We hope you can join us this Thursday, March 19th at 6:30pm in the school cafeteria for our General Meeting.  All our welcome and if you haven’t had a chance to sign up and be a member, you can do so at the meeting.  Ms. Minkin, Ms. Watts (School Counselor), Ms. Johnson (Special Education) and Ms. Christie (Speech and Language pathologist) will lead a presentation on Social Thinking and how this program is being implemented at Schmitz Park and benefiting our school community.  Following their presentation, we will take a VOTE to approve the budget for extra staffing needs, then board members will provide updates on financials, highlight board position openings and how you can get involved in the PTA.  We’ll also have an open Q & A at the end of the meeting for parents.  Meetings are open to all and free childcare is provided for school age children in the gym.

You can download the agenda here.

Please join Mr. Kischner, Ms. Minkin, and Ms. Dunn for our upcoming PTA General Meeting this Thursday, February 19th at 6:30pm as they present and answer your questions on SBAC testing (Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium).  Learn what your children can expect to see on the test and where you can find practice tests.  The PTA Board will also review our financials and upcoming fundraising needs for the upcoming auction.

The Meeting is open to all and if you haven’t had a chance to sign up to be a PTA member, board members will be on hand to get you signed up.  And a friendly reminder FREE childcare is available to all school age children, provided by the PTA in the school gym.

You can now access meeting minutes from the last General Meeting held on January 15th.  Minutes are posted here and previous meeting minutes can also be downloaded from the About page.

We’ll be meeting at the Feedback Lounge on Wednesday, December 3rd at 6:30pm to celebrate the start of a successful school year.  Come meet new parents and enjoy a beverage with old friends.  The band Love will be performing at 8pm should you want to hang out and dance into the evening.

Please note this is a no host bar and childcare is not provided.  Please RSVP via the signup genius link if you can make it!

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0448aca928ab9-schmitz

 **UPDATE – The PTA has reserved the back room at the Feedback Lounge for our upcoming Winter Social.  Please use the sign up genius below to sign up if you can come.  We hope to see you there!**

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0448aca928ab9-schmitz

With the Thanksgiving holiday upon us, the Board has decided to push the November 21st General Meeting out and make the meeting a social, adult-only event.  Please mark your calendars and book your sitters for Wednesday, December 3rd @ 6:30pm.  A Sign Up Genius and more details to come in the coming week.

Also we just made the PTA General Meeting Minutes available online.  You can access them on the About page or here.

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