SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! Apr. 24, 2015

Edison Elementary School

Contact Information Brian Patrick, principal

440-954-3555

brian.patrick@weschools.org

Lisa George, assistant principal

440-283-2283 lisa.george@weschools.org

5288 Karen Isle Drive

Willoughby, Ohio 44094

Telephone: (440) 942-2099 Fax: (440) 975-3707 Attendance: (440) 283-2176

Latchkey: (440) 269-3002

District Website: www.weschools.org

Where Eagles Learn to Soar!

Edison would like to welcome JaTina Threat as the Edison Elemen-tary School Principal for next school year. She comes to us from the Parma City School District where she has spent the last year as a School Improvement Specialist. She gained a myriad of ad-ministrative experiences in that role including involvement and leadership with curriculum, discipline, testing, professional devel-opment and data. Prior to that, she taught a variety of primary grade levels for the Parma City Schools and Bedford City Schools, while she earned her administrative licensure. Throughout her ex-periences as an educator, Mrs. Threat has consistently demon-strated her natural leadership abilities as well as a strong work ethic. She earned her Bachelor of Arts and Science at Capital University, her Master of Arts in Education from Baldwin Wallace University and her administrative licensure from Cleveland State University. Mrs. Threat was one of 62 applicants for the position and one of 20 candidates that were chosen to interview. The in-terview process included multiple rounds of screening and question-ing, involvement and input from a staff committee and the final candidates making a presentation to the committee. She will be visiting the building throughout the spring, and will be at the next Edison PTO Meeting. Welcome to Edison Mrs. Threat!

Upcoming Events

4/29 Market Day Pickup

4/30 Little Red Schoolhouse Slattery 4/30 Red Cross Blood Drive 2 PM—7 PM 5/4 Fifth Grade Band Concert 7PM

5/5 Kindergarten Playhouse Field Trip 5/7 Marco’s Pizza Night 5/7 First Grade Open House 7PM

5/7-5/8 Book Fair Buy One, Get One

Staff members can nominate students who are SOARing above and beyond by filing out a SOARing card. The students’ names will be read on the Announce-ments, they will receive a prize from the Purple Eagles Team, and their name

will be in this space.

Semir Casanovic Vivian Wang

Ava Passerell Cameron Swift

Jasmyne Jackson Michael Pierce

Dawn Harrison Lisa Jordan

Madison Minotas Gabe Morgan

Arianna Lawrinson

WAY TO SOAR EAGLES!

SOARing Students

PTO NEWS

BOOK FAIR May 7th and 8th Buy One, Get One

PARENT’S NIGHT was a huge SUCCESS. PTO raised about $8,000 for

Edison School

PTO MEETING May 13, 2015 6:30 PM

MEET THE NEW PRINCIPAL!

CALLING ALL KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS!

If you missed Edison’s kindergarten registra-tion, please contact the school office

(440) 942-2099 or linda.somerville@weschools.org for a

registration packet.

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Security Help Line

The school district has a toll-free line for students, parents, school personnel, and other

members of the community to report anonymously any activi-ties that could cause harm to

our students, staff or facilities. Threats of violence, theft, in-

stances of alcohol or drug abuse, the presence of weapons or oth-er security concerns can be re-

ported by dialing;

1-800-418-6433

Ext. 359

2015 –2016 School Year

It is time to start thinking about next school year! If you will not be returning to Edison next school year, please contact the school

office (440) 942-2099 or linda.somerville@weschools.org

BOX TOPS FOR EDUCATION

Thank you to the Edison school coordinator, Rachel Legerski, for all the time and effort

spent managing this program. Her efforts and our Edison community support earned us

$1,682.10

This money is used to help our

Edison Eagles SOAR!

To access COMPASS go to the WESCHOOLS.ORG website and click the student tab. COM-PASS is a choice on this menu. Each Edison Student has an online COMPASS login. Login: Student # EX: 58142 Password: Student# plus their initials EX: 58143kr School: EdisonES (must be typed in) If your child is using a PC or Mac COMPASS should work without a problem (please make sure flash is updated). If your child is using a tablet and COMPASS is not working smoothly, you may need to follow the directions below using an app called PUFFIN ACADEMY.

I-Pad: Download the app: Puffin Academy for I-Pad, have at least 13MB of space, iOS 6.0 or higher, and Wi-Fi. Android: Download the app: Puffin Academy for Android, have at least 17MB of space, Android 4.3 or higher, and Wi-Fi.

Using this app lets students enter the COMPASS website and use the program. For more information please see: https://compasslearning2.mindtouch.us/

Compass_Learning_Technical_Requirements

In an effort to go paperless we want to send the newsletter electronically each week. You have 2 options to do this. Option 1: If you are a parent/guardian you can set up your POWERSCHOOL account for e-mail or even texts! Login to your parent account, go to the icons on the left side of the screen and click on the SCHOOLMESSENGER tab. From there you can set up your account in various ways that suit you! Option 2: Anyone can receive general e-mails from ANY SCHOOL in the district by going to WESCHOOLS.ORG and, using the PARENT TAB, click on ‘E-mail Communciation Setup’. Then you can create an account and set up the e-mails. We hope that these options allow you to stay more informed about the great things happening in the Willoughby-Eastlake School District! #WEMATTER

COMPASS LOGIN DIRECTIONS

TABLET SUPPORT FOR COMPASS

GET THE NEWSLETTER ELECTRONICALLY