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CPA is excited to welcome our new Middle School Counselor, Katie Barkley! We caught up with Mrs. Barkley this semester to learn more about her background and why she loves counseling Middle School students at CPA.
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After graduating from CPA in 2019, Francesca Moore started Basic Cadet Training at the United States Air Force Academy, “It was the most rewarding and most challenging four years of my life,” Moore remembers.
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The Academy is pleased to share its 2030 CPA Strategic Plan: Truer. After intensive analysis, research, and community collaboration, CPA Leadership and Board of Trustees has identified five strategic initiatives for the next five years that will put CPA on a path to becoming a truer version of the mission founded in 1985.
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CPA is excited to welcome new Director of Choirs for MS and US Skip Stradtman! We caught up with Mr. Stradtman this semester to learn more about his background and why he loves teaching choir at CPA.
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Early childhood is a critical period for literacy development, laying the foundation for lifelong learning and development. Nurturing relationships between teachers and students is at the foundation of all curricula at CPA Preschool, and literacy is no exception.
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CPA Yearbook has won Best In Show - the top national award for high school yearbooks - at the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) convention in Philadelphia.
![Author of Stand Beautiful, Chloe Howard, speaks at TICE Sojourn]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1731705194/cpalionsorg/p38mt0dhxxu4ulz6qwvd/unnamed4.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1731705194/cpalionsorg/p38mt0dhxxu4ulz6qwvd/unnamed4.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1731705194/cpalionsorg/p38mt0dhxxu4ulz6qwvd/unnamed4.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_4/v1731705194/cpalionsorg/p38mt0dhxxu4ulz6qwvd/unnamed4.jpg","width":1200},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_5/v1731705194/cpalionsorg/p38mt0dhxxu4ulz6qwvd/unnamed4.jpg","width":1600},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1731705194/cpalionsorg/p38mt0dhxxu4ulz6qwvd/unnamed4.jpg","width":1920}])
US Students had the privilege of hearing author and international speaker, Chloe Howard speak at TICE's recent Sojourn event.
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The CPA honors physics class with Anthony Muñoz had the opportunity to design and build various types of catapults to gauge which design was the most successful.
