Update~October 28-November 1, 2013

Celebrating Success
Not only do we have a school full of excellent teachers, we have a school full of heroes. I cannot thank you enough for the quick response to Joleen's call for help last week when a fight broke out in front of school. I was deeply touched to see so many teachers swiftly uniting and heading out to help. Thank you everyone!  This is just one of the many reasons, I am so proud to be the principal of Coconino High school.
A special thank you to Carrie Johnson and team for all your efforts to ensure a smooth round of AIMS. Great job, thank you!

Law Related Education 
Another point of light at CHS is Officer Ed Vesley. Ed's position is grant funded and although he does many things, his primary responsibility is to teach law related information to our students. In order to for us to keep the funding we have to be sure Ed is visiting classrooms and working directly with students. Please contact Ed to schedule time for him to teach in your classroom.

Mix it up
On Wednesday, October 30, CHS is participating in Mix It UP at Lunch Day.  This is a nationwide day of encouraging all of us to set aside stereotypes we may have, step out of our comfort zone, and sit with someone new for lunch.  Please help support this by talking it up with your students.  Mix It Up is October 30 at CHS. FOR Club is coordinating logistics and advertising, LINKS are dining in, and Student Council is including Mix It Up at Lunch in their Spirit Week calendar of events!!!

Halloween 
It is fine if students want to come to school in costume, but dress code still applies. Please share this with your students. Full face paint and hats will not be permitted. If you are planning to dress in costume please help set the example, please do not wear hats or head coverings etc. Thank you in advance for your support and cooperation.

Dates to Remember

• 10/28 CHS S3 Mtg 2:50pm Room 211
• 10/29 District wide S3 Retreat all day.  SZ out of the building. 
• 10/29 Volleyball @home v. Cortez
• 10/30 Progress Report grades due
• 10/30 Mix it up at lunch day
• 10/30 Volleyball at FHS
• 10/31 Pep Assembly 1:20pm
• 11/1 Varsity Football v. FHS @ the Skydome 7:30pm

Update October 21-25, 2013

Celebrating Success
The impromptu College Fair was a success.  We had about two hundred students mingling and asking thoughtful questions with college reps on Thursday.  Thank you everyone for your flexibility and a special thank you to our counseling secretary, Denise VanWoerkom for organizing this important event.
And...woo hoo! Congratulations to our Panther Special Olympics Softball Team who took home a gold medal this weekend. Way to go Panthers!

Exciting News

Phase one of the implementation of mobile devices for the secondary level is in the near future. After several meetings, focused discussion and comparison of both the Chromebook and iPad features, the iPad was selected as the device for implementation at the secondary level.  

F.U.S.D. middle and high schools will be receiving several full ipad carts (with 30 ipads on each cart) this year. The lingering question is which departments will be on the receiving end during phase 1 implementation?  If you have an interest in participating in the first roll out, please let me know. 

AIMS this week

Reminder...this is AIMS week. All 11th and 12th grade students who have not yet passed will test this week.

Tues 22nd ~ Writing
Wed 23rd ~ Reading
Th 24th ~ Math

Please share your vote of confidence with our students and encourage them to do their best. 

Thursdays 

Just so you know...nothing unusual this week, but looking ahead

October 31 ~ Annual pep assembly during Pathways (CHS v FHS Friday, Nov 1)

November 7 ~ Senior meeting with Balfour during Pathways

Heads up

This is Coconino's year to go through the accreditation process. This requires schools to critically evaluate their vision, strategies, priorities, leadership, and programs and resources.  The process of earning and maintaining accreditation requires that we form various committees to examine our school system and develop goals and related actions. Our accreditation review will take place the week after spring break, but we will begin forming committees in December and our work will begin after winter break. I will let you all know what the focus will be for each committee as soon as I know, but wanted to give you a heads up. 

PBIS

Raffle time ~ This Friday, October 25 the Pawsitive Panther Raffle winners will be announced. 

Dates to Remember

10/22, 23, 24 ~ AIMS 

10/22 Volleyball @ home v. Monument Valley 

10/25 V FB @ home v. Mingus

Update October 14-18, 2013

Celebrating Success
Kudos to our CHS English Teachers who spent hours poring over hundreds of student essays last week. This productive project was a collaborative effort to read, review, discuss and analyze student work in order to calibrate and validate the English Common Assessments. Noble work indeed!!!

The LipDub...Epic! Thank you to Mr. Shaddy, Studio 340 and everyone for making this happen. If you haven't seen this yet click HERE to watch this fun video.

Extraordinary things happen when you have extraordinary people.

PBIS
Panther Power Play...Attention1st hour prep Teachers.  Please join us for our first Panther Power Play on Monday. When the first bell rings, please be in the hallways encouraging students to get to class on time.

SY 2014-15
The FUSD Governing Board approved calendar # 3.  This is the one where students return on Thursday, August 7, we'll have two days off in October and snow make up days spread out at the end of the year.

Observations
Just a reminder to you all to be sure to read the rubric for each evaluation indicator prior to your formal observation.

Faculty Meeting
We have a faculty meeting this Wednesday at 1:30pm in the Mini- Theater.

College Fair Thursday
This Thursday, October 17 CHS is hosting 23 colleges for our College Fair. Study Hall Teachers who have seniors are invited to take your study hall class to the cafeteria during Study Hall.

Dates to Remember
10/14 VB @ home v. Payson
10/15 VB @ home v. FHS
10/16 PSATs all morning
10/16 Faculty Meeting 1:45-2:45 
10/18 NO SCHOOL 
          Varsity FB @ home v. Campo Verde 

Have a great four day week!

Update October 7-11, 2013

Celebrating Success
Oh my goodness what a great Panther homecoming week. Thanks everyone for your flexibility and good spirit last week. Thank you to James Ingram  and Paul Pavlich for preparing the delicious taco lunch that helped us make it through the wild week. Thank you to Gaby and Student Council for organizing each and every event during this high spirited homecoming.  Thank you to Dean Shaddy and the student production crew for an amazing day of filming...we are all anxiously awaiting the debut of the Coconino High school LipDub. Congratulations to our well loved homecoming dedicatees Daniel VanderValk and Karlyn Heilman.  Finally thank you to all the homecoming dance chaperones, who each deserve a medal of honor...
I hope you all got some rest this weekend.

This Week
Pretty quiet...End of first quarter and the 40th day of the school year is this Wednesday, October 9 -We must be having a lot of fun because time is surely flying by.

Looking ahead

• PSAT testing will take place in the small gym on Wednesday, October 16,  8:00am-until finished which means ending times will vary. We have about 130 students signed up to take the PSAT. 
• AIMS for all juniors and seniors who have not yet passed and also for those who wish to attempt to exceed will take place in two weeks 

          Tuesday, October 22 ~ Writing

          Wednesday, October 23 ~ Reading

          Thursday, October 24 ~ Math 

Please keep an eye out for an email from Carrie Johnson with the names of all students who will be required to take AIMS. 

PLCs
Thanks for sharing your PLC notes. It is great to see progress with everything from developing benchmark assessments, identifying students who need extra time and support and sharing effective lessons and strategies. Keep up the good work!

PBIS 
A little reminder from the Panther Tracks Team...
Remember teaching behavior is not apart from teaching, but rather a part of teaching

Hope you have a nice, calm academic week