Chisholm Trail Middle School
Office Hours: Mon-Thurs 7am-4pm; Fri-7am-3:30pm
16700 W. 159th Street, Olathe, KS, 66062
913-780-7240
Technical Support: Help Desk--913-780-8058
Administration
Principal: Rick Sola
Asst. Principal: Krista Dueringer (Silver-6,7,8)
kdueringercst@olatheschools.org
Asst. Principal: Erin Richerson (Green-6,7,8)
Counselors
Rachel Iuli: Green-6,7,8
Ashley Rodden: Silver-6,7,8
Nurse
Jenn Ross: jiross@olatheschools.org
School Resource Officer
Frank Galbrecht: fgalbrechtsro@olatheschools.org
Attendance Secretary
Connie Bray: cbraycst@olatheschools.org (913.780.7241)
Data Operator
Melynda Marquardt: mrmarquardt@olatheschools.org
Week of 11/1/2021
Dear CST Family,
Our 7th and 8th grade band and Jazz Band put on a wonderful show this past Thursday. This Halloween themed show featured floating ghosts, special effects, wonderful music, and Scooby Doo...it was fantastic! Another fun celebration was this was the first stage performance for our band since pre-Covid. It was so much fun to watch the performance and to welcome a full house to our auditorium once again.
Speaking of full auditoriums, this week the CST musical begins with their Thursday night, 7pm performance of the "Big, Bad Musical". Showtimes are Thursday and Friday (7pm) with a 3pm Saturday show. Tickets can be purchased through Touch Base and are $5 for students, $7 for adults. Our students have worked so hard for many, many weeks in preparation for this show. It's going to be a great show and fun experience. I hope you can check it out!
Finally, the CST Fall Fest was a huge success this past Friday night. Awesome job to our tech team for putting this fundraiser for their program on and for Mr. Haines facilitating his group and helping bring their ideas to fruition. It was a fun, family event for all ages...perhaps this will become a CST annual event...
Have a wonderful weekend and great week ahead!
Rick
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Week at a GlanceMonday, 11/1
Tuesday, 11/2
Friday, 11/5
Saturday, 11/6
Looking Ahead... 11/9 & 10th--Dec. One Act Auditions 3:30-5:30pm. 11/9--7/8 GBB vs IT, OS Area Orchestra Festival 7pm 11/11--8th grade Mock Interviews (21st century) 9:30-11am. 7/8th grade GBB vs FT; Veterans Day 11/12---6th grade after school activity (MPR/gym) 3:15-4:30 | Counseling CornerThe Counseling Department would like to take a moment to share a resource from Children’s Mercy Hospital with you. Please use this link https://www.childrensmercy.org/departments-and-clinics/developmental-and-behavioral-health/prepped-and-ready/ to access information about Prepped and Ready: Parenting into the Teen Years. This is set up as a short video series that you can watch as your schedule permits. There is no cost, and if you complete a short survey at the end, Children’s Mercy will send you a great safety kit. Topics include eating disorder prevention, home safety (including storage of firearms, medications, etc.), screen time, self-care, substance use (including vaping), and suicide prevention. This resource will only be available for a short time, so please don’t wait! Contact your child's counselor with questions. ---------------------------------------- SEE 21st Century Info Below | Wildcat After Hours and Math LabThese programs are known as "Wildcat After Hours" (WAH) and "Math Lab". Below are available times for students to get help with homework. Please note, we are adding a "before hours" WAH program on Monday and Wednesday as well. Wildcat After Hours Mon-7-7:30am (Rm. 102); 3:15-4:15pm (Rm. 218) Tues-3:15-4:15 (Rm. 302) Wed-7-7:30am (Rm. 102); 3:15-4:15pm (Rm. 301) Thurs-3:15-4:15pm (Rm. 214) Math Lab (3:15-4:15pm) 6th Grade-Tues (Rm. 102); Thurs (Rm. 102) 7th Grade-Mon (Rm. 211); Thurs (Rm. 306) 8th Grade-Tues (Rm. 216); Thurs (Rm. 220) |
Week at a Glance
Monday, 11/1
- 7/8 grade GBB @ CT 3:30pm
Tuesday, 11/2
- 7/8 grade GBB vs SFT
- Election Day
- 8th grade Career Expo Field Trip
- 7/8 grade GBB vs OT
- School Musical--7pm
- Hat Day--$1 or canned food (KAYS Club)
Friday, 11/5
- School Musical--7pm
Saturday, 11/6
- School Musical--3pm
Looking Ahead...
11/9 & 10th--Dec. One Act Auditions 3:30-5:30pm.
11/9--7/8 GBB vs IT, OS Area Orchestra Festival 7pm
11/11--8th grade Mock Interviews (21st century) 9:30-11am.
7/8th grade GBB vs FT; Veterans Day
11/12---6th grade after school activity (MPR/gym) 3:15-4:30
Counseling Corner
The Counseling Department would like to take a moment to share a resource from Children’s Mercy Hospital with you. Please use this link https://www.childrensmercy.org/departments-and-clinics/developmental-and-behavioral-health/prepped-and-ready/ to access information about Prepped and Ready: Parenting into the Teen Years. This is set up as a short video series that you can watch as your schedule permits. There is no cost, and if you complete a short survey at the end, Children’s Mercy will send you a great safety kit.
Topics include eating disorder prevention, home safety (including storage of firearms, medications, etc.), screen time, self-care, substance use (including vaping), and suicide prevention.
This resource will only be available for a short time, so please don’t wait!
Contact your child's counselor with questions.
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SEE 21st Century Info Below
Wildcat After Hours and Math Lab
These programs are known as "Wildcat After Hours" (WAH) and "Math Lab". Below are available times for students to get help with homework. Please note, we are adding a "before hours" WAH program on Monday and Wednesday as well.
Wildcat After Hours
Mon-7-7:30am (Rm. 102); 3:15-4:15pm (Rm. 218)
Tues-3:15-4:15 (Rm. 302)
Wed-7-7:30am (Rm. 102); 3:15-4:15pm (Rm. 301)
Thurs-3:15-4:15pm (Rm. 214)
Math Lab (3:15-4:15pm)
6th Grade-Tues (Rm. 102); Thurs (Rm. 102)
7th Grade-Mon (Rm. 211); Thurs (Rm. 306)
8th Grade-Tues (Rm. 216); Thurs (Rm. 220)
Veterans Day
Message from Nurse Ross
6th and 8th grade parents,
Hearing and vision screen day is Wednesday, November 17th. Please remember to wear your glasses or contacts. 7th grade will be screened for vision at a later time.
OSHS Admin Message: Olathe South Football Games
The message below is from the Olathe South admin team regarding remaining OSHS football games...
“Effectively immediately, any student who is not an Olathe South student, will need to be accompanied by an adult to enter the contest. We want everyone to continue to attend, but it is vital that the parents of these students attend with their child to assist with the security of our events.”
Message from your Counselors
If your family is interested in receiving weekend snacks to go home in their student's backpacks on Friday, please email rjiuli@olatheschools.org or amrodden@olatheschools.org.
Rachel Iuli & Ashley Rodden
School Counselors
Olathe Public Schools
Chisholm Trail Middle School
913-780-7240
Masking at GBB Games
- While seated on the bench during games players should be masked
- Coaches and managers should be masked at all times
- While playing, players are not required to mask
Cheer
- While cheering on the sideline or performing a routine on the floor, cheerleaders do not need to mask
- All other times (sitting on the bleachers, entering and leaving the gym, meeting with coach) cheerleaders should be masked.
- Coaches should be masked at all times
Dance Team
- While performing a routine on the floor, dancers do not need to mask
- All other times (sitting on the bleachers, entering and leaving the gym, meeting with coach) dancers should be masked.
- Coaches should be masked at all times
All spectators
- Students, parents, visitors, workers, staff all need to be masked at all times while attending a game
WIN Time Update
In the weeks ahead, we'll begin providing literacy intervention for students identified through our MAP testing and reading fluency assessments in the building. This intervention will be provided during our WIN class period (8:44-9:18) and students will work in groups of 5 or less with CST teachers. All students will still be eligible for the WIN prizes described above, but may spend WIN time with one of our building literacy interventionists (one of 13 CST teachers) while they receive literacy intervention targeting any of the identified literacy gaps. This intervention time is being utilized in our Olathe Schools and achieves the state literacy mandate.
In addition, beginning Monday, all CST students will begin to receive daily phonics lessons for the first 5 minutes of their science class. This, too, is part of a district wide effort to help close any gaps that may have occurred through any of our kids' schooling. Daily phonics lessons will be fulfilled by your child's social studies teacher beginning in January.
Social Media Influences
A nationwide trend has recently made its way into local schools. Unfortunately, CST has not been exempt from this trend, nor have the other Olathe middle schools and high schools. The trend has been credited to TikTok and involves vandalizing schools and posting the video evidence on the social media platform. This has resulted in various acts of vandalism in Olathe including broken bathroom stall doors, mirrors pulled down from walls, soap dispensers ripped from walls, trash cans turned upside down, etc. Some have been caught as a result of their posted video making rounds. Of course, these actions can result in both school and legal consequences. The first story below features Olathe North principal, Jason Herman, who was interviewed by the KC Star.
The other articles are informational, but recent, and deal more with the mental health impact social media can have. Even working in schools as an administrator, I was not aware of some of the information below. As more focus and attention is given to the mental health of our children, the various social media platforms and their influence on the developing teenage brain is an important part of the conversation. My hope is that the links below will provide awareness of current trends and more about outside influences on our kids. Even better if these promote discussion at home.
Johnson County school has bathroom doors and toilet seats stolen, following TikTok trend (featuring Olathe principal) (9/15/2021)
https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/education/article254240178.html
TikTokers Are Stealing From Their Schools in a New Trend (9/10/2021)
5 Things Parents Need to Know about Tik-Tok (Updated 2021)
https://kidmatterscounseling.com/blog/5-things-parents-need-to-know-about-tik-tok/
The links below require a Wall Street Journal subscription but may be found in summary on other social media awareness sites.
How TikTok Serves Up Sex and Drug Videos to Minors (9/8/2021)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tiktok-algorithm-sex-drugs-minors-11631052944
Inside TikTok’s Algorithm: A WSJ Video Investigation(7/21/2021)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tiktok-algorithm-video-investigation-11626877477
Awesome library announcements!!
Our CST library app has been fixed! Students may use the CST Library app (from Classlink) to access tutorials to get ebooks and audiobooks from Destiny and/or Axis360, browse book trailers and booktalks, use databases for school research, etc...
Also, bookfairs are returning!! Our fall bookfair will be the week of October 18th and the Spring bookfair will be the week of February 14th. Both of these weeks are the week after conferences and the fairs will be in the library. This year we will be using Scholastic Book Fairs. More details to come as we get closer...
https://sites.google.com/students.olatheschools.com/cstlibrary
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Rick SolaPrincipal | Krista Dueringer | Erin Richerson |
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Rachel Iuli | | Ashley Rodden |
Office Staff
Receptionist: Chrissy Walters
Assistant Principal's Secretary: Angie Peterson
Attendance Secretary: Connie Bray
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.
