DrumBeat: Drummond LSC and PTO News & Views

The Afterschool Committee meeting is this Wednesday, March 17th at 6:15 at the Bucktown/Wicker Park Library. We’ll be discussing afterschool programing for the 2010/2011 school year. Email  with any questions. Thank you!

Last week via back pack stuffers, you should have received information about our Drummond Bird Project.  It will involve all Drummond students in all the grades.  Ms. Wheatley has set up a donors choose site with all components we need to get this project started.  Check out the website and help if you can.

http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=375539&sharebar=true

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Please consider serving on the Drummond LSC. Six parents are elected to the LSC and the election is on Report Card Pick-up day in mid-April. The deadline for submitting LSC applications to the Drummond office is this Thursday 3/11. 

http://www.cps.edu/Pages/Localschoolcouncils.aspx

The LSC will host a candidate public forum on Monday , March 22, 2010, to which all candidates and members of the Drummond community are invited.

I’m very pleased to announce that Mark Neidlinger was unanimously selected as Drummond’s Principal at the LSC meeting tonight. Mr. Neidlinger will begin a four-year contract effective next week.

Congratulations Mr. Neidlinger!

Jonathan Goldman
LSC Chair

Please come to the last School Improvement Plan meeting of the planning season today at 3:00pm TODAY in the Library.  Drummond School is in the midst of planning to improve the school over the next two years and is seeking comments from parents and teachers. If you are unable to attend the meeting, please send comments to . THANK YOU!

The LSC will hold its regular monthly meeting tomorrow, Monday March 8th at 6:00 pm in room 007.

Heading up the agenda is a final vote on principal selection. At our last meeting, the LSC selected Mr. Neidlinger as the finalist for the position. There will also be a preview of the new School Improvement Plan (SIPAAA), discussion of several fundraising efforts, and planning for the upcoming LSC election.

Refreshments and childcare will be provided, and all are welcome to attend. The full agenda is below.

AGENDA

I. Call Meeting to order/ Se abre la sesion

II. Approval or modification of Agenda/Aprobación o modificación de la Agenda

III. Approval of previous meeting minutes/Aprobación de las notas de la ultima reunión

IV. Open Forum/Participación de los Asistentes

Ground Rules: Members of the public are invited to address the council.
Reglas basicas: Las preguntas del publico son bienvenidas

V. Old Business/Antiguas Operaciones

• Approve new Committee members

• Principal Selection

o Vote to Select Principal and Offer Four-Year Contract

VI. Reports

• Administrators/ Reporte del administrador

o Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) Report/Reporte de Medio Ambiente Menos Restringido
o Budget/ Presupuestos

• NCLB/ Reporte de NCLB

• Chair/Reporte del Presidente

o Coordinating and Approving Fundraisers

• Afterschool Committee/Comité de despues de la escuela

• Budget and Fundraising Committee/Comité de Presupuestos y Recaudación de fondos

o Approve Spanish Fundraisers
o Approve Library Listening Station Fundraiser (retroactive)
o Approve Family Reading Night Book Sale Fundraiser (retroactive)
o Fundraising Calendar

• Diversity and Outreach Committee

• Environment and Health Committee

• Garden Committee

o Funds Reallocation

• SIPAAA Committee

o Present Draft of the 2010-2012 SIPAAA

VII. New Business

• LSC Election

o Approve Publicity Plan for Election
o Approve Date of Candidates Forum
o Approve Date of Meeting to Certify Results

• Legislation to Remove LSC Authority (SB 3063)

o Approve Action

VIII. Adjournment/Se cierra la sesion.

Thursday, March 25th in the Drummond Library, 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.

Sponsored by NCLB, Snacks provided

Learn to make your computer work harder and smarter for you and your family!
 

Take part in three workshops:

• Get your child’s grades online
• Use Internet Safety
• Help your child do research with the online Encyclopedia Britannica and other CPS databases

¡Venga al taller de
Tecnología de NCLB!
 

Jueves, 25 de marzo en la librería de Drummond, 3:00 – 4:30 P.m.
 

¡Su computadora le puede ayudar mejor!
 

Participe en tres talleres:
 

• Aprenda como obtener los grados de sus hijos a través de la computadora

• Seguridad en la Internet

• Como ayudar a sus hijos con los trabajos de la escuela usando La Enciclopedia Británica y otros datos del CPS en la computadora

The Budget and Fundraising Committee is having its regular meeting tomorrow 3/5 at 7:30am. Attached please find an agenda.  All are welcome and encouraged to attend.

BF Agenda 3-5-10.doc

http://www.drummondlsc.org/main/budget-and-fundraising-committee/

Dear Drummond Families:

Hello all:

Ms. Steiger, the new Drummond librarian, needs your help to
revamp our current listening center.  She would like to
replace broken headphones and CDs and purchase a rolling
audio pod (so it can accommodate more students).  We
need $448 for this project.  Donors Choose is matching
any donations made before March 8th.  That means if we
can compel families to donate this week, we can achieve the
listening center in $224 rather than $448.  What a
deal!

Go to:
www.donorschoose.org/drummondlibrary

to donate to the “Listening to Literature in the Library”
project.

If we can do this by this week, Donors choose will match,
therefore we need to raise only half of this $224.

Please help if you can.