CCPTA Meeting Agenda - February 11, 2013

Welcome                                                                                                  

Introductions

·         School highlights

 Community Presentation

·         Multicultural Parent Conference – Linda Smith Elementary ESOL/HILT Specialist

·         USS Arlington Commission Ceremony - Jim Pebley

APS Presentation

·         More Students More Seats – Meg Tuccillo 

Committee/Representative Reports

·         Budget Advisory

·         Facility Advisory

·         Tech Advisory

·         Treasurer Report

·         Reflections 

Report from APS

·         School Board Member Report- Noah Simon

·         APS Update - Patrick Murphy

President's Report

               ·         CCPTA List Serv  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CCPTA_APS/
               ·         Website - http://arlingtonccpta.blogspot.com/
               ·         Pre-meeting brainstorming/information sharing session
               ·         Elections

o   Need Nominating committee

o   Interest in running for CCPTA positions

Next meeting 

·         March 18 - James Lander

·         April 15 - Abby Raphael

·         May 20 - Emma Violand - Sanchez

·         June 17 - Sally Baird

New Business

Adjournment

Northern Virginia District Results!

Dear parents, school chairs, and others,

At long last we can share the Northern Virginia Reflections Results.

We have 2 Arlington entries that will move on to compete at the state level, both film entries.

Congratulations to :

Isabelle Lauritzen-Zapata from Claremont (Primary Age Divison) and

Olivia Laino from Arlington Traditional School (Intermediate).

Both of their work will go on to compete at the Virginia State level! Congratulations and good luck!

They run their contest a little differently at the District level, awarding only one Award of Excellence and one Award of Merit for each category and age division. So having said that, congratulations to the following Arlington students for placing at the NoVa District level Reflections competition!

Megan	Schaedel	Film	Middle School	Excellence
Evelyne	Breed	Literature	Primary (pre-school-2nd grade)	Excellence
Katrina	Shuster	Music	Primary (pre-school-2nd grade)	Excellence
Malva	de Boor	Music	Intermediate (3rd-5th grades)	Excellence
Alexandra	Provasnik	Visual Arts	Intermediate (3rd-5th grades)	Excellence
Winston	Gruver	Dance	Primary (pre-school-2nd grade)	Merit
Katharine	Ware	Music	Middle School	Merit
Samantha	Spytek	Photography	High School	Merit

All of these artists will be honored at the District award ceremony, to be held in March (sorry I don't have a date as of yet).

As I said back in December, my motto is that we are ALL artists, a point that has been wonderfully demonstrated through all of the artwork across the County.

I wish to acknowledge and thank the wonderful support of our judges. They had a most difficult (but enjoyable!) job of reviewing all of the artwork, and the artist statements, to select the works that best intepreted the theme of Magic of a Moment.

• Penelope Nunes, Natalia Iukhymenko & Ashley Graves from the Arlington Arts Center for Visual Arts and Photography
• Duy Tran, of Duy Tran Productions for Film
• Daisy Lung for Literature
• Anita Chapa for Dance
• Antelmo De Leon for Music

I also wish to thank Cindy Macintyre, Cindy Matlack, Beth Connors, Joanne Burd, Antelmo de Leon, and Maureen Skoloda for assisting with the logistics of judging.

A huge thanks goes out to Ted Hayes for organizing the Countywide Reflections Recognition and Award Ceremony.

Finally, I am grateful to each of the PTA Reflections Chairs at each of the schools that competed. You provided a wonderful canvas (in a manner of speaking) upon which these artists can create and flourish!

Thank you all,

Michael Swisher

Arlington County CCPTA
Reflections Co-Chair