Text Box: October, 2009 Text Box:   Text Box:             F.W. Parker Elementary School Text Box: PTO NEWS First Meeting  Tuesday, 10/6/09  7:00 PM  Media Center      ALL WELCOME ! Please join us as we plan our special programs and events for the year!  We look forward to meeting new members! Text Box: Project Wisdom is one of the oldest and most respected character education programs in the nation. Its collection of daily words of wisdom is currently licensed to over 15,000 schools nationwide. The messages set a positive tone for the day for everyone on campus. This program imparts an understanding of core ethical values and fosters caring behavior.                        Our Project Wisdom focus for the month of October is respect.  Our morning messages center around this theme, and teachers are following up on it in their daily classroom lessons.  Two students from each class will be awarded the Golden Rule Award at Text Box: our assembly, on Friday, October 30, 2009, at 1:00 PM, for exemplifying respectful qualities throughout the month.  Ask your child about what he/she has been learning about respect, and how he/she has been showing respect at school, as well as at home!  Our fifth graders will lead our October assembly.  This is a great opportunity for the entire learning community to come together to celebrate our mutual respect.  All families are invited to join us! Text Box: Instant Alert is an essential tool for notification and communication.  Within minutes of an emergency, school officials can use Instant Alert to deliver a single clear message to the students’ parents or guardians by telephone, cell phone, e-mail, pager or PDA in any combination.  Instant Alert can also be used to notify you of a school closing due to inclement weather.  It is an equally effective way to keep you informed of everyday activities, such as event times and locations as well as schedule changes.   Instructions regarding accessing this web-based system, and editing your personal profile will be sent home with students this month.  Please watch for this set of instructions, and  follow the instructions when they arrive.  Working together, we will keep the lines of communication open among the Parker Community!  Text Box: Project Wisdom...Helping Parker Students Make Wiser Choices! Text Box: October 1, 2009 Text Box: Our 21st Century Community Learning Center (21st CCLC) programs are getting underway.  These programs are offered through a State grant, which was designed to offer extended day learning opportunities for students who are at risk. The grant requires that programs be developed with a target population in mind, and Text Box: planned to strengthen skills in particular areas for students of concern.  Therefore, our programs were offered by invitation only to students who have been identified as having risk in reaching their learning potential.  Space was limited, and great effort was made to ensure that most students who were eligible to  participate, were able to be en Text Box: rolled in at least one program of their choice.  Thank you for returning registration forms so quickly and for  thank you for understanding!   Text Box: The    Penguin News Text Box: Maryanne Palmer                   Principal                              Robin Moreira                      Asst. Principal 617-984-8710                      mpalmer@quincy.k12.ma.us 

Text Box: ILT Meetings Begin... At Parker School, we believe in collaborating to make instructional decisions!  Our Integrated Learning Team, consisting of Literacy Teachers, Resource Room Teacher, ELL Teachers, Administrators, and Classroom Teachers met this past week to analyze Fall assessment data for individual students.  Intervention programs were scheduled to meet the needs of each student, and to assure that all of our students are getting the support they need to be successful.  Through on-going progress monitoring, we will stay on track toward our instructional goals!  The Parker Team is working together to make a difference for each Parker student.

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