NAME:
Mr. Jeannotte
SCHOOL:
Titusville Intermediate School
CLASS:
Grade Five
SCHOOL PHONE:
(845) 486-4470
This is my sixth year teaching fifth grade at Titusville School. I
have been at Arlington since 1988 and have taught kindergarten, pre-first,
second grade and third grade.
I have celebrated my twenty-second wedding anniversary with my wife
Janice. We have three sons: one at SUNY-Plattsburgh, one at D.C.C. and
one at Arlington High School. We live less than four miles from school and I
aspire to walk or ride my bike to school on nice days.
My education includes a BA in human services (UMass), an MEd in
elementary education (UMass), certificates of advanced graduate study in
educational administration (SUNY-New Paltz) and advanced teaching (CapellaU).
I am midway through my dissertation - the final requirement of my PhD. I hope
to finish by the end of this school year.
I began teaching when I was thirty. It is a joke among colleagues how
many jobs I had before teaching. I have taught gymnastics, karate and
ballet, counselled substance abuse clients in a detox and half-way house
setting, was a chipper/grinder on the 688 Class submarines. I ran a summer
camp, lifeguarded and rode in Boston as a bicycle messenger. I've delivered
blood from the Red Cross to hospitals, gutted apartment buildings and been an
aide in a nursing home. I've installed subscription TV (when it was antenna-
based), roofed, worked security, child protective services, and been a
personal care attendant with quadriplegic men in independent living. I have
loved and learned from all of my jobs, but teaching is the best one.
Cell Phone: 546-6002
Home Phone: 485-2234
Email: ljeannotte@acsdny.org
School Phone: 486-4470
Written Notes
I include a wide variety of ways that you may reach me. I want to be
available to discuss your child's progress and concerns. I will not
interrupt class to answer my cell phone, but you can leave a voice or text
message.
I have a few requests.
First, if you call my home and a teenager answers, please do not assume I
will get the message you leave, and please don't leave a confidential
message. Try again if I don't call back promptly.
Second, if you call my cell to change dismissal plans with your son or
daughter, I prefer them hearing your voice and the change, but please tell
me too. If you change dismissal plans often, call the school office. I
consider more than one plans-change call a quarter to be disruptive.
Third, email anytime. Be very aware that my email is not private. Besides
school officials, others might see your message. Substitute teachers need my
account password to access materials. I have even had substitute teachers
give my password to students. I don't promise, but I usually check email
before school and right after school.
Fourth, please realize if you call the school office that I only check those
messages on arriving and departing school. I will not get your message in
the middle of the day. Sometimes parents ask the secretary to interrupt the
class with messages. Those interruptions are very disruptive to lessons and
school work.
Finally, I am always available to schedule a parent conference. I can make
appointments before or after school, or evenings. Just call or email me.