Coconut Creek News

How To Navigate Through the Challenges of 9th and 10th Grades

Parents of 9th and 10th grade parents are invited to a night of important information, food and door prizes. How To Navigate Through the Challenges of 9th and 10th Grades is our theme. The details you will receive are essential to your child's success. Please join us at 6:30 Tuesday, October 27 in our auditorium.

School Advisory Council Meeting - Title I Public Meeting

There will be a regularly scheduled School Advisory Council meeting at 3:00 p.m. in the upstairs Media Center on October 26, 2009. All parents, students and faculty are encouraged to attend.

H1N1 Swine Flu Information

The Broward County Health Department and Broward County Schools are partnering to make available to all Broward County School Children the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus (Swine Flu) vaccine free of charge. The students at Coconut Creek High School are being given a packet which includes information about the flu and vaccine, Notice of Privacy Practices form and 2009 H1N1 Influenza Vaccine Consent form today (October 13, 2009).

Parents and guardians, please review the information carefully. If you would like your student to receive the vaccine, complete the Privacy Practice form and the Vaccine Consent form. These forms must be returned to Coconut Creek High School by October 15th to 7th period teachers.

The vaccine will be given to students starting on Monday, October 19, 2009 at Coconut Creek High School.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the school.

Coconut Creek High School Proudly Presents the:

Global Academy of Environmental Research and Design

The academy provides students with challenged-based approaches to assist in the understanding of cutting-edge and traditional technologies of efficiency and sustainability. Students will experience, develop and design technologies and systems of green environments.

Engineering Technology: This program will provide opportunities to research and design systems that reduce energy use or develop alternative energy while being able to maintain standards of living.
Tech Studies: Students will design sustainable and innovative components that enhance building and vehicle efficiency and structural integrity.
Automotive Technology: Students will learn of and work with systems of vehicle enhancement through state-of-the-art technologies that reduce energy use while increasing safety.
Marketing: Students will learn and use elements of effective promotion through visual and written media that demonstrate inspiring and motivational aspects of business and industry.
Geospatial Science: Students will use the technology utilized by NASA, geologists and automobile companies for location and directional assistance increasing efficiency and safety of travel.
Nursing Assistant 3: Students will work in medical facilities that enhance the human quality of life. This will range from pediatric offices to work with the aging. Completion and test success will provide certificates for profession-ready entry.
Enhanced Science Opportunities: - entry level Physics for 9th graders
- expanding enrollment in Physics, Chemistry, Anatomy and Psychology
- initiating Forensics – CSI Coconut Creek High School
Enhanced Advanced Placement Opportunities: offering every Advanced Placement course available
Enhanced World Languages Opportunities: offering Chinese, Latin, French, German and Spanish

Coconut Creek Goes Green – Leadership for the 21st Century

a new air conditioning system was installed and has reduced energy use by 24.3%
a new roof is currently being constructed and will also reduce energy.
Green Classroom - We are receiving a portable classroom that will serve as a model of green technology. Sustainable technology will create an environment of zero net usage of energy.

Coconut Creek High School ready to leave old 'F' rating behind

Tenth-grader Yulian Rebollado is put on the spot during a biology class taught by new teacher Paul Kushch in November at Coconut Creek High School. The banner above and many like it adorn the school as Principal David Jones tries to transform it from being an "F" school because of low FCAT scores.

Students have shown promising signs already. Creek students boasted the biggest improvement in writing scores among the county's high schools -- they're up 11 percentage points, with 83 percent writing at grade level, compared with 72 percent last year. The school is up 7 points in science, compared with last year.

Read the full Sun-Sentinel Article

Coconut Creek Writing Scores

We are very proud to announce that Coconut Creek High School increased our writing scores by eleven points; number one in Broward County for improvement. Our score last year was 72 and this year our score is 83.

Congratulations to all of our students, specifically our tenth graders and teachers on a job well done. Please see our links to our local newspapers for the articles about Coconut Creek.

Coconut Creek High School will be tested today in FCAT - February 10, 2009

Throughout Florida, thousands of students in the fourth, eighth and 10th grades will sit down today for the writing portion of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. At Creek, those sophomores will shoulder the extra burden of helping boost the school's FCAT scores.

While Creek students will be drilled in every area of the FCAT, reading is a particularly critical area for the school. Last year, only 21 percent of ninth graders and 14 percent of 10th graders scored a three or higher on the FCAT reading test. A three indicates whether a student is reading at grade level.

Participation is voluntary in "Cougar Crunch," the school's name for their extracurricular FCAT preparation classes. A weekday math session drew about 30 students, who were treated to bags of Cheez-It crackers and assorted juices as incentives for attending the class. Weekend sessions will draw as many as 60 students, who get pizza for their effort.

Read the full Sun-Sentinel Story and watch the video.

FCAT Testing Parent Link Message

This is a special message from the Broward County Public Schools. There are state rules and regulations regarding the administration of FCAT testing in our schools. Some of them relate to the prohibition against student’s having in their possession, on their person or within their reach any device that records or transmits voice, text or photographic images. The devices include – but are not necessarily limited to – cell phones, cameras, computers and other devices that are capable of recording and/or transmitting information and pictures. Any student found to have in their possession or within their reach such devices will be disqualified from testing; their test materials will be invalidated; and they will be subject to disciplinary action. Please ensure that your children know and understand these state rules and regulations regarding FCAT testing and comply with them.

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