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District News Connection A T P School & Family Partnerships March 2012 Spotlight On: Robinson’s Science Sci-Fari Student science projects, live animals, insects and the tooth fairy were just some of the sights that were on display in late February during Robinson’s family science night. The fun filled event drew in over 261 attendees including students, families and community members. Over 20 volunteer guest presenters from the community provided ongoing presentations throughout the school as students and families learned all sorts of amazing science facts. Favorite stations included the Children’s Museum human bubble, WSU-TriCities MESA Acceso a la Ciencia, Tri-Tech’s Pre-Veterinary Technicians and Columbia Basin College’s Dental Hygienists. Fabulous work Robinson! This was a stellar example of collaborating with your community. Try This Out Tips for Success: Attend an ATP 101 Basics Training! Offered once in the fall and once in the spring, the Action Team for Partnerships (ATP) Basics training, also known as School & Family Partnerships 101, will once again be hosted by District ATP. This 2 hour training provides an opportunity to anyone interested in learning the ins and outs of the Johns Hopkins model of school, family and community involvement. The model’s key components and the role of District ATP are both put under the scope at this training. All attendees will walk out with a clearer understanding of what ATP is, in addition to new ideas and tools to success. What : ATP 101 Basics When : Tuesday, 3/27 Where :CaptainGray Early Learning Center, Room 14 Time : 4:00—6:00 p.m. To sign up or for more information regarding this opportunity please contact the District ATP Hotline at 543-6771. ATP Chair Cluster Meeting #3—March 6th The third and final ATP Chairs Cluster Meeting of the year was not the typical spring training that Chairs are used to attending this time of year. Typically this meeting focuses on upcoming documents and due dates, drafting next year’s One Year Plan and recruiting for the upcoming year’s team. This time around, the meeting had a creative twist to it in terms of it being a collaborative effort between Kennewick and Pasco School Districts. District ATP leaders Sarah Del Toro from Kennewick, along with Glendy Ibarra and Lorraine Landon from Pasco facilitated the meeting. Former PSD District ATP Coordinator Jessica Wallace also was in attendance assisting and making everyone feel welcomed. Twenty three teams joined forces and started out the meeting by sharing about successful family involvement events that had wrapped up her presentation with research results that NNPS gathered from last year’s UPDATE survey. Teams then worked through table activities including the NNPS Starting Points Inventory and then took a look at non- traditional ways of engaging families in their children’s education. From beginning to end, teams had multiple opportunities to share ideas, give each other tips, improve knowledge and skills at this interactive training. already occurred this year at their schools or those they were looking forward to. Guest of honor Darcy Hutchins from the National Network of Partnership Schools (NNPS) also attended the meeting and provided a wealth of information to all teams. Darcy read a letter from Dr. Joyce Epstein, the Director of NNPS, giving recognition and encouraging words to both Kennewick and Pasco School Districts for their stellar work in school, family and community partnerships. “Your work shows that engaging family and community partners in children’s education is possible and profitable for all participants and for student success,” read Darcy on behalf of Joyce. Darcy also gave tips regarding on how to complete the Promising Partnership Practices (PPP) submission and reviewed the components required for the NNPS Partnership School Award application due in late June. She Fourth grader Casey Noriega demonstrates some of the facts she learned about electro- magnets, a topic she chose to investigate for her science project. ATP Chairs from both districts share thoughts on school, family and commu- nity partnerships.
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District News
Connection A T
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School & Family Partnerships March 2012
Spotlight On: Robinson’s Science Sci-Fari Student science projects, live animals, insects and the tooth fairy were just some of the sights that were on display in late February during Robinson’s family science night. The fun filled event drew in over 261 attendees including students, families and community members. Over 20 volunteer guest presenters from the community provided ongoing presentations throughout the school as students and families learned all sorts of amazing science facts. Favorite stations included the Children’s Museum human bubble, WSU-TriCities MESA Acceso a la Ciencia, Tri-Tech’s Pre-Veterinary Technicians and Columbia Basin College’s Dental Hygienists. Fabulous work Robinson! This was a stellar example of collaborating with your community.
Try This Out
Tips for Success: Attend an ATP 101 Basics
Training! Offered once in the fall and once in the spring, the Action Team for Partnerships (ATP) Basics training, also known as School & Fami ly Partnerships 101, will once again be hosted by District ATP. This 2 hour training provides an opportunity to anyone interested in learning the ins and outs of the Johns Hopkins model of school, family and community involvement. The model’s key components and the role of District ATP are both put under the scope at this training. All attendees will walk out with a clearer understanding of what ATP is, in addition to new ideas and tools to success. What: ATP 101 Basics When: Tuesday, 3/27 Where :Capta inGray
Early Learning Center, Room 14
Time: 4:00—6:00 p.m.
To sign up or for more information regarding this opportunity please contact the District ATP Hotline at 543-6771.
ATP Chair Cluster Meeting #3—March 6th The third and final ATP Chairs Cluster Meeting of the year was not the typical spring training that Chairs are used to attending this time of year. Typically this meeting focuses on upcoming documents and due dates, drafting next year’s One Year Plan and recruiting for the upcoming year’s team. This time around, the meeting had a creative twist to it in terms of it being a collaborative effort between Kennewick and Pasco School Districts. District ATP leaders Sarah Del Toro from Kennewick, along with Glendy Ibarra and Lorraine Landon from Pasco facilitated the meeting. Former PSD District ATP Coordinator Jessica Wallace also was in attendance assisting and making everyone feel welcomed. Twenty three teams joined forces and started out the meeting by sharing about successful family involvement events that had
wrapped up her presentation with research results that NNPS gathered from last year’s UPDATE survey. Teams then worked through table activities including the NNPS Starting Points Inventory and then took a look at non-traditional ways of engaging families in their children’s education. From beginning to end, teams had multiple opportunities to share ideas, give each other tips, improve knowledge and skills at this interactive training.
already occurred this year at their schools or those they were looking forward to. Guest of honor Darcy Hutchins from the National Network of Partnership Schools (NNPS) also attended the meeting and provided a wealth of information to all teams. Darcy read a letter from Dr. Joyce Epstein, the Director of NNPS, giving recognition and encouraging words to both Kennewick and Pasco School Districts for their stellar work in school, family and community partnerships. “Your work shows that engaging family and community partners in children’s education is possible and profitable for all participants and for student success,” read Darcy on behalf of Joyce. Darcy also gave tips regarding on how to complete the Promising Partnership Practices (PPP) submission and reviewed the components required for the NNPS Partnership School Award application due in late June. She
Fourth grader Casey Noriega demonstrates some of the facts she learned about electro-magnets, a topic she chose to investigate for her science project.
ATP Chairs from both districts share thoughts on school, family and commu-nity partnerships.
Resource Corner: An NNPS Promising Partnership Practice— Community Outreach Dinner
Important Dates
McLoughlin Middle
School
5th & 6th gr. Band Concert
March 19
6:00 & 7:30pm
Citizenship Awards
Pasco High School
March 20
6:00 p.m.
Parent Information Night
featuring Living Voices
& Attorney Roach
Ochoa Middle School
March 27
5:30 p.m.
School & Family
Partnerships 101/
ATP Basics
Captain Gray Room 14
March 27
4:00—6:00 p.m.
Glendy Ibarra
Coordinator, Parent Partnership/Pre-K Outreach
509-543-6771
Lorraine (Lorena) Landon
Coordinator, Parent Education Center
509-543-6714
DeNai Stephenson
Secretary
509-543-6770 ext. 4677
Pasco School District
School & Family Partnerships
1102 North 10th Avenue
Pasco, WA 99301
Fax: 509-543-6769
“ATP Connection” is published by the Pasco School District for members of the Action Teams for Partnerships. For questions or
concerns, contact Student Achievement at the number listed above.
This year District ATP will encourage schools to reach out to families and to in-volve them in their child’s academics in non-traditional ways. Each year NNPS publishes a collection of true and tried successful school, family and community involvement activities that include non-traditional ways to engage families in edu-cation. This section of the 2011-2012 ATP Connections newsletter will highlight NNPS practices from other districts that can easily be adapted to fit the needs of any Pasco school. We hope schools will take these ideas and run with them! Lynnhaven Middle School had a challenge in their hands, to increase student behavior and to help
more families feel comfortable with the school, its staff, and its goals for their student’s success.
Therefore, the ATP committee decided to pinpoint those students who needed the extra help. So,
ATP organized an Outreach Dinner for these students and their parents. The dinner was at a non-
school setting, where students, parents, and staff were able to converse about the concerns and/
or parents’ ideas. The dinners were donated, and prepared by the staff. The Community Out-
reach Dinner helped build stronger relationships between the school and the families that were
invited which provided much more confidence in ATP’s ability to meet high expectations to the
families of those students that needed the extra push. Lastly, students who participated in the
dinner showed a marked increase in classroom effort and better behavior
overall after the event. For more information about this activity please visit the
NNPS website at: http://www.csos.jhu.edu/p2000/ppp/2010/pdf/76.pdf
To see all other published collections please visit: http://www.csos.jhu.edu/p2000/ppp/index.htm
Quote of the month:
A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.
Joyce A. Myers
