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    • CHCCS Welcomes Lisa Kaylie to the Board of Education

      At Thursday night’s meeting, the Chapel Hill-Board of Education selected Lisa Kaylie to fill the remainder of the term that became vacant when Dr. Amy Fowler was elected to the Board of County Commissioners.

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    • Food for Students Celebrates Million Meals Milestone

      At Smith Middle School (SMS) on February 17, the skies were a brilliant blue for the long-anticipated celebration of Food for Students’ Million Meals milestone. Eleven months ago, the program, formerly established as Food for the Summer, managed an extraordinarily swift and efficient transition to a weekday emergency feeding organization for CHCCS children.

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    • Black Lives Matter at School Inspires Activities Across District

      The list of Black History Month activities, online events and creative projects from CHCCS schools is pages long and growing by the day. The Weekly Update can only highlight a fraction of the amazing instructional practices and celebrations, but each newsletter in February will share a report from several schools. For the first time, a number of schools introduced lessons and practices from the national curriculum, Black Lives Matter at School, which was developed in 2016, as a national coalition organizing for racial justice in education.

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    • Brad Johnson Honored as "Hometown Hero"

      Over the eleven months since CHCCS classrooms closed because of the pandemic, the heroic efforts of many staff members, district leaders and parents have often gone unrecognized. But one “Hometown Hero,” Transportation Director, Brad Johnson, received a well-deserved shoutout from the local radio station, WCHL, on January 18.

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    • Global Connections at Smith MS Adapts to Virtual Format

      For the first time in many years, students and staff at Smith Middle School (SMS) did not spend the weeks after winter break planning, organizing and creating the annual Global Connections celebration, usually scheduled for February. But with the generous support of the Public School Foundation and Bright Ideas,* a core group of staff developed an alternative vision, beginning with a kickoff Community Connections event on the evening of January 14, when students and staff participated in an interactive session with Guadalupe Garcia McCall, author of the novel-in-verse, “Under the Mesquite,” a SMS favorite.

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