Support CST on Thursday, 10/6 anytime from 9:30-11am by purchasing a coffee from Brewhaha Coffee truck! Follow the regular traffic pattern to find the truck near the event entrance. All proceeds support CST!

Parents,

Your donations for the CST ROCS (Respect Ownership Compassion Safety) store has been a HUGE hit! We've begun opening the store during lunch on Wednesdays to compliment our Friday morning offering. We are grateful for your donations and continue to keep the store "fresh" with new items and non-tangible items but your continued support is MUCH appreciated! Below is a sign-up link if you're able to bring in items for the store.

As students were shared, the store and tokens are the fun way we're acknowledging and promoting our ROCS behavior system, but we're going to focus on those 4 tenets anyway. So please know your contributions are not simply about prizes but it's a reinforcement for expected behavior in our building. Thank you for helping!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F044CAAA62CAAFC1-pbis

Girls' basketball tryouts are Monday beginning at 3:20pm. Any 7th and 8th grade girl is invited to tryout. All girls must have a physical on file to tryout. Please contact Coach Jones or Coach Totte-Boyd with questions. Contact info can be found at the website below.

https://www.olatheschools.org/Page/7155

Hilary McNeil and Jen Simon, CST Parents, are looking for help providing heavy appetizers and snacks for CST teachers during the extended day of Parent Teacher Conferences on October 12. Please see the sign-up! Hilary's email in in the link if you have questions!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C094AA4AB2EA4F85-cstparentteacher

What a fun week for our PE students who got to fish. The weather was perfect and the fish were biting! Fishing continues this week and those with spring PE classes will have their opportunity then. We had a high level of interest in the t-shirts for which we are so grateful. The money made on that will go directly to the PE department who will be able to purchase replacement poles, reels, and other PE equipment. We are fortunate to have this opportunity and are so grateful for our partners across the street for allowing us to use their pond.

Teachers are beginning to schedule conferences for the upcoming conference week. Read the repeated message below for more information about how conferences will be conducted at CST this year.

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Parent teacher conference week is just around the corner (10/10-10/13) and will be similar to last year. For those new to middle school or new to Olathe, the breakdown of what to expect in the coming weeks and during conference week is below...

• All teachers will have 12 hours of availability the week of 10/10-10/13 to conference.
• All teachers will conduct in-person, "arena style" (defined below) conferences on Wednesday, 10/12 from 4:30-8:30.
• The remaining 8 hours of conference availability will be determined by each teacher/team and communicated separately to parents beginning as early as this Friday (9/23). Teachers will utilize some form of sign-up system (i.e. Sign-up Genius) for their conferences.
  
• Conferences outside the arena style day may be via Zoom or in person.
• Please watch for more communication from your child's teachers. Feel free to reach out to your teachers if you have specific conference needs.
  

How do arena style conferences work?

• Arena style is an open, first come, first serve format where all teachers are set up in the gym/MPR at CST. Parents will visit individually with their child's teacher and move on to the next teacher when finished. Each conference with a teacher should take less than 10 minutes. If there's need for a longer conference a separate time should be scheduled. This evening will bring in many parents and lines should be expected.
  

Great start to PBIS and CST ROCS this week! We'll operate a store every Friday from 7:15-7:45am. See our behavior matrix below for specific expected behaviors. CST ROCS!

BIG thank you to our parent volunteers this past Friday! See below if you're interested in signing up or donating to the store!

Volunteers for PBIS Store – Fridays 7:15am-7:45am - Auditorium

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F044CAAA62CAAFC1-volunteer

Donations of items for PBIS Store
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F044CAAA62CAAFC1-pbis

(Originally in the 8/15 weekly)

Chisholm Trail is launching its new PBIS program this year. PBIS stands for Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports. All Olathe middle schools will eventually have a program. CST will be just the second middle school to implement a program, but CST feeder schools, Madison Place and Sunnyside Elementary, have already implemented theirs. We are so excited launch and for our students to experience this program.

Beginning Tuesday, staff will share lessons with students about expected behaviors at CST (see behavior matrix) in various settings. While posters are placed around the building and in each classroom (example here), the value will be the conversations that take place in acknowledging expected behaviors and how we work through unexpected behaviors. CST will have its own "economy" as students receive tokens various positive behaviors. They will receive a pouch to carry their tokens and will have the opportunity to cash them in for rewards on Fridays from 7:15-7:45am. We have collected prizes through donations and continue to add non-tangible ideas (help with morning announcements, shoot around with a friend and principal, etc.). If you'd like to support, you can click the links below to donate or sign-up to run the store.

(Below was from an 8/8 school email)

CST’s Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) system

More will be shared at Back to School Night, but CST is launching its PBIS program this year and we are very excited to share this with students. This system will incorporate tokens for positive behaviors and students can use those tokens to “purchase” rewards. This is where we need your help! We’d like to have parents run the PBIS store on Friday mornings from 7:15-7:45am in the CST auditorium. Next, is we’re taking donations for student incentives as part of this program. Click on the links below if you’re interested!

Volunteers for PBIS Store – Fridays 7:15am-7:45am - Auditorium

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F044CAAA62CAAFC1-volunteer

Donations of items for PBIS Store
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F044CAAA62CAAFC1-pbis

Office Assistant: Connie Bray

Attendance Secretary/Assistant Principal's Secretary: Angie Peterson

Bookkeeper/Principal's Secretary: Sara Harris

Data Operator: Melynda Marquardt

School Nurse: Jennifer Ross

Please keep info updated (email, phone number, medical, etc.). Contact the office at 913-780-7240 if you are concerned you may be missing communication or need to update your family's information.