CLEVELAND SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

Dear CSA Family and Friends,

We have made it to the start of the third marking period. Thank you to our family's for the continued support of your scholar and CSA. Please take this time to re-cellarbrate with your scholar on their academic progress and being on track for graduation. Early in their freshman year, a scholar can place themselves in position to not graduate on time simply by failing one class, or not doing well on the OST. Now is the time. Seniors will soon begin end of the year preparations for activities such as prom and graduation. There will be bi-weekly meetings with an appointed senior advisory council to ensure news and information is being passed along accordingly. We are now in the start of OST prep season as well as spring performances. It is important that scholars are at school daily to get the support they need to be successful.

Parent Teacher Conference: Thursday, February 8th 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm. Scholars will be dismissed at 12:00 pm. Sign-up lists will be available the week of January 21st.

NWEA Testing: This week scholar in ELA 1, ELA 2, Alg 1, and Geo will begin taking their winter NWEA assessment. Scholars will test in their regularly scheduled ELA and Math classes. Important reminders for testing:

1. All scholars in the classes listed must complete the assessment.
2. Scholars must arrive to school on time for testing.
3. Scholars must bring their laptop and charger for testing each day.
4. Teachers and admin will use the data to better support scholar growth

To better support and stay up to date with testing, the testing schedule is featured below.

FASFA Night for ALL SENIOR Families: I strongly recommend that all senior parents attend Monday, January 29. 3:15 pm - 7:00 pm.

Chinese New Year Lantern Festival: Experience our Enchanting Lantern Walk. Presented by CSA visual arts and chinese class. This is free and open to the public. Bring the whole family!

February 9th, 4:30 PM - 7:00 PM. You don't want to miss this!

Schoology parent access: It is highly encouraged that families use their parent access codes to review their scholar's classroom grades and performance. By using your Schoology parent access, you will be able to see your scholar's current grade, assignments completed, and assignments missed. This is a great tool for keeping up with your scholar's progress in class. Reach out to your scholar's teacher(s) if you have questions. Click to log in. Your scholar's teacher can provide the access code if you do not already have it. You need to have updated contact credentials in the Student Information System (SIS) to be able to be provided with your Schoology Parent account. Contact the school's main office to update your contact information.

If you have recently moved or changed contact information, please update the school with your new address by using the link below or calling the school main office at 216-838-9000

Update family contact (link)

Yours in Education,

Ricardo Franklin Sr, Head of School

Mr. McCorvey; CSA CHOIR Director: Last week Mr. McCorvey led CSA's honor choir in singing the national anthem at the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse before the Cavaliers taking on the Chicago Bulls. Monday nights performance was special as it served as CSA's community work for MLK Day.

• Click here to see the choir perform at Rocket Mortgage Field House

Thank you CSA teachers and staff!

CSA wishes to congratulate the following students on receiving the Governor’s Merit Scholarship.

Isabella Teets, Erielle Hatcher, Layla Tinsley , Mia Schmidt

Click here to learn more about the Governor's Merit Scholarship

Congratulations to CSA on our recent news of being rated a 4.5-star school on the 2023 school state report card. Schools are now rated on a 5-star system. With this rating, CSA is the #4 ranked school in CMSD and the #4 ranked best arts high school in Ohio by Niche.com. You can learn more about the state report card by clicking here. The 4.5-star rating means that CSA exceeds state standards.

CSA attendance goal: 93%

Chemistry and Environmental Science tutoring.

Mon: 3:10 - 4 (in Room #310)

Thurs: 3:10 - 4 (in Room # 320)

Mr. Higgins: (9th-grade; science): Tues & Thurs: 3:10 - 4:00, room 315

Mr. Padaraju: Precalculus/Statistics: Tues and Thurs: 8:00 to 8:25 a.m.

Ms. Jacob: ELA 3 tutoring Thursdays 3:10-4:10

Ms. Jolly: ELA 2 tutoring, Mondays from 3:10 - 4:00 or by appointment.

Ms. Doss: Tuesday, 3:10 - 4:00

Ms. Yang: Chinese: Thursday 3:10 - 4:00 or 4th period during lunch.

Mrs. Peca: Algebra 1: Tuesday 3:10 - 4:00

Ms. Cary: Algebra 2: Thursdays 3:10 - 4:00

Ms. Georgiadi: Geometry, Tues & Thurs 7:50 - 8:25 AM, and Tuesday 3:10 - 3:45

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Study Tables (non-tutoring): Mon-Thurs: 3:10pm - 4:00pm, room 118

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There will be several opportunities to get involved and share your voice. The 2023-2024 parent Zoom meeting schedule is posted below. There will be future dates for in-person meetings to come.

Please find below the 2024 scheduled Zoom meetings (12th of each month except May is the 15th)

Topic: CSA Monthly Parent Meeting

Time: Jan 12, 2024 08:30 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Every month on the 12 of the month, 4 occurrence(s)

• Jan 12, 2024 08:30 AM
• Feb 12, 2024 08:30 AM
• Mar 12, 2024 08:30 AM
• Apr 12, 2024 08:30 AM

Please download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.

Monthly: https://us04web.zoom.us/meeting/upMlduytqDgiGNy8dR5gszj2AFaVJOjR78fX/ics?icsToken=98tyKu6vpjovH9KWuBuPR7YEGoj4Z-_wpnZHjY1ExBvXVidAeAmkF8RDBJhQGuqH

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us04web.zoom.us/j/77815563828?pwd=1YHdTk4jaEnxGWKcbnkx5eUiEwUsQZ.1

Meeting ID: 778 1556 3828

Passcode: zfW9cZ

MAY Meeting

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us04web.zoom.us/j/78914852436?pwd=vffyhmSqbRPRK24fB9EpZ5rbPH5buO.1

Meeting ID: 789 1485 2436

Passcode: FwFj0q

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Cleveland Play House ‘s Out-of-School Time Learning Program provides safe, engaging, educational, and developmental services of high-quality before- and after-school programs at CSA at no cost to families.

All of their programming is student-centered. In order to maintain the center of our scholars, they are committed to ongoing and continuous program improvement and curricular evaluation.

Programming at CSA begins September 5th. Registration forms can be found using the link below. (Print and return to the main office)

• CPH after-school registration form (ENG)
• CPH after-school registration form (SP)

• 8 - Class resume
• 15 - MLK Day, No School
• 15 - Choir performing national anthem at Cleveland Cavaliers game
• 29 - FASFA Night.

• 8 - Parent Teacher Conference. (12:00 pm release)
• 16 - Teacher PD Day. No School for students
• 19 - Presidents Day. No School

Stop by Mrs. Bailey's office and sign-up for a time to meet with her

by scanning the QR Code outside her door.

Requests made by email, phone, or walk-ins will not be accepted.

Website: https://www.clevelandmetroschools.org/CSA
Location: 2064 Stearns Rd, Cleveland, OH, USA
Phone: (216) 838 - 9000

Ricardo Franklin Sr. - Head of School

Kendal Hilt - Curriculum Instruction Specialist

Brittinie Jermon - Dean of Arts

Bruce Smith - Dean of Engagement