Homecoming Notice

Parents and students as you know our Homecoming Dance will be next Saturday, October 29th at the Gaylord. This is a special event and is a school sponsored event and as such students are expected to abide by the student code of conduct. We all are looking forward to this special night and want all students to have a great time. Each year we have anywhere from 1800-2200 students that attend the HC Dance. With this in mind we need your help, please reiterate to your student we want them to have an awesome time and to dress and dance appropriately.

As you can imagine dances have changed just a bit since many of us attended these many years ago just as the music and style of dance has changed. We are and will remind kids to have a great time but please don't dance in a way that is inappropriate. The last thing we want to do is to embarrass them by having to ask them to stop or ultimately to leave.

If you would like to see a little bit of comedy form our CSHS students please watch this KCBY video.

Parents we would love to have you come out and chaperone the dance which starts at 7:30 and concludes at midnight. If you interested in chaperoning please contact either principal so we can add you to our list.

Diving Success

The CISD diving program was notified Lauren Crown a sophomore and Bryce Klein a junior have been chosen to attend the Diving Olympic Trials June 17-24 in Seattle, Washington for the 2012 Olympics. Lauren and Bryce are among the youngest to qualify. We are the only school district that has both male and female diver. There are only 35 boys and 35 girls who are chosen in the country. Out of those, 5-7 are in high school, the rest are in college.


This is such an honor for our athletes and CISD is so proud of their hard work and commitment.

Additional STAAR Presentation

CHS will add an additional STAAR presentation Monday, October 17, 2011. We will once again provide this session in the cafeteria at 6 pm. We look forward to seeing more families in attendance.

If you have questions feel free to email Mr. Giamanco at: pj.giamanco@southlakecarrolledu

College Fair

Carroll ISD is proud to host its annual College Fair on Wednesday, Nov. 2, from 6–8 p.m. at Carroll Senior High School in the Student Activity Center. Parents and students will have the opportunity to interact with admission representatives from over 100 universities and colleges from Texas and across the country. Please refer to the Carroll Senior High website at the end of October for a current list of attendees.

How to Support Your Adolescent in Stressful Time

Carroll High School will host a parent program with a panel of mental health professionals and community resources that are available to help you support your child during stressful times. We will discuss signs of emotional distress/stress and depression and resources to help.

Dates/Times:
Tuesday, October 11 – 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. and Thursday, October 13 – 9:00 – 10:00 a.m.

Location:
Carroll High School Library

If you have questions, please contact the Carroll High School Guidance Office at 817.949.5620

SAGT Event

SAGT is partnering with the Southlake Public Library and the Bob Jones Nature Center to celebrate the Fall season with a fun family outing called Harvest Hike. We look forward to seeing everyone attend this event.

When: Sunday, October 16th
Time: 4-7 pm
Where: Bob Jones Nature Center
Cost: FREE!!

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.