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Please note that we are meeting at Terrace Park at 7:15 a.m. and plan on leaving the school at 7:30 a.m. We needed to move the time up in order to make some of the early meetings with legislators.
Shortly, we will be sending out more specific information on directions and timed activities to those of you who have registered for Friday’s event. We look forward to seeing everyone this Friday!
Thank you,
CPA Board
CPA Board Meeting 1/12/10, 6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. – Megan Hicks’ House Attending: Ginger Everhart, Sue Wilson-Schmitz, Tracy Hannuksela, Tania Klippert, Megan Hicks, Tina Marohn *Approved September 12th meeting […]
YOU ARE INVITED
Please plan now to attend Gifted Education Day in Olympia
We are all in this together! CPA Encourages everyone to attend!
DATE: Friday, February 5th, 2010
TIME: 8:00 AM 7:30 a.m. (meet at 7:15) ~leave Terrace Park School by carpool and/or caravan~
Estimate 3:00 PM ~leave Olympia~ (optional, meet for pizza dinner)
PLACE: State Capitol Building in Olympia, WA.
WHO: Parent(s) and Child(ren) in the Challenge Program
Please click the “read more” link below for more information on the event and to download the Gifted Education Day RSVP Form.
CPC Update: 1/4/10
1. SCHOOL LEVY-Week of Jan 19th: Ballots mailed to voters
Jan 26th: Phone bank for Terrace Park volunteers
VOLUNTEERS STILL NEEDED
We have 5 volunteers. 7 more are needed.
Contact Michelle Toshima (mtoshima@verizon.net) if interested.
2. FISCAL FORECAST
2009-2010 school year: cut $11.5 million from budget
2010-2011 school year: projected cuts of $6.2 million from budget
“We’ve trimmed all the fat, now we’re down to the meat.”
District is looking at revenue generating proposals: advertising; tuition based programs
Call or write your legislators: this is extremely important!
3. NEW DISTRICT AND SCHOOL WEBSITES
4. BOUNDARIES: ALDERWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL
Please plan to join members of the CPA board and your fellow parents at our first Coffee Chat on Saturday, January 16th at 10:00 at the Corner Coffee Bar and Cafe in Perrinville at the corner of 76th Avenue W and Olympic View Drive. The management will reserve their largest table(s) for us. This is an informal opportunity to discuss challenges and issues of concern for parents of gifted students. Parents of gifted students who do not attend Terrace Park are welcome as well.
The program topic for this month’s Roundtable is “New State Assessment: What is it? Why is it? What’s the impact on student results?” The Roundtable takes place from noon to 1 p.m. on Jan. 13 at the Educational Service Center, 20420 68th Ave. W., Lynnwood, 98036. Please come with any general questions for Superintendent Nick Brossoit or regarding the program topic.
Bulletproofing Gifted Kids: Seven Strategies that Every Teacher, Counselor, and Parent Needs to Know is the title of the first NAGC Webinar of 2010: What are critical non-intellective factors that profoundly impact optimal development and success? Seven essential themes guide parents, counselors, and teachers in delivering powerful differentiated school and home support. The difference makers are:
Your action is needed immediately. The governor made her initial budget proposal which listed the complete elimination of our state’s gifted education funding. We need all those interested in preserving this funding to act now. Short, simple letters to your legislators are needed asap.
Please join us for monthly coffee chats! CPA parents need relaxed opportunities to support each other, share experiences, questions, frustrations, and suggestions about raising gifted kids. “Newbies” with many a concern, or “seasoned pros who’ve been through it all” are all invited. There is support in shared experience and we are all in this together. Our first gathering will be Saturday, January 16 at 10:00 AM. The location will be determined by the estimated attendance numbers. Please contact us at cpaboard@yahoo.com by January 4th to let us know if you plan to attend.
Parent volunteers are needed to phone local voters who have voted for levy measures in the past to remind them to send in their completed ballots. The Levy Re-authorization is the only item on this February’s ballot, and voter response is expected to be low. While support of school levies is always important, in light of both recent and projected cuts in state funding for our schools, passage of this levy measure is critical.
Volunteers are needed at the phone bank in the Edmonds Education Association Office, 19707 64th Avenue West, Lynnwood on January 26th between 6:30 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. Please contact Michelle Toshima for more details or to sign-up for a time slot on the phones.