As announced at Monday's Flagpole meeting, some of our staff members will be leaving Nimitz. Mrs. Baldwin, Ms. McCarthy, and Ms. Yeh were each selected to be district resource teachers for the English Language Development (ELD) Program. They will be sharing their expertise and passion for teaching with ELD teachers from across the district. Ms. Yeh has been assigned to Nimitz and another district school, so she will actually be back at Nimitz in her new role.

Mrs. Chang will be returning to Garden Gate School, where she taught before coming to Nimitz. She decided to work half time next year, and there was a teacher there who is able to job share with her.

Coach Jim will also be leaving Nimitz, as starting next year the district will be providing credentialed teachers for the upper grade P.E. program. Jim is actually a retired firefighter, so he will continue to enjoy his free time and hopes to stay at Nimitz to teach in our after school enrichment program.

Debbie Bakker, one of our Barton Reading Specialists, will also be leaving Nimitz. Mrs. Bakker is getting her Masters Degree in Art and hopes to become a design specialist.

And finally, Mrs. Conley is retiring from teaching after 20 years of service to Nimitz. Most recently she has been our Intervention Specialist, working with attendance and behavior issues and helping out wherever needed across the school. Mrs. Conley was also a 4th grade teacher at Nimitz for several years.

We wish all of our departing staff the best as they move on from Nimitz. They will be missed!

Fortunately, because all of these departures have been known for some time, I have already hired replacement teachers for each of our openings. Most of our new teachers are experienced teachers and expressed a desire to come to Nimitz.

        -Mr. Dale Jones, Principal

School starts promptly at 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, August 21st. A tentative list of classes will be posted on the windows of the GLC on Wednesday, August 20th after 5:00 p.m. Please remember that your child must be in school the first day in order to reserve his/her space at Nimitz.

Thank you to our 300 members for a great year supporting Nimitz through the eScrip program! Your contributions helped to earn over $4,600 to fund school wide assemblies and other programs for Nimitz students.

If your child will be moving on to middle school, please consider continuing to support Nimitz. However, if you want to support the middle school, you must go online to www.escrip.com or contact bradleyngai@yahoo.com to change your membership to the new school. If you have not signed up, it's not too late. If you shop at Safeway, Pak-n-Save, PW Supermarket, Whole Foods, or Macy's, help support Nimitz by becoming a member today! It's so easy to sign up!

1. Go to www.escrip.com
2. Click on "welcome" then "sign up".
3. Enter our group ID#: 138057496
4. Register your grocery club cards, credit and/or debit cards.

Contact bradleyngai@yahoo.com for more details. You shop - our school earns dollars!