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- Written by: Jade Fox and Christina Green
On Nov. 17 Carlé High School had its gold level trip to Lakeside Lanes in Lakeport. The students played arcade games, laser tag, went bowling, and then everyone was treated to pizza. The students were chaperoned by teacher Alan Siegel and Principal Dennis To.
The students who earned gold level and were allowed to go on the field trip were Saffron Blue, Desiree Bauer, Jade Fox, Darren Gasperoni, Raina Golden, Ashlee Gravlee, Christina Green, Jesse Greene, David Hardy, Shania Jones, Arwen King, Dallas Schell, Corissa Schoonderwoed, Gerald Stahlman, Emily Thompson, Dylan Ward, Jonathan Warren, and Brandon Wilson. Carlé's newspaper crew would like to congratulate them all!
In addition, on Nov. 17 Carlé students Arwen King and Gasperoni showed their portfolios, and are now fully graduated!
On Nov. 18 Carlé students who earned Gold level, Silver level, and Bronze Level with 100 percent attendance were treated to a movie day complete with water and popcorn.
Graduate Carlé student, and media room aid, Derek Grace set up and cleaned up the silver level movie with the help of students, Daniel Hernandez and Jerry Stahlman. Thanks also go out to student Jade Fox and graduate Rebecca Englander for purchasing, cooking and serving the 45 students who earned this reward.
At the end of this grading period students Golden and Green made all the required credits and are now graduated.
Carlé High School will be out for Thanksgiving break Nov. 18-27.
As a Christmas gift to all Carlé students and staff, Siegel's media class will be making bookmarks for them. With the help of graduate Grace more than 100 bookmarks are in production, and a large portion are finished.
Carlé media student Bauer has made a plaque for Dr. Harry Lyons. Carlé High School¹s Interact Club will award him the plaque as a thank you for all his assistance.
Carlé High School would like to welcome new students, Summer Gunn, Charles Williams and Rosie Wright.
That is all for now, have a wonderful week!
Jade Fox and Christina Green are students at Carlé Continuation High School in Lower Lake, Calif.
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- Written by: Tammy Serpa
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Each of the five school districts in Lake County offer Regional Occupational Programs known as ROPs.
These classes serve as the capstone in a series of Career Technical Education courses meant to teach students career ready skills.
On Friday, Oct. 28, ROP classes from two districts worked together to provide a great learning opportunity for Lower Lake Elementary kindergartners.
Lower Lake High School offers a ROP class called Careers with Children. Advanced students participate in a practicum class that allows them to serve as helpers in classrooms at Lower Lake Elementary.
On Oct. 28, eight of the high school students experienced the challenges of taking over 100 kindergartners on a field trip. Each high school student assisted a group of elementary students including riding the bus and wearing matching hand-painted shirts.
Their destination was to visit the Middletown High School pumpkin patch put on by the ROP Agriculture department.
Students from Middletown High School hosted more than 700 elementary students from across the county over a six-day period.
High school students manned a variety of action packed stations including a haunted house, bucking barrel, face painting, roping, painting trick or treat cans, making ghosts, petting goats and picking out their very own pumpkin.
Middletown has been hosting this event at the school farm for the last five years. All proceeds collected go directly to the school farm and agriculture program.
For more information on either of the high school programs, please contact the Lake County Office of Education Regional Occupational Program at 707-262-4164 or
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- Written by: Jade Fox
Nov. 11 was Veterans Day. Carlé's newspaper crew hopes that everybody enjoyed their free day, while remembering the troops who made this country what it is today.
Nov. 17, Arwen King and Darren Gasperoni will have their portfolio showings. Best of luck to them both!
Thanksgiving break will be Nov. 21 to Nov. 25. After the break, Carlé will be 33 percent through the school year.
With that, the end of the grading period will be on the Nov. 18, however, most teachers will be closing their grading books a few days earlier.
On Oct. 27 and 28, the Lake County Animal Coalition hosted a Halloween dinner dance at the Moose Lodge in Clearlake Oaks.
Carlé students Jesse Green, Dakota Taylor, Alexis Castenada, Amy Bradford, Leticia Bowman, Nathan Galindo, Arturo Negrete, Jade Fox, and Lower Lake High student Kenneth Kalousek all volunteered to help out. Some students set up and some served but they all did a wonderful job!
Every week, under the guidance of Lou Denny, Bowman and Negrete have been preparing food baskets. The food baskets are handed out to needy and underprivileged members of the community.
On Oct. 28, members of Narcotics Anonymous came to Carlé and educated students on chemical dependency while sharing their experiences.
NA is an anonymous group who come together to give each other support and stay clean. They are nonjudgmental and encourage anyone to come to their meetings that are held all around the county. Carlé thanks them for their time and energy, and hopes to see them again this school year.
On Nov. 4, Leticia Bowman, Jesse Green, Joey Griffith, Tonya Smith, Dakota Taylor, and Jonathan Warren built bus shelters for Lake Transit. They worked with Superintendent Bill McDougall and did a wonderful job.
Carlé's Principal Mr. To stated that he was very proud of them and they represented Carlé well.
That is all for now, have a wonderful week!
Jade Fox is a student at Carlé Continuation High School in Lower Lake, Calif.
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The average scores of California students tested on the 2011 NAEP were statistically unchanged from 2009, but higher than in 2005 or 2007 in both subjects, continuing a long-term trend of steady progress.
NAEP scores fall into four categories: Advanced, Proficient, Basic, and below Basic.
Average scores for California as well as the nation continue to place at the Basic achievement level, which denotes partial mastery of fundamental skills, although California's average scores were lower than the national average.
“Our students are still making progress, even as they swim against a riptide of crowded classrooms and deep budget cuts to our schools,” Torlakson said. “Asked to do more with less, students, teachers, school employees, and administrators have delivered. Imagine how much more they could accomplish—and how many more students would share in this progress—with the resources they deserve.”
The NAEP reading and mathematics assessments take place every other year and provide states with trend data that can be compared over time.
Because California is much more demographically diverse than the nation as a whole, assessment experts also look at the performance of student subgroups in making comparisons.
On the Grade Four Reading assessment, the average score for many student groups in California was comparable to those at the national level, and the average score for the male and African American student groups moved up to the NAEP Basic achievement level for the first time.
Several grade four student groups have made gains in reading since 2005, including African American, Hispanic, Asian, and economically disadvantaged students.
On the Grade Eight Reading assessment, the average scores for most student groups in California were lower than those of their peers at the national level, although the African American student group scored comparably to their peers at the national level.
Since 2009, economically disadvantaged students had a gain in average score, and their average score moved into the NAEP Basic achievement level for the first time.
Similar results were found for the Hispanic student group, which has had a significant improvement in average score since 2007 and, for the first time, scored at the NAEP Basic achievement level.
The African American student group scored at the NAEP Basic achievement level for the first time in 2009, and scored at that same level in 2011.
Grade eight female students in California have also shown significant improvement in their average score since 2007.
On the Grade Four Mathematics assessment, white, African American, and Asian students in California scored comparably to their peers at the national level while the Hispanic student group scored lower.
The average score for English language learners (ELLs) moved up to the NAEP Basic achievement level, and the average score for white and non-economically disadvantaged students moved from the NAEP Basic achievement level to the NAEP Proficient achievement level.
Additionally, there have been score gains for many student groups since 2007, including male, female, Hispanic, economically disadvantaged and non-economically disadvantaged students.
Fewer gains were seen on the Grade Eight Mathematics assessment. The 2011 average score for most student groups in California was lower than at the national level, although the white student group scored comparably to their peers at the national level.
While gains have been made by several grade eight student groups since 2005, the average score for ELLs has dropped.
In both subjects and at both grades, despite steady progress for many student groups, a significant achievement gap persists between white students and their Hispanic and African American peers.
There have been no recent changes in California's White-Hispanic gap, which in most instances continues to be larger than the national gap. Results from the grade four mathematics assessment show an increase in this gap since 2005. The large percentage of ELLs that California schools serve compared to the nation as a whole might be a factor in these differences.
For example, at grade four approximately 28 percent of the Hispanic students that participated in the NAEP in California were ELLs compared to 9 percent nationally.
For both grades and subjects, the score gap between California's white and African American student groups is comparable to those at the national level. Results from the NAEP grade four reading assessment have shown a reduction in the gap between white and African American scores since 2005, with both student groups making score gains.
NAEP, also known as “The Nation's Report Card,” is a national assessment that tests a representative sample of students in grades four, eight, and twelve in various subjects including reading, writing, mathematics, and science.
NAEP provides a common yardstick for measuring student achievement nationwide, allowing for state comparisons. Results are released for the nation, states, and certain large urban school districts.
There are no student- or school-level results. Reading and mathematics results for certain large urban districts are expected to be released later this year. Results from the 2011 science assessment are expected to be released in spring 2012.
Complete results for the 2011 NAEP reading and mathematics assessments are available online http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/.