CVU Celebrations

Dear CVU Community: Among costumes (congrats to our Crystal Skull winners!) , team-wear, spirit gear, voting booths, and club fair tables, CVU was a festive place this week. Thank you for the fun, everyone, and thank you for balancing that fun with the determination to ensure that the red we wear represents all of us. A special thanks to our student speakers for your courage and eloquence.

• Attend our championship games this weekend! Get your tickets, here.

• JumpRope Portal and Grade Conversion: We will send out an invitation and turn on our grade point conversion on Monday, November 7 at 4pm.

• Amélie opens next weekend! Show runs Friday, November 11 - Sunday, November 13. Buy tickets at: https://www.ticketsource.us/cvutheater or at the door. You won’t want to miss this innovative production!

• Join us from 4-5 pm on Tuesday, December 6 for our first Partnership for Meaningful Inclusion meeting of the year. Use this link to join our dialogue about how our community can be more inclusive of students with special needs.

From Daniel Lyons: Joe Soares rocked it this morning when he met with the Bridging Program over at Champlain Community Services in Colchester. Joe was interviewed by, and interviewed students from area schools who are participating in that program. Nice work, Joe!

CVU Rowing had a great race on Saturday on the Otter Creek.

CVU Experienced boat took 1st place

CVU Intermediate boat took 1st place and Funniest Costume (Gordon Ramsey and Chefs)

CVU Novice boats: 2nd place and Best Overall Costume (PacMan and ghosts) and 4th place. On November 18-19, the CVU Rowing team will be headed to Boston, MA to row in the North East Regional Rowing Championships - The IceBreaker.

Spirit Week allowed for so many wonderful opportunities to match! Who loves Spirit Week more? O’Brien or Lena and Aedan?!

Snelling Core working together to build community, communication, and cooperation in Project Adventure.

The Fongemie Advisory (with a special shout-out to Ava Perez) felt the spirit this year!

Congratulations to CVU XC teams who finished first and second in Vermont. Read the article, here.

From Heather Morley: Shout-out to Gracie S. for being selected for the Vermont State Youth Council! Congratulations on the appointment!

From Rahn Fleming: 10th grader, Autumn Miller, is the master craftsperson behind the hats. She crochets with a kind of fervor rarely seen; made this lil beauty for me in under 24 hours!! We've been wearing 'em proudly for Sprit Week "Hat Day" (and only a couple of days late for Cancer Awareness Pink-October!) In genuine awe of both Autumn's skill and joyful spirit!!

Episode 4 is now live :) We rejoin Carrie Harlow in our conversation about financial aid: Apple,Spotify And, Links to the podcast audio from last night's Post High School Training and Career Panel presentation with Gavin and Susie. Spotify, Apple

Ceramics students tried the wheel for the first time this week!

Our friends from the Chipmunk class at First Roots Wild Roots made us this wonderful thank you card!

CVU's Harkness Building coaches spent Thursday at Harwood Union High School in collaboration with their counterparts in Kate Youngdahl-Stauss's Harkness Leadership class. While there, our students participated in student-led (read: 0 teacher facilitation needed!) Harkness discussions and had a working lunch where they tried to absorb as much as possible from the Harwood students about growing this work in a school community. Gosh, it was such a joyful day. CVU students in attendance were Izzie Boddie, Delainey LeBlanc, Mia Stolz, Whitley Pidgeon, Sophia Comeau, Keira Kavanaugh, Chase Leonard, Rose Bunting, Alex Montgomery, Will Kallock, Clark Clark, and Alex Wemple."

The Francisco advisory dressed up as Minions, Gru, and Vector!

This week on Ready Set Go, featured are shoutouts to or by, and/or music requested by: Dau Dau, Brendan Chevier, Robin Fawcett, Josie Sayre, Gavin Davies, Adrian Walther, Peter Booth, Alicia Palmer, Kate Boehmcke, Alex Cummings, Miranda Oppenheimer, Tucker Pierson, Mary Beth Giroux, Jordan Blackburn, Tamie Jo Dickenson, Katie Jankowski, and The Special Services Department...and music by: Louis Armstrong, The Grateful Dead, Taylor Swift, Tool, The Dire Straits, The Talking Heads, Bruno Mars, Captain & Tennille, Noah Kahan, Richard Shindell, and Jack Johnson

From Jim Clapp: Matt Meunier does an absolutely tremendous job in teaching groups on a range of difficult, sensitive, and important topics. Today we had an outstanding class discussion on the advisory prompts related to discriminatory language. It was a challenging task, but I know every student had some growth and new understanding at the end of the group.

Thank you to our Equitable Practices Group who provided faculty/staff trainings this week on disrupting discriminatory speech. A special thanks to Bageshree Blasius and Christina Deeley for leading our Friday assembly.

• Let's Talk. Last March, the school district softly rolled out a new communication tool called Let's Talk. Let’s Talk makes it easy for parents, students, staff, and community members to ask questions, request information, and share feedback. Over the summer, we added topics for each of our schools. See this blog post to learn more and view a short video that explains how easy it is to use Let's Talk.
• Strategic Planning: We recently held a number of strategic planning community forums to gain insight from all members of our community and inform the district's work over the next 5 years. We have extended the deadline for the strategic planning survey to November 11. We hope to hear from even more community members, staff, and students! https://bit.ly/CVSDOct22