AM Announcements - January 04

AM Announcements
January 04, 2010

1. Today is Day 78.

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:

Monday: January 04
DIBELS testing window - 1/4-29

Tuesday: January 05
Joint Principals' meeting - 7:30-12:00 - Reichert off-campus
SIT - 2:40-4:00
A's and Bees Tutoring - 6:00-8:00
Meet Ms. Heyland and Ms. Logan - 6:00-8:00

Wednesday: December 16
No items at this time

Thursday: December 17
Job Site meeting - 9:00-10:00 - Reichert and Powell

Friday: December 18
No items at this tiime

4. Upcoming Calendar Items:
a. 01/11 - Interim reports go home
b. 01/12 - Staff meeting
c. 01/15-01/22 - EOQ Testing
c. 01/18 - No School - Martin Luther King Holiday
d. 01/25 - No School - RS Day for staff

5. All teachers in grades 2-5 should call two parents today and invite them to bring their student to A's and Bees tutoring. We've had lot's of tutors and virtually no students. Now that the holidays are passed, we need to keep the tutors interested and a the students need the help. Please do your part and offer a personal invitation.

6. There will be a SIT meeting tomorrow from 2:40-4:00 PM. Please give any items to your representatives.

7. Now that all PLC leaders have been trained we will begin working with the processes we have been taught this week.

8.  There are three weeks left in the second quarter. It ends 1/22. Currently Speas certified staff has not voted on taking January 25 off if they choose. Please click on the link below and cast your vote. Votes will be tallied tomorrow at noon.

Click here to take survey

9. The tentative date to move into the pod is March 27. We may be able to move before that time. As a result, teachers in rooms 21-28 should be going through their cabinets and getting rid of items that haven't been used recently. Storage will be at a premium to say the least. Grades 4 and 5 will move into the pod along with Ms. Smutek. We will be placing art on a cart for the remainder of the 09-10 school year from the move in date, March 27, until the close of school in June. Any teachers in need of boxes or other packing materials should contact the office. Teachers in rooms 9-20 should also be looking at what is in their cabinets and preparing for their move on June 10. These teachers will need to have everything packed by that time so workers from the warehouse can move it into storage trailers for the summer. Work is set to begin on phase two, the remainder of the back building, on June 13. The entire back building will be ready to move back into by August 15.

10. Jerry Bryant, Barbara's husband, serves on a committee with the Knights of Columbus that distributes grants to school for worthy causes. He has asked if we would be interested in seeking one of these grants from their current cycle. Grants are usually in the $250-$500 range. If you have an idea that we could submit, please let me know by return e-mail.

11. I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.
Steve Martin (1945 - )

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Hodding Carter

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)