AM Announcements - March 20

AM Announcements

March 20, 2009

1. Today is Day 125.

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: March 20

Choice/Crest Open House 11:00 AM -1:00 PM

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 was on last night and if you missed it you have two more chances. You can see it Monday morning at 7:55 or you can watch it on-line like I did. Congratulations 5th grade, you were marvelous!

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. We got some wonderful news yesterday afternoon. Dr. Martin informed the schools that central office would not be taking their fund balances like originally planned. This will mean that we get to keep our $20, 622 for our own projects. He has called a special meeting for Monday, March 30 to discuss the budget crisis and how our system will address it.

8. March Madness started yesterday. I hope your teams were successful. There should be lots of basketball on TV this weekend for all you fans. Carolina, Duke and Maryland from the ACC were winners. Only Clemson fell. Today Wake, Florida State and Boston College play.

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 today. Our staff and Demertia always do a great job and our visits have been exceptional this year thanks to their efforts.

12. Third and Fifth grade teachers should remind their tutoring students that there is NO tutoring this weekend. The next session is a week from tomorrow, March 28.

13. I know secret and we will share it with everyone later today.

14. A motion to adjourn is always in order.
Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Lazarus Long: Time Enough For Love

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
Marston Bates

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), (attributed)

These days an income is something you can't live without--or within.
Tom Wilson, "Ziggy" (comic)