| February 2012 |
SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE: The
Washington State PTA is awarding scholarships to graduates of
Washington State public high schools who are beginning their
freshman year of post-secondary education in the United Sates.
$2,000 Grants will be awarded to recipients entering four-year
post-secondary institutions. $1,000 grants will be awarded to
recipients entering community college, vocational-technical
schools or other accredited institutions.
Scholarships are awarded on the basis of:
1. financial need
2. academic performance
3. leadership/community service
Visit the
Washington State PTA website for more information and the
application form. This application form is the only form that
will be accepted.
Applications must be postmarked by March
1, 2012. Recipients will be notified by May 1, 2012.
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| February 2012 |
PTSA Officers for 2012-2013: Our PTSA Nominating
Committee has been formed and is seeking candidates to fill officer
positions in PTSA for next year. Are you interested and/or know someone
who would be great as part of our leadership team? Please let the
Nominating Committee know: Alison Meryweather, Kim Dreiblatt, and
Pat Batt. Please note: the email will be forwarded to all three
committee members.
With the changes to our organizational structure approved at our
February meeting, we will be electing people to fill the offices
of: President(s), President-Elect, Vice President
Volunteers, Vice President Ways and Means, Vice President
Hospitality, Vice President Communications, Vide President
Programs and Outreach, Secretary and Treasurer.
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| February 2012 |
College Sorority Information Forum:
Sponsored by Overlake Alumnae Panhellenic, a Sorority
Information Forum will take place Wednesday,
February 29, 7:00 pm, at the
Redmond Library (15990 NE 85th Street, Redmond) in Meeting Rooms
1 and 2. This is an event for high school girls and their
parents who want to learn about college sorority membership.
University of Washington sorority members and alumnae from the
UW and other universities are the event’s featured speakers.
Topics include the membership recruitment process, sorority life
on campus, and the lifelong benefits of sorority membership. The
audience is encouraged to ask questions. Applications for
Overlake Alumnae Panhellenic scholarships and registration forms
for the UW Greek Preview will be available at the forum. The
event is free and registration is not required. For further
information, contact Mary Anderson, 425-641-6922, Jean Cerar,
425-392-1821, or Anne Dumond, 425-883-8124 (scholarships), or
visit
www.overlakealumnaepanhellenic.org.
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| February 2012 |
Awards: We’d like your input! Every year the PTSA
honors people who have given exemplary volunteer service to children and
youth in our school community by awarding the
Golden Acorn
Award. We also recognize individuals for their on-going advocacy
work on issues concerning children by awarding the
Outstanding
Advocate Award. We need your help in gathering nominations. Please
submit
nomination forms to
Kellie Woodford, Awards co-chair, by February 10, 2012.
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| February 2012 |
Senior Celebration: Attention parents of graduating
seniors: the deadline to register for Senior Celebration has been
extended to February 29. More than half
the graduating class has already signed up! You don’t want your senior
to miss out on the all-night, safe and amazingly fun celebration which
follows the graduation ceremony! Register
online or print
paper registration forms
and mail them to Issaquah High PTSA. Scholarships are available to those in
need. Email with any questions.
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| February 2012 |
Fashion Show and ASB Auction: Join us for an
exciting evening of fun and fashion at the annual ASB Fundraiser for
Issaquah High School! Attend the first ever Fashion Show (sponsored by
the PTSA) in our brand new, state of the art Performing Arts Center. Our
very own IHS students will strut their stuff on the catwalk modeling
outfits from Sports Authority, Macy’s, Suburban Soul and a variety of
other well known local businesses. Bid on a wide variety of auction
items and if you are the lucky winner take home your treasure!
Purchase your tickets
online. Seats
range in price from $10 up to $40 for exclusive VIP seating which
includes your very own ‘swag’ bag! Money raised will benefit ALL
Issaquah High students supplying funds for athletics and service clubs
as well as a portion offsetting the cost of Senior Prom. So round up
your friends and neighbors and we will see you on March 9!
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| February 2012 |
District Bond Proposal:
The School District has proposed a bond which will go before the voters on
April 17, 2012. For details about the bond, visit the Issaquah School District
website.
Among other things, this bond will rebuild our oldest schools.
After more than five decades, Clark Elementary, Issaquah Middle,
and Sunny Hills Elementary are at the end of their life spans.
Long-term financial forecasts favor rebuilding now—in a period
of historic low construction costs—rather than making ongoing
major repairs in the years ahead. Additionally, new buildings
tend to run about 30% more efficiently, saving utility dollars
for classroom operations.
Issaquah High PTSA voted to endorse the bond proposal at our
January 13 meeting.
Check back for ways to get involved with the campaign.
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| February 2012 |
Washington State PTA Resources: Maintaining
Your Child’s Emotional Well-Being The January edition of Washington
State PTA’s parenting magazine, The Child Advocate,
is now available
online. Be sure to check out this issue for some important tips
about how to help your children maintain their emotional well-being
while dealing with the stresses of the increasingly complex world in
which they are growing up.
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| February 2012 |
Issaquah Schools Foundation (ISF) supports Issaquah High School and the
School District in a variety of ways!
The ISF/IEA/PTSA/ISD sponsored Community Conversations film
series continues with ‘Race to Nowhere’ which will be
shown on Thursday, March 1, at
7:00 pm at the Issaquah High
School Performing Arts Center.
Mark your calendar for the Nourish Every Mind Luncheon
on May 10.
Also, remember that ISF receives up to 8% back from amazon.com if you go
to amazon via the ISF
website.
Read
more... about ISF and see a list of items funded by the Foundation for IHS over the past two years.
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| February 2012 |
IHS ELL Family Night - What Every Parent Wants to Know
will be held on Thursday, February 9, from
6:30 - 8:00 pm in the Issaquah High School
Commons. Please spread the word - this is an informative evening for all
district families whose native language is not English.
We are also looking for volunteers to help us better communicate with
parents of ELL students. If you can help at the February 9th event, or
are willing to be contacted on an as-needed basis to provide translation
or other communication help, please send: 1) Your name, 2) the
language(s) in which you are fluent, 3) your telephone number, 4) and
your e-mail address to PTSA Presidents
Karin Allen and Lisa Gaan.
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| January 2012 |
Reflections is a National PTA
sponsored arts competition where students submit works in the
areas of: dance choreography, film/video,
literature, musical composition, photography, and the visual
arts. Thee 2011-2012 theme is "Diversity Means...."
All participants were honored
at the district Reflections Reception and Art Gallery on January 10.
The works of four Issaquah High students were
selected to move on to the State level of competition.
Congratulations!!
Learn more on our PTSA
Reflections webpage.
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| January 2012 |
High School Schedule Committee: The committee
tasked with determining a common schedule for all District high schools
completed its work in December.
While it did not outline a specific
schedule, it compiled a
final report of key findings.
Superintendent Rasmussen has presented the school board with his
response to the Committee’s work.
His letter to students, staff, and families announces that there
will be no significant changes to the schedules at each high school for
2012-2013; however, he has required action steps be taken at each high
school between now and the beginning of the 2013-2014 school year to
address and rectify the problems that were affirmed, clarified, and
unearthed during the committee’s work. Stay tuned for more information
as the schools embark in the next phase of the process.
For more information, please visit the district's High
School Schedule
webpage.
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| January 2012 |
PTSA Officers for 2012-2013:
Our PTSA Nominating Committee has been formed and is seeking
candidates to fill officer positions in PTSA for next year. Are
you interested and/or know someone who would be great as part of
our leadership team? Please let the
Nominating Committee know: Alison Meryweather, Kim
Dreiblatt, and Pat Batt. Please note: the email will be
forwarded to all three committee members.
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| January 2012 |
Issaquah School District Bond Proposal:
The School Board has approved a final
bond package that will go before voters on April 17, 2012.
To get the latest information about the bond, including details of the
board-approved package, visit the
Issaquah School District
website.
Issaquah High PTSA voted to endorse the bond proposal at its
January 13 meeting.
To find out more about the bond campaign, visit our
VIS Liaison webpage.
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| January 2012 |
Finding Kind is screening at Issaquah High
School on February 1
and at Skyline High School on
January 31. Both screenings are at
6:30 pm. These showings are for ISD
Secondary students 11 years and older and their parents. Boys are
encouraged to attend. Each showing will be followed by a facilitated
discussion by the filmmakers Lauren Parsekian and Molly Thompson. The
post-movie discussion is geared towards secondary students and is not
appropriate for elementary students. These showings are not open to the
general public.
About the documentary: In Finding Kind, filmmakers
Lauren Parsekian and Molly Thompson, who met while in school at
Pepperdine University, set out in a cross country journey of discovery
and education. Interviewing women and girls along the way about their
lives and experiences, Parsekian and Thompson find, among all of the
unique personal stories, some universal truths about growing up as
girls. Finding Kind is a document of that journey, and of the
filmmakers’ quest to take these experiences and find a common ground of
kindness and mutual respect. In addition to all of the individual girls
and women who share their personal experiences about girl on girl
bullying with the filmmakers, Parsekian and Thompson include interviews
with respected experts and authors in the fields of psychology,
education, and the interrelationships of women and girls.
Watch a
three minute trailer.
These complimentary presentations are made possible by the Issaquah
Secondary School PTSAs, the Issaquah Schools Foundation and Issaquah
PTSA Council.
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| January 2012 |
High School Schedule Committee: The committee
tasked with determining a common schedule for all District high schools
completed its work in December. While it did not outline a specific
schedule, it compiled a
final report of key findings.
Superintendent Rasmussen responded with a goal to come back with
subsequent action steps by the end of the month. For more information, please visit the district's High
School Schedule
webpage.
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| December 2011 |
For Bi-Lingual or Multi-Lingual Parents: Issaquah
High PTSA will be hosting a district-wide event for non-English speaking
parents of children attending Issaquah Schools in mid-January of
2012. We are looking for volunteers who would be willing to attend this
event to help us better communicate with these parents. If you can help, or are willing to be contacted on an
as-needed basis to provide translation or other communication help,
please send: 1) Your name, 2) the language(s) in which you are fluent,
3) your telephone number, 4) and your e-mail address to PTSA Presidents
Karin
Allen and Lisa Gaan.
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| December 2011 |
SAT/ACT Preparation offered by the PTSA: You may be thinking about the college admission tests
(SAT and ACT) your Junior may be taking this year. PTSA offers options to help your student prepare for
these important exams.
We offer a Mock (practice) SAT exam February
4, and a Mock (practice) ACT exam
January 28.
The feedback session for both these exams will be Monday,
February 13, from
6:30 - 7:30 pm.
Please note that this is a change to both
the date and time from the originally scheduled session.
Additionally, the PTSA offers classes that are taught by
Issaquah High School teachers to prepare students for the SAT exam. The
final sessions offered this school year begin in February.
Read more and register...
If you have any questions please contact PTSA SAT/ACT Readiness Program chairs
Tina Weber and Margaret Chalfant.
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| December 2011 |
High School Schedule Committee:
The Committee concluded its work at its final meeting on
December 14. Although the Committee did not recommend a common
schedule, it made a summary of its key findings and
recommendations regarding an optimal high-school schedule. Those
will be presented to Superintendent Rasmussen in January, and he
will use those to make an action plan of next steps.
This committee
looked closely at the precious resource of class time in an
effort to design a common schedule for all District high schools. The goal is to
better share resources, consolidate professional support for staff, and
capitalize on
our learning about optimal student experiences from the last three
years. For more information, please visit the district's High
School Schedule
webpage.
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| December 2011 |
Student Directory:
Members-- keep an eye out for those awesome student
directories that have been mailed. Why awesome? First, every
student, parent, teacher and staff member is in there--- and you
can't find that on-line! On top of that, we pulled out lots of
handy information from the elusive IHS Student Handbook, like
the District calendar, the attendance policy, the daily
schedules, the IHS fight song and much more. You'll definitely
want to keep it handy.
Check to see if you have joined by perusing our list of
members.
If you joined PTSA this year and have not received your
directory, or if you have not yet joined but would like to do so
in order to get a directory, please contact
Anne
Watanabe, VP of Membership.
In addition to student information and parent handbook
information in the directory, we have also added company
advertisements. If you would like to have an ad in the directory
next year, please contact the
IH PTSA
Co-Presidents for information.
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| December 2011 |
Special Services: Parent Information Night meetings have been
scheduled across the District in the next two months. It is an
opportunity for special education parents at every level (Early
Childhood through 21 years) to come have a conversation with the
District’s special education administrators:
Executive Director of Special Services Marilyn Holm
Assistant Director of Special Services Diane Roth
Secondary Education Supervisor Susan Wolever
All meetings are listed below and are from
6:30-7:30 pm. Parents are welcome to attend whichever date and
location is convenient. N
December 12 - Issaquah
Valley Elementary Library
January 12, 2012 - Apollo
Elementary Library
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| November 2011 |
Issaquah School District Bond Proposal:
The School Board has approved a final
bond package that will go before voters on April 17, 2012.
To get the latest information about the bond, including details of the
board-approved package, visit the
Issaquah School District
website.
To find out more about the bond campaign, visit our
VIS Liaison webpage.
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| October 2011 |
Looking to Volunteer?
Linking
Opportunity is a Bellevue-based nonprofit organization that connects
high school students seeking volunteering opportunities to organizations
seeking volunteers for their various events in the community. They are a
volunteering match website with a key focus on high school students.
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| October 2011 |
High School Schedule Committee: This committee
continues to look closely at the precious resource of class time in an
effort to design a common schedule for all District high schools. The
goal of the committee is to recommend a schedule that will go
into effect in Fall 2012. They
do not yet know what such a schedule will look like, but the goal is to
better share resources, consolidate professional support for staff, and
capitalize on
our learning about optimal student experiences from the last three
years. For more information and to submit
comments/question to the committee, please visit the district's High
School Schedule
webpage. Community members are welcome to observe and provide
written comments at each meeting.
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| October 2011 |
Salmon Days Run
a Big Success! Thanks to the 30+ IHS community members
who joined Team IH PTSA for the Salmon Days Run. We were the
third largest group of runners and raised more in additional
donations to benefit the Issaquah Schools Foundation than any
other team!
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| October 2011 |
High School Schedule Committee: The school district
is looking into designing a common schedule for high schools. While
they do not yet know what such a schedule will look like, it should allow
them to better share resources, consolidate professional support for
staff, and capitalize on our learnings from the last three years. The
goal of the committee is to recommend a schedule that will go
into effect in Fall 2012. For more information and to submit
comments/question to the committee, please visit the district's
High School Schedule
webpage.
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| October 2011 |
For Bi-Lingual or Multi-Lingual
Parents: Issaquah High PTSA will be hosting two
district-wide events for non-English speaking parents of
children attending Issaquah Schools on Thursday evening,
October 13 and in mid-January of
2012. We are looking for volunteers who would be willing to
attend these events to help us better communicate with these
parents. If you can help with one or both of these events, or
are willing to be contacted on an as-needed basis to provide
translation or other communication help, please send: 1) Your
name, 2) the language(s) in which you are fluent, 3) your
telephone number, 4) and your e-mail address to PTSA Presidents
Karin Allen and Lisa Gaan.
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| October 2011 |
Thank you to the
1200+ people who have already joined!. If you haven’t yet signed
up, we ask you do so before October 20 so we’ll be sure to print
up enough school directories.
Join here...
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| October 2011 |
Issaquah School District Bond Proposal:
At its September 28 business meeting,
the school board approved a final bond package that will go before
voters. Board members also moved the election day from February
14, 2012, to April 17, 2012, to
provide more time to get information to voters.
To get the latest information about the bond, including details of the
board-approved package, visit the
Issaquah School District
website.
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| September 2011 |
State-level Learning Standards: From the Office of
the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), the
Your Child’s Progress covers the basics of learning standards and
state testing; the Graduation Requirements Checklist (
Class of 2012 |
Class of 2013 |
Class of 2014) helps families track a student’s progress toward all
graduation requirements, including credits, culminating projects and
high school and beyond plan. Check them out!
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| September 2011 |
Legislative Survey: We need
your feedback! Visit our
Legislation webpage to learn more about the advocacy role of
PTSA and to take a quick survey to let us know what you think
about education issues in our state.
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| August 2011 |
Issaquah Schools Foundation (ISF) supports Issaquah High School and the
School District in a variety of ways! Read
more...and see a list of items funded by the Foundation for IHS over the past two years.
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| August 2011 |
Being a PTSA Member means...
Visit our "Why
Join?" webpage to learn more about the benefits of
membership,
including discounts for T-Mobile customers and special Hertz car
rental offers!
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| August 2011 |
Great News: “New to IHS Night” Will
be Held in IHS Commons and Main Gym
We are looking forward to seeing 9th graders and any new upperclassmen
to Issaquah High and their parents on Wednesday,
August 24, starting at 6:00 pm.
Agenda
6:00 - 6:40 pm - Tour the school, visit ASB, PTSA, and
Booster Club Tables (Commons) ASB will be selling snacks and
refreshments and planners, PTSA will be providing important information
for parents, and Booster Club will be selling IHS spirit wear.
6:45 - 7:40 pm- Information Session (Main Gym)
featuring Paula Phelps, Principal; Karin Weihe, Student Resource
Officer; and representatives from ASB, Eagle Crew, PTSA, and Booster
Club.
7:45 - 8:15 pm - Student Panel will discuss
non-academic aspects of attending high school such as attire, lockers,
lunch, school supplies, getting involved, social life, information and
support resources, and other things to help make the transition to high
school smoother for both students and parents.
8:15 - 8:30 pm - Q&A Session
8:30 - 9:00 pm - Informal Q&A:
If you need any additional information, please contact IH PTSA
co-presidents
Karin Allen and Lisa Gaan
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| August 2011 |
Jog Along with Team IH PTSA! Please join fellow
Issaquah High PTSA parents, students, and teachers for our second annual
appearance in the Issaquah Run at Salmon Days to help raise much-needed
funds for the Issaquah Schools Foundation. If you have questions or need
a little arm-twisting, please contact
Karin Allen, IH PTSA
Co-President. Otherwise,
click here
and register today.
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| July 2011 |
eScrip Success (Be sure to sign up!)
Thank you to our 83 eScrip supporters! In 2010-2011, we earned about
$570 for the IH PTSA. Remember to keep shopping so your donations
continue to come in. If you are not registered, it’s easy and
free! Please register a card (credit or debit card, and/or a
Safeway Club Card) at
www.escrip.com today; you will
earn free money for IH PTSA just by using your card.
Our group name =
Issaquah High PTSA, group id = 8563490.
For more information visit
www.escrip.com or contact
Co-VP Fundraising
Dianne
Buggé
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| June 2011 |
Attention Incoming Issaquah High Parents and Students:
New to IHS Night will be held Wednesday,
August 24, 6:00 -
8:30 pm.
Coming to IHS next year? The Issaquah High PTSA is hosting New
to IHS Night, where parents and students will have the
opportunity to get non-academic questions answered before school begins.
Topics addressed will include how to prepare for the first day of
school, clothing, lockers, ASB cards, social aspects, games and dances,
ways to get involved, safety, and ways to stay in the loop. If there are
other subjects you’d like to see addressed, please send your suggestions
to PTSA Co-Presidents
Karin Allen and Lisa Gaan.
The event is currently scheduled to be held at Clark Elementary, pending
the completion of IHS construction. If everything is in place in time at
the high school, the event will be moved to IHS. In either case, tours
of the school will be available at the end of the program. Please check
back here, on our website, on August 23 for location confirmation. Hope
to see you and your student there!
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| June 2011 |
SAT/ACT Preparation offered by the PTSA: As summer
approaches and you may be thinking about the college admission tests
(SAT and ACT) your Junior may be taking next year. Please be aware that
the PTSA offers a couple of options to help your student prepare for
these important exams.
We offer a Mock (practice) SAT exam in September
and another in February.
We also offer a Mock (practice) ACT at the end of
January.
Additionally, the PTSA offers fall and winter classes that are taught by
Issaquah High School teachers to prepare for the SAT exam.
Mock exams are a nice opportunity to take a practice exam and get score
results without it counting. The test score will be between you and your
student. These Mock exams are not the same as the PSAT that will be
offered in October at school.
The SAT prep classes are offered twice next year and there will be both
afternoon and evening classes to choose from.
Exact dates and registration for the Mock exams and SAT Preparation
classes will be online
beginning in August
If you have any questions please contact PTSA SAT/ACT Readiness Program chairs
Tina Weber and Margaret Chalfant.
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| June 2011 |
Reflections: The 2011- 2012 PTA
Reflections Program theme is "Diversity means..."
Students can create and submit works of art in six areas:
dance/choreography, film production, literature, musical composition,
photography, and visual arts (includes art forms such as drawing,
painting, print making and collage). This summer is a great time to
start to work on your own creation! There are many creative
students at Issaquah High School. We hope to increase the participation
in this wonderful art program! Visit our
Reflections webpage for more
information.
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| June 2011 |
Photo Day: Student photos will be taken Thursday,
September 1, 2011. Volunteers are needed
to help. It's fun and a great way to meet the students! Contact
Lisa Gaan if you can help or if you would like more information.
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| June 2011 |
Each fall, our PTSA sets a theme and
goals for the year. Click
here to check out the many and varied ways we achieved our goals in
2010-2011!
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