Celebrating Success: Whew! First round of AIMS is behind us. The testing atmosphere was highly academic and our students took the AIMS very seriously. Thank you counselors for organizing and administering the exams and thank you also to the teachers who helped proctor.
Another "Point of light" for CHS...Last week our JROTC Cadets participated in an annual competition at Hopi High School honoring fallen Az. soldier Lori Piestewa. I am proud to announce that our JROTC Panther Battalion (made up of four teams) took first place in every event of the competition. Congratulations to the cadets and their instuctors Sergeant Alves and Chief Workman.
And more good news...Last Monday a large group of CHS students led by CHS Impact President, Dominic Fontino, spoke at the Flagstaff City Council meeting. The topic of the presentation was a commitment to clean, non alcohol related events for high school students. These students so proudly represented CHS and received accolades from the city council members for their professionalism and well articulated message. Thank you Kelly Koelfgen and Mike Vogler for leading our CHS Impact group.
FYI: Monday is the official beginning of our our winter sports season. Congratulations to our coaches and student athletes for a successful fall sports season. Go Panthers!
PLCs this week: We will meet in the mini-theatre on Wednesday 11/2/2011 at 7:30 A.M. Our PLC focus will begin with a presentation on Positive Behavior Intervention Support (PBIS) by the ADE. We will have some time to discuss PBIS and then vote on whether or not we would like to proceed with a plan for PBIS at CHS. Continental Breakfast provided (Thanks for starting the trend, math department).
Please be prompt.
Halloween: Even though we announced to students that face paint and head coverings would not be permitted at school, I anticipate there will be one or two students who show up in full costume on Monday. If you happen to encounter such students kindly ask them to remove the head covering or go to the washroom to wash off the face paint. Please only send students to the RTR or the front office if they are uncooperative or disobedient. Thank you!
Dates to Remember:
11/1 SZ at educational symposium all day
11/2 Delayed start PLC in the mini theater 7:30 AM
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Sunday, October 23, 2011
What's up?
Celebrating Success: Congratulations to the S3 Grant Team, Panther Power and CHS! Our Safe and Supportive Schools (S3) action plan was officially approved by ADE last week. A special thank you to Sally Ake, Krista Dobosh, Eric Ashcroft, Diane Sorden, Kelly Koelfgen, Kelly Hamilton, Cris Ray and Ben Proctor for your hard work and dedication to help CHS become a more safe and supportive school. We will share details of the action plan with you at our upcoming faculty meeting on November 2nd.
The Buzz about Common Core: It is interesting that one of the hot topics in educational politics is Common Core and College and Career Readiness Standards, yet in the walls of the schools it seems like a remote discussion. When you have a few minutes you might be interested in reading about some highlights and important information related to these standards click here.
AIMS: For important details please read the green paper that you should have received in your mail box last week. A list of students taking the AIMS was sent in an e-mail by Karen Hughes last week as well. Remember Tues, Wed and Thurs will be combined lunch 11:50-12:20 PM. Thank you in advance for your understanding, cooperation and support.
Invitation: You are invited to the October Strategy of the Month with Tricia Roach. This month the strategy will focus on helping students understand academic vocabulary specific to your content area and using online tools designed to reinforce academic vocabulary. Thursday, October 27, 2:30-3:00 p.m. in the Panther Cafe.
FYI:
Dates to Remember:
10/24 Panther Power mtg 3:00 PM
10/25, 26, 27 AIMS for Seniors needing to pass and Juniors wishing to improve
10/27 Belfour Company at CHS all day
10/27 Volleyball v. FHS @ FHS
10/28 Chaperone debrief (Homecoming dance)
The Buzz about Common Core: It is interesting that one of the hot topics in educational politics is Common Core and College and Career Readiness Standards, yet in the walls of the schools it seems like a remote discussion. When you have a few minutes you might be interested in reading about some highlights and important information related to these standards click here.
AIMS: For important details please read the green paper that you should have received in your mail box last week. A list of students taking the AIMS was sent in an e-mail by Karen Hughes last week as well. Remember Tues, Wed and Thurs will be combined lunch 11:50-12:20 PM. Thank you in advance for your understanding, cooperation and support.
Invitation: You are invited to the October Strategy of the Month with Tricia Roach. This month the strategy will focus on helping students understand academic vocabulary specific to your content area and using online tools designed to reinforce academic vocabulary. Thursday, October 27, 2:30-3:00 p.m. in the Panther Cafe.
FYI:
- Because of FERPA Law students are not permitted to access the teacher version of Genesis. Teachers, please do not allow your teacher aides take role or enter grades in Genesis.
- We are just about ready to release ParentVue in Genesis. We are planning a parent info night about this program in early November (Exact date TBD soon).
- New Safety Initiative: High Schools are eligible for a bonus of $200.00 per quarter if we have zero accidents. We could receive an additional $500.00 if we have zero accidents for the year.
10/24 Panther Power mtg 3:00 PM
10/25, 26, 27 AIMS for Seniors needing to pass and Juniors wishing to improve
10/27 Belfour Company at CHS all day
10/27 Volleyball v. FHS @ FHS
10/28 Chaperone debrief (Homecoming dance)
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Panther Pride!
Celebrating Success: Have you heard the CHS choir this year? Congratulations to our choir students who came together for their first choir performance of the year last week. Beautiful voices eliciting lots of smiles from the audience, good stuff!!!
Congratulations also to our band who received superior status at the NAU Band Exhibition Day on Saturday at the Sky Dome.
A gift of time: Please note the change of agenda for our upcoming PLC Day on 10/19/201. Because several teachers on our CHS leadership Team will be in Tucson visiting Cienega High school this Wednesday, we will work in our smaller collaborative teams instead of meeting in our large School wide Goal PLCs. This means you will have time to work in your subject area PLCs again looking at the most recent student marks, answering a few guided questions and discussing your team's action steps. You will also have a little time to work on your own in your classrooms.
FYI: This Friday 10/21/2011 we play FHS at the NAU Dome. Tradition is we have a pep assembly here at Coco to support our team. We will maintain the tradition, but with a sort of abbreviated pep assembly. As you know we are working on maintaining a serious learning environment with as few disruptions as possible. Rather than changing the entire day's schedule we have decided to shorten 8th hr on Friday. I promise not to make a habit of this. The pep assembly will begin at 1:50 P.M in the large gym. Our student Council assures us that not only will they encourage our students to support our Panthers on the football field, they will also remind our CHS students about the importance of passing the AIMS and their hope of becoming an "A" school. It was hard to say "no" to that.
Teacher Work Room: Please do not send your student aides to the mailroom to make copies. The copy machine should be used by teachers only and the teacher's lounge is intended for teachers only as well.
Website Updates: Thank you to those of you who recently updated your staff page on the CHS website. It is important that we have current information on our school's web pages. I have had calls from parents about outdated information and in all honestly it doesn't look very professional to have "old" newsletters and other stale information on our site. I realize this is time consuming and one more thing to stay on top of. If you need help with this Jen Parker is willing to help, she just needs to hear from you.
Thanks everybody!!!
Congratulations also to our band who received superior status at the NAU Band Exhibition Day on Saturday at the Sky Dome.
A gift of time: Please note the change of agenda for our upcoming PLC Day on 10/19/201. Because several teachers on our CHS leadership Team will be in Tucson visiting Cienega High school this Wednesday, we will work in our smaller collaborative teams instead of meeting in our large School wide Goal PLCs. This means you will have time to work in your subject area PLCs again looking at the most recent student marks, answering a few guided questions and discussing your team's action steps. You will also have a little time to work on your own in your classrooms.
FYI: This Friday 10/21/2011 we play FHS at the NAU Dome. Tradition is we have a pep assembly here at Coco to support our team. We will maintain the tradition, but with a sort of abbreviated pep assembly. As you know we are working on maintaining a serious learning environment with as few disruptions as possible. Rather than changing the entire day's schedule we have decided to shorten 8th hr on Friday. I promise not to make a habit of this. The pep assembly will begin at 1:50 P.M in the large gym. Our student Council assures us that not only will they encourage our students to support our Panthers on the football field, they will also remind our CHS students about the importance of passing the AIMS and their hope of becoming an "A" school. It was hard to say "no" to that.
Teacher Work Room: Please do not send your student aides to the mailroom to make copies. The copy machine should be used by teachers only and the teacher's lounge is intended for teachers only as well.
Website Updates: Thank you to those of you who recently updated your staff page on the CHS website. It is important that we have current information on our school's web pages. I have had calls from parents about outdated information and in all honestly it doesn't look very professional to have "old" newsletters and other stale information on our site. I realize this is time consuming and one more thing to stay on top of. If you need help with this Jen Parker is willing to help, she just needs to hear from you.
Thanks everybody!!!
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Update
Celebrating Success: I am happy and proud to announce that one of our CHS Faculty members has been recognized by Stanford University as an outstanding educator who has made a significant impact on the intellectual, academic, social and personal development of a Stanford student. Congratulations to Christine Sapio for earning this honorable recognition from Stanford University.
Whoop Whoop! Homecoming week is behind us. Thank you to everybody for making this 2011 Homecoming week a successful one. A special thank you to Diane Sorden, Gaby Garcia and Student Council for a great parade, pep assembly and dance. Your efforts to make this a full week full of CHS spirit and Panther pride is appreciated by all. Congrats to our Panther Football and Volleyball teams for their wins last week!
Also...Thank you teachers for your work during our collaborative team time. The responses to our five PLC questions will help drive us forward in our efforts to create the best CHS learning environment possible.
And another thank you...Per your requests, our PTO has purchased a year's supply of butcher paper and a rack to house the paper for your use. And, in case you haven't heard Lydia Hemphill secured a donation of a beautiful baby grand piano for our CHS music programs. The instrument is quite exquisite and greatly appreciated by our "music" teachers and students. Please stop by Doug Riddle's room and take a peak.
Good News from Tricia Roach and our Secondary Intervention Team:
Our team consists of Ella Mase (Home-School Coordinator), Leslie Grabel (ELL Specialist), LaShia Scharfenberger (Native American Academic Advisor), Tricia Roach (Instructional Coach), and Stacie Zanzucchi (Principal). We have chosen 30 students (9-12) with whom to begin work.
This week should be relatively calm...
Whoop Whoop! Homecoming week is behind us. Thank you to everybody for making this 2011 Homecoming week a successful one. A special thank you to Diane Sorden, Gaby Garcia and Student Council for a great parade, pep assembly and dance. Your efforts to make this a full week full of CHS spirit and Panther pride is appreciated by all. Congrats to our Panther Football and Volleyball teams for their wins last week!
Also...Thank you teachers for your work during our collaborative team time. The responses to our five PLC questions will help drive us forward in our efforts to create the best CHS learning environment possible.
And another thank you...Per your requests, our PTO has purchased a year's supply of butcher paper and a rack to house the paper for your use. And, in case you haven't heard Lydia Hemphill secured a donation of a beautiful baby grand piano for our CHS music programs. The instrument is quite exquisite and greatly appreciated by our "music" teachers and students. Please stop by Doug Riddle's room and take a peak.
Good News from Tricia Roach and our Secondary Intervention Team:
This year, every Flagstaff USD secondary school has created a Secondary Collaborative Intervention Team (SCIT). The purpose of SCIT is to identify and work with those English Language Learners (ELLs), Fluent English Proficient (FEP) students, and Native American students who have not passed AIMS or who are having difficulty in your classes with academics and attendance. Funding for this program comes from already-existing monies in the budgets for ELL and Indian Education programs.
Our team consists of Ella Mase (Home-School Coordinator), Leslie Grabel (ELL Specialist), LaShia Scharfenberger (Native American Academic Advisor), Tricia Roach (Instructional Coach), and Stacie Zanzucchi (Principal). We have chosen 30 students (9-12) with whom to begin work.
It is our goal to support students in being successful in your classes and passing AIMS. Our intensive interventions will include:
• Meeting with students to identify problem areas, strengths, and goals;
• Observing students in your classrooms;
• Ongoing monitoring of student progress;
• Talking with parents about student issues;
• Talking with you, the teachers, to plan strategies to assist students in achieving your academic objectives;
• Identifying resources that help to meet specific student needs; and
• Maintaining data to assess the impact of our interventions.
You will soon receive a list of the 30 students in an email. Please expect a member of the team to be contacting you if a targeted student is in one of your classes. Together with you, we hope to truly make a difference for these kids. Thanks for your dedication to CHS students!
This week should be relatively calm...
- Monday~ SZ Out of the building in the afternoon for Admin Council
- Fall Choir Performance 7:30 PM Main Auditorium
- Wednesday~ SZ Out of the building for ADE Common Core Standards training
- PSATs in the cafeteria all morning PLEASE NOTE THERE WILL BE ONE COMBINED LUNCH , 2ND LUNCH. ( All students will go to 2nd lunch)
- Thursday~ Volleyball @ Home
- Friday~ Varsity Football @ Home
Policies and Procedures:
*The new keyless entry system will soon be taking the place of our old key system. You have probably noticed several of our entry doors no longer have actual key holes. If you have not made a trip to the District Office to receive your key card, you should do that ASAP. See Bondo with questions.
* Please remind students that our hallways are closed during lunch. Students may eat and socialize in the South Commons and Cafeteria. During inclement weather we will open the North Commons as well.
Have a great week!
Have a great week!
Monday, October 3, 2011
October 5~Delayed Start
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
PLC Schedule:
7:30 - 7:45 A.M. All meet in the Mini Theater
7:45 - 8:35 A.M. Collaborative Teams meet (Data Analysis)
8:45 - 9:30 A.M. Faculty Meeting in the Mini Theater
"Quality teaching is not an individual accomplishment, it is the result of a collaborative culture that empowers teachers to team up to improve student learning beyond what any one of them can achieve alone"
-Carroll (2009)
PLC Schedule:
7:30 - 7:45 A.M. All meet in the Mini Theater
7:45 - 8:35 A.M. Collaborative Teams meet (Data Analysis)
8:45 - 9:30 A.M. Faculty Meeting in the Mini Theater
"Quality teaching is not an individual accomplishment, it is the result of a collaborative culture that empowers teachers to team up to improve student learning beyond what any one of them can achieve alone"
-Carroll (2009)
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