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November 2007
ESC INSIDER
NEWSLETTER
Greene County Educational Service Center
November Birthdays
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Katherine Lupinek – 1st
Anita Sams – 4th
Mary Mancuso – 5th
Mary Ann Fenwick – 9th
Karen Quinones – 9th
Jeff Conrad – 10th
Jeanne Nathan – 11th
Pat Stewart – 13th
Tonya Wilson – 13th
Marcia Wylie – 13th
Annette Pauley – 17th
Julie Bosse – 19th
Peggy Roesser – 20th
Mary Williamson – 21st
Kathy Keipper – 22nd
Annette Fulton – 26th
Kristin Douglass – 29th
SUPERINTENDENT UPDATES
Governor Strickland’s wife, Francis, recently visited the Greene County Family and
Children First Council. The ESC received a very large compliment from the Council
as they chose to have Mrs. Strickland visit the Friends Preschool Program, hold the
large group meeting with Mrs. Strickland here at the ESC, and asked us to share the
success of our School Based Mental Health Program in this meeting. I have
mentioned many times how proud I am of the work all of you do and this is reaffirmed and enhanced when the rest of the County acknowledges their respect.
Therapy Calendars Online
In one more effort to reduce the moving around of paper, our therapists now have
their calendars online. Our Districts as well as others can access a read only look
at individual calendars by going to www.greene.k12.oh.us/calendarsummary.htm
and follow additional directions. Hopefully this will be of help to anyone who
would like to meet with a therapist while in a specific building or to know where
they might call to contact them.
I believe the song goes:
I like mine with lettuce and tomato, Heinz 57 and french fried potatoes
big kosher pickle and a cold draft beer, well God almighty which way do I steer for my
cheeseburger in paradise.
Who needs Jimmy Buffet when the ESC has its Big Cheese, Skip Hoyt? Skip wowed
Ohio’s first lady, Francis Strickland during her visit on October 17th. I believe she would
have rather listened to Skip all evening rather than be at the business meeting. Big
thank you to Skip for entertaining and I believe he was just as thrilled once he realized
she was in fact “The First Lady of Ohio.”
Calendar Notations
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November 7th – Retirement Open House for Glenda Adams from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
November 8th – ESC November Board Meeting at 9:30 a.m.
November 21-23rd – Thanksgiving Holiday – No School
ESC Offices open on November 21st
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Weather Related Closings
Just a reminder of our procedures for weather related school closings. If you are assigned or
housed full time in a district you will follow that district’s announcements. If you split
between districts you will have to listen to what both are doing or go by your daily
assignment.
Some reminders for the following school settings. Learning Center – follows what the
majority of schools do. Terry Thomas makes the decision to close. Academy follows Xenia
Community Schools closings. Outdoor Advantage – follows the Learning Center. All ESC
programs ignore delays as far as staff reporting to work. The ESC office will be open unless
extreme conditions exist. The Learning Center and the Academy have phone trees to inform
staff when they will be closed.
We are involved in Channel 7’s School Watch Program. This should be the most up-to-date
place to check because it is now phone automated. With one call we can make changes that
will appear within a few minutes. This one phone call also updates their affiliates and web
pages. So, watch Channel 7 or listen to 1290 WHIO-AM or K99.1 FM on radio or log onto
whiotv.com, k99online.com, or 1290whio.com for quick updates. We will still be notifying
channels 2 and 22.
“EMIS”
We Need You
As many of you know, Marnie Mangan is our full-time EMIS Coordinator and she needs your help. EMIS has
evolved to the point that it is through this reporting that the ESC receives any/and all state funding. The state
has become much more strict on its allowable timelines and unfortunately often gives us a very small window
for staff to report data and for Marnie to get it submitted. The next very important deadline is the December
count. Marnie needs to report caseloads, attendance and student status as of December 3, 2007. You must
complete all of your data by Friday, December 7th in order to have it accurately submitted.
Any students not accurately reported can negatively effect the funding our Districts or the ESC receives, or at
best delay us receiving some funding. So, please note these December dates and plan on having your data to
Marnie or your appropriate supervisors as close to December 3rd as possible. We need you to protect our
services and state funding.
BOARD MEETING UPDATES: BOARD MINUTES ARE ON THE GOVERNING BOARD PAGE OF
OUR ESC WEB PAGE www.greene.k12.oh.us
Thinking of You
Several members of the ESC Family have had to deal with some major health issues this fall. We just want
you to know that our thoughts and prayers are with you.
Charlotte Godsey, Barb Stevens, Susan Chitty, Teresa Grieshop, Janet Glass, Pam Pursifull and Micky Duerler
Condolences
To Mike Gilles, School Based Mental Health Therapist on the loss of his grandmother.