PTA  Parent Conference on  Saturday, January 21, 2017                      Peterson Middle School  1380 Rosalia Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94087

Registration/Continental Breakfast 8-9:15,  Workshop Session 1 9:30-11:00,   Workshop Session 2  11:15-12:45

The link to the registration is found on the home page at www.capta6.org.      Workshops Include:   

• The Pitfalls of Social Media
• Mastering Emotionally-Intense Conversations
• Improving the Community By Expanding Early Quality Learning
• How to Work with Principals ; Superintendents
• Post Election Workshop–Power of Parents in Era of Common Core Standards
• Supporting Schools with Quality Early Childhood Education
•  Speakers from the D.A.’s office, School Superintendents, Current and Prior School Board Members, and local experts

Join the Palo Alto special needs community for a well deserved morning off. Enjoy a cup of tea or coffee, delicious holiday treats, and social time with other parents of children who face extra challenges. Our guest speaker Elizabeth Darby, a teacher in the district for over 20 years, will give us practical tools and strategies for better managing holiday stress.

Childcare will not be provided, but younger siblings are welcome. Spanish-language translation will be available. Jointly sponsored by the Palo Alto Community Advisory Committee for Special Education and the Palo Alto Council of PTAs.  If you have a question please contact mich_higgins@hotmail.com.

2016 marks the 10^th anniversary of the official birth of the Palo Alto Safe Routes School Partnership.  In 2005 the National Safe Routes to School Partnership Consensus Statement was endorsed locally by the Executive Board of the Palo Alto Council of PTAs.  In February 2006, the PAUSD School Board and the Palo Alto City Council followed suit joining the PTA as partners working together to reduce risk to school commuting students and their families and to encourage more families to walk and bike or use alternatives to driving more often. Palo Alto Safe Routes to School has since become one of the most successful programs of its kind in the nation with thousands of PAUSD school children choosing active, sustainable school commutes each school day.