David M. Cox Elementary School – A Whole New Year…Infinite Possibilities!

Cox Cub News

Volume 13, Issue 6
September 25-29, 2023
Mrs. Tara Imboden, Principal imbodtr@nv.ccsd.net
Mrs. Andrea Heinlen, Assistant Principal heinlam@nv.ccsd.net
www.davidmcoxelementaryschool.com
*Graphic created by Cox Cub 5th Grade Student Violet Hernandez in Art Class on a Sketchpad 5.1 program.

DMC Happenings this Week: Final SOT meeting for the 2022-2023 Board will be Tuesday at 4 pm in the Library.
Coronado HS Council students will be in painting bulletin boards for us Wednesday.

Cox Cubs of the Week of the Week: Congratulations

to the following students for being Cox Cubs of the
Week: Ty Sutton, Leni Iglesias,
Ariya Tialemasunu-Zanin, Kassian Baca,
Katarina Baca, Izabella Hopewell, Dominic Santerelli,
Lilionna Lopez, Oliver Garcia, Rocco Courtney,
Nikan Pazargadi, Emily Dillavou,
Miguel Cornejo-Islas, Catalina Gilliom, Manuel Silva,
and Dominick Sikora.

PTA News: Thank you to all the families for supporting the Fall Fun Run! Our families raised over
$39,000.00 for our students! Thank you to the families who joined our staff this morning in support
for the teacher contract with CCSD. Thank you to all the families who were able to join us for our
monthly dinner night at Panda Express last week! So tasty!
Parking Lot Reminders (2nd posting): Parents please remember that the front red zone is a “Kiss and Go” zone in which you
cannot get out of your vehicle and leave it. We are having persons and vehicles almost getting hit by trying to go around parked
vehicles.

Infinite Campus: Parents, we are 3 weeks away from the first quarter of our semester. All grades, make-up work, and retakes
must be turned in by Friday, October 6th. Parent Conference Week is that following week in which you will be given a current
progress report for your student.

Congratulations to the Following AppleCore Winning Classrooms for August (2nd posting): These classes have
turned in the most AppleCore bookmarks for the month of August earning their classrooms a popcorn party! Way to
go: Ms. Swinger’s Kinders, Ms. Anderson’s First Graders tied with Ms. Melz’s First Graders, Ms. Ash’s Second
Graders, Mrs. Fortin’s Third Graders, Mrs. McLeod’s Fourth Graders, and Mrs. Martin’s Fifth Graders.

School-Wide Data: Our annual state assessment data and rating have come in. We are “officially” a 3-STAR school with our
lowest performing categories in science (we implemented the new CCSD science program last year “Amplify”) and our
English Language Learner subgroups. We also LOST 7 POINTS to Chronic Absenteeism. We were 7 points shy from
maintaining our 4-STAR status from last year and have been analyzing where we need to make our instructional changes. We
are very proud of the growth our students made last year and how much higher we performed than the district!

As a community, what you can do honestly to help our kids the most is get them to school. If they’re not at school, they cannot
learn.
A Look Ahead:
*Dates are always subject to change.
10/2-6 Week of Respect
10/2 School Custodian Day
10/3 Apple Core Author Visit Gr. K-2
10/9-13 Parent Teacher Conference Week (Elementary ONLY)
10/9 Staff Day – No school for CCSD Kids
10/10 No School for elementary students due to conferences
10/13 Quarter 1 Ends, Unsats given at conferences
10/13 No more Make Up/Late Work/or Retakes accepted
10/16 National Boss’ Day
10/16 Soccer Camp Starts
10/18 Chik-fil-A DMC Dinner Night on Eastern
10/19 Great Nevada Shake Out – earthquake practice drill
10/20 Apple Core bookmarks due for first quarter
10/27 No School for CCSD Nevada Day
10/31 Monster March 2:30 Field – costumes
11/1 AR Prize redemption day for points
11/5 Daylight Saving Time Ends – set clocks back an hour
11/7 Election Day
11/10 Veteran’s Day – no school
11/13 Natl. Sch. Psych Week
11/14 PTA Mtg. 6 pm MP Room
11/17 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Holiday Mash Up
11/17 Zuppas DMC Dinner Night off of Eastern
11/22-11/24 Thanksgiving Break – no school
12/1 AppleCore Book Marks Due/AR Prize Week
12/4-8 Teacher Grading Week
12/6 FINAL DAY FOR ALL RETAKES AND LATE/MISSING WORK
12/7-8 4th Grade Performance
12/11-15 Spirit Dress Week, Finalizing Report Cards Week
12/12 Panera DMC Dinner Night off of Eastern 12/15 First Semester Ends CCSD
12/15 Report cards and certificates come home, final day of school 12/16-1/1 WINTER BREAK