AM Announcements - October 27

AM Announcements
October 27, 2009

1. Today is Day 45.

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: October 27
Staff-development - 2:40-4:00
First Quarter EOQ testing continues

Wednesday: October 28
First Quarter EOQ testing ends

Thursday: October 29
RC -Day - Staff members are responsible for attending any Central Office staff development planned for them. Please refer to schedule sent out on Friday.

Friday: October 30
RS day - Certified/Classified staff members may take annual leave if they choose.

4. Upcoming Calendar Items:
a. 11/10 - Make It, Take It Night - Reading
b. 11/11 - Veterans' Day - No School (Holiday for staff)
c. 11/13 - Honor Roll Assembly - 1:00 PM.
d. 11/16 - Interim Reports go home
e. 11/24 - Dollar Dress Down Day
f. 11/25-27 - Thanksgiving Holiday
g. 12/01 - Winter Concert
h. 12/04 - Dollar Dress Down Day
i. 12/04 - Speas Spelling Bee
j. 12/05 - Holiday Open House - The Reicherts

5. There appears to be confusion about October 29 and October 30 and .
a. On 10/29 - Certified and Classified staff members are expected to attend central office staff development if it is planned for them. If none is planned for you then you MAY take annual leave.
b. On 10/30 - Certified and Classified staff members MAY take annual leave, however they are not required to do so. It is their choice.On these two days, everyone is welcome to work if they would like to. No one is required to take the time off.

6. Please bring your laptop to this afternoon's staff development session.

7. Have you made your United Way pledge? We are so close to our goal. Won't you help put us over the top? Everything depends on you.

8. Please wear pink and denim all week in honor of the continued fight against breast cancer. Together we can beat this terrible killer.

9. Please bring the walk-through data you received yesterday to this afternoon's staff-development. I reviewed the comments some grade levels made about the last two month's data and have the following observation. I urge you to look at things more globally. Often times we focus on ourselves and how we relate to the items that are observed during walk-through's. While that is valuable, it is affects change in one room only. If we are to make systemic change it requires an understanding of what we do as an entire school.

10. Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Thomas Jones (1892 - 1969)

Men who never get carried away should be.
Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)

Silence is the virtue of fools.
Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)