March 22, 2010 Weekly Announcements

Monday
March 22

9:00, 6th grade team to WMU

9:00, 8th grade team to Loy Norrix

1:00, Google Meeting - Mark, Rana, Chris S., Kevin

3:15, Meeting w/C. Green, Admin. Bldg. - Kevin

Tuesday
March 23

9:30, Meeting W/G. Start - Kevin

Wednesday
March 24

9:00, 6/7 6th graders to WMU

9:00, 7/8 8th graders to Loy Norrix

Thursday
March 25

3:30, Leadership Team Meeting - Carlotta's Room

5:30, Parent Advisory Meeting, Library

Friday
March 26

Comp Day - No School, Spring Beak Begins


It is our turn for Promise Week, all the middle schools will conduct a similar set of experiences for all of the students in the school. Please pay attention to the schedules and the plans that have been created. If there are any conflicts or issues we haven't anticipated please lets us know. There are activities planned during the extended advisory periods please refer to the CPR plan.

6th grade teams should be in the cafeteria by 8:45 for a general information session prior to departing for WMU. T-shirts should have been passed out in advisory. 8th graders will be called down after 6th grade departs as close to 9:00 as possible.

Custodians will be here during the days of spring break, if anyone is needing to get in.

Deb will send you an e-mail with with an attachment for conference reporting. Please calculate you conference attendance rates and return the report to Deb not later than Wednesday. You can still hold conferences if parents were not able to attend last week.

I will return your math facts data to everyone who turned their data into me. I just want you to keep some type of record so that you can help students develop some type of sense of their progress. We will quantify the improvement toward the end of the year as a building.

I had a request by parents to put the topic of "texting in class" as a discussion point at parent advisory this week. I am not aware of this as a huge problem, put if you are experiencing this issue other wise would you please let me know.

Teams will be getting some information about the upcoming bond. Our parent representative is Mrs. Kistler. This is a hugely important issue. IF the bond did not pass in our district there would be increased cuts to our programs. There is no tax increase with this issue as it amounts to a renewal. We all have to do what we can to see that this information gets out.

March 15, 2010 Weekly Announcements

Monday
March 15

9:00, Promise Week Meeting - Tamela, Mary, Steve, Susan

2:30, KEA Meeting, Rm. 415

3:00, PBS Team Meeting, Student Center

Tuesday
March 16

7:30, Secondary Principal's Meeting, West Main - Kevin

2:00, Magnet Budget Meeting - Kevin

Wednesday
March 17

10:00, Meeting w/C. Buck - Kevin

5:00, Student-Led Conferences

Thursday
March 18

1/2 day of School - PM Schedule

10:45 Budget Meeting, Office Conference Room

12:00, Student Led Conferences

3:00. Student Led Conferences

Friday
March 19

The County Health Department will be here on Tuesday and Thursday doing vision screening of all of our 7th graders. We will have to call students out of class for a brief time to complete this task.

I will present information to KEA about staffing and the budget at the KEA meeting on Monday. I will present the same information to any other staff on Tuesday at 2:30 in the library. We are still working through this issue but I can provide the most current information we are working with, in light of the KEA and administration agreement to move to a 6 period schedule.

A copy of your conferences schedule should have been sent to Deb in the office so that secretaries can respond to any phone calls about conference times.

We are looking at running EdPerformance reports which could be added to the student portfolio at conference time.

Counselors will distribute 3rd trimester schedules to advisory teachers on Monday morning. Team leaders were informed of the plan for planners for the remainder of the year. You should have students write out their new schedule and advisory teachers should have a copy. It is not uncommon for students to forget. Remember don't send students to the student center unless they have drastic flaw in their schedule.

We are pushing the student/staff basketball game back to April 9, because of Promise Week. The students will have a spirit week leading up to the game on Friday.

We will have visitors in the building Monday afternoon. A middle school looking at PBS systems will tour and meet with us.

We welcome Nicole Coleman back from her maternity leave Monday morning