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4130 Albemarle St. NW
Washington, DC 20016
202-282-0110
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Tues-Thurs, May 20-22:
DC CAS 4th grade composition test Fri, May23:
Blue & White Day
Mon, May 26:
NO SCHOOL
Memorial Day
Wed, May 28: Soup Kitchen Fri, May 30: Blue & White Day
Editors
Gretchen Cheney
Jenny Kletzin DiBiase
Elizabeth Levenson
Karen Mandel Muoio
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A Note from Your PTA Co-Presidents
Hard to
believe but we have less than a month of the school year left!
We want to
say thank you to all the PTA committee chairs that have volunteered so much
time this past year. Janney is an exciting, welcoming, stimulating, supportive,
memorable, and fun learning environment because of the work you did. Many of you have agreed to chair your
particular committee again next year, but some of you understandably need to
pass the torch at this point.
We are
looking for some energetic folks to step in. Please consider whether you could
contribute by becoming a new Room Parent Coordinator, Cybrary Volunteers
Coordinator, PTA membership chair, or tracking down matching gifts. Each of
these committees is invaluable to our strong school, for example, matching
gifts from parent's employers brought Janney $10,000
last year! We need someone to head the Teacher/Staff Appreciation Committee as
well, where would we be without our wonderful teachers and staff? Leslie
Dembinski has agreed to chair the Fall Picnic yet again but would like to have
a co-chair that would then be willing to organize next year's Spring Picnic as
that will be her final picnic as a Janney parent. If you are interested in any of these
committees, or any committee not listed here, and would like to more about the
responsibilities they entail, please let us know!
Finally,
we are also forming a very important fundraising committee that will be charged
with organizing our fundraisers next year. We already have some wonderful
volunteers for this group, but we want all the fundraising ideas we can get so
please consider joining this fun and
lively
group and chipping in! Melissa Torgovitsky (Storgovitsky@aol.com) will be
coordinating this effort, so please contact her if you are willing to help! The
committee will meet on June 5th.
If you
missed the PTA meeting last week, a few important things happened.
Congratulations
to the incoming Executive Board and thanks again for giving your time:
Rennie
Anderson and Lucy Smiles, co-presidents
Scott
Cheney and Jonathon McHugh, co-presidents-elect
Gerry
Gretschel and Dan Rosenthal, co-treasuers
Elizabeth
Levenson and Sharon Masling, co-secretaries
We also
voted to approve the three parents who submitted their names to the Principal
Selection Committee, Elaine Pirozzi, Andrea McCabe and Willa Morris.
The
changes to the by-laws that were proposed in April were approved as well. The
new by-laws are posted on the Janney website.
Finally,
the proposed budget for 2008-2009 was presented. The budget is posted on the
Janney website as well. If you have comments, it would be most helpful if you
could submit them before the June membership meeting when we will officially
approve a budget for next year.
Have a wonderful week!
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DAMN
YANKEES DVDs
If you
gotta have heart on DVD from this year's Janney musical production of
"Damn Yankees," you can purchase a disc for just $10.
Please
leave payment (check made out to Janney PTA) in the PTA box in the school
office. Please include your child's name and teacher's name with payment.
Please mark the envelope with the notation, Damn Yankees DVD. Emma
Murdock and family will make sure you receive your copy.
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 Safety Patrol Tip of the Week
Please
never stop your car in a crosswalk, blocking visibility for children and other
motorists.
Chris Bock, Safety Patroller
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In the Neighborhood
Deal Ice
Cream Social and Raffle
Didn't get
a ticket to Janney's raffle earlier this month? Want a chance to win some money
while supporting your local public middle school? Then, consider
purchasing a $25 raffle ticket for the Deal PTA Raffle. There are four
great cash prizes-$3,000, $750, $500, or $250!
To
purchase a ticket, contact Anita Seline at amseline@aol.com or Dianne Torresen at torresen@comcast.net. Or look for us after school today,
tomorrow, and Thursday. Checks are to be made out to Deal PTA Raffle. Just
three days left, so act now.
The RAFFLE
DRAWING will take place on Thursday, May 22, at Deal's first annual ICE CREAM
SOCIAL. Please plan to join us from 7:00 - 8:30pm to enjoy delicious ice cream
(courtesy of Gifford's of Bethesda),
wonderful musical entertainment, and the drawing. You do not need to be present
to win.
Openings
for the Fall
Are you
looking for a small, family-oriented, nurturing nursery school? Metropolitan Nursery School has several openings
for the 2008-2009 school year. The school has morning only and full-day
openings in our 3- and 4-year-old classes. Anyone who is interested should
contact Bruce Kahan, Director, at 202-362-8746. The school is located in Metropolitan Memorial
United Methodist
Church, at the corner of Nebraska and New Mexico
avenues, across the street from American
University.
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 Principal's Letter
To the Janney community:
Wow! The
spring band concert was wonderful. The kids sounded incredible and the ice
cream was delicious. At the end of the night, there was a "jam session"
featuring current band members as well as alumni (and a parent too). There was
classical music, some jazz, and two rock numbers at the end (the Trotters
played "Tequila" with Leander on sax, and a garage band called "Evolution"
featuring three recent Janney grads closed the show with a number from Stone
Temple Pilots). It was a wonderful event and a real tribute to Sterling
Scroggins who, through his patient approach over time, has nurtured and grown a
really incredible band here at Janney. There was clearly some kind of dust or
particle matter in the air because my eyes got wet about three songs into the
show as I reflected on how nice it is to hear the band every morning at 8:00
and to see Sterling
bounding through the door with a grin on his face. He is a real gem in our
community.
There has
been a good buzz developing about the number of vacancies for next year. Here's
the list so far:
Ermyn
Roberts, 3rd Grade- Retiring
Dolda
Butler, 2nd Grade - Moving to Atlanta
Sarah
Cassidy, 3rd Grade - Moving out of the area
Andrea
Litvack, 4th Grade - Moving to New
Jersey
Melissa
Barry, 5th Grade - Moving to New York
(will be a vacancy in 6th grade)
Meredith
Dedolph, SPED, Maternity leave
Barbara
Murphy, Reading Specialist, Changing schools
As you can
see from the list, the majority of teachers are leaving to move out of the
area, and in all cases, the primary reason is that a spouse or significant
other is taking a job in another part of the country. I interviewed some great
candidates at a DCPS hiring fair last week, and our personnel committee saw 12
candidates at Janney as well. We've got some really phenomenal candidates, and
I'll have all the vacant positions filled by June. Janney is a school with
great traditions and stability due to the confluence of great kids, supportive
parents, and dynamic teachers. Although this is more change than in most years,
the stability and strength that is at the core of the school will remain
intact.
DCPS
announced their plans for the 26 schools in restructuring which means that I
can finally be public about where I'm going. Next year, I'll be at
Webb/Wheatley ES in the Trinidad neighborhood
of NE, Washington. Webb/Wheatley is in the first group of schools that the
federal No Child Left Behind law mandates some form of "corrective action." In
this case, the entire teaching staff will be "reconstituted," meaning that they
all must reapply for their jobs. In next week's newsletter, I'll have a great
deal more information about the school and what's happening. Thanks for all the
continued support.
Have a
great week!
Sincerely,
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Contributing to the E-Newsletter
Submissions to the PTA newsletter may be emailed to Janneynewsletter@yahoo.com.
The deadline for submissions is Thursday at 3:15 pm. Because the newsletter is reviewed by several individuals before distribution, we must adhere to this deadline in order to get the newsletter to you every week on time.
Please make every effort to submit your notices by email for the electronic newsletter. Include all text in the body of your email (rather than as an attachment). Small jpeg thumbnails may be attached and can be included in the newsletter. All links or email addresses will be made active (clickable).
Prepared fliers should be turned into the school office by COB Monday for inclusion in the regular Take Home Tuesday envelope.
We will run notices about community or other non-Janney events as space permits. It is the PTA's policy not to carry for-profit advertisements or classifieds. Thank you for your cooperation.
The Editors
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