We are very proud to announce that TEACH Charter High School is a winner in the 2009 Single Statewide Accountability System Awards from the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement!

TEACH received a GOLD Award for making great gains in student achievement and a SILVER Award for outstanding achievement!

Last Saturday,  TEACH Robotics team, The RoboStallions, participated in  the FTC North Georgia Regional Qualifier.
RoboStallions received the Inspire Award – Highest Award in the FTC Competition! They are now getting ready for the State Championship!

FSA High School is  currently accepting applications for the 2010-2011 school year. Students must submit a timely application to be considered for enrollment. For the 2010-2011 school year, we will be accepting 9-12 grade students.   

The Community Service Club would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the students who donated to our warm clothing drive!  Two car loads of sweaters, coats, gloves, hats, & socks were taken to North Fulton Community Charities from this drive! 

The TEACH Community once again demonstrated their compassion and caring for the North Georgia community this week by making an outstanding effort in the Fall Food Drive. Students and staff donated over 1100 food items to the Atlanta Community Food Bank.

U.S. history classes had the opportunity to visit with U.S. Army veteran, Major Raymond E. Schumacher, Retired, on Wednesday, November 11th in commemoration of Veteran’s Day. Mr. Schumacher shared with students his experiences from his time in Germany in the 1960s during the Cuban Missile Crisis and  his two tours of duty in Vietnam in 1967 and 1969.

Wednesday evening was Junior Night for all 11th grade students and their parents.  Junior Night is designed so that students and their families can understand the process in planning for college.  Topics that were discussed included Study Skills, SAT vs. ACT, Joint Enrollment, Scholarships, Applications, Career Planning, and Exam Preparation. 

Last week, TEACH students learned and celebrated what it meant to be drug, alcohol, and tobacco free.  All week, students had the opportunity pledge to be drug free.  In addition, a lot of fun activities were planned.  Lunch classes created drug free door decorations  and competed for a pizza party, which Mr. Parlak’s lunch class won!  During lunch one day, Mrs. Davidson hosted drug trivia where students received candy for answering correctly.

On Tuesday, Juniors went to Georgia State for a college tour.  The pouring rain did not stop our students from being able to experience several areas of the college.  Led by two GSU students, the tour began at the Student Center and continued through the University Center and the Fitness Building. 

Our annual Fall Festival was last Saturday and was a great time for all!  Thanks to PVO’s efforts, there were fun games, such as pumpkin decorating, ring toss and bean bag toss and great food.  Mike Williams and Akhil Parmar were the DJ’s and provided us with wonderful music that we all felt the urge to dance to. 

Last weekend we had a great time at the Turkish Festival. Visitors from all over Georgia packed the Gwinnett Convention  Center to watch marvelous shows of rich Turkish culture. The food was awesome and the shows were spectacular. Mehter Band, thought to be the world’s oldest military band, had back to back shows. World renowned Turkish composer/singer Omer Faruk  Tekbilek  mystified the festival with his music.

We were awarded a  Certificate of Improvement and a Certificate of Achievement in Georgia High School Graduation Test (GHSGT) English, and a Certificate of Improvement on the Georgia High School Writing Test (GHSWT). We are very proud of our students’ achievements, as well as the dedication of our faculty, and hope to make the receiving of these awards a TEACH tradition! 

On Wednesday, September 23, juniors had the opportunity to attend a college tour at UGA.  About 40 students attended and had a great time!  The first portion of the tour remained on the school bus where we were guided by two current UGA students.  They pointed out various buildings while discussing UGA history, student activities and so forth.  At the historic UGA arch, we began the walking portion of the tour. 

During this time, with so much illness going around, we want to make sure that everyone is clear on the TEACH absence procedures/policies:

On Monday, September 14, TEACH hosted our first Grandparent’s Night to honor students’ grandparents.  So often, we provide events that include parents, but rarely do we have the opportunity to meet the students’ extended family. 

Parents,
If anyone has moved over the summer, please contact the front office and give us your new address so that we can update our records. Any time that you do move, you must fill out a new affidavit of residence, as well, and provide us with two proofs of residence for the new address. 

The TEACH Robotics Club  launched with an outside team building activity on Thursday, Sep 10. The students played two games in which they experienced the meaning of working with a team. This was a great team building activity before beginning the task of building a robot for the BEST and FTC Robotics Competitions. 

This school year, TEACH is offering SAT Prep Class as a credited class, covering SAT curriculum as well as coaching and professional college counseling. We encourage our parents to keep in touch with our College Counseling Department and to get feedback from our SAT department.Our SAT Class curriculum follows the College Board’s curriculum

GA Natural Gas will give TEACH a $40 donation just for signing up with GA Natural Gas. Anyone who signs up (Parents, grandparents, neighbors, etc.) and selects TEACH will be helping our school raise money.  Find out more about The Trueblue Way.