The month of March is winding down, but a number of important ABC events are just winding up.
The ABC Read-A-Thon kicks off March 26th and runs through April 4th. The Read-A-Thon is our largest fundraiser of the year. Where ever your Spring Break may take you, we hope you’ll bring along plenty of reading material for your kids and challenge them to read all they can. Ice Cream parties, gift certificates, and much more are on the line for out participants. For more information about the Read-A-Thon, including our rules and extra pledge sheets, please be sure to read all about it on our website.
On April 15th, ABC is joining with SENG, the national organization dedicated to supporting the emotional needs of gifted, to share a webinar titled “Navigating the Quest for Help: Understanding Your Gifted Child’s Puzzling Behavior.” Puyallup parents are invited to join us at Stewart Elementary at 7:00 to view the webinar and discuss what we hear with other parents in your situations. For full details and to reserve your spot, see here.
Stewart was selected as the site of our discussion because the QUEST Regional site currently hosted at Meeker, serving students from Stewart, Karshner, and Meeker elementaries, will be moving to Stewart beginning in the 2010 – 2011 school year. Meeker has been an amazing host school for our students for a number of years, but physical limitations have forced a move. The number of kids who need highly capable services has grown beyond what Meeker can accomodate. Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Franks will bring their years of experience teaching highly capable students along with them as they join our kids in making the move to Stewart. Mrs. Hoban, Principal at Stewart, worked with our highly capable students during her time at Meeker, and is looking forward to working with all of us on making the move a success.
A little bit further out, SENG has recently committed to bringing their national conference to Seattle in July of 2011. Some ABC volunteers have already met with SENG representatives to begin the planning process and we’re very excited about working with other gifted advocates from around the region to make this conference a valuable experience for you and your children. ABC has been looking for ways to improve the services we can offer our parents, and we’re looking to introduce some SENG concepts and tools to you as we build toward next year’s national conference.
Thank you for your support of ABC, and our highly capable students. We welcome each of you to participate with us as we continue to support excellence in the Puyallup School District, and increase awareness of the needs of our academically talented students.
