Due to the matinee performance of Peter and the Starcatcher on Friday, we had to make a few changes by having our high school chapel in the atrium. It would have been much easier to move it to the gym. Pull the bleachers out, hook up the soundboard, and presto— we’re ready. Having it in the atrium […]

To be an all-star, just remember the 5 Ds of dodgeball— dodge, duck, dip, dive, and… dodge.” — Patches O’Houlihan What a week on Mustang Mountain! Even though they’re two completely different events, the elementary and secondary Track Attack days have grown to become great traditions for CAC students. For elementary students, it’s a day […]

Until we moved this summer, I had never lived in a house with a working fireplace. Several of my friends had them growing up, and many of my friends today have them, but I’ve never had the experience of sitting in my own living room around an open fire on a cold day. Until Wednesday. With […]

Whirlwind is a great descriptive term for the urgent day-to-day activities necessary for our school to run each day. Create unit plans and lesson plans Gather supplies and make copies Record attendance Make-up work for absent students Dress code checks Classroom management Teach Grade papers Analyze assessment data from homework, quizzes, and tests Updating grades Manage […]

Tonight our varsity football team wraps up their regular season with senior night and gears up for the playoffs, and on Monday, we’ll kick-off the basketball season with Mustang Madness. It’s hard to believe we’re already in November! As it seems each year, the year has gone by so fast! And as with most things, […]

During my first few weeks at CAC, I noticed something very different about our students: many of them were readers. Not the “I have to read so I’m reading” type; instead, several of the then-8th graders were the “Do you mind if I read when we’re finished with this assignment?” type. Since my first year […]

Last year, I shared the post below, and several of you took me up on it and asked for feedback from your students— so I’m sharing it again! If you asked students to grade you last year, are you going to do it again? If you didn’t, what if you did this year? In an […]

A day doesn’t go by that I don’t hear someone refer to our mission statement, but rarely does someone mention our Primary Objectives. Perhaps they’re long and harder to remember? Maybe they seem obvious within our culture? Maybe we just don’t reference them enough? Whatever the reason for not hearing them in our daily conversations, these […]

In his book Dealing with Difficult Parents, Todd Whitaker writes, “It [using the broad term parents] reminds me of using the word teacher when I address cooks, custodians, secretaries, bus drivers, and the like when doing speaking engagements around the country. I always explain that if children and students see us working, then we are teachers.” As a parent, I […]

During chapel on Tuesday, Coach Stewart reminded and challenged all of us (students and teachers) with Paul’s words in Philippians 2:12-16— Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works […]