Naviance – College and Career Readiness Program
This year Chardon Middle School is initiating a new program in the counseling department designed to help students begin to navigate and track their career and college pathways. Naviance is a comprehensive K-12 college and career readiness solution that helps districts and schools align student strengths and interests to post-secondary goals, improving student outcomes and connecting learning to life. We will be using this new program consistently throughout their years at the middle and high school to explore vocational options, set goals, search colleges, track progress, and to help connect them with resources that will help them to succeed.
Sixth Graders will focus on logging into the system, start to build their profiles by completing the CareerKey, and complete a brief student survey. Seventh Graders will log into the system, start to explore different types of careers when they take the Career Cluster Finder, save clusters of careers so they can investigate various career pathways, and complete a brief student survey. Eighth Graders will log into the system, and focus primarily on narrowing down career path options by using data from the CareerKey and Cluster Finder to help with scheduling high school classes. They will also start to build a resume so they can maintain records of all their extracurricular activities and achievements throughout high school.
Parent/Teacher Conferences
Parent/Teacher Conferences for Chardon’s elementary schools are Wednesday, October 26th from 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm and Tuesday, November 1st from 5:00 – 8:00 pm. Be sure to call your child’s school secretary to schedule an appointment time. Get ready for the conference by making a list of the questions you want to ask. A prepared parent with a positive attitude and an open mind is on the right track for creating a successful, year-long partnership with his/her child’s teacher.
CMS Seventh Graders Host Hat/Scarf Fundraiser
The Chardon Middle School seventh grade class class is conducting a winter scarf and hat fundraiser to raise money for their various field trips class this year. They are selling great looking, custom made, Chardon Hilltoppers knit hats and scarves. Hats cost $20.00 each and scarves cost $25.00. Purchase them as a pair and get them both for $40.00 They are excited to offer Chardon families and supporters a product that will keep them warm during those cold Chardon winters!! These will make great holiday gifts so place your orders now. You can download a order form on the Middle School homepage www.chardonschools.org. Purchases can be paid for by cash, check or PaySchools. Please make checks payable to “Chardon Board of Education.” Merchandise will take 3 – 4 weeks after the close of orders. Thank you for your support!
NEOEA DAY
There is no school for Chardon students on Friday, October 14th for NEOEA Day.
Pictured In Photos: Top Left Photo: Chardon High School students who are currently taking a child development class help Maple second graders work on their math skills. Top Center Photo: Indoor recess due to rain? No problem at Hambden School. Students get to play “Go Noodle,” in their classrooms. Go Noodle gets kids moving with short interactive video activities. The desk-side movements helps the kids achieve more by keeping them engaged and motivated throughout the day. Top Right Photo: Students in Melissa Enfantis’s class at Park School wake up their brain by playing a lively game of SET. The object of the game is to be the first to find a SET of three cards where each feature is either all the same or all different on each card. Each card contains four features: color (red, purple or green), shape (oval, squiggle or diamond), number (one, two or three) and shading (solid, striped or outlined). SET builds cognitive, logical and spatial reasoning skills. Bottom Right Photo: Students in Nikki Diehm’s Social Studies class at Chardon Middle School enjoyed reviewing their chapter studies with a “Choose Your Own Adventure” project. Students designed board games, recorded videos and created presentations to demonstrate their command of the subject matter.
