OAKTON OAKTON HIGH SCHOOL PTSA | VIENNA VA | www.oaktonhsptsa.org Vision Statement Living, Learning, Leading Oakton High School will prepare all students for productive and ethical living, life-long learning, and innovative and responsible leadership. Mission Statement Through a culture of collabora- tion, continuous improvement, accountability, and commu- nity involvement, Oakton High School will provide rigorous, relevant, and well-rounded edu- cation for all students. SUBMIT If you have an article that you would like to have included in Access Oakton, please forward it to Marcia Pickett at: [email protected]. The due dates for articles for future publications are February 7, April 1 and May 30. PTSA MEETINGS All PTSA meetings are held in the OHS Library beginning at 7:00 pm. The next meeting is February 5, 2014. Letter from the President ACCESS We have just passed the midpoint of the second quarter and I hope all students have had a good start to the year. Should any students feel they need additional support, Oakton has a tremendous portfo- lio of resources that are available from or can be coordinated by the school. Please do not hesitate to reach out to teachers, counselors or administrators should help be needed. PTSA meetings provide a forum for discus- sion of any issues that an Oakton High School community member may have regarding the school. At each meeting, parents and administrators are available and willing to address or find answers to questions that arise. In January and again in the spring, we will be bringing in Meg Sullivan, a local psychologist, to provide parenting guidance and support to our parents. We will notify you once we have confirmed dates. We have requested that the Activities Office include the weekly schedule of activities going on in the Keep in Touch emails that arrive each week. The sched- ule includes all sports, music, drama and other events made known to the Activities Office. We hope this will encourage atten- dance and support for our many talented students. For seniors and the parents of seniors, this is a very busy and stressful time. Contact your child’s guidance counselor should you have any questions. Do not hesitate to reach out to your fellow parents either. We are all on this journey together!! Some advisories are participating in the Capstone pilot. Students in these ad- visories are involved in service projects that address a variety of issues including improvement of various aspects of the high school’s campus, improving the lives of those living in long-term care facilities, helping a Head Start program and reach- ing out to the homeless of our community. Any student who is not a part of a Cap- stone advisory but wishes to be involved in a project can either join a project in one of the participating advisories or can propose and manage their own Capstone project with support from the Capstone Advisory team. A huge thanks to Brooks Moran doing an incredible job with getting the directory out and putting in countless hours to verify data and distribute the hard copies. We greatly appreciate this endeavor. Another huge thank you goes to our new Treasurer, Melissa Weber who has done a great job transitioning onto the PTSA board. This year’s December break is a full two weeks. The administration and teachers endeavor to not have any assignments due immediately after the break so that this time can truly be a time to rest and reflect. We wish the entire OHS community a safe and wonderful respite. We hope to see you at our February 5 PTSA meeting. Newsletter designed by Carly Stonehouse, Oakton Outlook Editor-in-Chief and Erin Preaskorn, Oakton Outlook Copy Editor Kirsten Kunkler Rucker President-OHS PTSA A look inside... Oakton JV Cheerleading Squad at the “It’s Academic” taping. Go to page seven to learn more.
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OAKTONO A K T O N H I G H S C H O O L P T S A | V I E N N A V A | w w w . o a k t o n h s p t s a . o r g
Vision StatementLiving, Learning, LeadingOakton High School will prepare all students for productive and ethical living, life-long learning, and innovative and responsible leadership.
Mission StatementThrough a culture of collabora-tion, continuous improvement, accountability, and commu-nity involvement, Oakton High School will provide rigorous, relevant, and well-rounded edu-cation for all students.
SUBMITIf you have an article that you would like to have included in Access Oakton, please forward it to Marcia Pickett at: [email protected]. The due dates for articles for future publications are February 7, April 1 and May 30.
PTSA MEETINGSAll PTSA meetings are held in the OHS Library beginning at 7:00 pm. The next meeting is February 5, 2014.
Letter from the President
ACC E S SWe have just passed the midpoint of the second quarter and I hope all students have had a good start to the year. Should any students feel they need additional support, Oakton has a tremendous portfo-lio of resources that are available from or can be coordinated by the school. Please do not hesitate to reach out to teachers, counselors or administrators should help be needed. PTSA meetings provide a forum for discus-sion of any issues that an Oakton High School community member may have regarding the school. At each meeting, parents and administrators are available and willing to address or find answers to questions that arise. In January and again in the spring, we will be bringing in Meg Sullivan, a local psychologist, to provide parenting guidance and support to our parents. We will notify you once we have confirmed dates. We have requested that the Activities Office include the weekly schedule of activities going on in the Keep in Touch emails that arrive each week. The sched-ule includes all sports, music, drama and other events made known to the Activities Office. We hope this will encourage atten-dance and support for our many talented students.For seniors and the parents of seniors, this is a very busy and stressful time. Contact your child’s guidance counselor should you have any questions. Do not hesitate to reach out to your fellow parents either. We are all on this journey together!!Some advisories are participating in the Capstone pilot. Students in these ad-visories are involved in service projects that address a variety of issues including improvement of various aspects of the high school’s campus, improving the lives of those living in long-term care facilities, helping a Head Start program and reach-ing out to the homeless of our community. Any student who is not a part of a Cap-stone advisory but wishes to be involved in a project can either join a project in
one of the participating advisories or can propose and manage their own Capstone project with support from the Capstone Advisory team. A huge thanks to Brooks Moran doing an incredible job with getting the directory out and putting in countless hours to verify data and distribute the hard copies. We greatly appreciate this endeavor.Another huge thank you goes to our new Treasurer, Melissa Weber who has done a great job transitioning onto the PTSA board.This year’s December break is a full two weeks. The administration and teachers endeavor to not have any assignments due immediately after the break so that this time can truly be a time to rest and reflect. We wish the entire OHS community a safe and wonderful respite. We hope to see you at our February 5 PTSA meeting.
Newsletter designed by Carly Stonehouse, Oakton Outlook Editor-in-Chief and Erin Preaskorn, Oakton Outlook Copy Editor
Kirsten Kunkler RuckerPresident-OHS PTSA
A look inside...
Oakton JV Cheerleading Squad at the “It’s Academic” taping. Go to page seven to learn more.
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Letter from the Principal:December, 2013
Dear Oakton Parents,
Happy holidays to you and your family! I am thankful to be part of a community that surrounds our students and faculty with support. Our students continue to ex-
cel because of the love and commitment that surrounds them. As always, we have much to celebrate at Oakton, includ-ing students such as Ben Wang, an Oakton junior who was named a Regional Finalist in the 2013 Siemens Competition. Honored by the Siemens Foundation as one of the “brightest high school minds in contention for the nation’s most coveted teen science prize,” Ben is eligible to win a scholarship of over $10,000. Winners will be announced in a few days. Good luck, Ben! Congratulations are also due to the Oakton Girls’ Cross Country team who won the conference, region, state titles this year. We are so proud of the discipline, talent, and coaching that brought you such outstanding success. Bravo!You may have noticed recent headlines about the perfor-mance of American students on the 2012 PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment). Words such as “sobering” and “stagnation” are being used to describe the academic skill level of fifteen-year-olds in the United States. I am glad to re-port that these generalizations do not apply to the students of Oakton High School based on the data that we garnered from our participation in the PISA for Schools Pilot Test in the spring of 2012. In both reading and mathematics, Oakton students far surpass the U.S. average when compared with the results of the PISA 2009 test. To read the detailed and engaging report of our students’ performance, follow this link: http://www.fcps.edu/pla/ost/pisa/school_level_reports/oakton_hs.pdf. And for a discussion of this test’s significance to Oakton, take a look at this video which was recently showcased at an inter-national PISA press conference: http://www.fcps.edu/pla/ost/pisa/FCPS_PISA_large.mp4. Because we found this pilot test so valuable in its rich content and implications for school improvement, we will be participating again this winter. If you have a fifteen-year-old student who is randomly selected to participate in this test, I ask that you encourage them to do so as it gives Oakton students a chance to shine internationally and affords us extremely valuable feedback as a school. Looking to the future, Oakton students, teachers, and admin-istrators have formed a committee to plan for a major school renovation that will begin in a few years. With the recent ap-proval of a $250 million dollar school construction bond, $4.5 million have been allocated to launch renovation planning for Oakton at the county level. Here at the school level, we are re-searching and collecting data to inform the planning process. Stay tuned for details over the next year as plans unfold. We are excited to move our facilities into the 21st century!On a different note, you may have heard that FCPS is in the
processing of planning for difficult financial times. Despite the constraints of this $140.7 million deficit, FCPS principals, other county leaders, and our new superintendent, Dr. Karen Garza, are working toward innovative solutions with students at the heart of all decisions. For more detailed information on the county budget, follow this link to our Citizen’s Guide: http://www.fcps.edu/fs/budget/documents/CitizensGuidetoBudget.pdf.As you know, good news and various events are ever-unfold-ing at Oakton High School, which is why we have recently opened accounts on Twitter and Facebook. Please follow us @OaktonHS on Twitter and OaktonHS on Facebook for celebra-tions, news, and pictures of various events.Once again, thank you for your participation in the Oakton PTSA. I wish you and your family a safe, restful, and joyful holiday season.
On November 14, Oakton’s ESOL students were honored to receive a visit from Dr. Banbury. All ESOL teachers and Assistant Principal Martha Rodeheaver also attended. Dr. Banbury conducted
a question and answer session with approximately 75 ESOL students, representing 25 countries and at least 16 languages. Students were well-prepared with topics ranging from Dr. Banbury’s own education and experiences as a student, to his professional life as an educator and his personal hobbies and interests. Students practiced speaking English in a formal setting and used listening and comprehension skills. The visit was a huge success which fostered learning and rela-tionship building among students and administrators. Thanks to Dr. Banbury for taking time to connect with Oakton ESOL students!
Federal Government Survey for US Government StudentsSeniors taking Super Seminar are preparing to conclude the US Government curriculum and will move on to Comparative Government after winter break. As a culminating activity, students will answer this driving question: What does it mean to work for the federal government? They will be interviewing members of the community who have experience working for the federal gov-ernment. Students will audio record their interviews and the recordings will be posted in Google drive. If you or someone you know has federal government work experience and would like to participate, please e-mail Rebecca Small at ([email protected]).
The H. Glenn Cunningham Chapter of the National Honor Society held its induction ceremony on Tuesday, November 19, 2013 in the Robert “Skip” Bromley Auditorium. New members and their guests were treated to music provided by orchestra students. The National Anthem was sung by Oakton chorus members under the direction of Mrs. Tiffany Powell. The keynote speaker was our very own English Teacher, Mr. Erich Heckel. New members are listed below.
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SPRING SPORTS TRYOUTSTryouts will begin on Monday,
February 24 for Soccer, La-crosse, Baseball, Softball, Ten-
nis, and Crew (Outdoor Track/Field will begin on March 3). All athletes must have a doctor’s physical dated after May 1, 2013 on file in the Activities Office in order to do pre-season conditioning and tryouts (if you turned in a physical for fall or winter sports, it is already on file). The physical must be recorded on the official Virginia High School League Physical Form. They must also give an emergency care form to the spring sports coach – they do not have access to forms that you have turned into the school or another sport previously this year. All forms are available in the Activi-ties Office and the athletic website, www.oaktonathletics.org under Files and Links. Physicals should be turned in to or mailed to the Activities Office. MAKE A COPY FOR YOUR RECORDS. (OHS Activities, 2900 Sutton Rd., Vienna, VA 22181) If you mail in the emergency care form with the physical, write the sport(s) in the upper right hand corner so we can give it directly to the coaches. Athletes will not be permitted to condition/tryout with-out these forms. Again this year, all athletes and one parent must view an on-line concussion power point. The link to view it is posted at www.fcps.edu/sports. Records from last year were cleared in May. Both parent and athlete must view it again every school year.Tryout updates will be put on oaktonathletics.org in early Febru-ary. There is a mandatory drop-in “registration” for all spring athletes on Wednesday, February 19, 2:15-3:00 in the cafeteria to make sure all your paperwork is on file.
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• Inordertosearchthousandsofcollegeentries,identifyscholar-ships, take on-line practice tests, and use test prep e-books, explore Gale Testing and Education Reference Center database. Locate the online databases link on the library webpage or blackboard class, and scroll to the bottom of the list of Gale databases. <http://infotrac/gale-group.com/itweb/oakton_e>Passwords for databases are found in @Oakton HS Library Blackboard class, click Online Databases button.• GoogleCulturalInstitute—invitesyouto“discoverexhibitsandcollections from museums and archives all around the world.” < http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/ >
News from the National Honor Society
From the Halls of GovernmentThroughout the First Quarter, all USVA Government stu-dents played an active role in learning about the 2013 election. As part of Oakton’s Project Based Learning Initiative, students made authentic positive campaign commercials for this year’s down-ballot races. The purpose of these commercials was to provide a service to the community by helping to inform the electorate prior to Election Day as well as gain firsthand knowl-edge of campaigns and elections. The students’ ads may be accessed at http://goo.gl/V1EqyS. In addition to classroom assignments, large numbers of Oakton students participated in the following activities: volun-teering for individual candidates, serving as Election Pages and Election Officers for the Fairfax County Board of Elections and being first-time voters.
Find it All @ Your OHS LIBRARY
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The Counselor’s Corner‘Tis the season…The Counseling Department is excited to see this time of year approach as we move into several important parts of our overall program. We have been working with seniors on applications, freshmen on transitioning to high school and a great deal in between. Our tenth grade program will focus on career awareness and offered our students the opportunity to fill out a personality profile and compare it to the careers that could match well with their results. Juniors will begin to look at planning for life after high school and college searches in the spring.There will be a curriculum night Jan. 16th here at Oakton to inform parents about the course offerings available next year. This evening presentation highlights the elective choices that students can select from as well as providing guidelines on the honors and Advanced Placement programs. We invite you to attend prior to your student’s registration, so the course selection process can be as smooth and accurate as pos-sible.In November, we were able to provide three lessons for the Teacher Advisory periods. The first was an Anti-Bullying program. Our goal is to broaden the student’s understanding of the types of bullying and exclusion that can occur in a modern high school and work to eliminate prevent them at Oakton. Teachers wore their college gear for the second, and were able to share their stories and experiences in finding their own career path. We also helped coordinate the Fun Day activities gear toward building community. The students par-ticipated in a wide variety of activities, from board games, to tie dying.One of our main tools in the Counseling Department is Family Connection, the county’s online portal to college and career planning. This system offers a way to track extracurricular activities, develop a resume, explore colleges and much, much more. Student information like GPA is available here. We encourage all grade levels to begin to familiarize themselves with the offerings, and if your student has had access from middle school, there are some changes in the high school version to check out! You can access the site from Blackboard, or get more information on our new webpage mentioned above.As always, the counselors are here to help students and their family in a wide range of circumstances. Please feel free to contact us for support or have your student see us in our offices. The best times for students are before school, Cougar Time, lunch or after school.
News from Theatre Artswww.oaktondrama.org
I will have to say that I think our fall season went “swimmingly.” For those of you who were in our audience for Meta-morphoses, I’m sure you will agree. Our Drama 3 & 4 students produced two magical and powerful shows closing with Elephant’s Graveyard before Thanksgiving break. Thanks to all the parent volunteers and audience members
who came out to support the students who have been working so hard since September. We will celebrate our suc-cess with our annual field trip to NYC on December 11th to see KINKY BOOTS and MATILDA. We are also in the process of reading multiple one act plays as we choose what will be a part of our Cougar Dinner Theatre on Monday, February 10th. We look forward to seeing you then.
During the Fall and Winter Seasons, the Oakton Scho-lastic Bowl Team, coached by
biology teacher Jackie Fernandez, engages in three types of competi-tions: internal scrimmages among Oakton teams, scrimmages against other Fairfax County Schools, and participation in the NBC4 show “It’s Academic.” The Oakton Team is open to anyone who wishes to partici-pate.The team has had a busy schedule since the beginning of the school year. Several internal scrimmages were held, and Oakton has either hosted or visited South Lakes, Chantilly, Woodson, and Edison in preparation for the Conference and District Tournaments that will take place on January 18 at Robinson HS. Andrew Brennan, Paul Burke, Omar El Sheikh, Julia Fontaine, Megh Kumar, Hasanian Laith, Katherine Landes, Jacob Markin, Alekhya Nan-duri, Raju Nadimpalli, Samuel Ortiz, Helina Sirak, Jack Tracey, Alexander Xenos, and Sara Yaseen participated in these scrimmages.On Oct. 19, the team competed against the Bullis School and the Islamic Saudi Academy on “It’s Aca-demic.” The show will air on NBC4 on Dec. 21. Oakton was represented by Andrew Brennan, Megh Kumar, Sara Yaseen, and Julia Fontaine (alter-nate). The Oakton JV Cheerleaders also attended the taping to support the team and excite the audience. Watch Oakton on the 21st!
Sara Yaseen, Megh Kumar and Andrew Brennan with host Hillary Howard, at the “It’s Academic” taping on Oct. 19.
Oakton’s team visiting South Lakes for a scrimmage: Andrew Brennan, Julia Fontaine, Jacob Markin, Katherine Landers, Sara Yaseen, Paul Burke, and Samuel Ortiz.
Oakton (right side) and Chantilly (left side) during a 20-second math calculation question at Chantilly. Oakton Team: Andrew Brennan, Paul Burke, Megh Kumar, Julia Fontaine, Sara Yaseen, and Jacob Markin.
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This is the mission with which the Oakton Writing Cen-ter (OWC) was first founded in January 2010 by a small group of students and two teachers. Starting out with a
mere idea, these dedicated individuals turned their vision into reality through grueling days of planning and training over the first semester holiday.
Due to the Writing Center’s success, tutor training soon turned into an “Advanced Composition” class mandatory for all OWC tutors. For three years, the OWC operated out of small class-rooms, serving students after school and during lunches and Cougar Times. Then in late 2012, Katie Clark, a second year tutor, came up with the idea for the Student Learning Center (SLC). The SLC was a science and math version of the Writing Center, consisting of tutors from the math and science honor societies. The SLC used the Oakton Writing Center’s classroom and operated during one Cougar Time. Katie graduated in 2013 but left the Writing Center with a new sense of purpose.
Today, the Oakton Writing Center, renamed as “The Center” for Writing and Learning is located in the back of the Oakton library and has evolved into a center of learning for all students of all grades for all subjects. It is open all Cougar Times, A & B lunch on Monday and Tuesday, C & D lunch on Wednesday and Thursday, and Collaboration Wednesdays. Tutors of all subjects are available and range from sophomores to seniors. What be-gan as a center composed exclusively of writing tutors enrolled in the Advanced Composition class now features student tutors from almost all honor societies.
When asked why she believed the OWC was necessary, Ms. Blankenship, one of the original teacher founders, commented, “I think it’s extremely important that the power and potential of students is given space and time to take flight. Students are much more knowledgeable and so much more capable than we give them credit. The Center is a way to showcase… the amazing abilities of Oakton students that aren’t always seen or acknowledged and [creates] a space for students to help each other learn in a positive, student-directed atmosphere.”
Students in the Advanced Composition class now are trained in the beginning of the year to tutor writing and run The Center, which continues for the rest of the year. Students are divided into four teams: Management, Publications and Mar-keting, Special Programs, and OWL (Oakton Writes and Learns). They collaborate to communicate with teachers, students and the entire Oakton Community. Every October, Advanced Com-
position students attend the Secondary School Writing Center conference at George Mason University which is attended by over 300 local area high school writing center student tutors. This year, fourteen Oakton tutors presented at the conference, sharing their observations and advice with other high school tutors based on their experiences at The Center.
Since its opening in 2010, the OWC has held 3517 tutoring sessions. During this school year, the Center has had 347 tutor-ing sessions in the first quarter. Of these, 218 consist of English tutoring, 24 of science tutoring, 29 of math tutoring, and 73 of other subjects - a huge increase from the 23 non-English ses-sions from the 2012-2013 school year.
In a possible reflection of the OWC’s effectiveness, scores of Standards of Learning English assessments at Oakton HS have improved in the past few years while the assessments them-selves have become harder. Tutees have had an overwhelm-ingly positive response. One tutee writes on her exit survey, “I particularly enjoyed the way the tutors welcomed others and [were] available for all that asked. The tutor gave wonder-ful advice and helped me with my essay thoroughly, from the beginning to the end. She gave me a lot of time and help that my teacher is too busy to give to only me.” In this response, the tutee succinctly sums up many of the reasons why peer tutor-ing is so valuable.
Center tutor Eric Lim explains why he became a peer tu-tor, saying, “Though I initially joined the class for the college transcript… now I feel like I make a difference in [my tutees’] lives. Peer tutoring is meaningful because you take away the number-focused culture of education and shift it towards an appreciation of learning.” Anee Nguyen, also a Center tutor, adds, “I became a tutor because I like helping people… and this is a way to reach out to the greater Oakton community. Peer tutoring is not as intimidating and is more comfortable [than being tutored by a teacher].”
In four short school years, the Center has become an integral part of the Oakton identity. However, it has far to go before achieving its goal of changing the learning culture. In order to move forward, all of the Oakton HS community has to work together. We hope for the PTSA’s support in our endeavors. To find out more about what we do, please email us at [email protected].
The Oakton Writing Center is a professional student-run center where stu-dents receive friendly, quality assistance on writing for all classes and levels from trained tutors. Our mission is to guide students through the writing process to help students become more confident thinkers and writers and to provide last-ing writing skills to the best of of our abilities.
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The Center of LearningThe name may have changed, but the students who tutor at the Center remain dedicated to helping others.
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Oakton High School Student Earns Poetry Honor
Aline Dolinh, a sophomore at Oakton High School, was recognized at the National Book Festival as the Southeast region rep-
resentative of the National Student Poets Class of 2013. Oakton High School is a Fairfax County public school.The award recognizes one student from each of the
five regions in the country, and is sponsored by the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humani-ties, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers. Dolinh was eligible for the honor after winning the Gold Key award in the regional Scholastic Art and Writing Awards earlier this year. Five of her poems appear in the ceremony program.As the National Student Poet for the southeast
region, Dolinh will participate in a region-wide com-
munity service project designed to promote literacy awareness. She is particularly interested in raising awareness of the way poetry is taught in schools. Dolinh has been writing poetry as long as she
could read and won her first poetry award in first grade for five haikus she submitted to a haiku con-test at the National Kite Festival. Although she has won numerous awards for her poetry, this is her first award at such a high level. Dolinh traveled to New York in October to be honored by the Academy of American Poets.Dolinh is also available to speak to area clubs and
organizations (both adults and children’s) about her experience. If you or your organization would like to invite her to speak, please follow this link: http://www.artandwriting.org/the-awards/national-stu-dent-poets-program/.
Michael WilliamsonMatthew Wohl-lebenKatherine XenosYuansheng XieSu Min YangJenny YaoYun YooGrace Yu
Congratulations to the following students! Each student earned all A’s on his or her first quarter report card. This is extremely challenging, and all deserve accolades! Great job!
9th graders with all A’s:
10th graders with all A’s:
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Peter AielloSydney ApplegateCamille Baechler
Lia Mikkaella CunananCaroline Fisher
Paul GreenoughCollin HansenEvan Heitman
Daniel HildebrandSimon Iyob
Emily Kamienski
Yusef AbughannamKiren AjrawatHana Burkly
Amanda CervaJosephine Chiao
Andrew DaleyRobin Dixon
Maria Donoso EspinosaChengxin DuTrung DuongKasra Eslami
Parent Information Relating to Special EducationThe Parent Resource Center holds workshops during the day and evening on a variety of special education topics. Address: 2334 Gallows Road, Dunn Loring, VA 22027 (Entrance 1- Room 100)For more information: http://www.fcps.edu/cco/prc/resources/events/English: 703-204-3941 Español: 703-204-3955.Introduction to Special Education - An Orientation for Parents NEW to the Process!Wednesday, December 4, 2013 10:00 am - noon This orientation to Special Education is appropriate for parents with students in the referral or eligibility phase of the Special Education process and parents who want to know more about how the Special Educa-tion process works.Assessment Options for Students with DisabilitiesWednesday, December 4, 2013 7:00 - 9:00 pm or Friday, December 6, 2013 10:00 am - noon Learn about each assessment, the criteria for each assessment and how the criteria may impact your stu-dent. Tech Thursday - Microsoft Word Strategies for Writing (Registration required)Thursday, December 5, 2013 10:00 - 11:30 amLearn how to use Microsoft Word to help your student with the writing process. Laptops will be provided for use at the workshop.Strategies to Support Students with DyslexiaTuesday, December 10, 2013 7:00 - 9:00 pm Learn about accommodations for students with dyslexia, tech tools that provide support, and resources available to ALL students!
SEPTA monthly membership meeting Thursday, December 5, 2013, 6:30pm, Presentation on “New High School Diploma Options for IEP Students,” Barcroft ES, 625 S. Wakefield Street, Arlington.
CHADD: Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity DisorderThe West Fairfax CHADD Parent Support Group will continue to meet every other Thursday at 7:30 pm (Dec. 5 and 19) in Room 201 at Fairfax Church of Christ, 3901 Rugby Road, Fairfax, VA 22033 Contact Sharon 703 716-4646 or [email protected].
CHADD Teen Discussion Group for high school students meets on the first Sunday of the month 3:00 - 4:30 pm. Group is led by Anne S. Roberts of Brain Relief LLC, 7806 Oak Street, Falls Church, VA 22043-3122. For more information, contact Anne S. Roberts, 703.641.8940, [email protected].
NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness is dedicated to building better lives for those affected by mental illness.Oakton Family Support Group meets on the 1st Thursday of each month, 7:30-9:00 pmRm 9 of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fairfax, 2709 Hunter Mill Rd.Contact: Joanna Walker at 703 620-2633 or [email protected] Family Support Group meets on the 3rd Saturday of each month 10:00-11:30 amContact: Gayle Jackson at 703 830-1293 or [email protected] for more information
