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Try New Communication System
by Lydia M. Garlikov
Parents of students in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro
City Schools can expect a call Wednesday
evening, but it won’t be from a solicitor—it’ll
be from Superintendent Neil Pedersen. The short message from Pedersen is a trial run of a new messaging system the
district will use to keep parents informed.
The message system can be used to notify parents of community events such as
PTA meetings, to let them know if their child missed classes that day, or to
make
sure they
get the information they need in an emergency.
Staff members updated parent contact numbers this fall, in anticipation of
the system, which can call up to six emergency numbers per student. The system
will simultaneously contact all six numbers so parents get the same message
at home, on their cell phone and at work.
Area high schools currently use a similar system, but Ray Reitz, chief technology
officer for Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools, said it’s not as efficient
as the new system.
“We want to find ways to inform and engage our parents, and this is a great
tool, utilizing state of the art technology and a very comfortable piece of
technology — the telephone,” said Reitz.
Messages can be sent to all students in the entire school district or just
to members of particular clubs.
Several other districts in North Carolina already have this new system, including
Orange, Durham, Guilford, and Cumberland counties.
For more information about this new telephone notification system, go to www.notification.com.
If you should have received a call but did
not on Wednesday, February 23, 2005, please
contact one of
the data managers listed below for the school
your child attends.
Carrboro Elementary:
Cindy Dillehay, 968-3652,
ext. 410 or cdillehay@chccs.k12.nc.us
Ephesus Elementary:
Debbie Collicut, 929-8715,
ext. 224 or
dcollicut@chccs.k12.nc.us
Estes Hills Elementary:
Elizabeth Burnette-Lee,
942-4753, ext. 238 or
eburnette-lee@chccs.k12.nc.us
F.P. Graham Elementary:
Freddie Evans, 942-6491,
ext 229 or
faevans@chccs.k12.nc.us
Glenwood Elementary:
Teresa Tate, 968-3473,
ext. 222 or
ttate@chccs.k12.nc.us
McDougle Elementary:
Debbie Phelps, 969-2435,
ext. 2140 or
dphelps@chccs.k12.nc.us
Rashkis Elementary:
Tasha Moore, 918-2160,
ext. 22003 or
t_moore@chccs.k12.nc.us
Mary Scroggs Elementary:
Kathrine Turner,
918-7165, ext. 181 or
katurner@chccs.k12.nc.us
Seawell Elementary:
Vicki Koontz, 967-4343,
ext. 201 or
vkoontz@chccs.k12.nc.us
Culbreth Middle:
Karen Hadley, 929-7161,
ext. 1111 or
khadley@chccs.k12.nc.us
McDougle Middle:
Geoff Gentry, 933-1556,
ext. 5410 or
ggentry@chccs.k12.nc.us
Phillips Middle:
Jeri Wilson, 929-2188, ext.
200 or
jewilson@chccs.k12.nc.us
Smith Middle:
Thomas Scroggs, 918-2145, ext.
21104 or
tscroggs@chccs.k12.nc.us
Chapel Hill High School:
Jerri Humphries,
929-2106, ext. 1112 or
jhumphries@chccs.k12.nc.us
East Chapel Hill High School:
Rebecca Daye,
969-2482, ext. 235 or
rdaye@chccs.k12.nc.us
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