First Week Success

We would love to thank our kids, parents, staff, and community for a great first week of school at CHS. Your efforts have made this week one of the best we've seen in education.

As we begin to enter week 2 you should start to see grades begin to form for your students. Please communicate with our staff at anytime if you have questions. Our belief is we must work as a team for your child's success. Great teamwork will help your child continue to grow every day in Carroll.

Please remember both entering and exiting the campus is a busy event. We have 1425 kids coming and going and some are new drivers. Please be respectful and slow as you drive near campus. In addition, please remember cell phones should not be present while driving. We will be sending out traffic announcements next week as our police will start to wrap up the time they've devoted to our entrance and exits at CHS.

Thank you again for a great first week and have a wonderful long weekend.

2014 Teacher of the Year

We would like to congratulate Mrs. Jennifer Wunderlich on the honor of being named the CHS Teacher of the Year and thank her for her dedication to the community and most importantly to all of our students. She pushes for excellence every day and this is our opportunity to provide her acknowledgement for her excellence.

The additional teachers nominated for CHS Teacher of the Year are:

Diane Bean, Special Education Teacher

Keri Brooke, Spanish Teacher
Shane Bybee, English Teacher
Dorothy Cassetta, Social Studies Teacher
Brett Pollock, Social Studies Teacher
Rhea Voelkle, Science Co-Teacher

Thank you to each of these teachers for striving to be excellent every day at CHS.

Meetings this Week!

We want to personally invite you to join Carroll ISD for two very important events this week. 

S.P.A.R.K. Town Hall

You are invited to a powerful town hall meeting Monday, February 4 at 7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m. at Carroll Senior High School's auditorium. Parents and Students (Grades 7-12) are urged to attend.

S.P.A.R.K. wants to start a conversation in every home. Our children are growing up in a very difficult world where Anxiety and Depression are far too prevalent. 

Learn about TeensTogether: A program where teens have a safe place to come together. 

Questions to be addressed at the meeting include:

• How do parents and children talk to each other about painful subjects?
• How does a parent know when their child is struggling?
• What can your child do if they see a friend in crisis?

Th‑e Grant Halliburton Foundation will present this "Must-See” program. Please go to www.granthalliburton.org for more information.

 Our Schools, Our Voice Celebration Rally

Also, this Thursday evening, February 7 at Grapevine High School, we'd like our Dragons to come out for a community Celebration Rally for Public Schools. The program will feature student performances as well as brief comments from business, educator and parent representatives. Our district is co-hosting this event with the Grapevine-Colleyville and Keller school districts. Purchase a $10 t-shirt at any CISD school and wear it to the rally. You may want to carpool to help with on-site parking. Come see and hear the great things happening in our public schools and get resources for how you can stay informed, stay involved and be an advocate for our kids and our future! The program is from 7-8:30 p.m. in the main gym at Grapevine HS. 

 See you there!

CEF Change Week

With the Carroll Education Foundation (CEF) fundraiser on the horizon, CHS along with the rest of our CISD schools will be hosting a change week September 24-28, 2012. We certainly look forward to our students and staff participating. Let's see who has a little cowboy/cowgirl deep down inside.

Monday- Western Hat Day

Tuesday- Cowboy Boot Day

Wednesday- Western Shirt Day

Thursday- Big Belt Buckle Day

Friday- Always Dragon Spirit Day

 

The CHS class collecting the most money will receive a Chick Fil A party. In addition, CEF will match all funds collected, up to $500. Let's make a difference through CEF.

DMN Article from CHS

Please take a moment to review the following article Mr. Bybee, CHS GT English teacher, published in the Dallas Morning News. Mr. Bybee is an amazing teacher and sharing his wealth of information with everyone outside of CHS.

DMN Bybee Article

Thank You

Our administrative staff would like to thank all of our students, parents and employees for your actions during our Tornado Warning on Tuesday. Each of our students efficiently moved to the locations directed and they were polite at the same time. In addition, or parents were very understanding of our need to keep safety a priority and stayed in a proper location inside CHS. Finally thank you teachers for working to get kids situated and being very patient.

While we have items we have identified to help this process move more efficiently in the future we are proud of our work.

EOC English Days 1 & 2 Over

CHS would like to thank our amazing Freshmen for their great job during this new round of statewide testing. Your work was amazing and your dedication was evident in every room we entered.

Thank you to our parents for getting our Freshmen here on time, I believe in 2 days we had 4 late students. Students...this means you can be here on time everyday with this effort.

Finally thank you to our ELA teachers for your hard work, your dedication toward preparing for the new test was seen by all. Our kids haven't mentioned anything but being prepared.

Email Concerns

Carroll ISD continues to have trouble with inbound and outbound external emails. Correspondences we are sending outside the district or those that we are trying to receive from someone outside the district are not going through.

We've been notified that it will likely be another 24 hours without external email service while we wait for a part to be delivered and installed. Please plan accordingly.

Thank You CHS Dragons

Can you say amazing! We have said it a hundred times at CHS today. Our kids were amazing, our staff was amazing, and our parents were amazing. Today quite possibly might have been the best first day we've ever seen at CHS. You can't ask for a better place to spend every single day.

This DRAGON campus can't stop smiling.

2010-2011 Teacher of the Year

The CHS staff nominated individuals to be considered for this honor by writing a brief discription of why each teacher is so deserving of this honor. Based off of these nominations the following teachers were considered:

Joe Barton, Social Studies Teacher and Coach
Lyndee Hayes, French Teacher and Department Chair
Karen Otto, English Teacher and Department Chair
Kathy Prado, Social Studies Teacher and Department Chair
Donna Rafferty, Social Studies Teacher

The staff had the opportunity to vote for the teacher of their choice earlier this week and identified Mrs. Kathy Prado to represent CHS this year. We would like to congratulate Mrs. Prado on this honor and thank her for her dedication to the community and most importantly to all of our students. She pushes for excellence every day and this is our opportunity to provide her acknowledgement for her excellence.

Pre Spring Break 2011 at CHS

Please check out our Carroll High School Facebook page for the most recent photos of our staff this week. Some people take their dressing up to a new level and others couldn't believe another teacher isn't a Disney fan (so they shower her room with Disney galore).

CISD Technology to be Down

While additional information will be released soon, we would like to remind all students, teachers, and parents CISD technology will be suspended during Spring Break 2011. The purpose for this will be the relocation of services to the stadium data center.

Beginning at 4:00 PM this Friday, the network will be turned off. We will lose our Internet, email, and phone system for this period of time. There will not email storage during this time or notifications of the lost emails. Once the system is turned back on we will let everyone know.

Please understand ths is necessary to lead us to proper usage of our technology needs. If you have any questions please phone Mr. Giamanco at CHS before Friday.

Ice Break Makes Return for 8/9/11 No School

Ice Break 2011

With our fourth day out of CHS we hope everyone has enjoyed your extra winter break. We will see everyone on Monday. Please be safe and enjoy the break.

If you can get out on Friday afternoon don't forget the ESPN special taking place at CSHS. We believe they will start to allow entrance after 3:00 PM.

Once Again...Schools Out Thursday

Judging by the ice I've seen at CHS we are hoping for some warmth on Thursday to allow us to return on Friday. We will post the A/B schedule tomorrow.

School Canceled

With the ice coming in overnight CHS and all activities were canceled for Tuesday and now Wednesday.

Please remember Thursday will be a B Day at CHS. We will add the two days into our calendar where they are currently listed on the calendar.

Be safe and we'll see everyone on Thursday.

2010 NCEA Higher Performing School

It is with great pleasure that we announce that Carroll High School is a 2010 NCEA Higher Performing School! We would like to offer our Congratulations to our students for their performance and a big thank you to our teachers for their commitment to excellence in education!

CHS was identified as Higher Performing based on the students' achievement on the spring 2010 Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills test.

First Semester Almost Over

As we complete our final exams today we will finish our first semester.  It has been absolutely amazing to see everyone at CHS work so well.

Our kids have had an amazing first semester and accomplished a variety of tasks.  Our students performed an amazing musical, they have debated all over the nation, they have accomplished a variety on the athletic fields and on the courts, finally they're the best students we could dream on having. I'm certain to believe the second semester will continue to produce more amazing triumphs. We are proud to believe they have and will Protect the Tradition.

Our faculty continues to take giant leaps every day.  As we move toward a new testing requirement. our faculty is continuing to redefine our curriculum and update our methods for assessment.  Please know this will always be a continuing process and our teachers will continue to work to provide an amazing education for our kids.  If anyone has questions we truly believe you need to speak with the teacher first and foremost.  We have the greatest teachers and believe they're the first cog to Excellence in Education.

Have a wonderful long weekend and look forward to an excellent second semester.

Make Education a Priority

Carroll ISD has joined various districts across Texas to encourage Texas Legislators to Make Education A Priority!

The district hopes to collect a letter and/or postcard for each student enrolled in Carroll ISD - 7,676 - to hand deliver to Austin during the 82 Legislative session. Please remember, all family members can sign the cards and/or write their own personal notes. We would also like to encourage everyone to send personal email to your friends & neighbors to encourage them to write. Every member of our community can do a postcard, an actual letter, or an email to: Every Child Counts.  CHS has a dropoff box in the office and others are located around the community. 

If you would like more specific information please click on: Make Education a Priority.

Dragon Tribune Update

We were just notified of the recent update for the Dragon Tribune.

We have a student whose sport is polo that was interviewed for this issue. You can catch up with the latest trend on Facebook.  Read about our teacher at CHS who recently went on a dig. There's an interview with a student who saved her mom's life. A funny story of our foreign exchange student from Finland who went to the state fair and discovered Texans' fascination with all things deep fried.

To see the update go to http://www.dragontribune.com/