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September, 2018 Volume 41, Issue 1

It has been a great start to the 2018-19 school year. The teachers, administrators and staff

have welcomed students into their schools with enthusiasm and high expectations. Many thanks to all of our Canyon ISD staff for their preparations -

which began long before the first day – to fulfill our role in touching the lives of each student.

We began our school year with ambitious goals for academic achievements and college, career, and military readiness. These goals align with how schools are rated with state measures. In CISD, we pursue these goals to prepare students for opportunities of choice in their career interests or higher education to understand workforce needs in the Panhandle area. The Panhandle has a proud and special culture which distinguishes this area from other places. We hope our students who are raised in this culture are offered opportunities to become successful as adults in this culture.

Our growth in Canyon ISD continues as we begin this school year. We have set a record enrollment – currently at 10,061 - which traditionally climbs through the month of September. Over the past 7 years, CISD has grown 1,200 students and is projected to grow at an even faster rate in the future. Predictions for the next 7

Superintendent’s Comments

By Dr. Darryl Flusche

Pinnacle students volunteered to give tours of the campus at the Ribbon Cut-ting Ceremony.

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Canyon ISD Opens New Campus -

Pinnacle Intermediate

Parents, students, cham-ber members and Canyon ISD Board of Trustees joined the Pinnacle Intermediate’s rib-bon cutting on September 5th.

Amarillo City Commis-sioner Howard Smith and Canyon Mayor Gary Hinders announced their excitement about the new school and the growth in the district.

Both Amarillo Chamber and Canyon Chambers had their ribbon cutting ceremony with Board President Katha-ryn Weigand, Superintendent Dr. Darryl Flusche, and Pin-

nacle Principal Kim Lackey. After the ceremony Pinnacle students led attendees around the campus.

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Campus Administrative Changes

Kim Lackey Principal Pinnacle

Intermediate

Angie Baldwin Asst. Principal

Lakeview Elementary

Kayla Benton Asst. Principal Westover Park

Junior High

Eric Gomez Asst.

Principal Canyon High

Kim Myers Associate Principal

Randall High

Jeff Schenck Asst.

Principal Randall High

Brandi Sanderson Associate Principal

Canyon High

Dixie Shettel Asst. Principal

Pinnacle Intermediate

Joy Webb Asst. Principal Randall High

& YCHP

Derek West Asst. Principal

Canyon Junior High

Kelsey Williams Asst. Principal

City View Elementary

Chris Young Asst. Principal

Arden Road Elementary

Wilson Selected as PCAT Board President

PCAT is Property Casualty Al-liance of Texas. It was created to provide member districts with a strategy to achieve the lowest long-term cost for property and casualty coverage via multi-year member-ship, rate and coverage stability, proactive loss prevention, and cash dividends.

PCAT is a member owned-and-governed pro-gram including 130 Texas school districts. Heather previously became a member of the board by being elected by her peers in the organization. In a recent meeting, this group selected her as the Chairperson/President of the PCAT Board. Heather is the CISD Assistant Superintendent of Business and Operations.

Delaney to Lead Principals and Supervisors Association

In the same way that TASB is a statewide or-ganization of school board mem-bers and superintendents, TEPSA is a statewide organization of ele-mentary principals and supervi-sors. On June 15th at the summer TEPSA Conference, Yolanda Delaney was inducted as the State President. The position is a state elected position with a 6 year term starting as secre-tary. Yolanda will serve as the President of the association for the 2018-19 school year. TEPSA serves 6,000 members statewide. She is the Director of Elemen-tary Education for Canyon ISD.

www.canyonisd.net/bond2018

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The Canyon FFA had an eventful summer, and we are happy to announce that we have the #1 FFA Chapter in the state of Texas again. This makes 6 of the last 7 years that Canyon FFA has been ranked in the top 3 and 4 of the past 5 that they have been #1.

Two students received scholarships from the Texas FFA in the amount of $10,000 each: Macey Thurman and Madison Matlock. They will both be freshmen at Texas A&M University this fall. In addi-tion, many of our students received numerous schol-arships from the agricultural industry and university level for their continued education. This year's schol-arship total for our students is over $200,000 and still rising.

We have two more national finalists! Claire McCormick and Grason Bush were named national finalists in their proficiency award areas. Each of them won the state championship after they had won area and district championships in order to qualify to advance to the national level. Their record books were judged at the national level, and they were selected as a finalist in their project area. They will go through two different interview processes at the national FFA convention in Indianapolis. The first will be for a national championship and the second will be for a week-long paid study abroad trip to Ire-land next summer.

Grason was also named an Area FFA Officer and will serve in that capacity as a National FFA vot-ing delegate. Only 476 National Voting delegates are selected each year. They will spend much of their week in Indianapolis going through convention cau-cuses, committee meetings, and business sessions to pass initiatives to be sent to the National FFA board

of directors for approval. These 476 students make all constitutional changes for an organization of over 600,000 members.

We also had two Texas FFA Foundation ambas-sadors. These students served the entire week of the convention to help the dignitaries and donors to the Texas FFA around the convention center. They were the hospitality staff for all the executives that come to the convention, and they were the face of the FFA for those who come to do on stage presentations. Lucas Bradshaw and Emily Thurman served in this capacity well.

Amadeo Loya competed again this year in the semi-finals of the Texas FFA Spanish creed contest at the state convention. Although he did not make the finals this year, we are extremely proud of this young man who has learned Spanish in order to compete in this contest.

Additionally, three other students were named state champions and did well at nationals even though they were not named national finalists. Emily Thurman won two state categories but per state rules could only advance in one of them to nationals. Ad-die Hicks won her state category as well. In addition, Claire McCormick was a finalist for the Star Lone Star in Agriculture Placement. This means she is one of the top 10 FFA members in the entire state of Tex-as in this category. There are over 120,000 FFA members statewide.

We had 8 students receive the Lone Star FFA Degree. This is the highest degree that can be be-stowed on a FFA member by the state of Texas. These students must complete a list of things which

Canyon FFA Ranked #1 Chapter in the State of Texas Submitted by Jeff Klose, CHS FFA Sponsor

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Canyon High School FFA members who attended State Competition.

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Photo and article submitted by Luke Brice

Five Canyon High School students were named 2018 All-State Journalists for their work during the 2017-2018 school year. Graduate Jaren Tankersley, seniors Erin Sheffield and Katelyn Spivey, and juniors Macy McClish and Claire Meyer all earned the award, which was announced in August by UIL. Students achieve the honor based on an accumulation of points earned through various UIL journalism competitions as well as staff leadership and other opportunities.

Canyon High Students Named as All-State Journalists for 2017-18

years show the district growing by 2,000 students.

Sixty parents and community members served on the Long Range Citizens Planning Committee to address the growth in CISD. From August 2017 - January 2018, this committee reviewed data for financials and enrollments. They also toured facilities in developing a long-range facility plan. The facility plan was presented to the Board of Trustees in January 2018. From January to August, the Board of Trustees reviewed the projects to evaluate the most cost-effective way to move forward.

In August 2018, The CISD Board of Trustees approved the final bond package to be placed on the ballot for the Nov. 6th election. Specific details regarding bond projects and additional classrooms can be found thru the Canyon ISD website. www.canyonisd.net/bond2018

We have several community meetings scheduled to inform our district patrons about the bond proposal. We welcome more opportunities to present the bond facts to more groups. Please contact us if we can meet with your organization to share information about the CISD Bond proposal.

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include: Earned and productively invested at least $1,000 and worked at least 300 hours in addi-tion to scheduled class time, demonstrated at least 10 parlia-mentary motions, accumulated at least 25 hours of community ser-vice in three different activities, and been instrumental in the plan-ning and carrying out of the chap-ter program of activities. These students are: Grason Bush, Nathan Hoggat, Claire McCormick, Mor-gan Niemiec, Jacob Sappington, Pecos Swift, Emily Thurman, and Caden Zotter.

Finally, we had 8 students compete in the state Agriscience fair at the state FFA convention. These students competed very hard, but came up just short of a state championship. These stu-dents and their science fair pro-jects were:

Macy Lawrence - 3rd - Wa-

ter filtration systems. Leah Jamieson and Teah

Taylor - 5th - Milk spoil-age

Alissa Reeves - 5th - Elec-trolysis for rust removal on metal.

Karstyn Salazar - 5th - Student knowledge of pol-linators

Caden Zotter - 6th - Asex-ual reproduction of Aus-tralian willow trees.

Annsleigh McCraw and Aspen Wall - 9th - com-munity knowledge of food preparation and cooking temperatures.

Ms. Warren was recognized at the Agriculture Teachers con-ference this summer for complet-ing her 5th year of service to the FFA and Agriculture Education and Mr. Klose was recognized for his 15th year of service.

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Canyon FFA Ranked #1 in State

EARLY VOTING SITES Randall County Election Admin. Office Randall County Annex Randall County Justice Center Region 16 Education Service Center Comanche Trail Church of Christ

ELECTION DAY—NOVEMBER 6

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Executive Board Tana Miller, President

Heather Peoples, VP Development

David Neeley, VP Distributions

Kara Gist, Treasurer

Aubrey Cypert, Secretary

Robin Lannou, Nominating Chair

Keith Brown, Past President

Board Of Directors Jennifer Auburg

Barbara Bain

Debbie Boyer

Ken Carriere

Misty Clement

Bruce Cobb, CISD Board Member

Meaghan Collier

Dr. Darryl Flusche, Superintendent

Janet Flusche

Lisa Harris

Krystal Johnson, PTA

Susan Johnson

Nicole Johnston, Principal Rep.

Laurie Kemp

Erin Miller

Erika Millican

Leisha Mogford

Deanna Porter

Jeff Schenck, School Rep.

Terest Soria

April McDaniel, CISD liaison

Kelly Norman,

Executive Director

The Education Foundation

of Canyon ISD

Funding excellence

in education since 1999

Education Foundation Awards Excellence

The Education Foundation of Canyon ISD supports our high schools by giving Scholarship checks to Randall High, Canyon High and Midway Alternative High Schools during the annual Raider vs. Eagle football game at Kimbrough Stadium.

With a new school year un-derway, the Education Foundation of Canyon ISD is excited to con-tinue our mission of promoting excellence in education for Can-yon ISD, our educators, and our students. At the Canyon High vs. Randall High Football game held Septem-ber 7 at Kimbrough Stadium, the Education Foundation held a tail-gate party and pre-game Donor Recognition Ceremony for the many community partners that fi-nancially support our mission.

“Without these donors, the Education Foundation could not continue to fund educator grants, student leadership grants and scholarships at our desired levels.

We are grateful for their support”, said Kelly Norman, Executive Director.

Canyon ISD faculty and staff continues to donate at the highest level of contributors. The founda-tion expresses sincere apprecia-tion to all Canyon ISD employees for their dedication, support and hard work in providing excellence in education to the kids in our community.

The Education Foundation was also able to present checks for $500 scholarships to Canyon High, Randall High and Midway Alternative High School during the ceremony.

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Employees of

Canyon ISD

Country Home

Weddings

Tidmore

Acquisition

Jessica & Matt Satter

 

CHS Class of 1968

The Education Foundation of Canyon ISD

Thank You to Our Partners

Consolidated Beef Products

Canyon Rotary Club 

McDonald's

Law Firm