CELEBRATING SUCCESS...
Wow, what a week! And, how bout them Panthers? The most talked about news around town is the city championship upset, woohoo Panthers! if you haven't heard our Panthers beat the Eagles Friday night in the Football City Championship game. Click here to read the article in the Daily Sun. Congratulations to Coach Smith, his coaching staff and, of course, our Varsity Football Players.
The pre-game show with our amazing band, cheerleaders, dance team and student council, helped set the tone for the big win, thank you to all who helped showcase CHS on Friday night.
Speaking of showcase, congratulations are in order, also for our very own CTE Department who showcased our school on Wednesday. Our CTE students, teachers and programs really shined for the 30 plus community leaders who came to CHS last week to learn more about CTE, way to go team!
There's more...
The Career and College Day was a smashing success as well, thank you to the counselors and Kira Blair for the behind the scenes hard work to bring and host 40 colleges or post-secondary opportunities for our CHS students.
And more...Last week Russ Randall was recognized by the NAU Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and received an award for being the 2017 outstanding community partner. Great work Russ, congratulations!
One last note here, the halls and doors are awesome! Thank you, Laura Locke and Interior design students for adorning our hallways with college knowledge and teachers thanks teachers for joining in and decorating your doors for the college application campaign.
WELCOME TO THE PANTHER FAMILY...
Please join me in a warm CHS welcome to our new math teacher, Kristina Hover. Kristina is teaching geometry and we are fortunate to have her here at CHS. Welcome, Kristina!
HALLWAYS AT LUNCH...
Historical Perspective
Six years ago our halls were open during the lunch periods. Students roamed, conversed (often loudly), ate, drank, stood at doorways waiving at their friends who were in class, played music, etc. The learning environment was disrupted and we knew we needed to make a change. The decision was made to close the hallways at lunch. We knew in order to make this change we would need additional manpower to help monitor the halls, so we assigned lunch duty attendants. We also asked that teachers who were expecting students to their classrooms at lunch would give students a pass. This seemed to work for a few years, but for some reason, the passes idea has deteriorated. The hallways are still closed and monitored and the only way to know if students are supposed to be in the hall heading to, or coming from a teacher's classroom, a meeting, study hall etc, is if they have a pass. We have discovered that more often than not when students don't have a pass, but they say the teacher knows they are coming, they are not completely honest. (we have accompanied students to the classes, and the teachers were not aware the student was coming to their room). If they have a pass, it makes it simple, no argument, no confrontation and just all around more pleasant and positive for all.
Becky is creating a lunch pass template which will be in your boxes this week. Feel free to use this template or create your own, but please issue passes at for lunchtime visitors. Thank you!
LAUNCH FLAGSTAFF...
Several CHS teachers made to one or more of the recent films, during the Launch Flagstaff Film Festival, and found the film to be excellent and relevant. The next school related project and film series are regarding the impact of personal technology devices on learning. The date for the next film festival has not been confirmed but looks like late January. This film, Screenagers, is relevant for us and a topic of conversation in 90% of the conversations regarding student motivation in school. If you have a couple of minutes, I highly recommend you take a peek at his movie trailer. I will share details about the upcoming film festival and related works as I learn more. Click here for the trailer to the movie Screenagers
WHAT'S UP THIS WEEK?...
10/31 ~ College Application Campaign Day
*Halloween note ~ Each year, some students come to school in costume. Please remind students that that full face paint, masks and head dress or head adornments, such a cat ears, rabbit ears etc., are not permitted while at school, even on Halloween.
NEXT WEEK...
11/7 ~ Prep hour meetings
Press on! Panther Strong!
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