MSAN 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 stood out as the only option led by students: “A Classroom in Color” from our district’s Minority Student Achievement Network (MSAN). The nine...

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Superintendent 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 start. It is relatively common practice for new superintendents to begin work on July 1, coinciding with the advent of a new school year....

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Turnip the Beet Award for CHCCS!

N.C. Summer Nutrition Program Sponsors Receive First-Ever Turnip the Beet Awards Buncombe County Schools, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, Rockingham County Schools and the YMCA of Western North Carolina are among the first summer nutrition program sponsors nationwide to receive the Turnip the Beet awards....

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Paw 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 where she was born, and she struggled to make sense of her new American culture, especially the social and educational expectations for a first...

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Finance Awards

Ruby Pittman Ruby 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 School Business Officials International (ASBO) and the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) represent the highest forms of recognition...

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McDougle 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 generated plenty of enthusiasm from the 101 students who chose books from a Book Harvest collection. The event was hosted by Jennifer Parks,...

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CHCCS 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 principal of the Hospital School. She will replace Nancy Yoder, who is retiring. Tomeka Ward-Satterfield, current principal of Phillips Middle,...

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Baseball 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 rest of his teammates, and now to rival East Chapel Hill High baseball. The fundraising organization is Vs. Cancer, and the amount raised...

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Lulu, 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 a powerful impression- “thousands” of chewers’ castoffs, she guessed. “There were so many different colors, textures and patterns which gave...

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Blue Ribbon Mentor Advocate Graduation

Photo courtesy of Trevor Holman Eleven 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 Carrboro High School. They had all attended previous celebrations, watching older siblings and friends deliver remarks and thanks, and...

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Lincoln Center on Summer Hours, June 12-Aug. 11 / Lincoln Center funcionará con horario de verano del 12 de junio al 11 de agosto

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, 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Fridays from 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The week of July 4th, Lincoln Center will be open on Monday, Wednesday and...

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PATHSS 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 ceremony was held on the UNC campus in Manning Hall, the homebase for PATHSS over the last few years.            In...

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Chapel Hill High School Cisco Networking Academy Students Find Success in Recent Competitions

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 the Routing and Switching (RSE) classes chose to compete. The first competition took place in March at the North Carolina FBLA Competition....

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