Thank you to all the schools for rallying there boards and bringing so many to the presentations last Thursday.
Hope to see all of you at Convention this coming week-end. Look for Issaquah Council and in the Region 2 section. This seating section is reserved for us.
- Code of Conduct for Volunteers at Schools. The document is attached to this email and will soon be found on the website.
- You should be finishing up your interim Budget for 2014-2015 during the month of May. You need to vote on it at your General Membership Meeting.
- Please send the list of your new 2014-2015 officers to the following address: support@wastatepta.org
Include your Local Name and Number and contact in the email.
- To continue the Art Training Conversation or if you have specific questions, please direct them to Juliette at julietterd@hotmail.com . We will vote at the May meeting if we will add an assessment of $75 to each elementary school for art docent training. Please be prepared to know the position your elementary school will be taking.
- May Luncheon for Transitioning of Presidents and to Celebrate this past year. You will receive an Evite: You should respond for you and your incoming presidents. Although you should talk with your Principal about the luncheon and find their answer to the question: “ What was your favorite book as a child? OR What is the best book you have read lately?” The principals will receive their own Evite. Also remember to bring a salad to share, enough for 10-12 people. The date is May 15th at Tibbets Manor, 9:15am.
- Reminder that the last two Council meetings are not on the normal 2nd Thursday. May is May 15th and June is June 5th (to help avoid so many end of the year activities). There will be official recognized training for secretaries and treasurers. We are hoping to have a couple additional training opportunities.
- Parent Ed Opportunities as a follow up from Madeline LeVine and Chap Clark presentation earlier this Fall
Continuing efforts around Project Hope:Helping teens live a balanced, valuable, resilient life, a community discussion that began last May with Dr. Chap Clark and continued with Dr. Madeline Levine in January, community leaders plan to host two discussion groups based upon reading Dr. Clark and Dr. Levine’s books. Anyone is welcome to come to the sessions; however, anyone engaging in the discussion is asked to have read the books prior to the first session.
In an age where Dr. Clark says adolescents feel “systemic abandonment”, a feeling that is pervasive even in an age of parents who pour hours into the success of their children, join Discussion Leader John LaMunyon April 29 and May 6 at Skyline High School in Room 2212 from 7:00-8:30 pm to discuss Chap’s book Hurt 2.0 and begin formulating what actions we might take individually and corporately as concerned parents and community members.
The study of Hurt 2.0 will be followed up by a discussion of Dr. Madeline LeVine’s book, Teach Your Children Well: Why Values and Coping. The discussion of Dr. LeVine’s book will take place May 20 and 27 in the main Library of Eastlake High School 7:00-8:30 pm.
Discussion Leader John LaMunyon is the father of two adult children and has over thirty years’ experience working with teens and young adults in community and church based programs dedicated to developing healthy and happy human beings. Currently serving as the Lead Pastor of Sammamish Hills Lutheran Church, John is also a participant in Project Hope, a community based coalition slowly forming to combat the issue of teen suicide in our community and build resiliency amongst our adolescents.