Social Workers and UNC
Pictured left to right: Marne Meredith (Ephesus Elementary),Wendy Johnston (Glenwood Elementary) and Melissa Breaden(Pre-K)The Field Education Program of the UNC School of Social Work recently extended...
View ArticleLast Day of School, June 9 & 2-Hour Early Release / Último día de escuela, 9...
Last Day of School Has 2-Hour Early Release for StudentsThe last day of school for CHCCS students is Friday, June 9. Students will be released from school two hours early that day. Have a safe,...
View Article2016-17 SNAColades
The Special Needs Advisory Council (SNAC) created SNAColades to honor Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools' teachers, staff and administrators who, through their hard work and creativity, make our...
View ArticleFive CHCCS Staff Named Teacher Voice Fellows
The Hope Street Group recently named 26 North Carolina Teacher Voice Fellows. The Fellowship program consists of teachers and coaches who serve as spokespeople for positive change in their profession...
View ArticleCarrboro High Women’s Soccer Three-Peats!
Congratulations to our own Carrboro High School women’s soccer team on winning its third consecutive 2A State Championship! The Lady Jags scored a 3-0 victory in Raleigh over West Stokes this past...
View ArticleDibujando Nuestro Pueblo (Drawing Our Village) at Frank Porter Graham Bilingue
Dibujando Nuestro Pueblo (Drawing Our Village) is a collaborative, school-based art project that took place at Frank Porter Graham Bilingüe (FPGB) throughout the 2016-2017 school year. The project...
View ArticleChapel Hill High School Cisco Networking Academy Students Find Success in...
Some Chapel Hill High School students are taking skills learned from Cisco Networking Academy courses and finding success in competitions. Representatives from the IT Essentials (ITE) class as well as...
View ArticlePATHSS Commencement
Six students participated in commencement exercises from Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools’ PATHSS (Project Achieve for Transitioning High School Students) program Thursday evening, June 1. The...
View ArticleLincoln Center on Summer Hours, June 12-Aug. 11 / Lincoln Center funcionará...
Lincoln Center Starts Summer Hours Lincoln Center will operate on Summer Hours from Monday, June 12 through Friday, August 11. During those weeks, Lincoln Center will be open Monday through Thursday,...
View ArticleBlue Ribbon Mentor Advocate Graduation
Photo courtesy of Paul LindsayEleven Blue Ribbon Mentor-Advocate seniors celebrated their upcoming CHCCS graduations, and their completion of eight years in the program, on Sunday afternoon, June 4 at...
View ArticleLulu, the Chewing Gum Artist
The vision came to her a few summers ago at camp when Lulu Nery was briefly trapped under a bowling alley table. Stuck in that position she looked up, and the amount of chewing gum under the table made...
View ArticleBaseball Vs. Cancer
A powerful fundraising force in CHCCS athletics has been building since 2015, initially through the dogged efforts of one Chapel Hill High School baseball player, Garrett Liebe, but spreading to the...
View ArticleCHCCS Announces New Administrators
At its June 15 meeting, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education approved a series of administrative placements.Marny Ruben, current principal of Seawell Elementary, will be the new...
View ArticleMcDougle Middle School BOOKS on BREAK
A free book distribution may not be the first activity that comes to mind when considering ways to excite middle school students. Yet the recent Books on Break giveaway at McDougle Middle School...
View ArticleFinance Awards
Ruby PittmanRuby Pittman, Senior Executive Director of Budget and Finance, has garnered awards for excellence in financial reporting for the 13th consecutive year. The awards from the Association of...
View ArticlePaw La La - 2017 Curtis Scholar
Paw La La arrived in North Carolina when she was seven, unable to speak English and worried about her far-flung family, many of whom had precarious futures. She had never left the Thai refugee camp...
View ArticleTurnip the Beet Award for CHCCS!
N.C. Summer Nutrition Program Sponsors ReceiveFirst-Ever Turnip the Beet AwardsBuncombe County Schools, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, Rockingham County Schools and the YMCA of Western North...
View ArticleSuperintendent Column June 2017
Greetings to all my new friends and neighbors. Thank you for welcoming my family to this wonderful community. These past two months have been a whirlwind, to be sure, but I think we are off to a flying...
View ArticleMSAN Presentation: “A Classroom in Color”
The week after classes ended for students, many CHCCS teachers went right back to school - at the Summer Institute for Professional Learning. Among the many workshops teachers could choose from, one...
View ArticleBoard Candidate Information Session
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools understands the value of strong leadership. And for a school system, that leadership starts with the Board of Education.With the candidate filing period underway, the...
View Article