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Save the Date - February 17th at 6:30 PM - TLC Families Town Hall to help navigate our COVID guidelines
In this Newsletter:
  • Start of the Third Quarter!
  • Black Lives Matter at School Activities
  • Upcoming Dates
  • ACT Testing
  • Seeking Deaf Artists/Sculptors
  • Announcements
Here are the Walden School updates for this week: 
 
  • Wow! This week starts the third quarter of the school year! We are now halfway through the year. 
  • Last weekend’s storm was the first blizzard we’ve had in Massachusetts in four years and our residential students loved playing outside in the snow. 
  • Our teachers and staff are eager to start the second half of the school year. We have a busy month ahead of us in addition to February break coming up in two weeks. 
  • This week is also special because we’re doing the Black Lives Matter at School event. Due to MPS closing on Friday, we will share our wrap up slideshow and videos next week. 
  • As the month progresses, we need to keep an eye on the Groundhog’s prediction and whether winter will continue. Let’s hope for warmer weather soon! 
  • Please check in with your child’s following teacher and therapist team to see how they are doing and what supports are needed. 

Have a great weekend! 
Chris Kaftan
Interim Principal
Important Dates/Reminders: (Link to Academic Calendars) 
  • February 9: Early Release (Prof. Dev.)
  • February 21-25: February Break 
  • March 2: Early Release (Prof. Dev.) 
  • March 18: No School
  • Our DESE visit that was originally scheduled for January has been postponed and will now be March 7th-9th.
ACT Testing: April 5 & 6
Seeking Deaf Artists/Sculptors
The Framingham Centre Common Cultural District (FCCCD) is seeking proposals for local Artists to participate in their upcoming “Many Cultures, One Heart” public art project.

“Many Cultures, One Heart" is a public art project designed to celebrate cultures and ethnicities through a series of heart sculptures placed around the city of Framingham. 

TLC is honored to be featured as one sculpture in this project. We would like to thank Advocates, who is sponsoring our design, in recognition of our long time partnership and advocacy for the Deaf community in Framingham and the broader MetroWest community.

We are hoping to reach out to the broader Deaf community by sharing this message. We would love to find a Deaf artist who would be interested in this project to inspire our community with a special design that captures TLC’s mission, history and values. The Deadline to submit your proposal is February 15.

To learn more, click here.
  • YSP February Virtual Vacation: Click Here for Information
  • Camp Sol Summer Camp: Click Here for Information
  • Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf is inviting deaf and hard-of-hearing students to register for our upcoming competitions for spring 2022: SpiRIT Writing (https://www.rit.edu/ntid/writingcontest) and Digital Arts, Film, and Animation (https://www.rit.edu/ntid/digital-arts-film-and-animation-competition). 
  • RIT Explore Your Future: If you’re looking for a way to help your college-bound high school students make important decisions about life after high school, encourage them to join us at Rochester Institute of Technology this summer for Explore Your Future! EYF is a week-long, on-campus summer program for college-bound deaf and hard-of-hearing high school students who will enter their junior or senior year in fall 2022. More information here.
Two green inspired hands. Blue letters underneath The Learning Center for the Deaf.