Lois Stone
Assistant to the Dean
Columbia
State Community College
931-540-2792
bstone2@Columbiastate.edu
Early Childhood Laboratory
This lab serves primarily as a laboratory
for the Early Childhood Education Careers (ECEC) curriculum. The ECEC
's goal is to prepare students for gainful employment in the field of Early
Childhood Education. Some of these students will work in various Early
Childhood programs, such as Day Care Centers. Others have the opportunity
to go on to secondary education opportunities and become certified teachers
of pre-k programs. Some students may earn their CDA (Child Development
Associate). This is a performance-based credential for early childhood para-professionals.
Dr. Sharber's intent is for our high school
students who find themselves trying to balance motherhood with completing
their high school diploma to have appropriate placement for the baby. The
Early Childhood Lab also creates a very natural mentoring situation for the
student-mothers to learn from the staff-mothers simply through association
and observation.
Dr. Shrader is thrilled to have happy staff
with their babies "in the house"! Although the goal is not to provide day care
for Williamson County employees, it is a wonderful side effect.
The following are links to the state
curriculum standards:
Ecology
This programs collects
plastic and aluminum for recycling, replants and beautifies the campus, and
cleans up litter. It also takes requests for special projects and
items as needed by faculty, staff, and administration.
Centennial High
School Science Department offers 2 classes that offer the student:
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A firm education
on the issues that affects our environment in our Ecology classes.
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An
interdisciplinary, advanced education on the human impacts upon our
environment in the Advanced Placement Environmental Science (APES)
classes.
The Ecology classes
conduct lecture and hands-on activities that teach the different aspects
of the Biosphere (“Living circle”) that life inhabits on Earth and how
the living components interact with the non-living components.
The APES takes this
a step further and investigates the impacts that we as humans have on
our environment incorporating lecture and hands-on activities. The APES
class as long term projects:
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Maintains an
operational greenhouse that is powered by solar panels in our
investigation of alternative energies
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Annually
conducts an Indoor Air Quality survey of the school in our
investigation of air pollution.
Centennial High
School also has an active recycling program that with the above has
earned us the “Green Flag” from the Tennessee Pollution Prevention
Program (TP3).
Extended
Library Hours
The library is now open after school Monday-Friday by appointment or during
the evenings 3-4 nights per most weeks from 5:00-8:00 PM. Students may
work on projects, papers, or credit recovery, and they may schedule tutoring
sessions for that time. For further information, click on the
following link:
Extended Library Calendar
and Information
Free to
Fly/Hispanic Achievers
This is a special organization for Hispanic students who wish to achieve
academic excellence at CHS and beyond. Interested students and parents
should contact Mr. Kevin Stacy or Mrs. Norma Ingram, ELL teachers, for
further information.
Freshman
Academy
The Ninth Grade Academy is developed
around the concept of a Small Learning Community which is an
autonomous program housed within a larger school setting, often
with a grade-level focus or an academic or career related theme.
The teachers will use a collaborative approach to deliver
curriculum and work to address students’ needs more
personally. We will focus on developing the skills needed
for the increased academic expectations in high school. We
want all students to become involved in the school and
participate in one or more extra-curricular activities. For more
information, contact Vince Springer or any of the freshman academy faculty.
Marketing &
Business Academy
Read Across
America
Readiness
Roundup
In an effort to
promote completion of work and thus higher levels of success for our
upperclassmen, we have devised a program similar to that in use by the Freshman
Academy. If a teacher notices that a student is on the verge of failing,
he or she may submit assignments to a Readiness Roundup Team member, composed of
CHS faculty, who will submit the student's name to a designee, and attendance
will call the student and send him or her to room 120 where he or she may
complete the assignment and submit it for academic credit.
Students may also
use this method of supervised review to complete what we have labeled pre-Credit
Recovery and thus avoid an unfortunate F on a transcript. For more
information about what this means, contact Dr. Shrader directly at CHS 472-4270.
Roundup will take
place after school; however, students lacking their own form of transportation
will be given trolley passes so that they may have a safe and free ride home.
Location:
Room 120 (English writing lab)
Time:
Monday-Friday 2:45-3:45
Signup: By
individual teacher; student will have at least one day's notice to prepare.
Service
Learning--On Campus
Our On-Campus
Service Learning class performs various projects on our campus. Each week
it is responsible for paper recycling. On Tuesday afternoon, the students
collect recycling paper from the teachers’ classrooms and offices throughout
the school. These recycling bins are picked up on Wednesday afternoon and
students place these bins back out in through the school on Thursday. It
has cleans the Senior courtyard area, cleaned up the Cougar hill next to the
football field, and cleaned the sign area in the front of the school. In
the spring, we will be constructing a new sign for the front of the school.
Spirit Program
This program, instituted in 2007, exists to promote school spirit among
students, faculty, staff, administration, and the community. It
oversees promotion of morale and the spirit flags, assists with pep rallies,
sponsors pep buses and tailgating activities, and various other activities
to increase school spirit throughout the year. For more information,
contact Ms. Jenn Beasley.
STARS
The
STARS program, sponsored by the area United Way, features a variety of
services for students needing personal assistance. It sponsors a
variety of small group counseling sessions, individual counseling, and
activities. For more information, click on the following link:
STARS
Student
Advocate Program
Who: For students needing
academic assistance, one-on-one counseling and strategic planning, tutoring,
organizational help, etc.
What: Assignment of a
special faculty advocate to each student. This teacher will function in a
role similar to that of a college adviser and will serve as a special liaison
between the student, parent, and school.
When: The two of them
will meet regularly, on a schedule determined by them, to facilitate the
student's efforts to be successful and graduate on time.
Where: Advocate/student
meetings will take place at locations predetermined by the advocate and the
student, but there will be special exam study sessions here at CHS. There
may be more future activities--keep posted to this page for additional
information as it is made available.
Why: To promote school
wide academic success!
How: Students and
parents/guardians must complete the attached form and submit it to Beth Bivins in order to be assigned an advocate.
bethb@wcs.edu
Click on this link to retrieve the form
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