CHS Staff Bulletin
1/14/19
Here We Go!
We are back at it for another busy and productive week. Keep your pacing steady. We are headed into a long stretch. This is the long chunk of time that we have to get us to Spring Break. After that we will be in the home stretch towards summer. Be sure to keep your energy stores replenished and drink your water. Nobody needs to get sick.
Special thanks goes out to the many staff who hold grace for each other when times are hard. This simple, yet selfless act can go a long way in helping when a person really needs it. Come to think of it, it is the grace that we extend to our students and our families that is at the core of what it means to be a Lancer. Thank you for living that value full-heartedly.
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In The Know
Evening School Choice Parent Information Night 1/24 - We will open our doors to the public on January 24th to share with interested parents what makes Churchill such a great place to go to school. The evening will begin with a brief information session in the auditorium followed by a meet and greet in the student main hall. Departments will need to ensure that there is a representative available to showcase curriculum, artifacts, and displays of student work for parents and students to observe. Please make sure you save time to discuss this in your department meetings and choose a representative for your department.
Library Inventory - The library is inventorying all the textbooks in the school so we can have a more accurate book count and plan better for classes. We briefly need your help with this process. Tiffany will soon be contacting you to schedule a time to quickly visit your classroom and scan any textbooks. She will try to do this in the least disruptive way possible. It would help us if you could quickly peruse your classroom and put all the textbooks in 1 or 2 spots. Thank you for your help!
GRACC Update - There current GRACC procedures manual is in effect. While there may be some concerns about its contents please know that at the district level considerations are be heard and understood. In the mean time exceptions to the GRAAC rule are to be brought to me for approval. Exceptions are being considered if students are 5th year seniors or in jeopardy of not graduating. The following rule needs to be understood and observed:
When a student chooses to withdraw from a class prior to school day 16, there will be no penalty for withdrawl and the course will not appear on the students transcript. Additionally, NO CREDIT will be awarded.
Copiers - The front office copier is being used more this week because the library copiers are both having problems. The color copier is out for repair and we have a loaner right now which teachers can't print to, and the black and white copier was having a problem with the paper tray earlier this week. Please minimize your use of the front office copier when you can. We often need the copier to produce paperwork and files for incoming families. We are hopeful that the issue calms down a bit in the next week after POA has had a chance to repair the machines.
PRIDE Tickets - Let's rally and write students up for doing the right thing!
WISE Symposium 2019
The WISE Symposium is open for any Lane County high school student to attend. It is scheduled for Thursday, February 28, 2019. To stay updated on this event, please like our Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/chs.WomenInScienceandEngineering/ or follow us on Instagram @chs_wise. Registration opens Monday, Jan. 14th at www.chs.lane.edu. WISE Symposium begins at 3:30 with check-in and goes until 7:30 p.m. It’s free to any Lane County high school student. Food will be available for free and there will be opportunities to win prizes, too!
Looking Forward
Monday, 1/14
All Day — K–12 Counselors Meeting
7:45 am — FOG Mtg
Tuesday, 1/15
10:00 am — School Choice Tour
3:45 pm — 9th Grade Data Team
4:00 pm — FAFSA Workshop
Wednesday, 1/16
7:30 am — Data Team
3:45 pm — Operations
4:00 pm — FAFSA Workshop
6:30 pm — Lancer Pageant Parent Meeting*
7:00 pm — School Choice: IHS at Churchill 8th Grade Night
Thursday, 1/17
7:30 am — Safety Team
10:00 am — School Choice Presentation
Lunch — Youth Action Council
2:20 pm — Graduation Committee
3:45 pm — Site Council
5:30 pm — Grad Party Planning Meeting*
Friday, 1/18 — Martin Luther King, Jr. Assembly
Double Assembly (55-min)
0 Period 7:38 AM–8:25 AM
1st Period 8:30 AM–9:17 AM
2nd Period/Assembly 9:22 AM–11:19 AM
3rd Period 11:24 AM–12:11 PM
Lunch 12:16 PM–12:46 PM
4th Period 12:51 PM–1:38 PM
5th Period 1:43 PM–2:30 PM
2:45 pm — Department Collaboration
Next Week...
January 21
SCHOOL CLOSED, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
January 22
3:45 pm — LCC Placement Testing
7:00 pm — Keeping our Kids Safe: Drugs, Alcohol, and Tobacco
January 24
6:00 pm — School Choice Teacher Meet-and-Greet
January 25 and 26
7:00 pm — One-Act Festival
*Community-sponsored event. Churchill High School and Eugene School District 4J do not provide financial, administrative, or clerical support for this event. Liability is the responsibility of the organizers of the event.
Kudos
Congratulations to the Health Services Pathway who coordinated, managed, and provided oversight for the blood drive last week. The students were very professional and worked right through their lunch time to support a record number of students who chose to donate blood. We had over 76 donors. I know Keri is super impressed with Club Med and the health pathway volunteers (especially Club Med President Melanie McCue). We should also be very proud of the tremendous turn out of our Lancer student body. What that means is that for every donor 1 unit of blood (~3 lives saved). Lancers save lives!
Shannon Roseta - I wanted to thank you for support this last week. There was a day there where all counselors were gone and you held down the ship with poise and grace. Thank you for your support during a busy week.
All Staff - Thank you for your engagement during our staff meeting. I know that EOS training material is dry at best. You hung i there and dealt with me favorably. I appreciate that a lot. Additionally, I was encouraged by the professionalism displayed during our conversation about redo's and late work. I enjoyed having professional dialogue about our work and how to do it well. Thank you for your engagement.
Chiurchill High School
Website: https://chs.4j.lane.edu/
Location: 1850 Bailey Hill Road, Eugene, OR, USA
Phone: 541-790-5100
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChurchillHighSchool
Twitter: @CHSLancers