Claremore Public Schools

🤭Better late than never... 🤖Before the CHS Robotics Team headed to the Native American VEX VRC Showcase Event, they competed against 24 teams in their first regional tournament in Nowata, OK. 🏆As expected CHS had 3 teams bring home some hardware. 🏆Chloe Reedy and Raegen Hofstetter won the Design Award. 🏆Kinsey Singer, Ashton Keegan, Jared Young, Ed Alexander, Kynedee Hofstetter, Ethan Hays, Gannon Riggs, and Isaac Reedy brought the Tournament Champion accolades home. Team 9142A won the Skills Championship and Team 9142C won the Judges Award. 🦾CHS Robotics has six more tournaments on the schedule; Claremore will host 3 of those events. #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

🍕Zebs and Jingles were spotted grabbing a bite to eat at OK pizza company! YUM!! #CPSZEBRAPRIDE #Zebs&Jingles

Zebs and Jingles were feeling a little tired after a long day of shenanigans so they stopped for the perfect pick-me-up... an energy tea from Atlas! #CPSZEBRAPRIDE #Zebs&Jingles

👋Let’s welcome Matt Wallen to the Zebra family in today’s New Teacher Feature! 👨‍🏫 Mr. Wallen teaches PE, College & Career, Government and coaches football at Claremore High School. He graduated from UCO with a Bachelors in Professional Media and University of Oklahoma with his Masters in Organizational Leadership.He has his standard teaching certificate. 👍His favorite thing about working at Claremore Public Schools are the great kids that have a passion to be their very best. He choose CPS to “work and learn from the best.” Autonomy, mastery, purpose guides his teaching. ‼Some interesting facts about Mr. Wallen is he is a member of the Choctaw Nation, Sigma Tau Gamma Fraternity, and is Air Raid Certified. At his last school he secured 30K in grants to build a weight room. ♥Some of Mr. Wallen’s favorite hobbies are the Oklahoama Sooners, football and BBQ. Favorites: 📕: Stretch the Cornfield 🎥:Top Gun 🍴:Popcorn 🥤: Coke no ice 🎨:Crimson 📍: Montana 🚩: OU 💭: Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Where else do you go other than Whataburger on a Friday night in Claremore? It looks like Zebs took Jingles to this popular game night ritual. #CPSZEBRAPRIDE #Zebs&Jingles

Not on campus to hear the morning announcements at CHS? You are in luck - we post all of them on the CHS LIVE FEED of the website/mobile app throughout the week. Download the Claremore Public School App on Android: http://bit.ly/2OE8G1C or iPhone: https://apple.co/2MDu6cz. #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

CPSF - Claremore Public Schools Foundation - $10 for Teachers Give the gift that keeps on giving... donate in honor or memory of a teacher. All funds will go toward classroom grants that will directly impact CPS students! $10 + $10 + $10 + $10... before you know it, individual donations will add up and we'll have $100, $1000, or $10,000 to give out in teacher grants. Grants Fund: Classrooms | Library Books | Field Trips | Supplies | Labs | STEM | Literacy | Graphic Design | Art | Music Donate online on our website or mail checks to PO Box 575 - Claremore, OK 74018 "Enriching the quality of Claremore Public Schools Foundation education in the Claremore Public Schools" Donate or more info at https://claremorepublicschoolsfoundation.org/ This is a great way to show your #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

🎼It's time to sing some praises for the CHS Choir members. 🎼Claremore High School Choir students selected to the 2022-2023 Oklahoma Music Educators Association ALL-STATE Choir. 3-year members: Mattie Long and Brooklyn Doonkeen 2-year members: Lacey Arthur, Gracie Roberts, and Tavis Fontenot 1-year member: Harrison Quellar 📅The All-State Choir performance will take place at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center on January 21, 2023, at noon. 🎼Tavis Fontenot was also selected, for the second year, for the 2022-2023 Oklahoma Choral Directors Association ALL-STATE Jazz Choir. He is one of 24 students chosen for this ensemble and the only 5A student in the state selected. 📅The All-State Jazz performance will be at the Oklahoma City Convention Center on January 14, 2023, at 1:00 pm. #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

"It's about RESPECT - we salute the flag and we shake our opponents hand." - Chad Willard, CHS Head Wrestling Coach and Asst. Athletic Director. Salute to Service / Military Appreciation Night(s) - These events are awesome! Last night's Wrestling "Salute to Service" was indicative of a school, district, and community committed to honoring those who have served, those who are serving, and those that will serve. "Standing in the gym, named after former Claremore football coach and local legend Frank Mobra who was also a WWII Marine - now that's a heritage and legacy to reflect on," Col. John Rahe. CHS Wrestling finished the night with a 51-12 varsity win and a 63-15 JV win over Bartlesville. Save the dates for our next Salute to Service Nights - March 8 (Soccer) and March 10 (Baseball). #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Santa brought Jingles to Claremore for a visit. We all know how mischievous an elf on the shelf can be so Zebs agreed to babysit until Christmas. Check in daily on the adventures of Zebs & Jingles. #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

🏀IT'S BASKETBALL SEASON! Claremore vs Glenpool this Friday night, Dec. 2nd at home. Let's get our #zebrared on and show up to cheer on our team in our house! 💻LIVESTREAM 🏀6:30p Girls - https://youtu.be/19GYGyDJV38 🏀7:00p Boys - https://youtu.be/Wvbb_XUpy2k #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Z-E-B -R-A-S Zebras, Zebras, Go Zebras! Two CHS senior cheerleaders, Kiah Amos and Kayln Ladd, competed for All-Region this week. Seeing their names on the qualifying list for All-Region Cheerleaders, these two talented athletes have set their sites on All-State. Congratulations and good luck! #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

CPS Cherokee families - CPS been made aware of the 2022 Student Coat Assistance Program available to eligible Cherokee families. Please check your email for more information or log on to your Gadugi Portal > https://www.cherokee.org/chr/%E1%8F%A3%E1%8E%B3%E1%8E%A9-%E1%8E%A0%E1%8F%B0%E1%8E%B5%E1%8E%A4%E1%8F%99%E1%8F%A2%E1%8F%92/gadugi-portal/ DEADLINE is Friday, Dec. 2, 2023.

We've watched Sylvia Admire swim to success her entire career at Claremore High School. Whether swimming for the Zebras or Trident Auqaatics, she excelled in her sport. This Zebra will trade her red and white stripes for a Red Bird logo this fall. Sylvia signed her letter of intent to swim for Illinois State University. She is now a D1 athlete at @ISURedbirds! Sylvia's hard work, sacrifice, and dedication are not limited to her swim strokes; she is also a CHS valedictorian candidate, putting her in the top 4 of the Class of 2023. #CPSZEBRAPRIDE #OnceAZebraAlwaysAZebra #ISURedBirds

👋Let’s welcome Bryan Warren to the Zebra family in today’s New Staff Member Feature! 👨‍🏫Mr. Warren is the new assistant principal at Claremore High School! He’s been working in education since 2008. 👍 A long time ago he decided that he did not want people to put on his headstone that "he made good money". He wanted to make a difference in the world and there is no better way than public education. He choose to come to Claremore because, “I want to work with Dr. Hindenburg. We went to OU together and from the very beginning I could tell he was both a smart and good person. Now that I have spent some time in Claremore with the great people I know I am going to get to be part of an absolutely amazing team.” ‼Some interesting facts about Mr. Warren are that he will be in boots every day, he was a medic in the Army Reserves, he’s completed multiple half marathons and he’s recently taken up woodworking. ♥Some of his hobbies include keeping up with his favorite sports teams, board games, video games, watching movies and shows, collecting/buying/selling/trading sports cards, reading history books and hanging out with friends. Favorites: 📕: Ender's Game 🍴: Chips and dip 🍭: Peanut butter/chocolate combo 🥤: Water 🌈: Green 📍: Beach 🚩: OU 💭: Work hard then play hard #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Students from all around Oklahoma auditioned for the All-State Honor Band. Six Claremore musicians will move on to the second round of competition. Congratulations and good luck to Addyson Burns (Clarinet), McKinley Mendes (Clarinet), Logan Henson (Saxophone), Bryce Rhoades (Tuba), Andrew Hunt (Flute), Erika Hernandez (Flute). #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

Dr. Hindenburg, principal at CHS, encourages all staff to serve our students to the best of their ability and whenever possible. He always leads by example. Here he is putting his math teaching skills to good use by helping a couple of our students in the front office. We can say this moment was the best part of his day! He loves math, teaching, and students - oh - did we mention MATH! #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

💙💙💗This little girl is the third little Zebra born to our CPS family this school year. Congratulation to Mrs. Keeli Coyle and her husband, Curtis, on the birth of their daughter, Charli Ann! She was born Monday morning, November 28th, weighing 8 lbs. and measuring 19.5" long. Mrs. Coyle is a math teacher at Claremore High School. Charli will be welcomed home by a dazzle of zebras, Mom, Dad, big brother Case, Grands - David & Kari Garroutte, and Aunt Sami Garroutte; all have a long, rich history at CPS. #CPSZEBRAPRIDE

IT'S GIVING TUESDAY and our teachers are worthy recipients. Support the CLAREMORE SCHOOL FOUNDATION! Your donation to the Claremore Public Schools Foundation helps to enrich the lives of thousands of Claremore Public Schools students. The earnings from this investment are put right back into Claremore classrooms. You are supporting the future of our students, teachers and community. Best of all, your contribution is tax-deductible. Show your support and #CPSZEBRAPRIDE and donate TODAY! https://claremorepublicschoolsfoundation.org/donate/

⬇⬇THIS is why we call them STUDENT-ATHLETES! Being excellent on the court is not enough; this team had to go and excel in the classroom, too! Claremore Volleyball earned the Academic Achievement Award for a GPA over 3.25…and for the extra brag, the Zebra’s team GPA was 3.71. #CPSZEBRAPRIDE