Wildcat Pride                             September 27,  2018
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Next week is Homecoming! The week kicks off with a staff development day - so NO SCHOOL for students on October 1st. The Powder Puff football game will be held on Monday night at 6:30 p.m. on Molner Field. There will be fireworks after the game on Friday, so plan to stick around. You are also invited to a screening of "Chisago Lakes: The Power of MN" on Thursday, Oct. 4th, at 6:30 p.m. in the PAC. Tickets are free. Another rite of passage at the beginning of the school year is the "school picture" - and this year Echo the therapy dog at the high school got his own portrait! No word on whether or not he will be exchanging all those wallet-size pics.

Return of Work-Based Learning Program Leads to Apprenticeship for CLHS Student at Kendall Howard

CLHS senior Cole Brophy spending his afternoon working on various machines.

CLHS has started the work-based learning program back up. This used to be a very vital program at CLHS, but with the economy taking a hit many companies had no choice but to pull out of the program because there were not any jobs for students. Three years ago America's Best Community contacted us to see if we would be interested in partnering and starting up a Work-Based learning program. We started small with more Career Exploration while running into the issue that students need to be 18 to work in the manufacturing area. We continued our path of research and were able to work with MDE and other schools and find a solution, the Apprenticeship Program. We contacted Kendall Howard to partner with us and they accepted the program with open arms.

There are two pathways the Work-Based Learning class can take:

Career Exploration -This gives students a behind-the-scene look at what the career field may look like. This can be done in different ways: interviews, internship, paid hours. This is helpful for the fields that may have strict client or patient rules. 
  • Students complete an internship/interview.
  • Must be 40 hours between classroom and work site.
  • Students need to be able to get themselves to work.

Apprenticeship - This is a paid experience and has much more paperwork. Students can work on machines and other items even if they are under 18. They will be released to work and the teacher will come to the worksite for instruction/check-in.
  • 450 hours on the work site.
  • Students are working at one site.
  • Students need to be able to get themselves to work.

 "LIGHT THE CANNON!"... A 10 - Year Tradition 

Raedekes and Zaises, including Jenna Zais who teaches math at CLMS.

This year marks the tenth anniversary of a thrilling Wildcat football tradition:  the roar of the cannon after the Wildcats reach the endzone. For the past ten seasons, Dan and Sanna Raedeke, with help from Polly and Tony Zais, have been operating the cannon at every home game, making our Friday night football games an unforgettable experience for players and fans.  The cannon is a ΒΌ scale replica of a Naval civil war cannon that belonged to Sanna's father, Sig Rimsted, a former superintendent of Taylors Falls School District. In the fall of 2008, Dan and Sanna's daughter Simone, then a senior at Chisago Lakes High School, asked her parents if they would bring the cannon to the Wildcats' homecoming game.  The rest is history. We are grateful to the Raedeke and Rimsted families for their generosity and dedication to our football program. 

CL Food Service Partners with Chisago City Famers Market



















Chisago Lakes food service department has recently joined a partnership with the Chisago City Farmers Market.  We are able to provide fresh, locally grown produce to our students for lunch.  We have purchased cucumbers, banana peppers, red and green peppers and watermelon the past couple weeks.  The produce is beautiful, and we know exactly which farm provides the produce to us.  The best part is they are all local!  We will continue to order weekly for as long as the produce is available.  We are thrilled to offer that "just-picked" freshness to our students.  This was all made possible by a grant the Chisago City Farmers Market advisory board obtained from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture's Specialty Crop Block Grant (funded by the USDA), and the Statewide Health Improvement Partnership, or SHIP.  We can order online, and have delivered right to our door every Tuesday!  What a great benefit to Chisago Lakes Schools, and our students.

On the Calendar:

10/1: No School - Staff Development Day

10/2: First Chisago Lakes Grill Activities Fundraising Night: 10% of your pretax bill will go to support CL Activities - be sure to tell your server that's why you're there!

10/4: The Power of MN film screening and celebration in the PAC at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are free.

10/5: Wildcat Homecoming Game vs. St. Francis @ 7:00 p.m. with    fireworks following the game.

Down the road:

10/17: No School - Elementary only
10/18-10/19: MEA Break - NO SCHOOL

11/8: A Community That Cares - Speaker Reggie Dabbs 


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