THE GREEN PAGES WEB DIRECTORY - PROUD SUPPORTERS OF THE CARROLL DRAGONS

Posted April 25, 2008

CSHS Yearbook, Newspaper Top Rated In Nation

The American Scholastic Press Association in New York has ranked and rated Carroll Senior High School's Dragon Yearbook along with thousands across the nation. The 2007 student publication received a first place rating with special merit, as well as The Dragon Tribune newspaper

The yearbook award places CSHS among the top 53 in the country and the newspaper award places the Dragons in the top 80 publications across the United States - including universities. A complete list of awards will be posted to www.asan.com/asa.

Linda Rose teaches journalism and serves as the staff sponsor for the CSHS yearbook and newspaper.

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Forensic Students Head To National Tournament

Ten members of the Dragon forensic team have qualified to compete in a national tournament the week of June 16 in Las Vegas. The national qualifying tournament was held last weekend at Westlake High School in Austin.

Congratulations to the following students who are national qualifiers:

Duo Interpretation: Kevin Comartin and Ben Gojer
Original Oratory: Harrison Atkins
Alternate: Tori Spickler
Dramatic Interpretation: Justin Howe
Humorous Interpretation: Harrison Atkins
International Extemporaneous Speaking: Dillon Huff
Alternate: Connor Huff
Alternate: Patrick Humes
U.S. Extemporaneous Speaking: Alternate: Bryan Campanello
Congressional Debate: Forrest Wilkinson - Senate
Senate: Senate
House: Bryan Campanello
House Alternate: Connor Huff
House Alternate: Taz Sella
House Alternate: Patrick Graham
Public Forum Debate: Connor Huff and Dillon Huff
Winston Berg and Parker Burns
Lincoln-Douglas Debate - Alternate: Ryan Bennett

Diane Forbes coaches the Dragon forensic team.

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Dragon Golfers Prepare For State

Photo courtesty of Feragne

Both the boys' and girls' Dragon golf teams are headed to the UIL Class 5A State Tournament.

After taking first place in Regional competition, the Lady Dragon golf team will play for the State Championship in Austin May 8 and 9.

Congratulations to:
Brynn Donovan 76/74=150
Taylor Slagle 77/75=152
Kalie Presti 78/76=154
Sarah Hurt 79/76=155
Elizabeth Stone 83/83=166

These athletes had a tournament total of 310/301 winning with a two day-total of 611.

The boys' Carroll Black team earned a second place finish Thursday in Regional competition and advanced to the 5A State Championship as well. The Dragons were led by Tyler Dunlap who tied for sixth overall with a total score of 147 followed by Justin Wileman who tied for 10th with a score of 148. The Dragon Green Team finished 12th place.

The Dragon golf teams are coached by Matt Glen and Steve Alexander.

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Reminder: School Is In Session Monday, TAKS Testing Begins Tuesday

Don't forget, Monday, April 28 is a regular school day for all students and staff. On the original school calendar this day was a student holiday, but testing changes at the state level required school officials to alter the calendar mid-year.

Parents, be sure that your student gets plenty of rest, eats a good breakfast and arrives on time for school next week as TAKS testing begins Tuesday.

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Long-Time Technology Administrator Retiring

Technology Coordinator Janet Corder
Janet Corder, Carroll ISD’s Instructional Technology Coordinator, is retiring after 29 years with the district. Corder began teaching math and reading at Carroll Middle School in 1979, and started her career in education 32 years ago.

With a passion for integrating technology into the classroom, Corder served as a campus technology coordinator for CMS before overseeing instructional technology at the district level. She plays an active role in the Texas Educator Computer Association (TCEA) and will continue to do so after retirement as the 2008-2009 Student Contests Chair.

In addition to her work with Carroll ISD, Corder has co-written and published two books – Successful Solutions for Technology Staff Development and Successful Solutions for Technology Integration as well as found time to lead numerous conferences and workshops across the state and serve as a volunteer for Special Olympics.

“I leave Carroll having made such great friends,” said Corder. “Working as a Dragon has given me the opportunity to be involved in an extraordinary educational system.”

Over the years, Corder has had the opportunity to see her former students become educators. “It’s exciting to see my students want to work with kids,” Corder said. “It’s a joy to watch where they end up – whether it’s in education, technology or other career fields.”

“Janet has served our District in a tremendous capacity,” said Dr. David Faltys, Superintendent of Schools. “She has a passion for the integration of technology in classrooms and leaves behind some big shoes to fill.”

Retirement life will be busy for Corder. She already has plans to do work as a consultant and teach at the university level in addition to her TCEA leadership responsibilities.

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Johnson Elementary Experiences Temporary Power Outage

The Johnson Elementary campus was without electricity for part of yesterday morning following Wednesday night's storm.

Power was restored to the campus shortly before 11 a.m. A special thank you to the staff at Johnson, as well as the employees of the maintenance and food service departments for their quick and efficient action to serve the students and staff at JES.

The ConnectEd phone notification system was used to make Johnson parents aware of the situation.

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Board To Meet Monday

The Carroll School Board will meet Monday, April 28 in the auditorium of Johnson Elementary School, 1301 N. Carroll Avenue in Southlake. Open session begins at 6:30 p.m.

Trustees will recognize the State Champion Lady Dragon soccer team during the meeting. A complete agenda will be posted to the District's website today at www.southlakecarroll.edu/brdagenda.htm.

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District Art, Music Show Is This Weekend

Carroll ISD's 2008 Reflection of Excellence takes place Saturday and Sunday at Carroll High School, 800 White Chapel Boulevard. This event is a showcase of kindergarten through eighth grade fine arts students' work. Art exhibits are open Saturday, April 26 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday, April 27 from noon to 4 p.m. A schedule of featured choir performances is listed below.

Saturday, April 26:

9 a.m. Old Union Elementary
10 a.m. Johnson Elementary
11 a.m. Eubanks Intermediate
1 p.m. Carroll Elementary
2 p.m. Durham ELementary
3 p.m. Rockenbaugh Elementary
4 p.m. Durham Intermediate

Student artwork will also be on display this weekend at Art in the Square - today through Sunday in Southlake Town Square.

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Theatre Department's Dessert Cabaret Opens May 2

The Carroll Theatre Department opens its third annual Dessert Cabaret in the Carroll Senior High School Black Box Theatre Friday, May 2 and Saturday, May 3 at 7:30 p.m. with Rick Selah's Reconsidering Life. This play is a poignant and touching story of teen suicide and how it affects the family, friends and community who are left behind in this modern-day tragedy.

The Dessert Cabaret continues in the CSHS Black Box Theatre Thursday, May 8 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, May 10 at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. with Robert Harling's Steel Magnolias, a 1987 off-Broadway play that was made into the famous movie in 1989 starring Julia Roberts, Sally Field and Shirley Maclaine. Based on the author's experience with the death of his sister, Steel Magnolias is a comedy-drama about the bond among a group of southern women in northwest Louisiana.

Tickets are $6 each and include a dessert and beverage choice during intermission. Tickets may be purchased online at www.dragondrama.net.

Flier: 3rd Annual Dessert Cabaret

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Digging For Dragons Hosting 5K Event

Digging For Dragons is hosting the Dragon's Fire 5K run Saturday, May 17 at 9 a.m. The start and finish will be at Central Market in Southlake. In addition to the 5K, Central Market is hosting an all-day health fair. Watch for additional details coming soon!

Volunteers are needed for day of the event; community service hours are available for students, and parents are welcome to join in and help, too!

For more information, contact Echo Klatt at echollage@aol.com.

Flier: DFD Dragon's Fire 5K Event

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K-6 Summer School Information Available

Carroll ISD's Elementary Summer School Program has been designed to reflect concentrated instruction in the areas of reading and math and is intended to provide a meaningful learning experience for students who need assistance developing and/or maintaining reading and math skills at their current grade level.

Classes will be held at Rockenbaugh Elementary School this summer - Monday through Thursday on the following dates: June 9-12, June 16-19 and June 23-26. Class times are 8 to 9:45 a.m. and 10 to 11:45 a.m.; tuition is $150 per class or $300 for both.

The deadline to enroll for K-6 summer school is Friday, May 9. See links below for additional information.

Flier: K-6 Summer School 2008

Summer School 2008 Registration Form

To access information about Carroll ISD's Secondary Summer School Program, click the link below. Note the new location is Carroll Middle School, 1101 E. Dove Road.

Secondary Summer School Packet

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Week 15 True To The Core Nominees Announced

Click here to nominate!


During the month of April, Carroll ISD is accepting nominations for Dragon employees who show evidence of their commitment to the core value of "Innovation."

The April 14-18, 2008 Nominees for “Innovation” include:

  • Carla Pack - Durham Elementary School
  • Stacy Carey - Physical Therapist
  • Debra Heath - Durham Elementary School
  • Bill Griffith - Carroll High School
  • Mary Grice - Old Union Elementary School
  • Jessi Hollums - Carroll Middle School
  • Michele Freeman - Rockenbaugh Elementary School

Weekly drawings will be held throughout the remainder of the school year, with the employee winning a $100 gift card from the district's We Care sponsors. Beginning May 1, CISD will accept nominations for the Dragon core value of "Open & Honest Communication." Visit our website and click on the apple core to nominate your favorite Dragon employee.

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DIS Teacher Wins $100 Gift Card

Congratulations to Linda Hallford, a math teacher at Durham Intermediate School. She's the week 15 winner in the True To The Core drawing. For dedication to Innovation, she wins a $100 Cheesecake Factory gift card donated by sponsors of the We Care program. She was nominated by parent Maureen Cramer.

True To The Core is a multi-media community awareness campaign aimed at increasing public understanding and support of our schools. The initiative communicates information about the district's core values, vision and mission through advertisements, postcard mailings, newsletters and video productions. True To The Core represents a message of pride for CISD employees, students and parents.

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DES Teacher Named Semifinalist In H-E-B Awards Competition

Debra Heath

Durham Elementary School science teacher Debra Heath was recently selected as a statewide semifinalist during preliminary judging of the H-E-B Excellence in Education Award honoring the best teachers in Texas for 2008.

Durham students benefit every day from Mrs. Heath's extensive efforts and passion for teaching in the science lab. In addition to other DES teachers, Debra's leadership has distinguished Durham Elementary as one of five schools nationally to participate in an exciting product development pilot study with LEGO Education Corporation.

Mrs. Heath will receive $250 in gift cards as a token of the gratitude of the H-E-B corporation.

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Dragon Transportation Advances In Road-e-o Competition

Dragon Transportation staff members recently competed in the Regional Bus Road-e-o contest after advancing from the District round.

Congratulations to Chris Rose for placing first and Diane Rogers for placing third. Chris will compete in the State competition in June, and Diane will serve as the alternate in the event a winner is unable to attend.

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Medical Academy Hosts Annual Breakfast

More than 75 students and 36 physicians, nurses and healthcare professionals attended an educational breakfast hosted by the Carroll Medical Academy April 3.

Local medical professionals were invited to speak with high school students about careers in the healthcare profession for this fifth annual event. Medical Academy students have expressed it as being beneficial in their decision-making process and greatly educational and interesting.

The Carroll Medical Academy is a magnet program through Carroll ISD where students interested in pursuing a career in a medical field are offered intensive math and science courses. This program is
offered for grades 9 through 12 at Carroll Senior High School.

For more information about the Carroll Medical Academy, contact Sherry Martin at MartinSh@cisdmail.com or call 817-949-5800.

Andrea Seitz, Katie Dachniwsky, Hannah Dotson, Caroline Harroun and Nita Soni listen to a doctor.


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CES Students Waking Up With Exercise Program

Dragon elementary students are pictured above getting energized for the day with the Wake Up CES program.

Students at Carroll Elementary School have been creating their own morning news show this year. With funding from the PTO, the school was able to purchase video equipment to broadcast the show to all the classrooms throughout the campus.

The fourth grade students start the show with a short weather forecast for the day then students from the lower grades read school announcements along with the Texas Pledge of Allegiance.

Then the action begins as the students wake the entire school up by doing 10 minutes of stretching and exercise.


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Durham Students Helping Collect For CMS Book Drive

Durham Elementary students are assisting Carroll Middle School in an effort to collect books for a used book drive benefiting the CMS campus library.

Fourth grade students from Debra Albertini's library club decided to take collecting books on as a project. In a matter of weeks, the group has collected over 4,000 books. The students turned the project into a contest between classes and the library club students have done all of the collecting, counting and promotion of the event.

The CMS used book sale takes place April 25-26 - proceeds will go toward the purchase of a security system to detect books from leaving the library unauthorized. For more information, contact Robin Carson at rcarson89@msn.com.

Flier: CMS Used Book Drive

DES students show a few of the books they've collected.

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Dawson Bands Stacks Up Awards

DMS students show off trophies the bands have earned at recent competitions.

On April 2, the Dawson Middle School Symphonic Band traveled to Hebron High School to compete in the University Interscholastic League's (UIL) Concert and Sightreading competition.

The band performed Advance Guard by Jerry Nowak, Nottingham Castle by Larry Daehn and finished the program with Moscow, 1941 by Brian Balmages. The judges were very complimentary and rewarded the band with an excellent rating. After their stage performance, the band headed over to the band hall and started the sightreading process. Here the students were given a piece of music that they had never seen or performed. The director (Eric Guerrero) had four minutes of general session to talk to the students about the piece. After the four minutes were up, he had three minutes of summary time where he could sing, count, clap, etc. the rhythms. Once that time was completed, the band had to perform the composition. The judges were blown away by how strong the ensemble played and each judge gave the band a superior (I) rating. A couple of the judges said Dawson did the best job of sightreading out of all the 35 non-varsity bands competing.

Two days later, the Dawson Wind Ensemble competed at Wakeland High School for UIL competition. The band performed Proud Heritage by William Latham, Voices of the Sky by Samuel Hazo and Variations on Scarborough Fair by Calvin Custer. Like the Symphonic Band, the Wind Ensemble then went to the band hall and competed in the sightreading portion. The sightreading piece for this ensemble was a Level III (Symphonic Band reads a Level I) so the director (David Stone) had five minutes of general time and three minutes of summary. All six judges (three for the stage performance and three for the sightreading) were very complimentary of the Wind Ensemble and awarded the band the coveted sweepstakes trophy (Superior ratings in both concert and sightreading). This is the sixth year in a row that this award has been given to the Dawson Wind Ensemble!

On April 12, the Wind Ensemble headed to the Springfest Competition at the University of North Texas. The band performed the same numbers that they performed at UIL, but were judged by four different judges. The results however, were still the same! The band received all superior ratings from all four judges! They also gave out five section awards (Outstanding French Horns, Trumpets, Tubas, Percussion and Flutes) and eight individual awards (Elena Penedo - Flute, Hayley Ryskoski - French Horn, Michael Leung - Alto Sax, Shelby Brown - Flute, Neha Jain - Flute, Drew Petty - Euphonium, Nick Foster - Euphonium and Taylor White - Trumpet). The band also finished runner-up in the final competition, beating out 22 other bands.

Next up was the Metrofest Competition April 18 at Argyle High School. The Dawson Symphonic Band performed the same numbers from UIL and this time they received straight ones from the judges. The band really played well and the judges were very complimentary of the difficult program! Before the Symphonic Band competed, the Dawson Concert Band "wowed" the judges with Forward March by Paul Murtha, Anthem and March by Anne McGinty and Phantom Ship by Elliot Del Borgo. This was the very first time that the DMS Concert Band ever competed in a festival. The judges were very impressed and awarded the band with straight ones!

To view a complete list of band students, visit the link below. David Stone and Eric Guerrero direct the Dawson bands.

2007-2008 DMS Band Students

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Durham Intermediate Students Becoming Young Architects

Several sixth graders in Lance Mangham's class at Durham Intermediate School recently completed designs for their new homes on Southlake Street, Dragon Drive and Carroll Court. As part of the overall geometry unit, students played various roles ranging from architect to building inspector and landscape designer to real estate agent.

Students designed their homes with a limited budget using real-life architectural symbols and the common scale of 0.25 inches equals 1 foot. They had to follow building codes and electrical codes while creating a home with flow, open spaces and minimal halls.

Combining the final 22 by 28 inch projects with area and cost calculations and a home flyer to sell their houses, students' final projects were recently on display at DIS Open House.

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RES Students Receive Wild Visit

Rockenbaugh Elementary School students recently had a visit from the Fort Worth Zoo. Members of the zoo staff put on a presentation for the school and several student volunteers were able to help out with the animals.

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Dragon Celebration

Student Pam Bell is pictured with Principal Dr. Daniel Presley and Superintendent Dr. David Faltys

Carroll Senior High School recently hosted a celebration honoring Life Skills student Pam Bell.

Pam has been accepted to Eastern New Mexico University and will attend a special program as she studies to become a veterinarian's assistant. As part of this unique program, students live in dorms and have an authentic college experience.

Pam's Life Skills teacher is Amelia Dye.

 

 

 

 

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COMMUNITY NEWS

Barnes & Noble Hosting Educator Appreciation Week

Barnes & Noble Booksellers of Southlake is hosting an Educator Appreciation Week April 26-May 4. Pre-k through 12th grade educators, librarians, administrators and staff are eligible to receive 20% off all book purchases for the classroom and educational development.

In addition, Barnes & Noble is hosting a special educator reception at their store Saturday, May 3 at 11 a.m. For more information, click the links below.

Flier: Barnes & Noble Educator Appreciation Week

Barnes & Noble Educator Appreciation Week Voucher



Roboticist/Inventor James McLurkin Coming To Southlake

Roboticist and inventor James McLurkin is making an appearance Thursday, May 8 at the Southlake Public Library. This event begins at 6:30 p.m. and is for all ages.

McLurkin was the 2003 recipient of the Lemelson-MIT student prize for invention. He has been recognized by Time magazine as one of the five leading robotics engineers and by Black Enterprise magazine as one of its "Best and Brightest Under 40." He has appeared on the PBS NOVA scienceNOW series as well as the Discovery Channel.

Flier: Roboticist and Inventor James McLurkin Coming To Southlake



Central Market Hosting Free Skincare Seminar

Skincare expert Alla Korot is visiting Central Market in Southlake Friday, May 9 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Alla will be speaking about the body’s largest organ – skin. Seminar topics will include: Loving Your Skin: A Guide to Toxins and Certification, The difference between “Natural” and “Organic," Common toxins found in skincare & their link to cancer & obesity and How you can protect yourself.

Alla Korot has been an actress in the entertainment industry for 19 years. She began her career in daytime television as Jenna on Another World, where she received the Outstanding Female Newcomer Soap Digest Award and was nominated for an Emmy. Most recently, Korot has acted in independent films and been featured in popular TV series such as 24, Shark, Nip/Tuck, and Boston Legal.

Korot’s desire to create an authentic natural and organic alternative to all of the toxic skincare she is exposed to through the industry was the impetus behind her co-founding L’uvalla Certified Organic. A long-standing yoga practitioner and proponent of healthy living, Korot promotes a total wellness approach to life – mind, body and spirit.

Seating is limited for this event, so those interested in attending must RSVP to reserve a spot. Call the Healthy Living Department at 817-310-5670. Please be sure to include full name, telephone number and number of people in your party. This event will take place in the Central Market Community Room.

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