The Canyon View Coyote: February 2016

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

2016 Governing Board Update

2016 Governing Board Organizational Election Information

Below are the newly elected board president, vice president, board members and legislative representative for your site newsletters.

Catalina Foothills School District

Dr. Mary Kamerzell,

Superintendent

209-7500

mkam@cfsd16.org

Governing Board Members

Eileen Jackson, President

299-3828

ejackson@cfsd16.org

Amy Krauss, Vice President

887-3377

akrauss@cfsd16.org

Amy Bhola, Board Member

577-5139

abhola@cfsd16.org

Carole Siegler, Board Member

529-1379

csiegler@cfsd16.org

State of Arizona Legislative Representatives for CFSD

(Please check www.azleg.gov for more information)

Legislative District 9

Senator Steve Farley

Re. Randy Friese

Rep. Victoria Steele

Sunday, February 14, 2016

The last two weeks have certainly been eventful here at Canyon View as we wrapped up our annual science fair, our third grade students finished creating their South American rainforest masks with artist-in-resident Kate Hodges, and we completed two of our open houses for prospective open enrollment and kindergarten families. I want to thank all of our wonderful volunteers who committed their time to assist with these events. We could not have done it without each of you!

With that being said, with the completion of one event or program the start of a new round of enrichment opportunities for our students is just around the corner. Please be sure to visit the CV blog to stay up-to-date with all the happenings around campus, and we encourage each of you to look for ways to become involved! Our students will directly benefit from any amount of time you can commit to supporting our school, and we appreciate and need your support!

Science Fair

This week, Canyon View hosted our annual school-wide science fair. We had 19 young scientists submit projects this year, and 15 of these projects will be moving on to the Southern Arizona Research, Science and Engineering Foundation (SARSEF) competition. Additionally, each of our fifth grade students submitted a science fair project for their own grade level competition. The inquiry, investigation, problem solving, experimentation and analysis that went into each science fair project directly support our vision for learning, and we were quite impressed with the effort and perseverance our students demonstrated throughout this learning experience! A special thank you goes out to Raj Subramaniam for dedicating his time to support our school-wide science fair. We are sincerely grateful for your leadership!

School Registration For Next Year

Online Registration for the 2016-2017 school year opens at 9:00am on February 16, 2016 for CFSD resident families. You will use Online Registration to register your child(ren) for school. Your cooperation is needed in order to complete the registration process for your child(ren). We respectfully request that you complete the registration process as soon as possible to ensure that the district has accurate enrollment numbers to plan for the next school year.

On February 16th, the link to Online Registration will be available in the ParentVUE portal and through the Express Lane on the district and school websites.

This Thursday, two PDF documents with instructions for completing the online registration process were emailed to our families.

CURRENT OPEN ENROLLMENT FAMILIES

Annually, Open Enrollment is a three-step process for every Open Enrollment student:

(1) Open Enrollment Application - Completed online by parents during the Open Enrollment Application period (Dec. 1 - Feb 29).

(2) Notification from Superintendent - This will arrive by U.S. Mail in March (no later than April 1) to the mailing address provided on the application. If your student is accepted, then the notification will include instructions to complete registration using the new online registration process (formerly paper documents), as well as how to provide additional required registration documents (proof of residency, etc.).

(3) Student Registration - Registration is complete when a parent/guardian completes the online registration process according to the instructions provided by the Superintendent's Notification of Acceptance, including delivery of all required registration documents to the school of acceptance by the deadline noted on the notification of acceptance, AND the school verifies completion of the online registration process.

Kinder Show & Tell/Open Houses/Tours

We will be hosting our final Kinder Show & Tell on Monday, February 15 at 2:00 PM and our final Open Enrollment Open House on Monday, February 22 at 3:30 PM. If you know of any families who are interested in learning more about what Canyon View has to offer their children, please pass this important information along to them. To RSVP for either the Kinder Show & Tell or the Open House, or to schedule a small group/individual tour, please call 209-7701. As a reminder, current Open Enrollment families must reapply each year between December 1^st and February 29. Open Enrollment applications are available online at www.cfsd16.org.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Rob Henikman

Principal