Ms. Tafoya and Fillmore Middle School’s Bulldog getting ready for the 8th grade promotional procession. Way to go class of 2025! FMS will miss you!
8th Grade Promotion
Fillmore Middle School teachers and staff celebrate 8th grade promotion. Congratulations, we are so proud of you!
Congratulations Jen Beal
Congratulations Jen Beal on your retirement from the Fillmore Unified School District. Fillmore Middle School will miss you.
Science & Engineering
The class built roller coasters to learn about stored energy, kinetic energy, potential energy, friction, and energy transfer. Speed and height played a big part, just like a real roller coaster. Students had fun building and learning about science and engineering.
Allie Martinez is FMS Classified Staff of the Week
Congratulations Allie Martinez! You are Fillmore Middle School Classified Staff of the Week! Thank you for being such a great support for the students in your class, helping individually and in a group, as well as supporting your teacher throughout the day.
Science Garden
Students learning about birds, bees, and lizards while cleaning up Fillmore Middle School’s Science Garden.
Christine Schieferle Selected Finalist For Fillmore Unified Superintendent Position
Christine Schieferle
After conducting a nationwide search and a lengthy process of gathering input from employees of the district and members of the community, which included the review of over 21 applicants, the Fillmore Unified School District Board of Education is honored to announce Christine Schieferle as the finalist to replace Interim Superintendent Dr. Chuck Weis.
The Fillmore Unified Board of Trustees will be entering into contract negotiations with Mrs. Schieferle and is expected to confirm an offer of employment at its June 1, 2021, regularly scheduled Board meeting. Mrs. Schieferle currently serves Santa Paula Unified School District as the Deputy Superintendent of Educational Services and has previously served as Director of Curriculum and Instruction at the Ventura County Office of Education. She has also served as an Elementary Principal, Continuation High School Principal, High School Assistant Principal and Middle School Teacher in Fillmore Unified. In each of these roles, she has achieved high expectations with compassion, dedication, comprehensive support, and a commitment to strong collaboration and communication with students, families, staff, and the community.
Fillmore Unified Board President Tricia Gradias stated “We are excited to bring our strong leader, Christine Schieferle back home to lead our district. We are very fortunate to have selected Christine Schieferle as our finalist for the Superintendent position. After our extensive search and interview process with many very strong competitors, we found Christine, who comes from our school district. She is an excellent instructional leader, cares deeply about Fillmore and Piru and our children and brings us new perspectives and an excellent vision for Fillmore Unified. She is known as a strong communicator and collaborator who exemplifies transparent leadership, integrity, and respectful relationships. Her expectations for herself and others are very high and always centered on accelerating student achievement. In addition, her leadership goals are centered around creating inclusive and equitable learning opportunities for all district students. She embraces challenges that improve the organization and is driven to constantly improve relationships and bring people together to improve the lives of students.
Mrs. Schieferle was born, raised and currently resides in the community of Fillmore. She earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from San Diego State University and a master’s degree in educational leadership from California State University, Northridge.
“I care deeply about our community and believe in our students. I look forward to the 2021-22 school year and am ready to welcome our students and our families back to full-time, in-person instruction after the many challenges and trauma our community experienced during the past year. I am also committed, as your new Superintendent, to build trust and belonging among our students, families, and staff, while holding high expectations and accountability. I stand by the vision of the Fillmore Unified School District to ensure that each student is recognized, valued and inspired to be a life-long learners and prepared to be a contributing member of society.”
Science 7 Ecosystem Models
Mauricio, Camila and Elvis continue to enjoy building ecosystem models in Minecraft and share their work with their classmates. Science 7 students literally have to move mountains, to connect the Channel Islands ecosystem to our local Hopper Canyon ecosystem via the Santa Clara River, in their Minecraft scientific models.
Jarom Demke is FMS Classified Staff of the Week
Congratulations Jarom Demke! You are Fillmore Middle School Classified Staff of the Week! Thank you for supporting us as we bring students back on campus to ensure that technology is working, troubleshooting problems as they arise, and joining our staff so seamlessly.
Marlyn Yanez is FMS Certificated Staff of the Week
Congratulations Marlyn Yanez! You are Fillmore Middle School’s Certificated Staff of the Week! Thank you for all you are doing for students to ensure they have a meaningful and special last semester as a bulldog, as well as a great welcome for our new bulldogs!
Amber Moise is FMS Certificated Staff of the Week
Congratulations Amber Moise! You are Fillmore Middle School’s Certificated Staff of the Week! Thank you for your support and help in ensuring we can offer students accommodations to meet the needs of families and supporting our English learners as well.
Rosa Deciga is FMS Classified Staff of the Week
Congratulations Rosa Deciga! You are Fillmore Middle School Classified Staff of the Week! Thank you for offering one on one support as needed for your students and always being a role model for students to look up to and follow.
Fillmore Middle School Loves Science
Mauricio Ocegueda is teaching the Science 7 class to design for sustainable Ecotourism at the Channel Islands National Park in Minecraft.
Certificated Staff of the Week
Congratulations Eva Zamudio. You are Fillmore Middle School’s Certificated Staff of the Week! Thank you for working so hard to connect with all your students, work with colleagues to provides supports for them and their students, and carrying a positive attitude throughout each day.
Walk-up, No appointment necessary, Covid19 Vaccination Wednesday April 28 at Veteran's Memorial Building Fillmore [ENGLISH/SPANISH]
New Superintendent Survey [ENGLISH/SPANISH]
As you probably know, Fillmore Unified School District is searching for a new superintendent to join our district by July 1st. We need your help right now to give input to the search firm about what type of person to recruit.
On the Fillmore Unified School District website home page under the heading INFORMATION is the heading SUPERINTENDENT SEARCH. Clicking on SUPERINTENDENT SEARCH brings you to a page with a hyperlink following the words English Survey or Encuesta en espanol. Clicking on that hyperlink provides one with an opportunity to provide input on the desired qualities and characteristics of the next superintendent.
Please take a few minutes to go on the FUSD website www.fillmoreusd.org and submit your survey by Sunday, May 2, 2021, if you want it to be considered.
Como probablemente sepa, el Distrito Escolar Unificado de Fillmore está buscando un nuevo superintendente para unirse a nuestro distrito antes del 1 de julio. Necesitamos su ayuda ahora mismo para brindar información a la empresa de búsqueda sobre qué tipo de persona contratar.
En la página de inicio del sitio web del Distrito Escolar Unificado de Fillmore, bajo el encabezado INFORMACIÓN, está el encabezado BÚSQUEDA DE SUPERINTENDENTE. Al hacer clic en BÚSQUEDA DE SUPERINTENDENTES, accederá a una página con un hipervínculo que sigue a las palabras Encuesta en inglés o Encuesta en español. Al hacer clic en ese hipervínculo, uno tiene la oportunidad de proporcionar información sobre las cualidades y características deseadas del próximo superintendente.
Tómese unos minutos para visitar el sitio web del FUSD www.fillmoreusd.org y envíe su encuesta antes del domingo 2 de mayo de 2021, si desea que se la considere.
Science Department Meeting
Science teachers department meeting discussing the power of adding humor to curricula to improve information retention.
Earth Day Condor Chicks
Learning about California Condor chicks and why they continue to choose to nest in Hopper Canyon between Fillmore and Piru. Switching to copper bullets will help save the Condors from extinction so Fillmore Middle School students are brainstorming ways to get the message out to hunters.
Pedro Ramirez is Certificated Staff of the Week
Congratulations Pedro Ramirez! You are Fillmore Middle School’s Certificated Staff of the Week. Thank you for working so hard to help all our students and staff feel supported, as well as being so flexible and offering a helping hand and making sure all paperwork is complete and thorough.
Science 7
Environmental Literacy: We had an excellent distance learning Science 7 class conversation about sustainable ecotourism. Fillmore Middle School students shared their ecotourism ideas by designing and building a Channel Islands National Park representative world in Minecraft. Students presented their individual or team Channel Islands National Park worlds, in class, as a screen capture video tour or PowerPoint presentation. Excellent job everyone!