Celebrating Success
How bout those softball players?...winning on the field and in the classroom. So proud of our girls. In case you missed it, here is the e-mail from Eric Freas- "I want to publicly congratulate the Varsity Softball team. With the last eligibility check coming out today, they have gone the entire season WITHOUT a single girl on the ineligible list for grades! Very nicely done. If you have varsity softball players in your classes, please let them to know, we are extremely proud of their accomplishments as a team!!"
Also, this just in...We are breaking all kinds of records. This weekend CHS students placed first, second and third at the city wide Jim Simmerman Poetry Contest. 1st place ~ Brenna Vanderheyden, 2nd place ~ Brianne Panico and 3rd place ~ Leah Weinzinger. CONGRATULATIONS!
LINKSCrew Film Festival ~ The first annual PBIS Film Festival was a great success. A special thank you to our Link Leaders and Sponsors for creating the videos and sharing them with us. Thank you to all the teachers who attended and provided feedback!
Proud to be a Panther!
FYI
Although we are following a regular bell schedule this week, we have numerous scheduling and testing related events that will require your cooperation and continued patience and understanding, Oh and flexibility...Please read carefully.
Course request/registration for SY 2015-16
April 29 and 30 are course request make up days for all students who have not yet been to the computer lab to request classes on-line. English teachers, please allow any student who was absent on registration day to come down to the library to complete the course request process on April 29th or April 30th.
*Please note, we will not be making an announcement. Following role call, teachers should check in with their classes and send students who did not register on-line to the library. Remember this is only for the students who were absent during the registration course request day.
ACT
All juniors who missed the pre-registration for ACTs must go to the cafeteria on Monday, 4/27 at the beginning of 2nd period to complete ACT pre-registration. All juniors will be taking the ACT exams this Tuesday, April 28 in the large gym. Students should go directly to the gym upon arrival to school. Please note that because the test is 3 hours long, ALL juniors will have 2nd lunch on Tuesday.
AZMerit
We have about 120 students who have not taken the AZMerit. Even though we are in a "held harmless" year and test scores will not be used for our school profile, or grade, the only accountability rule is that we must show a 95% rate for students taking the test. We will have an AzMerit make-up day on Friday, May 1. (Details forthcoming vis email)
AP Teachers only ~ AP Registration
All students who are planning to take an AP Exam must complete a test packet to be eligible to sit for the exam. Carrie Johnson has sent a list of students who plan to test to AP teachers. It is really important that AP teachers send these students to Carrie's office on Wed. 4/29 or Thurs.4/30, during your AP class period. Some have more than one AP test; they only need to pre-register once. Students absent on 4/29 and or 30 will be called on Friday, 5/1.
301 Vote
Don't forget to vote on next year's 301 proposed calendar. FUSD will be unable to proceed with the plan until 70% of 301-eligible faculty have voted.
Tech Peer Coaching
Heather Zigler has asked principals to encourage teachers to apply to be trained and equipped to become Technology Peer Coaches. You can contact Heather at 6129 for more information.
Essential Learning Outcomes (ELOs)
If you pause and think about CHS you'll see as I do, that our school is comprised of lots of very smart people, with lots of expertise. It is truly an exciting and stimulating community to belong, and especially exciting when this collective wisdom comes together to make decisions about how we can share knowledge, expertise and wisdom with our students. This is what happens in CTs. Our recent work to identify and agree on ELOs for each subject is one of many pieces of the complex puzzle known as teaching. Our students reap the benefits of this work and your efforts. Thank you all for spending the time to examine standards, scope and sequence and general curriculum to narrow down on the ELOs. I hope you found this task to be meaningful and worthwhile. Cris and I had a chance to read all of the ELOs and we learned a great deal about what students are expected to know and be able to do while at CHS. We will return your documents with our feedback and we look forward to the continued journey together in our quest to be the best school we can possibly be.
Dates to Remember (This week)
4/27-5/1 ~ Spirit Week ~ Monday P. J. Day
4/28 ~ All juniors will take the ACT
4/29, 30 ~ AP Registration
4/30 ~ Pep Assembly during Pathways 1:20-2:20pm
5/1 ~ AzMerit Make-ups
Around the Corner
CSAs, Ouch!!! Anyway, the CSA schedule is complete and all approved CSAs will be in Galileo, thanks Cris, Jen and Carrie for your work and collective brain power to put this all together.
5/5 ~ Prep Hour Meetings
5/13 ~ New Teacher Mtg 2:30pm Room 204
5/15 ~ Senior Service and Spring Bash (Agenda for the day will be sent out soon)
Word of the month: Flexibility
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