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Fredericks is 23 years old and is from Montana. This is her first year teaching as a fully accredited teacher. However, she has two and a half years experience teaching at an alternative school in Missoula, Montana.
Asked why she chose to work at Carlé in particular, she responded, “I enjoy working with students at continuations school because I can relate to them. If I could do anything other than teaching I would be an event planner, however, love teaching English.”
Fredericks has been doing a really great job and all of us at Carlé, students and staff alike appreciate the effort you put into educating the students of our school.
Also a shoutout to our new school site secretary Angie Harrison. Welcome, Angie. Ms. Harrison will be the focus of our next article. Students in the media class have made Ms. Harrison two key chains and a mug to welcome her to our school community.
In addition to welcoming Angie, we would like to thank Angie’s husband Phil Harrison for his spontaneous donation of many different C.H.I.L.Y. prizes including chips, cookies and many other things.
He also has offered to be a potential employer for Carlé Students; in fact he employs a Carlé graduate currently. He also offered to sponsor awards for good behavior, academic achievements, and good attendance.
As a special thank you one of our lead designers Shaina Yaqunito created him a plaque showing Carlé’s appreciation for the things he doing, we can’t say it enough, thank you.
On Friday, Sept. 1, teachers Lexi Fredericks and Lance Christensen held a water balloon toss. The winners received medallions made by our own Carlé Student Body Enterprise (S.B.E.).
Congratulations to Jose Carillo and Gage Thayer for winning the water balloon toss competition.
We will be doing more activities like this in the future. As this article went to press teacher Alan Siegel was running a musical chairs game in the library as an advisory competition. Winners will be announced next issue.
Carlé’s S.B.E. program is holding a photo contest. Unlike most of our design contests this one if for the best photo you have ever taken and does not need to be tied to Carlé High School in any way.
Winners of the contest will be announced and their photos will be put on mugs, mouse pads and key chains as the reward.
The weekend of Sept. 1 to 3 Carlé student we presented with an opportunity by Cheri Johnson of Totes for Teens to volunteer their time in a community-based project.
This community project was at the Lake County Fair. We really appreciate these student volunteering their time to help the community. A thank you to Abbreana Gonzales, Caiden Harvey, Johnnye Melvin, Ray Azevedo, Pawnum Redhawk, Teagon Tompioner, Tara Denson and Adam Morgansbesser.
All of these students volunteered their time and we at Carlé really appreciate these students for making such a commitment.
On Thursday, Aug. 24, Carlé held its annual back to school night.
During this evening parents of Carlé’s students got an opportunity to see the school, what kind of work we do at Carlé and most importantly the teachers teaching them. We really appreciate anyone that came to back to school night.
We would like to give a shoutout and thank you to Healthy Smart for coordinating dental screening and visits for Carlé on Aug. 28. We really appreciate the help provided to students especially something as essential as dental care.
A thank you also goes out to our maintenance department for sealing our new basketball court. The students truly appreciate it.
Nicholas Phipps is a student at Carlé Continuation High School in Lower Lake.
California Community Colleges encourage students to apply for the DACA renewal scholarship by Oct. 5
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The San Francisco-based nonprofit, which has a long history of supporting Dreamers, dedicated scholarship funds specifically to help California community college, California State University and University of California students pay for the $495 renewal fee.
DACA students interested in applying for the scholarship opportunity should visit http://lc4daca.org to learn more and complete the online application.
Scholarship applicants will need to complete a short questionnaire and will need to provide their documentation of DACA status with expiration date on or before March 5, 2018, to qualify for the financial aid.
“We applaud the Mission Asset Fund for the dedication of these funds to our state’s DACA students. It provides the needed financial assistance to file their renewal applications ahead of the Oct. 5 deadline, which is fast approaching,” said California Community Colleges Chancellor Eloy Oakley, who encouraged DACA students to renew their status. “The California Community Colleges will continue to support DACA students despite the Trump administration’s decision to rescind this vital program.”
Oakley also praised state legislative leaders and Gov. Jerry Brown for agreeing to provide a $30 million to support California’s undocumented immigrants.
The proposal provides additional funding for immigration legal services under the One California program, and the California Community College Chancellor’s Office will receive $7 million.
This funding will be made available to local colleges so that they can provide emergency financial aid resources to students affected by President Trump’s decision to rescind the DACA
Students are encouraged to apply as soon as possible so they do not miss out on the opportunity to obtain a scholarship for the $495 renewal fee.
Scholarship applications will be processed the same day they are submitted and once a student has qualified, checks made out to the Department of Homeland
Security will immediately be made available in the San Francisco area and by overnight mail in other parts of the state.
Funding for the DACA renewal scholarship opportunity for California public college students is provided through the Weingart Foundation. Other philanthropic supporters include: the Irvine Foundation, Tipping Point Community, The Chavez Family Foundation and San Francisco Foundation.
The Trump Administration’s DACA decision does not impact a student’s ability to attend California community colleges, to qualify for an exemption from nonresident tuition fees under AB 540, or to apply for financial aid under the provisions of the California Dream Act. AB 540 and the California Dream Act are state programs that are entirely separate and distinct from DACA.
To learn more about the financial aid opportunities available through the California Dream Act visit icanaffordcollege.com.
The California Community Colleges is the largest system of higher education in the nation composed of 72 districts and 114 colleges serving 2.1 million students per year. For more information about the community colleges, please visit http://californiacommunitycolleges.cccco.edu/.
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The scholarship program is in its 17th consecutive year and Mediacom’s investment will award $1,000 World Class Scholarships to 55 high school seniors.
Scholarship recipients are given the flexibility to use the financial award to support educational expenses for higher education or vocational training from any accredited post-secondary institution starting in the fall of 2018. Award selection is based on academic achievement and leadership.
Applications for Mediacom’s World Class Scholarships are available online at www.mediacomworldclass.com.
All high schools in Mediacom-served communities were sent informational cards asking school officials to make seniors aware of the scholarship and encourage submission of applications on or before the Feb. 16, 2018, deadline.
“As a company, Mediacom makes it a priority to give back to communities in which we do business, and one of the best ways is to invest in promising students who are our future leaders,” said Mediacom Regional Vice President Bill Jensen.
Applicants do not have to be Mediacom customers but must live in areas where Mediacom provides broadband, video, phone and other digital communication services.
Recipients will be selected from the 21 states where Mediacom provides service. A complete list of communities in Mediacom service areas is included with the online application.
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After a whole summer of hiatus we finally return with a new article each week.
With a new school year comes new things, and that includes teachers.
As you may or may not know Carlé’s English teacher Dan Maes retired last year making 2017 his last year of teaching.
With Maes’ retirement Lexi Fredericks stepped in as Carlé’s new English teacher. We will report more on Carlé’s new English teacher in the next article, where we will do an in-depth interview.
During the introduction to the school year called the thematic teachers held classes such as geography, sex ed and introduction to math.
This thematic lasted two and a half weeks (13 school days) and students had the opportunity of earning 1.1 credits in each class if you came everyday and earned credit in each one of your classes.
Students will be rewarded with an hour of a credit for filling out their organizational planners and another hour of credit for showing spirit and wearing their Carlé shirts on Fridays. It doesn’t seem like a ton of credit but it adds up over time.
Since there wasn’t enough time to put the 6th grade period’s from last year gold level students in the article we would like to give a shout out to Shaina Yaquinto, Teagan Tompioner, CeCe Brown, Juan Carlos Octaviano, and Jose Carrillo.
Also during the thematic since the Chronicle was on hiatus, students received student of the week awards.
The first student of the school year was Zoe Markowitz. She was nominated by teacher Angie Siegel, who said “She always gave very insightful responses and was always on task.”
The second week’s student of the week was Shaina Yaquinto, who was nominated by teacher Alan Siegel.
“Shaina is always on task and determined and when I nominated Shaina everyone came to the consensus that she deserved it,” he said. “She runs our morning bulletin and is the best aide I have ever had. She is a hard worker and a natural leader.”
The most recent student of the week is Estefania Cuevas who was awarded when all the teachers came to an agreement about Estefania saying “Estefania is very friendly and always makes her work her priority, and that is what Carlé is all about.”
Carlé would like to thank from the bottom of our hearts Gina Weese, classified substitute office assistant.
Ms. Weese has done a tremendous job with a great attitude. She is very friendly and is always ready to help us out.
I asked her if she enjoyed working at Carlé and she responded, “Yes, I love working here, everyone is important and unique and I enjoy all of the different kinds of people I’ve met working at Carlé,”
Thank you so much Gina. Our designers have tried to show Ms. Weese how much we appreciate her by making her a plaque, mug and keychain. We have one more special plaque to award her next week.
Ultimate Peace is a charitable Organization put together by Dave Barkan Ultimate Frisbee Hall of famer from the Boston Hostages and former opponent of our civics and history teacher Alan Siegel.
This organization brings together Israeli, Palestinian and other Muslim children centered around ultimate Frisbee with the idea that these kids get to know each other better and become friends.
We at Carlé love the idea of bringing people of the world together. In the spirit of love similar to how we started the year last year making key chains and plaques for all the police officer, first responders and firefighters who worked so hard on the devastating fire in our community we chose to make some special rewards for Ultimate Peace for doing so much for these young Middle Eastern kids.
Our lead designers made key chains with the Ultimate Peace logo on them and these will be given out in the Middle East. Our designers then created completely new Ultimate Peace logo designs which we emailed to Barkan who will take them over to the Middle East and have the kids in the program judge. The top two designers will win free t-shirts with their own artwork on them.
Alan Siegel, who was awarded the 2005 California State Teacher of the Year award, will be traveling to Los Angeles this week to be part of this year’s State Teacher of the Year selection committee.
Siegel was hand picked by current State Superintendent Tom Torlakson to be part of a committee that will review all 58 county teachers of the year and select the top candidates for classroom visits and State Department of Education interviews.
There is a lot going on at our little school including fun PE competitions run by teachers Lance Christenson and Lexi Fredericks as this article went to press.
We will detail this and a whole lot more in the next article.
Nicholas Phipps is a student at Carlé Continuation High School.