May 25, 2009 Weekly Announcements

Monday
May 25 Memorial Day

10:00, Band in Kalamazoo Memorial Day Parade

Tuesday
May 26

Wednesday
May 27

9:00, KCIS Meeting

10:00, Disaster Drill

Thursday
May 28

3:30, Leadership Team Meeting

6:30, Middle School Orientation

Friday
May 29


We were selected to participate in the Safe and Civil Schools 2009 Summer Institute. This grant funded opportunity will allow the members of our MiBLSi team will get six days of a national training beginning on June 15.

Please review and be prepared for disaster drill on Wednesday. We are to do two of these yet this year. We have completed all of our fire drills for the year.

We will have a shortened leadership team meeting for this Thursday because of orientation. We will be discussing homework expectations for the coming year. In my meeting with Dr. Rice this past week he made it very clear that he has an expectation for middle schools to establish regular and reasonable homework requirements as part of our effort to improve achievement.

Steve is helping organize the orientation for Thursday night and is looking for staff to help out. If you can give us an hour on Thursday night please let him know. Remember this is our opportunity to make a first impression. We need to attend to any graffiti or poorly displayed hall items.

Teams should be making plans for students to begin cleaning out lockers for the end of the year. Remember we don't let students bring back packs the last days of school.

7th grades are on a field trips this Tuesday and Wednesday

Loy Norrix is trying to schedule a meeting with incoming 8th grade athletes. We have not identified a date as of yet.

I will be meeting with with mandatory summer school 8th graders on Wednesday, and will be pulling students out of class for this purpose.