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Superintendent’s Office Central High Football Players Carry Their Passion Beyond the Field
When Chattanooga Central High School Football Head Coach, Cortney Braswell, brought his team to a playoff game in Greeneville on November 10th, giving their all in the game wasn’t the only giving they had on their minds. They wanted to show love to a woman who wouldn’t be there to watch them play. Toni Weems, mother of Charles Weems, coach at Red Bank High School, was recently diagnosed with a rare and aggressive cancer. The aggressive chemotherapy treatments would not allow her to attend the playoff games as she planned, so the Central High Pounders came to her. Braswell, along with another coach, bought four dozen roses, one rose for each player to present to Weems. Weems described the thoughtful gesture as “Very, very sweet.” Going on to explain “It was an important game, the second round of the playoffs, but for them to take any time out of their day to think about anything other than football, It was awfully special to us.”
Thank you coaches and players for this selfless act of compassion!
Engage Every Child. Every Day.
Department Head News and Updates
December 8, 2017
Important Dates
December 11th HCDE Recruitment Fair
Superintendent
Dr. Bryan Johnson
Campus Support
Dr. Lee McDade
Chief of Opportunity
Schools
Jill Levine
Curriculum and
Instruction
Dr. Justin Robertson
Elementary Operations
Director Karen Hollis
Elementary Operations
Director
Dr. Neelie Parker
Secondary Operations
Director
Dr. Robert Sharpe
Secondary Operations
Director
Le Andrea Ware
Exceptional Education
Garfield Adams
Finance
Christie Jordan
Human Resources
Penny Murray, Interim
Federal Programs
Preston Gonter
Hamilton County Wants to Hear
From You!
This past Tuesday, Superintendent Dr. Bryan Johnson’s Transition Team introduced the Transition Team Survey. This survey aims to gain feedback from Hamilton County students, parents, community members, school faculty and staff, administration, and central office staff. Feedback from the survey will be shared with Dr. Johnson’s transition team to guide them in their research efforts. Your participation and feedback is vital in providing opportunities essential to the successful future of our
students. If you have not already, take a moment to complete this confidential survey, found here: bit.ly/transitionteamsurvey.
Recruitment Fair Seeks Teachers for Hamilton County Schools
Erin Harrel, Recruitment and Field Experience Coordinator, and Carmen Carson, Coordinator of Human Capital, are seeking high-quality teachers to work with the children in our schools. To do this, they have planned a special recruitment fair scheduled to take place on December 11th. This fair will provide opportunities for teachers in Chattanooga, North Georgia, and North Alabama to connect with school principals about future job openings. The recruitment fair will be held from 5:30-7:30, at East Ridge Elementary. Do you know someone that should be at this event? Invite them to register at http://bit.ly/2iruRp6.
Check out how the Hamilton County community is supporting our students!
UNUM CEO touring Brainerd High School with the BHS Leadership students.
BHS Leadership
students with the
Unum team
BHS Leadership students
being inducted into the
UNUM Scholars
Program.
UNUM Vice President
and team visiting
Brainerd’s CTE Health
Science Lab.
This week kicked off the 33rd Annual
Hamilton County “Christmas at the
Courthouse.” The event will run
December 4th-14th and will feature
choirs, ensembles, and bands from
various Hamilton County Schools. Dr.
Johnson was also honored at their
December 5th event.
#HCDEarts Four Tyner Academy Art III students’ self-portraits were accepted into a “Best of the Best” Art Show for Tennessee High School students at the Knoxville Museum of Art. Students from 38 counties submit their work each year, and the judges mandate total creativity from scratch with no outside photographs used or plagiarized sources for ideas. Students’ art work is judged for its excellent craftsmanship and technique demonstrated in the category for entry. All of the Art III students went to the Knoxville Museum of Art to see their fellow students’ work displayed.
Jonae Anderson, “Self Portrait” Tamarie Mathews, “Art in the Making”
Ta Liyah Freeman, “Ancient Me”
Jaylend Lattimore, “Life at Seventeen”
#HCDEngage! We conquered the Lego League Robotics Competition, but we’re not playing around! Our
students and teachers are serious about community partnerships and growth!
Hamilton County Students and Teachers at the TVA-Chattanooga First Lego League Robotics
Competition
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25% of the senior class at Signal Mountain High had a composite score of 30 or higher on a
single administration the official ACT test!
Sequoyah and Sale Creek High
Recognized for their ACT Growth!
Sixth graders in Kimberly Elbakidze’s
class participate in Hour of Code -The
language of computers and
programming.
This is great! I love these games! Sixth
grader - Mariah A.
Woodblock printing from 7th Grade Social Studies students at Dalewood!
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