December 4, 2006 Weekly Announcements

Monday
December 4
2:30, Professional Development, Room 415

Tuesday
December 5
3:00, Basketball, Portage West, 7th grade away, 8th grade home

7:00, Holiday Concert, Gym

Wednesday
December 6
7:30, meeting with 8th grade advisory representatives, office conference room.

2:30, Science Department Meeting

6:00, 8th Grade, KAMSC informational meeting, KAMSC

Thursday
December 7
7:30, Middle School Principal's Meeting, Maple St. - Kevin

2:30, Technology Department Meeting

2:45, Civil Rights Program, Meeting w/K. Brown, Office Conference Room

6:00 Aristotle's Architects Parent Night

Friday
December 8
1:30, 8th grade school party

2:30, PE department meeting


We'll do our weekly drawing from last week on Monday morning at 7:40 on the Morning Show and then again on Friday as we usually do. This will be a make-up from our snow day on Friday.

All of the department meetings listed come from the master schedule that was created when teachers did initial planning at the beginning of the year.

We are working on the holiday food drive over the next two weeks. Items whould be collected in advisory classes and brought to the office where they will be counted and collected. Ice cream sundaes for the top five advisory classes.

We will have visitors in the building on Tuesday as part of a GEAR-UP evaluation.

We are meeting with K. brown this Thursday to firm up some of the details for our February program. If you are a social studies or and English teacher and you would like a class or two to work on brief historical narratives or monologues please let me know before Thursday. We have to decide how to get the student created skits ready for production. Members of the planning committee are needed in this discussion on Thursday.

We will continue our work with PBS during professional development on Monday afternoon, 8th grade teachers will also work

The band and orchestra students will have a rehearsal on Tuesday at approximately 1:00. We will set-up after the basketball game again in the gym for the performance Tuesday night.

Please continue to remind 8th graders that their attendance at Friday's party is contingent on "no referrals" and all their overdue library books turned in. 8th grade teachers will be needed to help with supervision in the cafeteria. We will have some students

November 27, 2006 Weekly Announcements

Monday
November 27
7:30, Parent Meeting - Kevin

8:30, Due Process/504 Meeting - Kevin, Ellen, PJ, Mary

2:30, School Improvement Team Meeting, Room 415

Tuesday
November 28
1:30, Due Process Hearing, Ad. Bldg. - Kevin, Maggie
2:00, Due Process Hearing, Ad. Bldg. - Kevin, Ellen

2:30, Classroom Libraries Workshop, Library

3:00, Boys Basketball, Maple St. - 7th grade, home; 8th grade, away

4:00, Meeting w/K. Brown - Kevin

6:00, Parent Advisory Meeting, Room 415


Wednesday
November 29
7:35, Meeting w/ 8th grade Advisory Reps, Office Conference Room

Thursday
November 30
8:00, BEB training, KRESA - Kevin, Mary, Maggie, Andrea

3:00, Basketball, Portage North, 7th grade away; 8th grade, home

Friday
December 1
Jersey Day

We have established dates for class parties - 8th grade, December 8; 7th grade, December 15; 6th grade, December 22. These events will take place last hour of the day in the cafeteria and will require that any student attending be referral free for a two week period prior to the event. This means the referral policy begins immediately for 8th graders.

We will begin collecting for the Holiday food drive. Again we will use the advisory classes as the primary vehicle for collecting. More information will follow.

Classroom teacher have a wonderful opportunity to get reading material for their classrooms. You simply must attend the Tuesday afterschool workshop in the library. You can get up to $250 worth of material for your room.

We will do EdPerformance testing the next two weeks, Diane put a schedule out to everyone. A copy is pasted to my office door if you are unsure. Some of you will use laptops in classrooms and some will test on laptops in the reclaiming room, refer to the schedule. We hope our wireless system can handle the testing volume.

Our external evaluators Rick and Helen will be here this Friday, as they begin their process.

We have a school improvement team meeting this Monday. We will be discussing grading in the connections classes as one part of the agenda.

Friday is Jersey Day another school spirit day.

If you have an 8th grade advisory please be sure to have a representative attend our meeting on Wednesday morning in the main office.

We will maintain our policy that a parent needs to attend basketball games with a student, through the boy's season. Our first games begin this week.