AM Announcements - March 19

AM Announcements
March 19, 2009

1. Today is Day 124.

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:

Thursday: March 19
EOQ Testing

First Grade Field Trip

Reichert - off-campus all day

Friday: March 20
EOQ Testing

EC Process visit

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

5. The Fox8 "What's Right With Our Schools" segment on our Pen Pal Project airs tonight at 5:00 PM and Monday at 7:55 AM.

6. Upcoming dates for your calendar:
a. March 22-26 - 3rd Quarter EOQ testing
b. March 24 - AR Benchmarks due
c. March 27 - Dollar Dress Down Day
d. April 1-3 - Spring Break

7. Please send your notes declining dental screening to Ms. Rhodes.

8. I will be off-campus all day today.

9. April 9 is the next early release day for classified employees. Classified employees should come to work at 7:30 and depart at 2:30 PM.

10. The Teacher Notification of Intent web site is ready! The link is now up and available to teachers via the Employees page of the WS/FCS web site. All full-time teachers need to complete an intent form (we have a different process for part-time teachers). The deadline is April 17th.

11. There will be an EC process visit at Speas tomorrow. All files and records should be up to date and accurate.

12. Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, 'Do I know you?'
Steven Wright (1955 - )

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
Robert Byrne

Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
George Saunders, last words

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 191