AM Announcements - December 12

AM Announcements
December 12, 2008

1. Today is Day 71.

2. It is the mission of Speas Elementary School to provide its students with the tools necessary to successfully meet the challenges they will face in a diverse world.

3. Calendar items for this week:

Friday: December 12
Dollar Dress Down Day
SIT team meets with Dr. Martin - 9:30
All Science Fair Projects taken home
Mid-year Evaluation Conference with Toni Bigham - Reichert - 1:30-3:00
Staff Social - La Caretta - 3:00 PM - Everyone welcome

4. At the end of each day please do the following:
a. PLEASE CLOSE ALL BLINDS
b. TURN ALL TV's OFF
c. TURN OFF ALL MONITORS and COMPUTERS (CPU's)

5. Ms. Powell, Ms. Mincer, Ms. Marston and I will be meeting with Dr. Marting, Ms. Bigham and Dr. Sheehan this morning at 9:30 AM downtown to go over our data and the programs we have in place to meet our challenges.

6. Upcoming dates for your calendar:
a. December 12 - Speas Meeting with Dr. Martin
b. December 17 - SIP Title-1 Plan Peer Review 8:00-9:00 AM
c. December 17 - RJR Jazz Band - 10:00 AM
d. December 18 and 19 - Classified staff members depart an hour early

7. Please bring the paper your are storing in your classrooms top the Hive.

8. A group of staff members is meeting this afternoon at La Carretta on Peace Haven Rd. to celebrate the holidays. Everyone on staff is welcome.

9. I will be off-campus this morning at an Elementary Principal's meeting.

10. Dollar Dress Down Days occur today and next Friday.

11. Our Superkids officer, Kim Ruff, begins next Monday.

12. In order for rooms to be cleaned daily, chair must be placed on top of desks or tables when the children leave at the end of the day. Please make this part of your end of the day routine.

13. Toni Bigham will be here this afternoon to do my Mid-year Evaluation. We may be out in classrooms. Should we come in your room, just go on with what you are doing.

14. I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.
Dan Quayle (1947 - ), to Sam Donaldson, 8/17/89

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)