Welcome back!

This is the official welcome back blog post- I hope the summer break provided time for relaxation and recreation and you're now refreshed and excited for another school year.
I am happy to announce that we have many new teachers joining our Coconino family and I especially want to welcome these new colleagues.

Welcome back everyone!!!

You will find below some important information to help get us started for the new school year.  Please pay close attention to the details about the upcoming multi-agency safety drill.

 Teacher workdays begin this year with the 301 Day on Wednesday, August 7.

AUGUST 7   Optional 301 Day
The theme of the day will be "Common Core Close Reading" This is for all teachers with the exception of math teachers who are invited to attend the Common Core Phase 2 math training at the Family resource Center.

Those who participate in the August 7^th training day will earn six 301 hours (paid at the rate of $50/hour) and will also learn valuable skills that can be immediately implemented and applied in their classrooms. Hours and locations are included below:

-       8 am – 3:30 pm (with 1.5 hours for lunch on your own, this is a total of 6 seat hours)

-       Report to CHS and sign-in 

-       Math teachers for grades 6-12, report to the Christensen Professional Learning Center

-       Please bring your laptops and your phase 1 notebooks for ELA (or phase 1 for math if you are a secondary math teacher). All other materials will be provided. If you have not completed phase 1 training, don’t worry! We will have more offerings during the school year and your facilitators on 8/7 will make sure you have what you need to be successful on this 301 training day. 

AUGUST 8  Teacher Work Day

8 am - Superintendent Hickman All District Welcome Back Opening Address @ CHS. 

9 am - 11am CHS Teachers who are not involved in district meetings have this time to work in classrooms.

11am Lunch on your own.  CHS will prepare for multi-agency safety drill. If you do not plan to participate in the event as an observer, you can stay and work in your classrooms, but remember  between12:00 pm and 2:00pm you will need to stay locked in your classroom. You are welcome to meet outside of the building on the afternoon of the 8th if you wish. Street access to CHS will be restricted to emergency vehicles only from 11:30am-2:00pm.  The drill is expected to conclude around 2:30 at which time access to CHS will resume as normal.  

12 noon CHS will be in lock down and the safety drill will begin in the North End of the building. The drill will involve numerous emergency response agencies as well as the Coconino County Emergency Response Team (CERT). All official participants in the building will be wearing vests. Please be aware that anyone on or around campus during the drill, not wearing a vest, will become a suspect and will become involved in the drill.  Once the drill begins we will be in a hard lock down.  If you choose to stay in your room you may work at your desk and you may use computers, but cell phone and land line phone use will not be permitted. All CHS Teachers are invited to participate. You can be in the north end of the building and become an active participant as the drill plays out, or you can observe the event from the observation post in the bleachers of the main gym. 

AUGUST 9 Teacher Work Day

7:30 am ~ CHS New Teacher Orientation. 

7:30am ~ Prep time in classrooms

11:30am-12:20pm ~ Lunch for everyone in the cafeteria

12:30pm ~ CHS Welcome back greeting in the mini-theater

1:00-3:00pm ~ Panther University for all CHS Faculty 

Please note ~ Panther University will take the place of the opening faculty meeting.  We will have our actual back to school  faculty meeting during our first early release Wednesday, August 14 1:00-2:45PM.  Please mark your calendars. 

      I am excited to embark on a new school year.  I have enjoyed reading your professional growth plans and am, as always, moved by your professionalism and dedication to helping and inspiring our students to become intelligent, productive and successful members of society. You truly make a difference and I look forward to working together and supporting your professional growth goals. If you have not submitted your CHS Professional Learning Plan, please do so by Friday, August 9.  We will be using these plan to help guide your observations and evaluations for this school year. 

Welcome back, see you soon!

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