AM Announcements - January 16

AM Announcements
January 16, 2009

1. Today is Day 86.

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: January 16
Final Copy of SIP Due at Central Office (Toni Bigham)
Second Quarter EOQ Tests
Don Phillips Presentation - CO Auditorium - 3:30-6:00 - Reichert and Powell off-campus

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. Willette Nash would like to schedule multicultural education walk through. She would like to visit at least 5 classrooms if possible. If you would like for her to visit your classroom please send an e-mail to me. I will work with her on a date at the beginning of the 3rd quarter.

6. Upcoming dates for your calendar:
a. January 16-23 - End of Quarter Tests
b. January 19 - No School - MLK Holiday
c. January 20 - AR Benchmarks due
d. January 23 - End of Quarter
e. January 26 - No School - RS day for report cards
f. January 27 - Technology Staff Development - 2:30-5:00
g. January 27-29 - AR Celebrations - (27/K; 28/1-2; 29/ 3-5)

7. Be Healthy School Kids classroom presentations continue.

8. On Monday January 26th from 9 am – 1 pm a Winter Education Symposium will be held at Redeemer Presbyterian Church. This event has been approved by Dr. Martin as 0.3 continuing education units. The symposium is titled "Connecting with you Students, Impacting your Community" and will include the following presenters: author and educator Dr. Gary Chapman, Salem College professor Krishauna Hines-Gaither, and educator and professional dancer Shawn Bowman-Hicks. The event will focus on teachers’ value to the community and will equip teachers to connect and communicate effectively with all their students. The symposium agenda and registration material have been posted in the lounge.

9. We are currently going through a case of paper every three days. That is 10 reams or 5000 sheets. When you break it down to classrooms, you are talking about at least 4 classroom sets of worksheets, etc. per class per day. That's a lot of paper and pencil activities. Something teachers may need to consider when planning instructional activities. If this continues we will run out of paper or we will have to restrict copier use.

10. Individuals wishing to donate days to Rose Rusch may pick up the form from Ms. Higgins. We need to send these in as a group. We will be sending them in on Monday. Anyone who has the days and wishes to donate is encouraged to do so by that time. We all know that Rose would deeply appreciate it.

11. SIT members should see Becky first thing in the morning today in order to sign the SIP so it can be taken downtown. PLease complete this by 10:00 AM.

12. "Books Are Fun" books are in the media center and the order will be placed next Wednesday and delivered next Thursday?

13. After an access cover has been secured by 16 hold-down screws, it will be discovered that the gasket has been omitted.
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
Samuel McChord Crothers

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)