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- Written by: Jesse Harrell
The Fashion Festival community service that took place on March 23 went very well.
Five Carlé students showed up to help out and worked as hard as they could. Here is a list of the five students that showed up and helped out: Lukas Carlson, Paige Finley, Junior Garcia, Summer Gunn and Chenoa Schmidt. Thanks to you all for your hard work.
Student of the Week this week was Lucas Stickel. Lucas is a great guy and a hard worker. In class he is one of the most studious and honorable, and we’re very pleased to give him this award. Congratulations Lucas.
New students coming to us just within this past week are Janiece Valley and Aaron Beecher. We’re very happy, as always, to see new students come to Carlé and we hope that you both stay with us for the rest of your high school lives. Welcome to you both.
Spring break will take place during this first week of April, so there will be no school. We hope that everyone has a very fun time over break, but remain safe and sound.
Ms. Carmela Della, our representative for the Western Association of Schools and Colleges review team came to visit us here at Carlé for our three year midterm review as a six-year accredited school – the highest a school can receive. We are all very proud of this accomplishment as well as having been named a model continuation school three times.
Once again I’d like to remind everyone about open house at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, May 25. It will be a potluck so bring any dish you’d like and remember, your Carlé student will receive credit for attending the open house. We hope to see many of you there.
We hope that everyone has a wonderful, and safe, spring break and we will see you all after the break is over.
Jesse Harrell is a student at Carlé Continuation High School in Lower Lake, Calif.
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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The Lake County Literacy Task Force continues to grow and strive thanks to the generous support from community groups.
The Lakeport Lions have recently partnered up with the Lake County Literacy Task Force to support their initiative called Lake County Reads!
This initiative focuses on bringing community members into the classrooms to share a good book, and the love of reading, with the students.
When possible, this community member is partnered with a high school student to share in the joy of reading.
The newest partnership will bring the Lakeport Lions club members, along with students from Clear Lake High School, onto the campus of Lakeport Elementary once a month to read to the students.
Thanks to generous community support, Kelseyville Elementary, Riviera Elementary, Minnie Cannon Elementary and now Lakeport Elementary all participate in the Lake County Reads program.
The goal of the literacy task force is to ensure that all students have access to literacy and that all students are supported by a community that values and supports literacy for all of its members.
For more information on the Lake County Literacy Task Force contact Wally Holbrook at 707-262-4100 or
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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Konocti Unified School District hosted a total of five Challenge Days this school year.
Challenge Day is an organization that provides students with a one day experience in promotion of anti-bullying.
The Web site describes a lot about the day, the activities and the premise of Challenge Day.
The basis for the idea is the quote by Gandhi, “Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
They spend six hours with students and adult volunteers to help them to “Notice, Choose, Act!”: Notice how your world is, choose how you want it to be and take action to make it that way.
The students and adults undergo a bonding experience like no other.
This year Konocti Unified and many community based organizations have come together to expand the program to reach seventh and eighth graders and the elementary schools in Clearlake.
Team leaders from Challenge Day came up to Clearlake and presented the program to 110 Burns Valley School students and 74 Pomo students, due in large part to funding from the Redbud Healthcare District.
Lower Lake Elementary students and Lower Lake High School students also took part in the program earlier this month.
Among the adult volunteers in the room on any one of those given five days were teachers and other school staff from the sites, Donna Becnel, superintendent of KUSD and other district staff, Healthy Start employees of Lake County Offices of Education, three Clearlake City Council members, Lake Family Resource Center employees, Redbud Healthcare District Board Members, AmeriCorps Members, clergy and many other interested citizens.
One adult stated that she had thought she was there that day to help the students, but she found that they helped her more than she could have ever imagined.
One of the large components of Challenge Day is a “cross the line” exercise that allows everyone in the room to see that they are not alone in whatever they may be going through.
This very powerful exercise allows students to see that they have more in common with each other and adults than they may have previously thought.
The day culminated with declarations from students and adults alike, sharing how they will make the future different for themselves and others.
Lower Lake High School has a club that is an offshoot of this experience called the Be the Change Club, so that students may organize and carry the message forward on their campus.
For more information visit www.challengeday.org .
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The list of students who took the Early Assessment Program test for the determination of college readiness included Blossom Niedenbach, Josh Kennedy, Jay Brown, Lucas Stickel, Constance Hazelwood, Antonio Rosiles and James Mora.
Ms. Shrive held the test during lunch and sixth period in the library and these students put in some great efforts.
This Friday, March 21, was the half way point in this the fifth grading period. Progress reports will be given in every class the first Monday after spring break.
As we speak, the media classes and all students at the school are having a t-shirt contest. The theme is Carlé itself and students can submit their designs and get free t-shirts made of their artwork, designs or pictures.
One of our best designers, Junior Garcia, has designed a special plaque for our head designer, Nura Brown. This plaque was awarded at our sustainability assembly along with a special plaque of student and staff quotes made for Barbara Dye by student Andrew Subjack.
Here is the list of the Carlé students who received Sustainability Awards for retaining and/or obtaining Gold Level or Silver Level more than once.
Gold Level – four times, Kobi Minard; three times – Blossom Neidenbach and Timothy McGuire; two times – Lukas Carlson, Kasandra Colwell and Dane Pearson.
At least Silver Level four times – Junior Garcia, Emilio Gonzales, Ray Green, Joshua Kennedy and Roxie Purdum-White. At least twice – Isaac Dominguez.
Silver Level twice – Lucas Stickel, Sarah Terry and Steven Tracy. Silver four times – Lance Thurston and Rosie Wright-Trejo.
Congratulations to all of these students for sustaining such high credits each grading period. Each of these students received free items from our school based enterprise. They will now sit down with student designers to detail their awards.
Just a reminder, Carlé will have its official open house on Thursday, May 9, beginning at 5:30 p.m. All who attend will receive credit.
Gary Oakes, our Carlé maintenance person, has hung all of the flags from our flag contest around the quad here at Carlé. It is nice to see the students’ designs decorating the school. It gives the school personality because of its customized look.
Here is the list of the new additions to Carlé's student council: Constance Hazelwood, Nura Brown, Andrew Subjack, Esparanza Roberts, Charles Trujillo and Timothy McGuire.
The student council under the direction of teacher Robin Shrive will be hosting activities for the rest of the school year. More info on these activities to follow.
Jesse Harrell is a student at Carlé Continuation High School in Lower Lake, Calif.