Summer Blog Post #3 - July 16th

Good Afternoon!  I trust you all are well and enjoying the summer!

Staff reports back on August 17th, which leaves us with 4 weeks of summer work until we begin the new school year. Though we have accomplished much, there is more to do!  Below is a bullet list of thing done in BLUE and still to be done in Red.

• New teachers hired
• Kelsey Loy - 4th grade
• Elizabeth Johnson - 5th grade
• Melanie Sayles - 5th Grade
• Tom Radulovic - TA
• 1st TBE
• 1st Residential
• Guidance
• Media - That's right, Deb has accepted a position at Flat Rock Middle school where she will fulfill her dream of developing a secondary media center with a focus on research.  She is working on an e-mail that I will forward soon
• SIT met on Wednesday and allocated funds to hire FOUR reading interventionists and expand our work with Expeditionary Learning
• Working on sharing a google documents link that will allow you to view some Expeditionary Learning documents
• Still working on the schedule
• Still working on class rosters
• Still working on the Title One Prioritized School Plan

We will finish Summer enrichment next Thursday, July 23rd.  The following week, July 27th-30th, we are closing the office/building as;

• Laurie is on vacation
• I am at the leadership retreat
• Custodians will strip and wax the common areas

Keep in touch and know that I am looking forward to an amazing school year.  I will leave you with a picture from my trip to see my family on Dad's 81st birthday.

My Brother - Mark, My Dad - Jack , and Me