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The Public Information Office serves as the communication link between the district and the families whose children attend our schools.
The staff issues regular press releases to local media about district events, publishes news articles, designs special publications and calendars, schedules Blackboard Connect calls to remind parents of key district activities, maintains the content on the district website and our social media sites, and sends regular news updates to employees and the community through its mailing lists.The staff also helps to coordinate crisis communication during inclement weather or school safety situations.Connect with us!
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East Chapel Hill’s Brian Link Named 2021-22 Regional Teacher of the Year
Brian Link, Social Justice Civics and Economics teacher at East Chapel Hill High School, and 2021-22 Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Teacher of the Year, has been named the Burroughs-Wellcome Fund North Central Teacher of the Year winner, one of only nine North Carolina Regional Teachers of the Year.
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Focusing on Staff Wellness at FPGB in the "Zen Den"
“Zen Den”. The words conjure all sorts of possibilities. If you close your eyes, imagine the calm and quiet, then you’ve begun to envision the newly reconfigured space at Frank Porter Graham Bilingüe Elementary School. The FPGB “Zen Den” is now open all day, every day for teachers and staff to seize a few minutes of respite and serenity.
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National Merit Scholar Semifinalists Announced for 2022
On September 15, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced approximately 16,000 Semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program. Twenty-eight Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools students earned Semifinalist awards, representing Carrboro High School, Chapel Hill High School and East Chapel Hill High School.
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For the 15th Year, the Public School Foundation and East Rotary Provide School Supplies to Teachers
For 15 years, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Public School Foundation and East Chapel Hill Rotary Club have partnered to kick off the school year by hosting a supply store with much needed school supplies for teachers. The past two years have brought many challenges as the event has been reconfigured as COVID-safe. But on the morning of August 19, a team of PSF and Rotary members and community volunteers carried out the annual event of giving school supplies to grateful teachers across the district.
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Chapel Hill HS "Proconian" Publishes PSF-Funded Series
A 2019 Public School Foundation grant awarded to Chapel Hill High School journalism teacher, Stephen Head, serves as a perfect example of the flexibility required for so many projects impacted by the pandemic. Head wrote the grant application to bring in a professional journalist as a guest teacher, with the goal of writing a series of "Proconian" stories about the lives of the workers constructing the new buildings at CHHS. More than 18 months after the original project was funded, the series, “Covid-19 Stories,” became one about how the coronavirus pandemic affected various individuals.
