Employee of the Month - Carolyn Davis (January 2014)

Memorial High School's Lead Custodian Carolyn Davis was recognized as the district's January Employee of the Month. Carolyn, over a 35-year career in SBISD at several campuses, has been consistently ranked as one of SBISD's best service providers. Last summer, she coordinated both SBISD Summer School programs there while planning for re-opening that included six additional classrooms and new T-buildings.

Carolyn "inspires others to do more than they thought that they could accomplish and to take pride in how a job well done improves the lives of others," SBISD's Associate Superintendent Jennifer Blaine said in her nomination.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1OdOOLG8FY

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Volunteer of the Month - Barbara Burr (January 2014)

Named as January's Volunteer of the Month is Barbara Burr, who started mentoring 16 years ago through the HUG tutoring program at Housman Elementary. A treasured volunteer, she has seen her one-on-one tutoring with six Spring Woods High students lead to graduation and recent enrollment in one case at Lone Star College. Today, Barbara tutors a Meadow Wood Elementary student who likes to call her "Mrs. Barbara." Thank you to all our volunteers, mentors and partners!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATVirphxH6E&list=PL00832F93B377B5AE&index=33

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Join us! Engineering Expo - Thursday, Feb. 13 @ MHS

The SBISD Engineering Expo is open to all district middle and high school students & families!

Join us on Thursday, Feb. 13 from 6:30 - 8 PM at Memorial High School.  Event sponsored by Memorial High School’s Academy of Engineering and Project Lead The Way (PLTW) students with support from current programs at Landrum, Spring Branch and Spring Forest middle schools, and Memorial, Stratford, Spring Woods and Northbrook high schools. Hear how PLTW programs are growing!

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Program Participants:
• Local engineering colleges and schools
• New HCC + University of Texas-Tyler Engineering Pathway program
• ExxonMobil and other regional engineers talk about their fields
• After school mentoring programs

What You Can Expect:
• A brief presentation by Memorial High Master Teacher and PLTW State Lead Shelly Tornquist will be followed by opportunities for students and families to learn more about careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)
• Register for event door prizes and a scholarship drawing

High School Seniors:
• Are you still deciding on colleges and universities?
• Meet with local engineers to hear about projects they are working on
• Make contacts for possible future internships and summer opportunities
• Register for door prizes and a scholarship!

High School Juniors and Others, including Middle School Students:
• Learn about opportunities in middle and high school engineering programs
• Meet with mentoring programs • Talk with local college representatives
• Register for door prizes

For more information, please contact Shelly Tornquist at 713-251-2698 or email her at shelly.tornquist@springbranchisd.com

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Information On Make-up Days & Weather Conditions

Monitoring Current Weather Conditions

SBISD is monitoring Houston area forecasts as there are some concerns about possible icing this evening (Feb. 5). As always, should there be any weather-related changes to our normal school schedule, we will communicate with you via the call-out system and email.

Bad Weather Make-up Days

At their Board Workshop meeting on Monday, Feb. 10, the SBISD Board of Trustees will discuss make-up days. We will make an announcement following this meeting. February 17 is not under consideration as a make-up day. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we worked through the recent weather situations and as our Board of Trustees works to make the best make-up day decision possible.

We will communicate the make-up days decision following the Board of Trustees meeting next week.

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