Celebrating Success
Yay! Thursday ASP and Pathways last week was the best yet. Thank you again for your perseverance, patience and flexibility.  Thank you also for your wisdom and enthusiasm in sharing ideas about how to increase opportunities for students to write at CHS. While we talked about the need to focus on writing  to increase student achievement as measured by the AIMS, the truth is, ultimately our goal is in line with many educational scholars such as Wineberg and Martin 2004, who state that the job of educators is to "To cultivate students abilities to participate in the literate activities that our society demands. This means teaching students to be informed readers, writers and thinkers."


Freshmen Pathways
A special thank you to Karen Hughes and Steve Craig and counselors for putting in motion the theme "Commit to Graduate".   Last week during Panther Pathways each of our Freshman students signed a giant diploma and made a pledge to graduate in 2016. This was a cool event.  Thank you to all the teachers who helped by hosting a group of freshmen and to all the support staff who organized and served over 400 root beer floats.
We will need teachers this week again to help with this Thursday's Freshmen Pathway event. We have 26 guest professionals from our community who will be visiting our freshmen and sharing their stories.  If you do not have an assigned Pathway, intervention or study hall please let me know. 

Whoop whoop again!!! Congrats to Frosh, JV and Varsity Football teams for another big "W".  Congrats also to Varsity Volleyball for their win this week as well.

Homecoming
This is CHS Homecoming week.  Remember we have combined lunch each day and the week concludes with the CHS Homecoming parade first pep assembly on Friday. For the pep assembly please accompany your students to the gym and sit, or stand, if you prefer, with your class. Click here for this week's bell schedule.

IEPs
I realize there are MANY meetings happening throughout the building and we are busier than ever, but I want to remind you what an important role you play in the IEP Process. Your input is very valuable and provides critical information for the success of our students. By law there needs to be a general education teacher at each of these meetings.  If you know in advance that you are unable to make an IEP meeting, please make contact with the case manager (either through email or in person) as far in advance as possible and give a report on the student's strengths and weaknesses. Your presence is preferred, but in your absence a written report will help the IEP team make appropriate decisions about each student's individual education plan.   Please know that when you are paged to attend a meeting, this is just a friendly reminder.

Thanks for your support of our special education students here at CHS!

This week at CHS
9/25 Volleyball @ FHS 
9/26 PLCs (Collaboration with colleagues in other schools or in regular CTs)
9/26 PBIS Mtg 3:00 PM
9/26 Frosh FB@ home
9/28 Homecoming Parade 1:00PM followed by Pep Assembly 1:20PM
9/28 Homecoming V Football game @ home v. Mingus

Trivia question continued...
Last week the question was what does the number 37 represent? The same question again but the number has changed. What does the number 30 represent?