second floor, turn left and park near the west elevator. Take that to the first floor. Exit outside the building to the right and the Innovation Café is towards the South Bend Medical Foundation with an awning over the door.

Session 1

Topic
Empowering the Pediatric Therapist in the Creation of Mobility and Seating Solutions
Presenter
Kerry Jones, Rehabilitation Designer/ATP
Date & Time
September 16, 2014, 6:00-7:30 p.m.
What to Bring
Bath towel, hand towel, and washcloth

Session 2

Topic
Augmentative and Alternative Communication Accessibility Options—how AAC impacts everyday activities, demonstration, case study
Presenter
Children’s Therapy Center AAC team
Date & Time
October 21, 2014, 6:45-8:15 p.m. (following the Logan First Steps quarterly meeting)

Session 3

Topic
Make and Take—a fun session where attendees make an easy-to-use access switch for practical application using easy-to-put-together materials
Date & Time
November 18, 2014, 6:00-7:30 p.m.

For More Information

Miriam Tribbett, PT
St. Joseph Regional Medical Center’s Pediatric Therapy Department
574-335-6265 or tribbetm@sjrmc.com
Chris Wilson, OT
Memorial Children’s Therapy Center
574-647-5007 or cnwilson@beaconhealthsystem.org

www.michianadownsyndrome.org

Asperger Autism Group of Goshen

Group Information

Meeting Schedule
Second Monday of each month
Cost
Free and open to the public
Lending Library
Available at 6:45 p.m.
Childcare
Available by reservation—contact Dena Deal
Website
sites.google.com/autismgoshen

Contact Information

Address
406 S 7th St
Goshen, Indiana 46526
Christine Guth, Coordinator
574-534-2718
cguth@autismgoshen.org
Dena Deal, ASI Autism Ally
1-800-609-8449 ext. 202
ddeal@inautism.org

What We Offer

The nuts & bolts of autism info and support in northern Indiana

  • Events calendar
  • Speakers and topics
  • Conversation nights
  • Lending library
  • Spouses group
  • Facebook group
  • Meeting locations
  • Local, regional & state resources

Visit our website for more information

About Us

Additional Resources

Little Star

Where kids with autism learn to live in the world. Where parents learn they are not alone.

Visit Little Star Center

Logan Center

Visit Logan Center

Michiana Down Syndrome Organization

Visit Michiana Down Syndrome

Exceptional Education

Exceptional Education at Discovery Middle School

Contact Us

John Himschoot
Resource Teacher of Record
Carly Hixon
Resource Teacher of Record
Melissa Shemanski
Resource Teacher of Record
Wendy Pierce
Speech Language Pathologist
Kevin Runyan
School Psychologist

Community Resources

Michiana Down Syndrome Organization

Visit Michiana Down Syndrome

Little Star

Where kids with autism learn to live in the world. Where parents learn they are not alone.

Visit Little Star Center

Logan Center

Visit Logan Center

Asperger Autism Group of Goshen

Meeting Schedule
Second Monday of each month
Cost
Free and open to the public
Lending Library
Available at 6:45 p.m.
Childcare
Available by reservation—contact Dena Deal
Website
sites.google.com/autismgoshen

Asperger/Autism Group of Goshen

Contact Information

Address
406 S 7th St
Goshen, Indiana 46526
Christine Guth
Coordinator
574-534-2718
cguth@autismgoshen.org
Dena Deal
ASI Autism Ally for region
1-800-609-8449 ext. 202
ddeal@inautism.org

What We Offer

The nuts & bolts of autism info and support in northern Indiana

  • Events calendar
  • Speakers and topics
  • Conversation nights
  • Lending library
  • Spouses group
  • Facebook group
  • Meeting locations
  • Local, regional & state resources

Visit our website for more information

About Asperger/Autism Group of Goshen