Fall into the season!
Thank you! PCW Orientation
Thank you for joining PCW's Orientation for the 2021-22 school year. For those unable to attend, or for anyone who like additional review, the materials are available on our website under the Resources for Reps tab. We hope you enjoyed the presentation by Amy McNamer, Executive Director at the Association of Independent Schools of Greater Washington (AISGW). A recording of Amy's presentation will be available for the next 10 days on the PCW website. Click HERE to view the recording.
Lower School Forum October 26, 2021
- Tuesday, October 26, from 9:00-10:30 am via Zoom
- Lower School administrators will speak on approaches to differentiated learning in the areas of math, literacy, and social and emotional wellbeing based on the latest research:
- Cindi Gibbs-Wilborn, Head of School, Beauvoir School;
- Andrew Kutt, Founder and Head of Upper School, Oneness-Family Montessori School;
- Jordan Love, Co-Head of Lower School, St. Andrew's Episcopal School;
- Amy Oswalt, Head of Elementary and Head of Global Division, The Lab School of Washington.
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All PCW member school parents, administrators, faculty, and staff are invited. RSVP HERE.
Fall Speaker Rosetta Lee November 9, 2021
Parents Council is pleased to welcome Rosetta Eun Ryong Lee, Outreach Specialist at Seattle Girls' School and a highly-regarded expert in diversity, inclusion, and equity issues, to discuss connection to self and with others. Since 2004, Rosetta has been a diversity speaker and trainer on relevant topics including cross-cultural communication, identity development, implicit and unconscious bias, gender and sexuality diversity, facilitation skills, and bully in schools. Time for Q&A will be provided after the presentation. Register HERE. Please submit advance questions by October 29 to administration@parentscouncil.org.
Winter Speakers Drs. Chris Thurber and Hendrie Weisinger December 7, 2021
New book, The Unlikely Art of Parental Pressure, addresses the biggest parenting dilemma of all time: how to push kids to succeed and find happiness in a challenging world without pushing them too far. Drs. Thurber and Weisinger will outline eight methods for transforming harmful pressure to healthy pressure and discuss the fine art of balancing the application of parent pressure. Register HERE.
Action Items
Please reach out to your school community and encourage parents, educators, and friends to attend these events. Here are some ways to spread the word:
- Ask your school's webmaster and/or Director of Communications to put a description and link to the programs on your school's website
- Send an email to your friends encouraging them to join
- Join the events yourself and bring a friend!
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Most importantly - Please include a blurb about these programs in your school's newsletter and social media. Here's some language you can use:
The Parents Council of Washington's Lower School Forum will be held Tuesday, October 26, 2021 from 9:00- 10:30 am via Zoom. Parents, administrators, faculty, and staff are invited and encouraged to attend this program focusing on Lower Schools. Lower School administrators will speak on approaches to differentiated learning in the areas of math, literacy, and social and emotional wellbeing based on the latest research:
- Cindi Gibbs-Wilborn, Head of School, Beauvoir School;
- Andrew Kutt, Founder and Head of Upper School, Oneness-Family Montessori School;
- Jordan Love, Co-Head of Lower School, St. Andrew's Episcopal School;
- Amy Oswalt, Head of Elementary and Head of Global Division, The Lab School of Washington.
The Parents Council of Washington will welcome this Fall's speaker Rosetta Lee on Tuesday November 9, 2021 at 7:00 pm via Zoom. Rosetta Eun Ryong Lee, Outreach Specialist at Seattle Girls' School and expert facilitator and speaker on a wide range of diversity, inclusion, and equity issues, will focus the discussion on our connection to self and with others. Register HERE to attend. Please submit advance questions by October 29 to administration@parentscouncil.org.
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