October 6, 2008 Weekly Announcements

Monday
October 6

8:00, Meeting with Facilities/Technology - Kevin

2:40, Professional Development, Room 415

3:45, Cross Country, Portage West, Away

Tuesday
October 7

9:00, District Leadership Meeting, West Main - Kevin

11:00, Biotech Partners Lunch, Rm. 415

2:30, Meeting with WMU class, library - Kevin

2:30, Meeting with Facilities - Kevin

3:15, Volleyball, Portage West, 7th grade home, 8th grade away

Wednesday
October 8

2:30, Meeting with a WMU class - library

3:45, Football, Portage West, Home-Loy Norrix

Thursday
October 9

8:30, Magnet Meeting - Atiba, Kevin, Tamela

3:15, Volleyball, Mattawan, 7th grade away, 8th grade home

Friday
October 10

11:00, Meeting w/Dr. Harvey - Kevin, Tamela


Our professional development on Monday afternoon will focus on building understanding of vocabulary instruction, with John Vail from KRESA. We will continue our work on our student-led conferencing process and get an update on our MEAP plan and PBS data.

On Tuesday we must pass out a letter to all students to take home regarding our pest management practices apparently this is a legal requirement. So please pass out the letter at the end of your 1st hour class and instruct students to take it home. We typically do very little of this type of communication, however it is necessary this year because of a notification requirement.

We are meeting with a group of potential community partners who are practicing elements of Biotechnology in their companies on Tuesday during noon and will be using room 415 for a lunch meeting. This will be inconvenient for student center staff during this time frame.

On Thursday during advisory time we'll be sending confirmation letters to parents and addressing envelops for those appointments. The envelops and letters will be provided to you in advance. You'll have to teach the envelop process likely. Lindsey sent everyone an email with a word file for this purpose earlier. We will answer your questions Monday during PD time.

Erin Kidman is helping facilitate the annual United Way campaign(thanks). She is responsible for passing out and collecting our pledge cards and providing any other information about the campaign.