Cypress Creek High School Community Brief |
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Dates To Watch For / Special Events |
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Jan. 27: Last day of the SGA Sweater Drive to help any CCHS student in need (please see below)
Jan. 27: International Holocaust Remembrance Day (please see a special Monday Motivational Moment at the bottom of this edition)
Feb. 01: Start of Black History Month
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Mrs. Constantino will be honored as Cypress Creek's Teacher of the Year during Wednesday evening's annual Stellar Awards at 7:00pm. She is pictured here with Dr. McHale last September in her classroom the morning it was announced she was CCHS' 2020-2021 Teacher of the Year. |
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Mrs. Paez, our wonderful school bookkeeper with Dr. McHale, who will also be honored Wednesday evening at the OCPS Stellar Awards for her awesome work as Cypress Creek's Support Person of the Year. Please watch at 7:00pm, January 27th! |
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SGA Sweater Weather Drive |
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SGA is collecting new or gently used sweaters to be given to students in need on cold mornings. Sweaters can be dropped off in the morning car line or during both lunches through Wednesday, January 27. |
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Curbside Meal Pickup: Week of Jan. 25 |
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7 breakfasts, 7 Lunch, 7 Supper, 7 Snacks |
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At the time this issue went into production on Sunday, January 24, 2021 the spring testing dates were tentative. Once they are firmed up, they will be shared with the larger community.
Thank you.
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Cypress Creek Students and Parents,
We know this has been a most unusual year for all of us and Cypress Creek High School would greatly appreciate hearing your views on the 2020-2021 school year.
We are asking parents of our Cypress Creek community to invest a few minutes to complete the annual OCPS Parent Survey. The results of this survey are used by Cypress Creek's leadership team, the School Advisory Council, and the PTSA to make positive changes to our school. Please tell us what is working for your student and family, and let us know what improvements we might make.
Please understand that the survey feedback is collected anonymously, but that we do see the overall, combined results. We depend upon this feedback to prepare our school improvement plan which directly benefits our Bears.*
Thank you very much for your support! This takes very little time, but your input helps to guide CCHS immensely.
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Curriculum Highlights: Week #3 of 2021 |
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Photography with Mr. Ellis
Students in CTE Photography explore everything from the most current digital imagery to traditional film. Here, Mr. Ellis supervises Cypress Creek Senior Bentley Aurelien as he develops prints in the darkroom. Students study many subjects ranging from products to portraits and have 3 levels available to work through.
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Here are 2 of Bentley's own photographs. |
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Career & Technical Education (CTE) with Mr. Canone and Ms. Kosloski's 9th Grade Reading Students
Mr. Canone, our CTE coordinator, invited Ms. Kosloski’s freshman reading classes to visit the CTE programs on campus. It was an opportunity to give the students some motivation and explain some of the options they have here on Cypress Creek’s campus. The students also learned about the various Industry Certifications and how they can help students after after high school graduation.
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Credit: Curriculum highlights compiled by Angel R. Miranda, Dean of Students (A-H) |
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Featured Scholarship of the Week |
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Helpful links:
Scholarship Opportunities
Financial Aid
College Application Platforms
onePulse Foundation Legacy Scholarship
49 scholarships for up to $10,000 awarded
Deadline is January 31, 2021.
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Email Christopher Canone, Cypress Creek's career specialist, at christopher.canone@ocps.net for application information. If OTC Dual Enrollment is of interest, please explore this opportunity today while we are still early in the new year. OTC has a wide variety of programs to choose from! |
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Monday's Motivational Moment |
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Viktor Frankl's problems put our own challenges into perspective.
Above, we asked our Bear parents to help CCHS and to take the 2021 Parent Survey especially given this extraordinary year. As difficult as things have been for so many, this coming Wednesday, January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The following true story may help lend some perspective on those most difficult of days.
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Viktor Frankl (1905-97) was born in Vienna, imperial capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, where his father worked in the government. Frankl was a Jewish psychiatrist living peacefully in Austria when the Nazis came for he and his family.
In September 1942, Frankl and his family were arrested and deported to a camp in Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, where families of professionals like Frankl and community leaders stayed until the Nazi SS decided their fate. His mother, father, brother, wife and her mother all died. In fact, of the 140,000 who arrived, 33,000 died from illness or starvation; 90,000 were killed at extermination camps.
Knowing that any moment he might be executed, Frankl spent most of the next three years in the camp doing arduous work, often in freezing weather and wearing rags for clothes. Food was scarce. He suffered from typhus and got little sleep in crowded rooms full of rats and lice.
But out of this nightmare came an understanding that human beings can emotionally withstand anything if they refuse to let conditions dictate their attitude.
After the war ended in 1945, Frankl wrote about the lessons he learned during imprisonment.
His book, "Man's Search for Meaning," has sold 12 million copies. In a 1991 survey by the Library of Congress/Book of the Month Club, readers said it was among the 10 books that most influenced their lives.
Here are some of his observations about life that Frankl made based upon his experience during his holocaust experience:
- "Also amid the squalor were inspiring examples of courage and humanity. We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They offered sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
- He noticed that those who gave up hope died fast. Also, those that had work to do each day such as maintaining the German railroad tracks, fared better as at least they had a purpose. The others left behind in the crowded barracks, usually never made it.
- Frankl observed that attitude was a key to survival. He later wrote, “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
The lesson for our Bears? Seize each day as a new set of opportunities and keep a positive attitude regardless of challenging circumstances. Show kindness to others as you never know what difficulties they may be facing. And above all, always remember you are not alone like Victor Frankl was in the Nazi concentration camps - every teacher, coach, and staff member at CCHS wants you to succeed and is always ready to help in any way they can!
Make this a great week #4 of 2021 Bears and please don't forget about the Stellar Awards Wednesday evening!
Dr. McHale, Principal
Cypress Creek High School
Sunday, January 24, 2021
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Orlando, FL 32824
Phone 407-852-3400
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