AM Announcements - September 08

AM Announcements
September 08, 2009

1. Today is Day 10.

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:

Tuesday: September 08
President Obama speaks to American Public School Students - 12:00 PM - Channel 20
Staff Meeting - 2:40-4:00

Wednesday: September 09
Cub Scout classroom 3 minute presentations - 1:00-2:00 PM
Interested parties meet with Mike Larson in the Media Center - 2:45

Thursday: September 10
Elementary Principal's meeting - 7:15-12:00 - Reichert off-campus
Cub Scout Sign-up Night - 7:00 PM

Friday: September 11
Dibels training - Ms. Marston - 7:30-10:30
All teacher web pages updated

4. Upcoming Calendar Items:
a. 9/15 - Gateway Meeting - 3rd and 5th grade students and parents - 6:00 PM
b. 9/22 - Marzano staff development 2:40-4:00
b. 9/24 - Pre-bid meeting at Speas 9:00-10:00
c. 9/25 - Dollar Dress Down Day
d. 9/29 - Technology staff development - 2:40-4:15

5. President Obama's speech to American public school students will be broadcast on C-Span, channel 20 on our TV system. If you have any students whose parents send in a written request that they not watch, please send them to the gym where we will supervise them until the speech is over. We will play the speech on TV in the cafeteria for those classes at lunch.

6. I went checking computers, monitors, speakers and copiers before the Labor Day Holiday and found 2 computer(s), 3 monitor(s), 0 speaker sets and 0 copier(s) left on overnight.

7. There is a staff meeting this afternoon in the media center at 2:40 PM.

8. Remember to update your web page by 9/11.

9. The first interim progress report goes out in today's "Monday Packet."

10. Remember to get with the individual you are doing a peer observation on and schedule a time for it. Also remember to take time and sit down with no one else around to do your self-assessment.

11. Last Friday, Speas was granted an additional Kindergarten class as a result of increased enrollment. We will begin working with HR to fill this position; outfit the classroom; create the class from our existing classes; and fit it into the existing schedule.

12. Remember that classified staff come in 30 minutes later than usual today. That makes their arrival time 7:45 AM.

13. History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban (1915 - 2002)

The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.
Glaser and Way

I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.
Will Durst

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)