Volunteer at Chaparral! The staff and students at Chaparral Empowerment High School greatly appreciate the support provided by parents.  We are looking for parent volunteers to assist the school with various events for 2010-2011 school year.  There are a variety of areas where parents can help at school. Please consider volunteering to assist with the activities listed here; even one hour of your time will make a difference.

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Important Parent Message Parents, ParentLink Needs Your Email Address! As we move into summer, we want to make sure that you will have full access to ParentLink on your schedule.  Setting up your email address in ParentLink enables you to reset your password if it is ever lost or forgotten, receive email messages from your school, and subscribe to other important ParentLink communications. Simply log in to ParentLink, click on the MY ACCOUNT tab, and click the ADD button in the Email Addresses section. Then click SAVE to save your address once it is entered on the Add Email Address page.  Don't delay, set up your email address today!

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Chaparral Reorganization - Introducing Small Learning Communities Ninth Grade Academy Chaparral High School is committed to creating a successful transition to high school for all incoming ninth grade students.  To this end, we have created a Ninth Grade Academy to service all freshmen students.  Beginning this fall, all ninth grade students will be assigned to a “House” within the Ninth Grade Academy.  A common group of core teachers will share these students throughout each day.  These teachers will be afforded the opportunity to collaborate to create consistent and stable environments for each “House” and build relationships with each student in order to create personalized academic plans for each student.   Themed Academies - Grades 10, 11, 12 At the end of their ninth grade year, each Chaparral student will have the opportunity to select the Themed Learning Community that best suits their talents and interests.  Among their duties, the teachers assigned within each of these communities will take responsibility for curriculum expansion and exposing students to post-secondary opportunities throughout their high school career.  Students will be guided towards the electives within their chosen academy however they may take electives outside of their chosen themed community.   Chaparral High School’s faculty will be reorganized into these Themed Learning Academies during the 2007-2008 school year.  They will be afforded time to create the framework of each Academy to begin recruiting students for the 2008-2009 school year, when every student, teacher, counselor, and administrator at Chaparral will become a member of a Smaller Learning Community.  We will begin to place students in each Themed Academy this fall as part of a pilot program to assist us in creating the most effective educational environment possible.  These students will be selected based on their current choice of electives.   Arts and Media Academy Three years of academic programming for students with similar interests in fine arts, performing arts, film studies, broadcasting, and journalism.   Business and Science Technology Academy Three years of academic programming for students with similar interests in business, marketing, finance, entrepreneurship, school-based enterprises, technologies, sciences, and medicine.   International Leadership Academy Three years of academic programming for students with similar interests in linguistic studies, politics, debate, law, and teaching.