Town Center Principal Newsletter

We appreciate your feedback as CISD considers the Academic Calendar Options for the 2024-2025 School Year. Please express your preference between Calendar Option A, Calendar Option B or Calendar Option C by providing your feedback via the Coppell ISD 2024-2025 Calendar Options Feedback Survey at go.coppellisd.com/2024-2025CalendarSurvey before Friday, Jan. 5 at 4:30 p.m.

As a reminder, all of the CISD 2024-2025 Calendar Options have the following:

• The 187 required workdays for teachers

• 76,095 minutes, which is 495 extra minutes than the State of Texas required 75,600 minutes

• No Early Release Days

• Fall Break: October 11-14

• No school for students on Election Day: November 5 due to several schools being used as polling locations on Election Day, as CISD has no choice in having schools serve as polling locations

• Thanksgiving Break: November 25 to November 29

• Bad Weather Day: February 14

• Staff Professional Development Day/Student Holiday: February 17

• Spring Break: March 17-21 (to align with Dallas County College for Dual Credit high school students)

• Bad Weather Day: April 18

• Staff Professional Development Day/Student Holiday: April 21

• Last Day of School: Thursday, May 22

• CHS and New Tech Graduation: Friday, May 23

Calendar Option A is similar to the current CISD Calendar with the First Day of School on Wednesday, August 14 and Election Day on Tuesday, November 5 as a Professional Development Day/Student Holiday.

In Calendar Option A:

• The First Day of School: Wednesday, August 14

• No School on Election Day: November 5 (Professional Development/Staff Workday/Student Holiday)

• Winter Break: December 20-January 6 (Winter Break starts on a Friday. Staff comes back on January 6, and Students Return on January 7)

• 1st Semester: 83 Days

• 2nd Semester: 88 Days

Calendar Option B has school starting on Tuesday, August 13 with Monday, November 4 as a Staff Professional Development Day/Student Holiday and Tuesday, November 5 as a Flex Day/Student Holiday.

In Calendar Option B:

• The First Day of School: Tuesday, August 13

• No School the Day Before and the Day of Election Day: November 4 (Professional Development/Student Holiday) and November 5 (Flex Day/Student Holiday/District Closed)

• Winter Break: Dec. 23-January 6 (Winter Break starts on a Monday. Staff comes back on January 6, and Students Return on January 7.)

• 1st Semester: 84 Days

• Second Semester: 87 Days

Calendar Option C has school starting a week earlier on Thursday, August 8 with Monday, November 4 as a Staff Professional Development Day/Student Holiday and Tuesday, November 5 as a District Holiday. It also has a longer Spring Break for students with a Staff Professional Development Day plus a Staff Workday the week before Spring Break and more even Fall and Spring Semesters.

• First Day of School: Thursday, August 8

• No School the Day Before and the Day of Election Day: November 4 (Professional Development), November 5 (District Holiday)

• Winter Break: Dec. 20-January 6 (Winter Break starts on a Friday. Staff comes back on January 6 and Students Return on January 7)

• Professional Development/Staff Workdays in March before Spring Break: March 13 (Professional Development/No School for Students) and March 14 (Staff Workday/No School for Students)

• 1st Semester: 85 Days

• Second Semester: 86 Days

To see the calendar options in detail, visit www.coppellisd.com/calendaroptions.

Thank you to the dads that have taken time at TCE on Fridays to volunteer. For clarification, any amount of time you can give would be great. If you only have time to be there at drop-off or for a specific time frame, we would still love for you to sign-up.

As a reminder, we are having "Dads Club on Campus Day" at TCE. This is currently scheduled for Fridays, and they are able to sign-up to spend time at TCE supporting the campus and classrooms in different ways. This may include:

• Welcoming students to school during morning arrival
• Helping in classrooms, the office, or PE as requested by teachers
• Joining staff for lunchroom duty
• Re-shelving books in the library
• Car line dismissal and high fives to end the day

**In order for the campus to coordinate scheduling, please sign-up at least a week in advance.

Click Here to Participate in a Friday Dads Club on Campus Day.

If you would like to sign up to receive Dads Club Communications, you can email your contact information to Nick Walther at tceptodadsclub@gmail.com.

It's time for the annual 2023-2024 Creative Writing Competition with Coppell Gifted Association. This will be the 16th year, and we're looking forward to it being a great competition!

We are starting the competition a bit later in the school year this year, with the deadline for entries being moved to January 19th, 2024. Other important competition details include:

• Open to any student in grades 4-12; a student does not need to be in the GT program to participate.
• FREE for Coppell ISD students to enter.
• Categories: STORY and POETRY
• Details and Rules can be found at Creative Writing Competition Rules and FAQ | Coppell Gifted Association

Our yearbook sale is now open! Each year we have a Town Center Yearbook that highlights photos from every class, school events, and staff. It is a great item to have to look back on memories from the year, and we even have a yearbook signing party in May. If you are interested in purchasing a yearbook, please see the graphic below for the different purchasing options. As a reminder, the TCE Yearbook cost WAS NOT included in the TCE Trail Pass. If you would like a yearbook for your child(ren), you will need to purchase using the website link below.

Our yearbook committee would also love your help in submitting photos for the yearbook. As you attend campus events, if you have any photos you would like to share, see below for information on uploading them to our committee.

We ask that all families complete a volunteer background check. They do not carry over from year to year. Since the background checks take time to process, we ask that everyone complete one in case any type of volunteering opportunity (class field trip, Dads Club, Room parent, class volunteer, field day, etc.) arises during the year that you are interested in. Please click on the link below to complete.

Monday, January 15th

No School

Thursday, January 18th

Sky Ranch Information Meeting for parents of 5th graders - 5:30 p.m. TCE Cafeteria

Monday, January 22nd

CISD Board Meeting 6:00 p.m. at the Admin. Bldg. or via CISD Website Livestream

Monday, January 29th

PTO Meeting - all parents are welcome to attend. 6:00 p.m. TCE Library

Monday, February 5th

CISD Board Workshop 5:30 p.m.

Wednesday, February 14th

Class Valentine's Day Party 2:00 p.m. - All visitors must check in the front office.

Friday, February 16th

No School

Monday, February 19th

Bad Weather Make-Up Day - no school this day unless it is used to make-up for a bad weather school cancellation day.

Monday, February 26th

CISD Board Meeting 6:00 p.m. at the Admin. Bldg. or via CISD Website Livestream