AM Announcements - January 20

AM Announcements
January 20, 2010

1. Today is Day 89.

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:

Wednesday: January 20
LWS - Education Day Committee - 12:00-1:00 - Reichert off-campus
EOQ Testing continues
Curriculum Coordinators meeting - Marston off-campus -11:30-3:30

Thursday: January 21
EOQ Testing continues
Job Site meeting - 9:00-10:00 - Reichert and Powell
Moreno-Castro Pre-K meeting in the art room - 12:30-1:30

Friday: January 22
EOQ testing ends

4. Upcoming Calendar Items:
a. 01/25 - No School - RS Day for staff
b. 01/26 - Technology Staff-Development
c. 01/29 - Box Tops for Education due
d. 02/01 - Report Cards go home
e. 02/02 - SIT meets
f. 02/05 - Honor Roll Assembly

5. CERTL applications are available from Ms. Rhodes. The parents must fill out an application and it must include a written teacher recommendation letter from the teacher. The application deadline is February 18.

6. Books for the African Book Project can be dropped off in the front lobby. Please encourage your students to participate. You can join them in donating books as well.

7. Since we began EOQ testing on Friday, I need to remind test administrators and proctors of certain protocols that must be followed. a. Use of cell phones, Blackberries or any other electronic communication devices is strictly forbidden.  b. There can be no reading of books, magazines or any other type of print material during the testing session by anyone. c. Administrators and proctors are to be up on their feet and circulating through the room constantly during the test.
8. We are counting on all our staff members supporting the effort to donate 5000 gallons of water to the American Red Cross. It will make a tremendous difference in the lives of the Haitian people.

9. I will be off-campus today from 11:45-12:15 at a Leadership Winston-Salem Education Day sub-committee meeting at the Career Center.

10. Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966), Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
Anatole France (1844 - 1924), The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)