AM Announcements - April 30

AM Announcements

April 30, 2010

1. Today is Day 151.

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:

Friday: April 30
U.S. Census on campus - 8:00-5:00 - gym
Dollar Dress Down Day
Spring Fling - 5:00-8:00 (Faculty) 5:30-7:30 (Students and parents)
Reichert off-campus all day

3. Upcoming Calendar Items:
a. 05/04 - SIT Meeting
b. 05/04-05/06 - DIBELS Testing
c. 05/07 - Second on-demand writing sample due in the Moodle
d. 05/10 - Field Day
e. 05/14 - EOG testing begins

4. Attention Teachers:  If you are in need of parking space during the Spring Fling, you may park across the street at Ms. Crump's house, (1923 Polo Rd) in her driveway.

5. Ms. Childers sent around information about the Scholastic Book Fairs Warehouse Sale. Below is additional information :

Wednesday 05/12/2010 - Saturday 05/22/2010
*PO Day* Wednesday - May 12th - 9a-7p
Thursday & Friday May 13th-14th 9a-7p
Monday-Friday May17th-21st 9a-5p
Saturdays May 15th & May 22nd 9a-3p

6. Don't forget to turn in your pledge card for the UNCF drive. The current total is $______. Remember that the drive ends May 21, 2010.

7. Review Conferences for today are:  Gifford 8:10, Heyland 9:00 & Merrill 9:30

8. The following e-mail arrived earlier this week from NCCAT. Any of our ILT's with 2 or 3 years experience may want to check this out.

Do you have talented 2nd and 3rd year teachers that you want to keep in the profession and in your school? Let NCCAT help you - at no cost to the teacher or your school! Please contact NCCAT Teacher Services at 800-922-0482 or Dr. Renee Coward at renee@nccat.org to register for this free, five-day residential seminar for your beginning teachers.

They pay for everything! Ask anyone who's been. It is marvelous. They even cover your sub.

9. Any PRT who wants to go the transfer fair can do so.  That would include Catherine, Layne, Billie & Kathy.

10. Remember to review data in your PLC meetings as we work to complete our needs assessment for our Prioritized Title-1 Plan. With the budget in turmoil our decisions about which programs and personnel to fun with Title-1 money become even more critical.

11.  REMINDER:  Ms. Bushey would like to meet with the staff members today @ 2:40 in the Media Center.  This will be not longer then 5 minutes she promises.

12. There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951)