Sept 16th Meeting Agenda

ARLINGTON COUNTY COUNCIL OF PTAs

http://Arlingtonccpta.Blogspot.Com

Notice of Meeting

DATE:​​Monday, 16 September 2013

TIME:​​7pm general meeting ending at 9pm

PLACE:​Room 101, Education Center, 1426 N Quincy St. (across from the Brown

Planetarium)

NOTE: THERE WILL BE A PRE-MEETING AT 6pm REGARDING REFLECTIONS

GENERAL MEETING AGENDA:

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Greetings & Introductions

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PTA updates from each school

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Abby Raphael, Chair, APS School Board

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Introducing APS committee liaisons

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Mary Rouleau, Executive director of the non-profit Alliance for Housing Solutions in Arlington

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Dr. Cintia Johnson, Assistant Superintendent, Administrative Services, APS

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Dr. Patrick Murphy, Superintendent, APS

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CCPTA President’s report

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New business

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Adjourn

May 20th Meeting Agenda

May 20, 2013

Room 101  Ed Building (Quincy St)

Welcome                                                                                                  

Introductions

School highlights

Community Presentation

Arlington Partnership for Children, Youth, and Families  – Michael Swisher

APS Presentation

Substance Abuse Prevention - Brenda Wilks, Assistant Superintendent of Student Services

Committee/Representative Reports

·         Budget Advisory

·         Facility Advisory

·         Tech Advisory

·         Transportation Advisory

·         Treasurer Report

·         Reflections 

Report from APS

·         School Board Member Report-  Emma Violand - Sanchez

·         APS Update - Patrick Murphy

President's Report

·         By- Law vote

·         CCPTA board elections: 

President - Ted Hayes

Vice President - Kathleen McSweeney

Secretary - Matt West

Treasurer - Vacant

·         May 29^th Scholarship Reception

·         June 17^th  Meeting – Officer Training

·         CCPTA List Serv  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CCPTA_APS/

Next meeting 

June 17 - Sally Baird  Officer Training Meeting

New Business

Adjournment  

CCPTA Meeting Agenda - March 18, 2013

CCPTA Meeting Agenda - March 18, 2013

March 18, 2013

Room 101  Ed Building (Quincy St)

Welcome                                                                                                  

Introductions

·         School highlights

APS Presentation

·         I have asked that we discuss the budget during this time.  I will confirm before the meeting.

Committee/Representative Reports

Budget Advisory

 Facility Advisory

Tech Advisory

Treasurer Report

Reflections 

Report from APS

·         School Board Member Report- James Lander

·         APS Update - Patrick Murphy

President's Report

·         By- Law update

·         Nominating committee and board elections

·         CCPTA List Serv  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CCPTA_APS/

·         Pre-meeting brainstorming/information sharing session – April - PTA Directories

·         Topics

Next meeting 

April 15 - Abby Raphael

May 20 - Emma Violand - Sanchez

June 17 - Sally Baird

New Business

Adjournment 

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

January Meeting Take Aways

New CCPTA Blogsite:   http://arlingtonccpta.blogspot.com/

Reflections Ceremony: The Arlington County Council of  PTA’s (CCPTA) will host a countywide ceremony at 7:00 p.m. preceded by a reception at 6:30 on Thursday, January 17, 2013, in the Washington-Lee High School auditorium to honor Arlington’s  PTA Reflections contest participants who prepared winning entries in six categories on the theme “The Magic of A Moment.”  (A SNOW DATE WILL BE ANNOUNCED IF NEEDED)

Community Presentation:  Doorways for Women and Children is a nonprofit organization aimed at assisting women and families out of domestic violence and homelessness.  The presenters underscored the prevalence of homelessness among our APS students and illustrated the effects of homelessness and poverty on these students, including decreased performance and increased drop-out rates.   The attached presentation (will be sent under separate cover) details many ways the APS community can contribute to Doorways.  It was pointed out that since this groups serves children - it is an organization that school age children may be able to identify with and therefore may be interesting partnership for PTAs.

Boundaries: Meg Tuccillo presented on the ongoing process.  

The Boundary Tool is now available and may provide for an interesting exercise for PTAs 

Boundary Survey -  Arlington Public Schools is conducting a survey of the seven schools (Ashlawn, Glebe, Jamestown, McKinley, Nottingham, Taylor and Tuckahoe) involved in boundary decisions for the new elementary school on the Williamsburg site and other boundary adjustments for those existing schools to address capacity issues. 

Budget:  The new budget tool is now open to the public - Click here to start using the tool. The deadline to make suggestions is close of business on Fri, Feb. 1.

Social Networking - APS is now on:

Facebook: www.facebook.com/ArlingtonPublicSchools 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/APSVirginia 

YouTube: APSVAvideo (www.youtube.com/user/apsvavideo)  

Reflections - THIS THURSDAY!!!

The Arlington County Council of PTA’s (CCPTA) will host a countywide ceremony at 7:00 p.m. preceded by a reception at 6:30 on Thursday, January 17, 2013, in the Washington-Lee High School auditorium to honor Arlington’s PTA Reflections contest participants who prepared winning entries in six categories on the theme “The Magic of A Moment.”

Arlington Public Schools Superintendent of Schools Dr. Patrick Murphy, School Board members Dr. Emma Violand-Sánchez (Chair), Sally Baird, James Lander, Abby Raphael, and Noah Simon, and County Council of PTAs president Laura Novak will be on hand to congratulate the students and present awards.

The Reflections ceremony will feature student performances as well as a display of the pieces entered.  All student participants will be announced and recognized on stage. Arlington Educational Television will videotape the ceremony for later broadcast.

The annual Arlington County Reflections program was coordinated by Michael Swisher and Ted Hayes.  The program feeds into the State and National PTA, and is designed to spur students to create works in musical composition, literature, visual arts, photography, dance choreography, and film/video production.  Students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade are eligible to enter; in addition, this year a new category for students with special needs was available.  Arlington students submitted over 1,200 pieces at their local schools under this year’s theme, “The Magic of A Moment.” Top entries received an award of Outstanding Interpretation at the county level and are entered into competition in the Northern Virginia District PTA. The contest continues at the state and national levels.