Week 1 review and looking ahead...

Thank you all for a great week!  Looking back over the first week of the new school year I see lots of signs of a great year ahead. Thanks for the positive feedback about our motivational speaker, Mark Sharonbrough. The students appeared to be captivated and a few of us even shared some belly laughs. Thanks Theresa, Krista, Gaby and Sally for making that happen. Thanks too for helping our new Freshman Class, all 412 of them, feel welcome and comfortable at CHS. The first two days together as a staff weren't too shabby either. I enjoyed observing you working together to define who you are as individual teachers and collectively as a faculty. Thanks Senor Pavlich for feeding us all with your famous Pavlich BBQ. A special thank you too to our Student council for the back -to- school breakfast and to the Varsity Football players for helping us welcome our students and giving out schedules. And one last thank you for now,  thank you to everyone who helped make this year's golf tournament the best ever. You were out there in full force to help. Erin Moate and the Dance Line kept smiling and welcoming all the players as they kept track of raffle ticket sales and matched the prizes (It was a sophisticated set up).  Yes, it truly takes a village...

What's next? Our priority this week will be to complete student registration to make sure each student has a schedule of classes. Then, go through the master board with a fine tooth comb to balance class loads.  Some of you have reported class sizes of 40 +.  We have to find out if these are actual bodies in these classes or names on a roster.   It looks like we will be opening an addition section of Eng 9, US History and Sculptures and Ceramics thus far.  Please let your students know that we are working on this and that CHS has about 100 more students than expected this year.

In case you're looking for me I thought I should let you know that I hope to be outside in the morning before school and in the afternoon at dismissal daily.  I will also be visiting classrooms during first hour as regularly as possible and  I plan to join George, Cris and Steve for lunch duty. 

Common Grade Book Question: Why do we have a default  points?  Thiis is the response back from Brad Kamradt 1) the Genesis system requires default points -- to leave them blank or enter a zero will trigger the system to set default points for any given assignment type to 1 point! -- AND 2) teachers are free to override default points for any  assignment in their gradebook.

Reminders: 

• We are on a bell schedule.  Please do not dismiss students before the end of the period signaled by the bell.  This will help greatly in our efforts to keep the halls clear.
• September 1~ Prep hour meetings.
• September 14~ Open House
• Good excuse for a faculty night out: Complimentary Subway Sandwich meal at the new Subway  Cafe across the street in the cedar Shopping center between 4:00 -8:00 PM for CHS Faculty and a guest.

Thanks again for a great first week! Hope week two is equally as good.