EOC Meeting Tonight Canceled

Out of sensitivity for those wishing to attend the services tonight, our planned meeting to explain End of Course exams will be rescheduled. Please remember we will also meet this Wednesday in the CHS library at noon and then again next week on October 12 at 6 PM. If a replacement date is added we will send the data to all families immediately.

We are sorry for the late notice but certainly believe it is more important to support our families tonight.

CHS Apology

Please accept our sincere apology for including a statement about the loss of a CISD student among other routine stories listed in the Dragon Diary this past weekend. As Principal, I do not believe this was an appropriate place to include comments about such a sensitive matter. I have put procedures in place to ensure this doesn't happen again, and appreciate your forgiveness and understanding. It was never anyone's intention to be insensitive about such a significant loss for the CHS family, but unfortunately, that's how it came across. Please know that we care deeply about those who are suffering and want only to help ensure effective communication of news affecting CHS students and staff. In the future, you can rest assured that announcements of this nature will be sent separately from weekly school news and approved by campus leaders before being broadcast to CHS families.


PJ Giamanco
CHS Principal

Carroll ISD To Host STAAR, EOC Meetings

Parents of current freshmen students enrolled at Carroll High School are invited to attend one of four public meetings designed to help parents learn more about the state end of course tests and how these tests will impact their children.

The meetings are scheduled for tonight at 6 p.m. in the CHS cafeteria; 6 p.m. October 3 in the CHS cafeteria; noon on October 5th in the CHS library; and 6 p.m. on October 12 in the CHS cafeteria.

Members of the district’s Teaching & Learning Services Department have prepared informational presentations on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness or STAAR. Local officials say they are still waiting on some answers from the state about how the STAAR and EOC exams will be implemented, but parents need to be informed about how the new testing systems will affect their child now through graduation.

Parents are encouraged to attend just one of the four, repeat presentations. Information will be sent via letter and posted to the CISD website afterward for those parents unable to attend.

Congratulations to the Homecoming Court

We would like to congratulate each of our CHS/CSHS student on winning the recent competition for the Homecoming Court:

Freshman prince: Sam Avers
Freshman princess: Emily Bond
Sophomore prince: Steven Bergmark
Sophomore Princess Sydney Fugett
Junior Prince: Ryan Nolan
Junior Princess: Emily Zapinski

Homecoming King: Carson Henderson
Homecoming Queen: Beth Venesky

Homecoming Game Tickets

As expected, we are expecting homecoming game tickets for the home side are to be sold out sometime today. We currently have a small number of home side tickets, 150, still available at CHS for adults. Please remember these could be sold out today.


Once home side tickets are completed fans can still purchase visitor side tickets online or at the Dragon Stadium. As of this morning, we have approximately 2500 visitor tickets. However, all visitor side tickets purchased online or at the stadium must sit on the visitor side. There is no cross-over and security will monitor this very close. The tickets are marked for visitor side and anyone leaving the stadium will have a color coded stamp to indicate home or visitor side.
 
Thank you and see you on Friday night at Dragons Stadium.

Homecoming Nominations

We would like to congratulate each of our Homecoming nominees from CHS and encourage everyone to cheer them on at the Homecoming Pep Rally next Wednesday at Dragon Stadium.

Sophomore Princess Nominees:

Sydney Fugett
Lacey Muñoz
Sophomore Prince Nominees:
Steven Bergmark
Zachary Truesdale

Freshmen Princess Nominees:
Emily Bond
Carley Browning

Freshmen Prince Nominees:
Sam Avers
Chase Punko

We would also like to encourage all students to go online and vote for the 2011 Homecoming Court. Voting runs through midnight this Friday.


The website location is: http://voting4schools.com/carroll

Registration Opened Back Up

Registration in Family Access has been re-opened until Monday September 12, 2011. If you have not already registered your child, please do so during this time period. If you do not know your login and password please contact Kari Litwak at CHS guidance.

Curriculum Night Tonight

We hope to see all parents at CHS tonight for Curriculum Night. We will begin the classroom activities at 6:00 PM. If you need a schedule those will be available through our counselors. In addition, several students will be located throughout the building to provide directions.

Thank you and we look forward to seeing all of our parents tonight.

Attention All Freshmen Families

With the start of the 2011-2012 school year we will be implementing our new Texas EOC testing for all freshmen students. Later in the semester we will provide a parent information session to distribute more information and data regarding the district policy for this test.

Below is a link you may view for EOC information for parents to review.
EOC Document

Please feel free to contact CHS if you have any questions.

Curriculum Night on Horizon

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 6, 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 will try to use DIS for parking, provided they do not have an event being planned.

We hope to see everyone soon.

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.

First Day Procedures

On Monday students please follow these procedures to start your day:
 
1.       If a student KNOWS that he/she is in a 1st block class that meets at CSHS (i.e., a sophomore in basketball) the student should go to that class even though the class is not at CHS. This will include athletes and drill team students, etc.
 
2.       Coaches/directors, etc., will allow 1st block students to leave early enough after 1st block so that they can get to CHS in time to get their official schedule (on pink paper) from the gym at CHS. 
 
3.       For students who receive their official pink schedule at CHS and learn that their first block class is at the other school (i.e., freshman who are taking French I 1st block at CSHS), the student will remain at CHS for 1st block - students will go to the cafeteria area.
 
4.       Teachers, will use pink schedules as official schedules for students on the first and second day of school. 

Good luck Dragons as we approach 2011-2012 school year and call if you have questions.

Welcome Teachers

CHS was so happy to experience all of our teachers today. We started the day off with convocation at CSHS and finished with a staff development at CHS. We are so lucky to have such a respected bunch of teachers and cherish them daily.

If you want a good laugh, and yes we know it is blurry, check out the flash mob at convocation this morning.

Flash Mob

Welcome to 2011 and 2012.

First Day is Amazing

While I'm watching our new Freshmen tour CHS and visit with each other I'm amazed again at how wonderful CHS is and the kids we have every single day. I have seen our Sophomores visit in the morning, our new students eat lunch at noon, and our Freshmen work through our Fish camp and pep rally all with smiles amazing to every person that passes. Thank you Dragons.

I'd also like to thank all of our parents for visiting CHS today to help with schedules, clothing and general assistance. A principal can't ask for more than our parents provide, you're our greatest assistance every day.

On-line Registration Open

Parents we would encourage you soon to login to your family access location and begin the on-line registration experience. As of our first day, CHS had 66 registrants and we would love to see that number double or triple today. Please do this soon so you can begin the process for your child and avoid many of the hand written forms later.

If you have questions feel free to phone CHS and we'll do all we can to assist.