AM Announcements - March 18

AM Announcements
March 18, 2010

1. Today is Day 124.

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:

Thursday: March 18
Job site meeting - 9:00-10:00 - Powell and Reichert attending
Staff Policy Committee - 4:00-5:00 - Reichert off-campus

Friday: March 19
Move meeting - 8:00-9:00 - Powell and Reichert attending - #169 downtown

4. Upcoming Calendar Items:
a. 03/22-26 - Third Quarter testing
b. 03/23 - Student Council Talent Show
c. 03/26 - Box Tops for Education collected
d. 03/26 - Dollar Dress Down Day
e. 03/30 - Spring Break begins

5. If you or your grade level have not taken your visit to teacher(s) at another school, please schedule it for some time before March 29. If it must go into April, that's OK. See Ms. Higgins for the paperwork so we can pay for your 1/2 day sub out of Title-1 funds. Those groups that have been already have found it very valuable.

6. Staff members should have received invitations to participate in the Governor's Working Conditions Survey. This is an on-line survey and will be open from March 15-April 16. We do this survey every other year, alternating with the local FCAE survey. The information garnered from this survey is used at the school, district and state level to improve working conditions and address problems. This is a chance to have your voice heard on issues that are important to you.

7. The Annual Enrollment Period for the State Health Plan continues and will run through April 9. ALL EMPLOYEES MUST ENROLL ON-LINE through the following website:

http://wsfcs.hrintouch.com/

If you have questions about login or site navigation please call 1-866-239-1055. If you have questions about State Health Plan benefits call 1-888-234-2416.

There is also a button on the WS/FCS web site that you can use to access the enrollment web site.

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9. It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

Tom Stoppard (1937 - )

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
Henry James (1843 - 1916)

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)