James Irwin Charter Schools News and Announcements » ES http://www.jamesirwin.org/blog News and Announcements for James Irwin Charter Schools Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:00:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 2012-2013 Lottery http://www.jamesirwin.org/blog/2012/01/2012-2013-lottery/ http://www.jamesirwin.org/blog/2012/01/2012-2013-lottery/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:08:22 +0000 Webmaster http://www.jamesirwin.org/blog/?p=11080 The 2012-2013 lottery will be held February 7. If you have a student who does not currently attend James Irwin Charter Schools, and you would like them to attend next year, you must complete and submit a letter of intent no later than January 31 in order to have sibling priority status on our wait lists.

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]]> http://www.jamesirwin.org/blog/2012/01/check-out-the-portal/feed/ 0 No District Lunches Jan 4-9 http://www.jamesirwin.org/blog/2012/01/no-district-lunches-jan-4-9/ http://www.jamesirwin.org/blog/2012/01/no-district-lunches-jan-4-9/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:00:47 +0000 Webmaster http://www.jamesirwin.org/blog/?p=763 There will be no District lunches available at James Irwin Charter Schools from Wednesday, January 4 through Monday, January 9. They will resume Tuesday, January 10. Please plan to have your student bring their lunch.

]]> http://www.jamesirwin.org/blog/2012/01/no-district-lunches-jan-4-9/feed/ 0 Veteran’s Day Assembly http://www.jamesirwin.org/blog/2011/11/veterans-day-assembly/ http://www.jamesirwin.org/blog/2011/11/veterans-day-assembly/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:48:05 +0000 Webmaster http://www.jamesirwin.org/blog/?p=731 All James Irwin Family and friends are invited to our Veteran’s Day assembly on Friday, Nov. 11 at 1:00 in the HS gym.  We will be honoring our soldiers so please come.

]]> http://www.jamesirwin.org/blog/2011/11/veterans-day-assembly/feed/ 0 Campus Portal Mobile app is now available! http://www.jamesirwin.org/blog/2011/10/campus-portal-mobile-app-is-now-available/ http://www.jamesirwin.org/blog/2011/10/campus-portal-mobile-app-is-now-available/#comments Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:29:00 +0000 Webmaster http://www.jamesirwin.org/blog/?p=727 The Campus Portal Mobile app is now available and accessible for James Irwin Charter Schools. Once the app has been installed on an Apple® iOS device (iPod Touch®, iPhone®, iPad®), parents and students can access grades, attendance and schedule information virtually anywhere. To install the app, log into your Campus Portal.

]]> http://www.jamesirwin.org/blog/2011/10/campus-portal-mobile-app-is-now-available/feed/ 0 Campus Portal Mobile App available soon! http://www.jamesirwin.org/blog/2011/10/campus-portal-mobile-app-available-soon/ http://www.jamesirwin.org/blog/2011/10/campus-portal-mobile-app-available-soon/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:12:58 +0000 Webmaster http://www.jamesirwin.org/blog/?p=712 The new Campus Mobile Portal App for JICS will be available in a few weeks. Once the app has been installed on an Apple® iOS device (iPod Touch®, iPhone®, iPad®), parents and students can access grades, attendance and schedule information virtually anywhere. Learn more now.

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Our Priority is to keep your children healthy and in school. One way that we can all work together to do this is to prevent the spread of illnesses. If your child is not feeling their best, please use the following guidelines to determine whether or not they should be in school.

Illness or Symptom When To Keep Your Student At Home When Your Student Should Return To School
Fever A temperature of 101 or greater. (American Pediatrics Association) When your student is fever free for 24 hours without medication (Tylenol, Ibuprofen or Aspirin)
Cough Frequent or uncontrollable, producing mucous or fever Infrequent, no mucous is being coughed up and/or student has been on antibiotics for at least 24 hours or no fever for 24 hours without medication.
Diarrhea or Vomiting More than one occurrence in a 24 hour period. If the student has had a recent head injury or if student has additional symptoms such as a fever. Allow 24 hours to pass since last incident before returning to school.
Strep Throat or Scarlet Fever Sore throat that is suspicious for Strep (i.e. the student has frequent bouts of Strep or a friend/sibling has recently had Strep) or fever (some children do not always have a fever with Strep). The only way to confirm that someone has Strep is with a throat culture. After 24 hours of antibiotics.
Runny Nose Cloudy or yellow/green discharge with congestion or a fever. Clear drainage as with allergies and no fever.
Rash If cause if unknown. Rash free or with written permission from medical care provider.
“Pink Eye” Conjunctivitis Eye is red, swollen, itching, crusty or white/yellow drainage is occurring. After 24 hours of antibiotics.
Chicken Pox Itching pink/red spots with blister type center, fever. Lesions crusted over and dry, no fever for 24 hours.
Head Lice Nits or Lice present on initial inspection. Refer to Lice guidelines from a medical care provider. Student may return to school 24 hours after being treated with an acceptable over the counter or prescription LICE.
]]> http://www.jamesirwin.org/blog/2011/09/health-guidelines/feed/ 0 Calling Board Volunteers! http://www.jamesirwin.org/blog/2011/09/calling-board-volunteers/ http://www.jamesirwin.org/blog/2011/09/calling-board-volunteers/#comments Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:56:26 +0000 Jonathan Berg, CEO http://www.jamesirwin.org/blog/?p=674 The James Irwin Board of Directors is accepting letters of interest from persons who would like to serve on the James Irwin Board of Directors

There are currently 4 parent positions open and 2 community (El Paso County resident) positions.
 The qualifications required for a member of the Board are as follows:

  1. Candidates must agree to take the CDE on-line course for Member of a School Board.
  2. Candidates must read the following foundation materials:
    1. Policy Governance in a Nutshell.
    2. Overview of JICS.
    3. Historical overview of JICS.
  3. Candidates must attend a Policy Governance orientation session.
  4. Candidates must be able to commit to attending one board meeting per month for 10 months, and one board working session per month for 10 months.
  5. Candidates may not be current James Irwin employees or a family member of current employees.
  6. Candidates may not have been an employee or family member of an employee who was employed by James Irwin during the previous twelve month period.
  7. Candidates must authorize James Irwin Schools to do a criminal background check.

If you are interested in running for the Board, please submit your resume and a two paragraph bio that includes the following:

  1. What is your relationship to James Irwin Charter Schools?  If you are a parent, which school(s) do your children attend?
  2. What interests you about serving on the Board?
  3. If elected, what particular skills and strengths would you bring to the Board?

The deadline for submitting these documents is Friday, September 16, 2011 at 4:00 p.m.

Please send your resume and short bio to the Board in care of Jonathan Berg, CEO at: jonathan.berg@jamesirwin.org

If there are more nominees than openings, an election will be held.  Candidate bio’s and ballots will be mailed to James Irwin parents on September 26, 2011. Ballots will be due the week of October 1 through October 7.  Ballots may be mailed to James Irwin, or dropped in a ballet box that will be in each school front office.  Ballots must be received by October 7, 2011 at 4:00, or post marked no later than October 7, 2011.

Of the four parent (or legal guardian) nominees, the top two will be elected to four year terms while the third and fourth place candidates will be elected to fill two year terms.  Likewise, the top community nominee will be elected to a four year term while the runner up will serve a two year term.

]]> http://www.jamesirwin.org/blog/2011/09/calling-board-volunteers/feed/ 0 HOW TO: Follow James Irwin on Social Networks & RSS http://www.jamesirwin.org/blog/2011/05/how-to-follow-james-irwin-on-social-networks-rss/ http://www.jamesirwin.org/blog/2011/05/how-to-follow-james-irwin-on-social-networks-rss/#comments Tue, 24 May 2011 22:55:08 +0000 Webmaster http://www.jamesirwin.org/blog/?p=529 Social Media is becoming a useful tool for interacting with our students, parents, and friends. As we continue to grow into these resources for connection, we will build a complete list of what social networks we are on and how to be involved. In any social network, we first build our “district” page (James Irwin Charter Schools, collectively) that will encompass each school (James Irwin Elementary, Middle, and High), until we build individual pages for each school. For example, starting with Facebook, we currently have four pages:

Facebook

And the same for Twitter:

RSS Feeds

RSS feeds are where we post the News and Announcements you can find on the home page of our website (www.jamesirwin.org). Using an RSS reader you can subscribe to these feeds to see them in your favorite reader. The News and Announcements are within the same feed:

Ustream

Ustream is a live video streaming service we have utilized to broadcast special events to friends and family that are unable to attend in person.

YouTube

We have some previous videos that are posted on YouTube as well.

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Elementary School-Students need to bring their lunch May 13, May 20 and May 23 through May 25.

Middle School- Will have nachos for sale on May 13. Friday, May 20, the Middle School will sell Pizza. Monday, May 23 through May 25 early release for finals no lunches.

High School-Will have nachos for sale on May 13. Monday, May 23, the High School will sell Pizza. Tuesday, May 24 through May 26 early release for finals no lunches.

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