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.

Counseling Blog Up and Running

I'm excited to announce the new Counseling Blog that is up and running now. You may find this by clicking on the following link.

CHS/CSHS Counseling Blog

The site will provide a registration FAQ and up to date information for parents regarding items our counselors find interesting. We are excited to welcome our counselors to this area and look forward to sharing their information.

STEM Course Information Meetings

There will be two information meetings for parents and students regarding our new STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) courses that will be offered beginning with the 2014-15 school year.  The same information will be shared at both meetings.

The meeting dates/times/locations are:

Tuesday, March 4 – 6:00 p.m. – Carroll High School Library***

Tuesday, March 18 – 6:00 p.m. – Carroll High School Library

Alice Fitzgerald, our STEM Director, and Linda Woessner, our Computer Science and Robotics Director, will present information regarding the new courses that will be offered and will answer questions.

If you have any questions about these meetings, please contact the Carroll High School Guidance Office at 817.949.5620.

***The March 4^th STEM Information Meeting will be held prior to the 6:30 p.m. 8^th grade Parent Information Meeting that will be held in the Carroll High School Cafeteria.  Additionally, Mrs. Fitzgerald and Mrs. Woessner will be available after the 6:30 p.m. 8^th grade Parent Information Meeting, in the cafeteria.

End of 1st Six Weeks

As we begin our second six weeks we wanted to remind all families report cards will be digital this year. Please login to "Family Access" on Friday to see official 1st six weeks grades. If you need assistance please contact our guidance office at CHS for help from Kari Litwak. While we certainly believe digital is the best method we will remind all families if you want a hard copy the guidance office can also process this request.

Our students did a masterful job this first grading period and we are excited to have such a dedicated group of Dragons at CHS.

CHS Open All Summer

We have had several calls and wanted to relay to everyone CHS will be open all summer, Monday through Thursday from 7:30 to 5:00 PM, we look forward to assisting each member of our community as they may need.

CHS will be closed on July 4 for a holiday and we will close early on July 9 and July 11 for meetings at 3:00 PM.

Please stop by and we will be excited to help.

Dr. John Woodall SPARK Presentation

Happy summer, if you are in town please join us this Thursday to meet and hear Dr. John Woodall. Dr. Woodall is from Newtown, Connecticut and will lend his perspective to what happened in his own community as well as his world-wide work on trying to get children engaged and connected to prevent future tragedies that seem to have become to much a part of our world. This is an incredible opportunity for our Southlake Community!

We hope to see you this Thursday night, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM, on the third floor of Southlake Town Hall.

Student Survey on Horizon

On May 20th at CSHS and May 28th at CMS, DMS and CHS, students in Carroll ISD will take The Texas School Survey of Drug and Alcohol Use. Participation in The Texas School Survey is completely voluntary.  Research design and protocols ensure that participation in The Texas School Survey is completely anonymous. This means no names or other personal identifiers will be collected.  The survey results will provide valuable information to help evaluate the programs and curriculum we currently have in place related to drug and alcohol use by students. 

 Please take a minute to provide your electronic signature by clicking on the link below.  Electronic Signatures will be accepted until May 3, 2013

Click here.

Soccer Clothing Drive

The SOUTHLAKE CARROLL DRAGON SOCCER TEAM and the LADY DRAGON SOCCER TEAM have had a BLESSED year!  They go into their 4th round of PLAYOFFS Tuesday vying for the Regional Quarter Finals.  The Dragons will play on the road in Midland and the Lady Dragons will play at Dragon Stadium at 7pm (let's pack the house)!  BOTH teams took the 2013 DISTRICT 4-5A CHAMPIONSHIP Title, the BI-DISTRICT Title and the AREA Title!!!  The Dragons are 20-4-4 overall and the Lady Dragons are 26-2-0 overall.  

Because these teams are COUNTING THEIR BLESSINGS, they would like to HELP OTHERS count theirs too!  They will be collecting items until the end of April for the NOEL ORPHANAGE, which is the oldest and largest orphanage in Rwanda.    http://www.noelorphanage.com.  Gently used soccer related items, such as old uniform pieces (any sizes), are a big hit with the kids!  The orphanage can also use ANY other clothing in general, including baby clothes.  THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT of the DRAGON SOCCER PROGRAM!  

You may drop your items at the game on Tuesday.

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!

Drop-Off Locations

This morning it was brought to our attention some parents have started to wait in the drop-off lanes for an extended period of time. Please remember these are drop and go locations. We certainly want to honor every individuals time and provide them an opportunity to exit quickly. If you have any questions please feel free to contact us at CHS.

Transition Services College and Career Expo

Our CISD Special Education Department will be hosting this event on January 22, 2013 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM in the CSHS Student Activity Center.

This program will help high school students with learning differences gain knowledge about: colleges, application process, career opportunities, department of disabilities services, and transition needs when pursuing post secondary education. All students and parents are encouraged to attend.

We will have a guest speaker, Ron Venable, from the University of North Texas Office of Disability Accommodation. Mr. Venable will be discussing "Tips for Student Success" and "Navigating the World of Higher Education."

SPARK Townhall February 4, 2013

Teens & Parents are invited to a powerful town hall meeting on February 4, 2013 7:30pm - 9:00pm at CSHS. 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 di cult world where Anxiety and Depression are far too prevalent.

• How do parents and teens 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

The Grant Halliburton Foundation will present this “Must-See” program. Please go to www.granthalliburton.org for more information.

Any questions please contact Laura Hill
817-797-0782
Lhill@downeypublishing.com

Craft Fair This Weekend

The 20th annual CHS/CSHS PTO Craft Fair is this Saturday and Sunday at CSHS. The fair has over 200 vendors selling a variety of items, and we are excited to welcome hundreds of shoppers throughout the weekend. We'd love to see each of our families attend this event.

All proceeds from the fair benefit our Project Graduation, a drug and alcohol free event designed to provide a fun and safe environment for our seniors to celebrate graduation.

Click here for a link to our craft fair.

 

Campus Excellence Committee

As we are now one six weeks into the school year we will begin to have our campus excellence committee meetings next week. I would once again like to invite a couple parents to participate on this committee. We are searching for a Freshmen and Sophomore parent as well as a person from a local business in CISD.

This committee is our site based committee and will do some work on our Campus Improvement Plan, Staff-Development, and student concerns at CHS. We love the work our committee provides and we'd be excited to see any parent participate. This year we will have at least four meetings: 10/10, 12/12, 2/13, and 4/10. The meetings will start at 3:45 daily and we'll be going for one hour.

Please contact Mr. Giamanco @ pj.giamanco@southlakecarroll.edu if you would like to participate.

Parents Invited To Review "Big Decisions" Health Curriculum

Starting this year, Carroll ISD has updated its school health curriculum at the request of parents to include information on healthy relationships and how to prevent disease and unplanned pregnancy through abstinence and other means. Studies have shown that this type of instruction gives teens the confidence to avoid risky behavior and make good choices. To complement this curriculum, CISD is hosting a parent-only session to offer a preview of the updated health curriculum and answer any questions that parents may have about this curriculum. 

Who: Health parents

What: Discuss human sexuality curriculum “Big Decisions”
Where: CHS Lecture Hall (former art rooms on the northwest side of the building)
When: 6:30 PM, October 2nd, 2012
Teen pregnancy is a problem in Texas. In 2010, our state had the third highest rate of teen pregnancies in the U.S. Sixty-four of 1,000 births are to teenage mothers, higher than the national rate of 43 births to teenagers per 1,000 births nationally. Tarrant County has a teenage birthrate of 56 per 1,000 births, and our zip code does not make our kids immune to these issues.

Curriculum Night

We would like to thank all families for the wonderful time at CHS Curriculum Night on Wednesday. While we certainly regret scheduling on a night where we have other activities going on we did feel confident in the large number of families in attendance.

I can assure you we love the great importance our families place on getting to know our teachers and our curriculum. The support you provide makes this job better for everyone at CHS.

Curriculum Night Coming Up

Curriculum nights are scheduled at CHS each year during the first few weeks of school. This activity is designed for parents only (no students please). The meeting provides teachers with an important opportunity to visit with parents about grade-level and course curriculum, as well as classroom expectations. While we'd certainly love to sit and talk one on one with each parent we are limited in time. Please schedule those conferences individually with each teacher. We look forward to visiting with our wonderful parents on September 12, 2011 from 6:00 to 7:32 PM.

Please remember we tend to see about 1000 people arrive on a campus with limited parking. If you're concerned with finding a parking spot please arrive early. In addition, some people certainly may try to use DIS for parking, provided they do not have an event being planned.

We hope to see everyone soon.

First Day Morning Traffic

From the campus side I can say traffic was amazing at CHS. Thank you to all parents and students for making this successful. I know getting off of White Chapel was a little difficult and we'll work on this part soon.

Please remember class will start at 8:00 AM and we want our students to have enough time to get to class. Let us know if you have any questions.

Volunteers Needed

CHS parents we are in desperate need for more assistance with handing out schedules on Monday morning at CHS. Please email Mr. Giamanco at pj.giamanco@southlakecarroll.edu to confirm you interest in helping. Currently we have 8 parents and we need 24.

Think about the love of seeing all these wonderful students getting ready for Day 1 at CHS. Now that you've thought about it, you must take part and see it happen.

Traffic Change...Please Review

Due to recent construction there will be a few changes to our traffic patterns at CHS. We would certainly like for all parents and students to review the link below from our campus webpage. This will be essential for us to make the transition sooner at CHS.

We certainly believe the changes will produce safer exits for all students and parents at CHS.

Traffic Pattern Review