Sometimes it's the little things...
One CHS Teacher shared: One of the successes I wanted to share was when I reluctantly returned a phone message from a parent. To my surprise the parent wanted to tell me that this year has been rough on her son at home; the parents separated and they had other personal struggles. But, school and particularly this teacher's class had been a bright spot for her son. She just wanted the teacher to know how grateful she was that her son learned a lot and really enjoyed being in this teacher's class. Thanks for sharing Jonathan Edwards Jr. :)
Another teacher dropped a note off on my desk: "We have so many great students in this school, and that is what keeps making it fun and all worth it for me. When you are having one of those days, and you need to take five minutes and renew your spirit, go find any one of these kids, pull them out and just say hi. This year's 'all-star list' will make your day." The list included 9 students and a brief description of why they are so extraordinary.
Thanks for Sharing Paul Pavlich
And one more for this week, shared by Craig Howdeshell
Panther Strong!
A note from Assistant Superintendent Mary K Walton regarding Grading and Reporting
For the past nine months secondary teachers and administrators have been researching and reflecting upon grading practices with FUSD. Feedback was gathered regarding the three categories: Performance 20%, Measurement 60% and Practice 20% and it was discovered that the system was not meeting the diverse needs of content areas as well as creating a lack of understanding of what belonged in each category. In response to these findings we have taken a small transitional step toward a better representation of student academic progress reporting. For the 2016-17 School Year the categories in GradeBook will now be represented as:
80% = Measurement
20% = Practice
This change will provide the opportunity to gauge the appropriateness of this transitional step. Our continued grading conversations next year will include percentages and suitability of categories.
Thank you for your input and we welcome your continued feedback ~ Mary K. Walton
CHS Student Award Recognition
Thursday, May 12 is our annual Awards Recognition Ceremony. This year the ceremony will be held at Cromer Stadium during combined lunch. We will make an announcement to dismiss award recipients at 10:45am on Thursday. These students have received an invitation by mail and will also have a pass indicating they are award recipients. It is likely the ceremony will go a little into 7th hour, so they will be a few minutes late. Click here for the list of award recipients and please join us in congratulating these outstanding CHS students.
Wind up, Wind Down
This week begins the end of year process for students.
- Locker Clean Out ~ Thursday, May 12 during 3rd period, students will clean out their lockers. At 9:00am, we will make an announcement asking all students to go to their locker. At 9:20am students will return to 3rd period. They will give their open lock and green sign out form to the 3rd period teacher and a designated student will deliver the locks and forms to Carrie in the bookstore.
- Awards Ceremony & Pizza Lunch ~ Thursday, May 12, 11:05am
- Casa Challenge ~ Friday, May 13 at 8:00am is the annual Citizens Against Substance Abuse Challenge. All Juniors and seniors will go to the main auditorium for this presentation. If you are a teacher of juniors or seniors during first period, please accompany your students to the main auditorium (The presentation should last 1 hour).
- Senior Service Day ~ Friday, May 13 is also our annual Senior Service Project day. All seniors will go to the cafeteria at 9:30am.
- Spring Bash & BBQ ~ All school event on Friday, May 13 at 1:05pm on the practice field. (please refer to schedule sent from Gaby Garcia on 5/5
- Prom ~ Saturday, May 14 at 8:00pm at Findley Volkswagon
X The TXT
Thursday, May 12 CHS will be hosting the X the TXT campaign presentation in the main auditorium during Pathways. Noah Stalvey will share the dangers and ramifications of distracted driving. The presentation will begin at 1:30pm. Please contact Amanda Stalvey if you are interested in attending with your 7th period Pathway class.
Clutter
Please remember to check the "Clutter" category in webmail on occasion. Evidently, for some mysterious reason, some important e-mails are being diverted to Clutter.
Have a wonderful week and press on!
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