Our late start on March 16th will be for Curriculum areas to meet.

Our outstanding musicians here at Churchill are performing in spring concerts in March. The choir is performing on Tuesday, March 15th at 7:30pm, and the band on Thursday, March 17th at 7:30pm. Both concerts are in the auditorium. If you are available, come hear and support our outstanding musicians.

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.

Don't Forget!!! 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.

As I mentioned at the staff meeting, we will be hosting a visit from the OSSI grant folks on the evening of March 28th and all day on March 29th. At the Inservice day staff meeting on the 28th, we will be spending some time looking at the notion of "converting" to small schools...trying to learn more about it, discussing examples, asking questions, sharing hopes and fears, etc. I know that most of you have questions about all of this. If you could email me some of your questions over the next couple of days, we will try to somehow address some or all of those questions at the Inservice. I will also be placing articles on the subject on the staff room table as well as sharing web sites that you might want to check out.

Our Inservice will start with food in the library @ 7:45am. We should be done by 11:30am.

In the afternoon, staff members from McCornack will be in the library to present information about children from poverty backgrounds. This optional presentation is part of our regional Wallace Grant plan to address achievement gap issues. This session will run from 1:00-3:00pm. Staff members from the various schools in the Churchill region will also be attending.

Don't forget! If you have articles you want to get in the last 04-05 school year newsletter, the May/June issue, please email them to Karla by Wednesday, April 13th. Also, if you are having student presentations or anything special going on in your classrooms, please let Karla know so she can come take photos.