Update~ Nov 4-8, 2013

Celebrating Success
Yay! $1000.00 for CHS and a Pizza party for all... CHS came out the winner in the month long KAFF Country Friday Night "Likes" competition. The best part of the contest was the opportunity for air time for CHS students to talk about all the great things happening at our school. Our students did a fantastic job and shared their Panther Pride with our community! Way to go Coco... We plan to use the money to host more combined lunch events and to support some building wide art projects in the near future.

When I closed my eyes this Saturday at Ardrey Auditorium, I felt as though I was listening to the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.   Our CHS orchestra performed three beautiful pieces at NAU this weekend.  Congratulations to this talented and gifted group of young musicians and their extraordinary conductor,  Jennifer Hamilton.

A special thank you to our brave teacher, Jim McNease, who gallantly "Took one for the team"  during Thursday's pep assembly. Thanks Jim and Panther dudes!

PLCs
Collaborative Team successes abound. Thank you everyone for sharing your team notes and information about your progress. It was great to hear that our Biology department met together to analyze student scores from their first quarter benchmark assessment. In so doing they discovered lower than expected results. They formulated a plan for re-teaching and to spend time together to develop another formative assessment half way through the quarter. This is true collaboration and their students are benefiting greatly from their efforts as evidenced in the recent mark analysis.

Secondary I-pad rollout
Based on input from the departments who expressed interest in participating in the Phase 1 rollout, Social Studies and Science have been selected.

This week
Nada! We'll plan to buckle down with no anticipated disruptions, well almost none...Some of our 9th grade English students will be going on a field trip on Thursday. You should be receiving an email from their teachers early this week.

Hope you have a tranquil week!