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Charlottesville High School

CHS - A Note from Dr. Malone: Week of August 17, 2025

Posted Date: 8/17/25 (5:00 PM)

CHS

BLACK KNIGHT NATION

CHARLOTTESVILLE HIGH SCHOOL

August 17, 2025

This Week's Note

Dear Families,

This note includes an update from me, an overview of our schedule, and information from the PTO.

Each Sunday (or the day before we return to school), I will share an update with our school community. These updates will include insights into our planning, announcements from the PTO, and celebrations of our students and school teams.

In addition, you can expect weekly updates from your student’s teachers, as well as from Mr. Jones and the Activities/Athletics Department, all shared via ParentSquare.

Our goal with communication is to keep you informed about how our planning and daily work on behalf of students connects directly to our partnership with you—our families and community.

We want this partnership to be rooted in clarity, transparency, and trust. In the weeks ahead, I will share more about this year’s school goals, CCS’s direction with standards-based grading, and ways you can contribute to CHS’s success.

At CHS, we are committed to Engagement – Experiences – Excellence.

This work starts now.

I love the Knight Life!
Dr. Malone

SEL

SEL Time: Overview

SEL Time
CHS continues to make social-emotional learning a priority because it is essential to building and sustaining a safe, supportive school environment. SEL equips all students—not just those in crisis—with practical, evidence-based skills to manage emotions, handle stress, make thoughtful decisions, and build positive relationships. By embedding these lessons into the school day, we proactively support mental health, improve behavior, and create a shared language for problem-solving across our school. This work strengthens engagement, enriches student experiences, and supports excellence, helping every Black Knight thrive both in and beyond the classroom.

SEL Time is linked to each student’s 4th period class.
Impact

Impact Time: Overview

Impact Time
Impact Time (formerly BKT) is dedicated time in each student’s schedule for targeted academic support. During Impact Time, students may:
  • Re-learn or practice a skill
  • Retake an assignment or assessment
  • Conference with their teacher
  • Work independently
Impact Time is tied to a specific period in a student’s schedule, and students are expected to attend daily just like any other class.


CHS Time
CHS Time - also with your 4th period class - is on the schedule as a placeholder for CHS school-specific events (pep rallies, assemblies).
During the year, this time may also be used for students to get additional support or for teacher check-in. We will directly communicate to staff and students when CHS time will occur.
CHS PSC

Positive School Culture (PSC) Updates

CHS's commitment to a Positive School Culture includes professional learning and development with promoting positive school behaviors and aligning positive school strategies.

This section will be devoted to updating our community on ideas, references, or strategies that our school-based PSC team is helping promote.

You will see CHS: Community - Striving - Honesty on email signatures, ParentSquare messages, and in other communication. This represents key values thar our school is promoting as meaningful traits of personal and school success.
CHS

Schedule and School Events

This section will feature upcoming events including bell schedule information for the week ahead (date - day - schedule - Impact/SEL/CHS)

  • August 18 Mon SINGLE Impact 1
  • August 19 Tue OB Impact 2
  • August 20 Wed EB Impact 3
  • August 21 Thu SINGLE Impact 4
  • August 22 Fri SINGLE CHS

OB = Odd Block
EB = Even Block

The link below is our 25-26 bell schedule.
NOTE: Impact/SEL Times are variable and not on set dates/days.
This is so we distribute this time evenly across all classes across the school year.

Changes to our schedule will be communicated to students via ParentSquare, announcements, and via teacher communication.

CHS PTO

PTO Information

This section is allocated to PTO updates.

CHS has an active PTO which helps support our students and teachers and staff. Shortly our President, Ashley Howard, will be reaching out to our community to invite new and returning families to learn more about our work. In advance of that invitation I wanted to put out a need that PTO will have this year. Specifically we need to fill the roles of Secretary and Treasurer. If you believe you might be interested in either role please reach out by responding to this message.

We have a number of other committees where participation is also welcome (teacher grants, student support, teacher and staff appreciation). Please stay tuned for an announcement regarding our first meeting, where families and staff can learn more about what is in tap for the year and how you might get involved at the level that works for you.

PTO Meetings: 2nd Monday of each Month at CHS and via Zoom.

Next Meeting: Monday, September 8th, 2025.

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