Welcome Fall!
Theme For New School Year
As we welcome the new school year, the Parents Council’s theme for the 2021-2022 program year is Connectedness. Each school year our theme serves as a launching pad for interesting, insightful speakers and meaningful programs to bring connection with and among independent school parents, teachers, and administrators and to share ideas on parenting, child development, and education. Connectedness, a state of being joined, linked, or belonging, provides us with deep meaning as our schools open this Fall. Parents Council, through its programming, will this year seek to explore aspects of diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as focus on self-connection, reflection, and interconnection with others in our community.
Kick Off the Year at Orientation October 5, 2021
Join fellow Parent Association Presidents and PCW Representatives from member schools to learn about the vital roles and responsibilities of the PCW community including how to access communications tools that will help us connect. Guest speaker Amy M. McNamer, Executive Director at the Association of Independent Schools of Greater Washington (AISGW), will discuss ways to build community and belonging in schools, particularly in the context of COVID-19 and remote learning.
Lower School Forum October 26, 2021
- Tuesday, October 26, from 9:00-10:30 am via Zoom
- Lower School administrators will speak on their schools' approaches to differentiated learning in the areas of math, literacy, and social/emotional well-being based on the latest research.
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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.
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.
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. 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- 10:00 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 their schools' approaches to differentiated learning in the areas of math, literacy, and social/emotional wellbeing based on the latest research. RSVP HERE.
The Parents Council of Washington will welcome this Fall's speaker Rosetta Lee 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. Save the date!
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