Staff Bulletin: February 14, 2005

Happy Valentine's Day!

Late Starts

February Curriculum areas will be meeting during our late start next Wednesday, February 16th to finalize department budget requests for next year and finalize any curriculum revisions for the '05-06 curriculum handbook.

There is a joint Site Council meeting this Wednesday, February 16th, at 3:30pm in F55. This is a normal Site Council meeting time, and Curriculum Council members are invited to join them to make their case for their respective department budget requests. Those departments who were not present at the last Site Council budget meeting last week may want to be present at this meeting to make a case for your requests.

Just a reminder that Operations approved an all-school assembly for this Thursday, February 17th. We will be on a 55-minute assembly schedule that day with the assembly beginning at 9:50am in the gym. The subject of the assembly is Asian culture and features dancing and presentations. APISU is organizing the event. All staff, please attend this event and disperse yourselves in the gym.
Curriculum Handbook Changes Due Friday, February 18th Just a reminder - all Curriculum Handbook changes are due to Karla no later than this Friday, February 18th. Final revisions to department copy and content will be made during the Curriculum Council meeting this week, February 16th. Please make corrections/deletions on hard copy, or if there are additions you can indicate where they should be inserted and email Karla the text. If you have questions, check with Karla.

The Jefferson 8th Grade Parent Information Night & Curriculum Fair is this Wednesday, February 16th, from 7-9pm in the library. The Kennedy 8th Grade Parent Information Night & Curriculum Fair is this Thursday, February 17th, from 7-9pm in the library.

If you schedule events/happenings here at CHS, please be aware that there is a new "system" in place to schedule the facilities.
All of the "rentals" and usage of the building (including clubs, sports, testing, parent meetings, curriculum nights, etc.) that happen IN the building are still handled by Karla. This includes ALL areas of the building (except the wrestling room, the weight room and the fitness center). But now, they are not only entered on a master hard-copy calendar, but also online at highschoolsports.com. Therefore, the master building calendar is not available in Karla's office to just come by and browse through or write in. This ensures that everything on the master calendar gets posted online.
If you need to schedule a room or area, check out highschoolsports.com first to see if it's available, then email Karla with your request. Your request will be processed faster if you put BUILDING REQUEST on the subject line. She will email you back to let you know the status.
If you want to schedule something on the sports fields, contact Tim Carmichael.

We will be hosting our Human Rights Day on Thursday, March 17th (St. Patrick's Day). There will be a special schedule for this day and will be listed on the weekly calendar (for that week). It will be a 1/2 day AM Human Rights classes and 1/2 day PM regular classes schedule. If you have questions, check with Cindy Sainz.

Department Curriculum representatives should submit purchase order requests for this year's remaining budget balances by Friday, March 18th. This is the Friday prior to Spring Break. Please see Karla if you have questions.

The next Futures Committee meeting is Monday, February 28th, at 3:15 in room J9.

Have a great week!

Dennis Biggerstaff,

Principal