The N.C. School Public Relations Association presented Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools with two Blue Ribbon Publication Awards on Friday.
Category: Schools
Culbreth featured in magazine
Culbreth Middle School Principal Susan Wells, Assistant Principal Lynne Goodhand and UNC graduate student Helen Crompton published an article about the middle school’s iPod Touch project in the February 2011 issue of Learning and Leading with Technology.
CHCCS featured
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and Superintendent Neil Pedersen are featured in an article in the winter edition of Education Executive Magazine.
Smith Middle School to hold Performance Night
The 10th annual Global Connections Performance Night celebration will be today (Thursday) from 6 to 8 p.m. in Chapel Hill High School’s Hanes Auditorium.
FPG holds read-a-thon
Frank Porter Graham Elementary School students pledged to read 650,000 minutes in the two-week period from Jan. 21 through Friday.
CHCCS students named to band
Twenty-five Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools students have been named to the Central North Carolina Middle School All-District Band.
BRMA coordinator joins National Mentoring Summit
Graig Meyer, Blue Ribbon Mentor-Advocate coordinator, joined First Lady Michelle Obama as a participant at the first National Mentoring Summit in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 25.
African-American Discovery Night
McDougle Middle School will host an African-American Discovery Night on Feb. 10 from 5:30 to 7:30.
Reading under the sea
Linda Saah, an outreach instructor with the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences, shows Frank Porter Graham Elementary School students an American alligator at the school’s Read-a-thon Night.
Youth Leadership Institute adopts Merritt Mill Road
The Blue Ribbon Youth Leadership Institute (YLI) recently adopted Merritt Mill Road as part of North Carolina’s Adopt-A-Highway program.
Summer camps registration
Registration for Community Schools summer camps begins Monday.
Glenwood featured on BBC America
Glenwood Elementary School’s Mandarin dual-language program was featured on BBC America last week.
Parent forum
Community Parent Forum will present the first in a series of discussions on Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Extraordinary Ventures.
Students visited by soldier
Lt. Cmdr. Eric Gryn recently visited students in Nichole Bell and Stephanie Dimac’s fourth-grade class to thank the students for letters they wrote for him to take on his deployment to Afghanistan.
School board to review superintendent applications
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education will hold special meetings on Feb. 21 and 25 to review applications received in conjunction with the superintendent search.