School News
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FPGB First Day "Help Desk" / Primer Día "Línea de Ayuda"
Need help on the first day of school? FPG staff will be available to help you on Monday, August 17 from 7:30 AM-2:30 PM. Click the link to find out more. / ¿Necesita ayuda el primer día de escuela? El personal de FPG estará disponible para ayudarle el lunes 17 de agosto de 7:30 AM-2:30 PM. Haga clic en el enlace para obtener más información.
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FPGB FAQ about 2020-2021 School Year/Preguntas de alta frecuencia sobre el Año Escolar 2020-2021
Google Doc that has questions and answers about the upcoming school year
District Headlines
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Eugenia Floyd Named 2020-21 Regional Teacher of the Year
Eugenia Floyd, fourth grade teacher at Scroggs Elementary School, and 2020-21 Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Teacher of the Year, has been named one of nine North Carolina Regional Teachers of the Year. She will advance to the competition for 2021 Burroughs Wellcome Fund North Carolina Teacher of the Year.
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2020 EC Educator of Excellence Announced
Each year, the N.C. Department of Public Instruction’s Exceptional Children Division honors an “Exceptional Children (EC) Educator of Excellence,” and the 2020 award for CHCCS goes to Ashley Hudson, speech-language pathologist (SLP).
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Board Elects New Chair and Vice Chair
At its December 3 Special Call Meeting, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education elected Dr. Jillian La Serna as its new chair, and Deon Temne as vice chair.
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November is Career Development Month
The process to educate CHCCS students about their career options and development may start earlier and offer far more resources than many parents, and even staff, know. What better time to showcase the numerous paths toward career exploration and preparation than this month, Career Development Month. And the education professionals who oversee this process are the creative and dedicated career development coordinators (CDC’s) in our high schools.
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Two Elementary Schools Innovate Their Library Book Distributions
In the ongoing efforts to help as many CHCCS students as possible access library books, a few schools have recently instituted curbside pickup as an extension of the media centers’ service. The media specialists at two dual-language elementary schools, Carrboro and Frank Porter Graham Bilingue have taken their outreach to even greater levels to ensure wider availability of books for all their students.