Purchasing will be cut off effective March 15th. There are several departments with pre-planned purchases like music that purchase until the end of the year. Those purchases will be honored. Naomi will pre-order the DCMO supply purchases so that staff can receive these before June 15th. In addition, all BOCES purchases are cut off unless you have received prior approval. This includes Arts & Ed.
Conference registration reminder:
When you enter a workshop in MLP, all relevant
materials like registration forms, brochures, etc must be scanned into
MLP as it states. If the scans are not available to the business office, Sue Albro spends a lot of
time trying to retrieve this info from staff in order to register or pay
registrations. Some staff may not be trained on this process, so if you need help, please let me know.
BOCES Bulletin Feb. 16 Some great looking opportunities this week.
Transition from No Child Left Behind to the Every Student Succeeds Act:
Please see the linked memo here from Assistant Commissioner Ira Schwartz regarding the orderly transition from No Child Left Behind to the Every Student Succeeds Act.
Office of Assessment February "E-Blast"
ASCD MyTeachSource: Feature on interactive learning
Tutor Pace - SAT and ACT practice:
The email below says that this is free, which is nice. If someone tries this, please let me know if it's a sampling of questions. I haven't logged into this yet.
My name is Karen Trijullo and I work for Tutor Pace, Inc. My Company recently launched a new diagnostic tool that covers both SAT and ACT tests for students to practice for SAT and ACT tests before appearing for their exam. It’s a most comprehensive and powerful tool to find out students strengths and weaknesses which actually help teachers and students to know where the students are struggling. It’s FREE forever for students and teachers.
I have included the diagnostic tool link below which covers both SAT and ACT practice tests. http://www.tutorpace.com/practice-tests
From: Seneca Community Players Publicity
Note: I can't find the email address for this person. I'm thinking that Tina or Chad might know her.
Date: 02/15/2016 01:24PM
Subject: Seneca Community Players
Hello!
I am a board member with the Seneca Community Players, a community theatre group that serves Seneca County and the surrounding area. We have planned a big fundraising event for May 13th where we will be auctioning off all the roles for our musical production of Willy Wonka. We are targeting 5th graders and up. Anyone can secure any role, if they are the highest bidder. But, the reason I am contacting you is that we will be having a press release party on Thursday, April 21st and Peter Ostrum (the original Charlie in the Willy Wonka movie) has agreed to come and help us promote our fundraising event. I would love to get the 4 Seneca County Schools to incorporate a way that 1 or 2 students could possibly "Win A Golden Ticket" and ask Peter a question during our Q & A portion of the event. Whether it is a random drawing that the students with positive behavior can win if you do PBIS in the schools or maybe a short essay contest or however you would like to run it.
I am also emailing the superintendents of the other 3 districts. Please let me know if this is something you would consider doing and if you have any other ideas.
Thank You!
Susie Cornett
Auction Theatre Chairperson
