Claremore Public Schools

Congratulations to Ruiel Doonkeen on receiving a Claremore Public Schools Foundation fall grant! The performing arts program at Claremore High School is about to shine brighter than ever! With the grant, we are thrilled to announce the purchase of a brand-new, state-of-the-art lighting system! 🦓💡🍎 "The performing arts and the digital music classes of Claremore High School have received a grant to enhance productions with a new live performance lighting system. The system, which consists of moving spotlights, color-changing lights, and digital controls, will be used for live music performances as well as light other events like school dances. Many of the students have already experienced the excitement of this system and are learning how to produce light shows for various events. Thank you to the CPSF for their support, and we hope to showcase this to the community soon so they too can experience the incredible creativity of our brilliant Zebra students!!"-Ruiel Doonkeen, Director of Vocal Music, If you are interested in learning more about Claremore Public Schools Foundation, check out their website! https://claremorepublicschoolsfoundation.org/ #CPSF #GrantPatrol #TeacherGrants #ExcellenceinEducation #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

💙💙💗💙💙 💙 💗 💗💗 +💗 The girls just caught up with the boys with this addition to our dazzle of zebras for the 22-23 school year. Coach Jahn and his wife Amy welcome another baby girl to the family. Eireann Ann (pronounced Erin) was born June 23rd at 8:13 AM, weighing 7 lbs and 6 oz and measuring 19 inches long. Ryan Jahn is a coach and teacher at Claremore High School. We can't wait to meet you in person! #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Future Friday🏫🎓 ＄2 , 5 7 8 , 4 8 0 That is the amount of scholarships the Class of 2023 reported receiving this year. The Smith Family Scholarship is for students pursuing post-secondary education in engineering or music. Students will receive $5,000 per semester for their Freshman year for a total of $10,000. This is a $80,000 investment into our graduates' futures. Recipients pictured: Bryar Robinson, Ethan Spencer, Mattie Long, Jonathan Jones, Jenna Smalygo, and Raegen Hofstetter. Not Pictured: Isaac Reedy and Hailey Pickup. If you are interested in starting an endowed scholarship for CPS students, contact the Claremore Public School Foundation. #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Mrs. Rahn’s 6h grade Robotics Club just finished up their first year of building and coding VEX IQ robots. They worked with Mr. Isenbart’s HS Robotics Club and Roosa & Claremont’s Robotic Clubs once a week. Students loved learning computational thinking and problem-solving!🤖💻 #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Congratulations to Gina Bennett on receiving a Claremore Public Schools Foundation fall grant! The funds from this grant have been used to continue the literary development of 1st graders! 🦓📚🍎 "Thank you to CPSF for funding our grant for leveled books. These books will promote literacy development through guided-reading lessons in our first-grade classrooms at Catalayah Elementary."-Gina Bennett, Reading Specialist If you are interested in learning more about Claremore Public Schools Foundation, check out their website! https://claremorepublicschoolsfoundation.org/ #CPSF #GrantPatrol #TeacherGrants #ExcellenceinEducation #CPSZEBRAPRIDE #OnceAZebraAlwaysAZebra

We are cruising to Alaska for this #ZebraTravelDiaries! The Ward Family took an Alaskan cruise, they started the vacation with a few days in Seattle. Then visited Ketchikan, Stika, and Juneau in Alaska and Victoria in Canada. They saw bald eagles, seal lions, dolphins, whales, glaciers, and many other Alaskan sites. It was a trip of a lifetime!🏔🚢🦅❤🦓 No matter where you travel, just show off your Zebra Dazzle! #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Over at Roosa, Mrs. Young’s 3rd graders designed and decorated paper airplanes. Then they had a contest to see whose airplane ✈️ could fly the longest and farthest. These 3rd graders are now ready to fly into the 4th grade! 🧠✈ #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Congratulations to Brittany Lang on receiving a Claremore Public Schools Foundation fall grant! This grant went to support the purchase of books for the Westside Elementary Library! 🦓📚🍎 “Thank you so much! So excited to get these books on the library shelves. There is the possibility that a book that this grant purchase ends up being a student's favorite and that they remember and cherish it for their whole lives. With that, Westside is forever grateful!” -Brittany Lang, Librarian, If you are interested in learning more about Claremore Public Schools Foundation, check out their website! https://claremorepublicschoolsfoundation.org/ #CPSF #GrantPatrol #TeacherGrants #ExcellenceinEducation #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

This #ZebraTravelDiaries is coming in from Colorado Springs, Colorado! This is Riley Salmans, and He attends WRJH going into 7th grade reppin' his Zebra Baseball Camp shirt!⚾🏔🦓 No matter where you go, just rep your ZEBRA LOGO and send it to jbrace@claremore.k12.ok.us! #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Claremore Public Schools will be CLOSED on July 3rd and 4th to celebrate the 🎆 Independence Day holiday! 🎇 Take a moment to reflect on the courage, sacrifices, and dedication of those who fought for our freedom. 🙌 🌟 Enjoy this time with your loved ones, cherish the spirit of unity, and make lasting memories. 🥳 #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Why Wednesday ❓♥ We are starting a new series called "Why Wednesday," featuring our amazing teachers here at Claremore Public Schools and WHY they are passionate about teaching! Robert Castillo is one of our Spanish teachers, bus drivers, and English Language Learner (ELL) teacher at CHS. He has taught for 2 years, both with CPS. After working 20 years in the medical field as a paramedic, Mr. Castillo decided he wanted to pursue a career that allowed him to be in a ministry position, and a teaching opportunity at CHS opened up. He feels as though it was truly meant to be, and God led him to teach! ❤WHY STATEMENT: "The students. I have the privilege to speak into the lives of our students. Day in and day out, I get to interact with them and share my life experiences with them, in the hopes that they will one day become the leaders that our community need." "I have the pleasure of interacting with the ELL students in our district, and throughout our interaction, I get to help them along their journey navigating life as they get closer to graduation. I have one student who, as we were putting their schedule together, we figured we would add Art 1 (a graduation requirement) to their schedule. This student, who had never had art before, flourished, and their talent is amazing! Throughout their class, their art teacher kept giving them challenging projects, and this student just wanted to take the easier projects. I encouraged them every day, as did their art teacher, and the artwork that they created won a state award for their wonderful work. " It was after this that the student shared with me that I had said something that really impacted them. One of those days that I was encouraging them, I said: “You will always find something that you could have done better with your artwork. But it is not you that ultimately needs to love your artwork, but the observer. It is how your artwork makes them feel that matters.” "It is the most rewarding job pouring into students' lives and watching them succeed in whatever they choose to pursue! I always say you have to get out and do hard things. That is what will help you grow!" #CPSZEBRAPRIDE #WHYWEDNESDAY

Lions, Tigers, Bears, and running Zebras! Oh my!🦓🥈 Westside Elementary won 2nd place for most participants at the April 22nd, 2023, Tulsa Zoo Run!! Way to go, Westies!! Be ready; They are going for 1st place next year!🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️🦓♥️ #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Congratulations to Leah Johnson on receiving a Claremore Public Schools Foundation fall grant! This grant helped fund the purchase of new cameras for the Digital Video Editing classes at Claremore High School!🦓📸🍎 "Thank you once again to the Claremore Public Schools Foundation for funding the second part of this grant! Students have already enjoyed using the first ten cameras this semester, learning about how photos are taken and what makes a good photograph. It has been so rewarding to be able to do such hands-on assignments, and I can't wait to put in the order for the second half of the cameras!" -Leah Johnson, Digital Video Editing/ZTV Teacher, Claremore High School. If you are interested in learning more about Claremore Public Schools Foundation, check out their website! https://claremorepublicschoolsfoundation.org/ #CPSF #GrantPatrol #TeacherGrants #ExcellenceinEducation #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Today's #ZebraTravelDiaries features Mrs. M, the pre-k paraprofessional at Catalayah! She went to Las Vegas to visit her son, daughter-in-law, and grandbabies! Her son (Claremore alum) Jose is in the Air Force. 🦓❤🚁 Up in the air or down on land, just show us that you're a ZEBRA FAN and send a photo to Jbrace@claremore.k12.ok.us! #CPSZEBRATRAVELDIARIES

Claremore High School TSA Team is off to Nationals in Louisville, Kentucky! They will have such a wonderful time and learn so much!❤⚙🦓 #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

On today's #ZebraTravelDiaries, we are going to Newton, Kansas! Mrs. Monroe, a paraprofessional at CHS, and her husband are traveling to see her daughter! 🚗🦓❤ Across state lines or down the road, no matter where you go, just wear your ZEBRA LOGO and send it to jbrace@claremore.k12.ok.us! #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Catalayah has had some wonderful helpers this summer! Some of our high school students gave up some summertime to help get the school prepped for summer!🦓❤🏫 #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Congratulations to Bruce Riggs on receiving a Claremore Public Schools Foundation fast track grant! This grant will go to support the Biomedical Sciences Program by purchasing vital textbooks! 🦓🩺🍎 "Historically, medical breakthroughs required "risk". In an effort to help students understand and embrace risk in the medical career fields - this text will be required reading for Honors Biomedical Innovations. This is the capstone course for our Biomedical Sciences Program. Every medical decision—whether to have chemotherapy, an X-ray, or surgery—is a risk, no matter which way you choose. In You Bet Your Life, physician Paul A. Offit argues that, from the first blood transfusions four hundred years ago to the hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine, risk has been essential to the discovery of new treatments. More importantly, understanding the risks is crucial to whether, as a society or as individuals, we accept them. Told in Offit’s vigorous and rigorous style, You Bet Your Life is an entertaining history of medicine. But it also lays bare the tortured relationships between intellectual breakthroughs, political realities, and human foibles." -Bruce Riggs, BioMed Teacher. If you are interested in learning more about Claremore Public Schools Foundation, check out their website! https://claremorepublicschoolsfoundation.org/ #CPSF #FastTrackGrant #TeacherGrants #ExcellenceinEducation #CPSZEBRAPRIDE #districtteacheroftheyear

Start playing "Viva Las Vegas" for this #ZebraTravelDiaries! Brooklyn Morgan, a sophomore at CHS, is enjoying her summer vacation in fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada! 🎆🎲🚗💃🏻 No matter where you go, just rep' your Zebra Logo and send it to Jbrace@claremore.k12.ok.us! #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Congratulations to Ashley Troyer on receiving a Claremore Public Schools Foundation spring grant! The funds from this grant will be used to implement PebbleGo, which is an application aligned to national curriculum standards and introduces K–2 students to database and research concepts with information about hundreds of animals while using features designed for use by emergent readers. 🦓📚🍎 "For students as early as Kindergarten, research is a standards-based skill that is taught in the classroom. Research is such a vital part of education because it not only engages students in inquiry and the ability to refine and synthesize information, but research also aids in helping students to become critical thinkers. We are so excited to be able to add the PebbleGo database to our resources for research at Claremont! PebbleGo is not only a vast, age-appropriate database, but it also includes grade-level appropriate ways to access and understand the information included on the site. Teachers all over Claremont are so thrilled with the funding of this grant and can’t wait to use PebbleGo in their classrooms. Thank you, Claremore Public Schools Foundation, for continuing to enrich the quality of education in our classrooms by providing a way to ensure students have access to the best resources available to learn!"-Ashley Troyer, Librarian. If you are interested in learning more about Claremore Public Schools Foundation, check out their website! https://claremorepublicschoolsfoundation.org/ #CPSF #GrantPatrol #TeacherGrants #TeacheroftheYear #ExcellenceinEducation #CPSZEBRAPRIDE