AM Announcements - April 19

AM Announcements
April 19, 2010

1. Today is Day 141.

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: April 19
AR Celebration - 4-5 - 8:00-8:45 AM
Interim Reports go home

Tuesday: April 20
AR Celebration - 2-3 - 8:00-8:45 AM
Technology Staff Development - 2:40-4:15

Wednesday: April 21
Volunteer Luncheon - 12:00-2:00

Thursday: April 22
Earth Day
Curriculum Coordinators' meeting - Marston off-campus - 8:00-3:30

Friday: April 23
Student Council Field Trip to Nursing Home - 9:00-10:00

3. Upcoming Calendar Items:

a. 4/27-4/30 - US Census at Speas in the gym. PE classes will be outside
b. 4/ 27- EOG Training
c. 4/28 - EOG Training
d. 4/30 - Dollar Dress Down Day

4. We completed the Governor's Working Conditions Survey with a response rate of 82.98%. DPI said that we have 47 employees. When I counted our certified employees I could only find 42. Only those individuals who are based here are supposed to respond. I was able to reach 47 employees by adding in our Social Worker, EC Case Manager, School Psychologist, vacant EC Resource position and one staff member who is a certified teacher but does not serve in that capacity. Using the 42 number, our response rate was 92.85%.

5. Next week, the US Census will be at Speas providing assistance to the community. They will be in the gym Tuesday, 4/27 through Friday, 4/30 from 8:00-5:00. PE classes will be held outside or in the classroom if it rains.

6. Don't forget to turn in your pledge card for the UNCF drive. They can be turned in to Michelle Odom. She informed me yesterday that we had raised $395.00 to date.

7. Don't forget to send Interim Reports home today.

8. A sign-up sheet has been placed in the mail room for 3rd quarter Review Conferences. Please sign up for a time.

9. The address for "Thank You" notes for Peter and the Wolf is:

Frank Smith
School of Dance
UNCSA
1533 South Main St.
Winston-Salem, NC 27127-2188

I will get the address for the RJR Jazz Band from Ms. Kooken and provide it for you tomorrow.

10. Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
David Russell

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
Quentin Crisp

At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.
Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)