AM Announcements - January 07

AM Announcements
January 07, 2009

1. Today is Day 79.

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:

Wednesday: January 07
No items at this time

Thursday: January 08
1-5 Vision Screening - 8:15-10:45 AM - gym
WS/FCS Staff Policy Committee - 4:00-5:00 - Reichert off-campus
Retirement Information Center open - 2:30-4:30 - Career Center Dining Room
Arts Council Fund Drive Kickoff - 4:15-5:30 - Hanes Community Center - Ms. Say attending
School-wide Job applications due

Friday: January 09
No items at this time

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

5. Teachers in grades 1-5 should pull the orange health cards from their students' CUM folders and take them to the gym when called for their vision screening tomorrow.

6. Upcoming dates for your calendar:
a. January 12 - Interim Progress Reports go home
b. January 13 - Staff Meeting - Final vote to approve 2008-2011 School Improvement Plan
c. January 16 - SIP Due at Central Office
d. January 16-23 - End of Quarter Tests
e. January 19 - No School - MLK Holiday
f. January 20 - AR Benchmarks due
g. January 23 - End of Quarter
h. January 26 - No School - RS day for report cards
i. January 27 - Technology Staff Development - 2:30-5:00
j. January 27-29 - AR Celebrations - (27/K; 28/1-2; 29/ 3-5)

7. Please check with your SIT representative for an update on yesterday's meeting.

8. Individuals associated with the construction will be here tomorrow after 4:00 to determine where Smartboard and technology will be placed in each classroom as it is renovated.

9. There is a sign-up sheet in the mail room for Be Healthy School Kids classroom presentations beginning. No more than two classes may sign up for any time slot.

10. My wife is having hand surgery today and I will be off-campus first thing in the morning. I will be back as soon as the surgery is over and she is settled in her room.

11. Any staff members thinking about retirement at the end of this school year may want to stop in at the Retirement Information Center in the Career Center Cafeteria this Thursday, January 08 from 2:30-4:30. There are also Retirement Planning Conferences held around the state. A listing of these can be found on the NC Treasurer's website in the "retirement" section. Individuals planning on retiring should notify Human Resources 120 days prior to their projected retirement date.

12. There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.
Anatole Broyard

What luck for rulers that men do not think.
Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004