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Director’s Notes                                 Jan 7, 2015 Hi all, Welcome back. Hope everyone had a nice break. Assembly this Friday in the gym, starting at 9:15 will focus on winter safety for all students, and additional weapon safety issues for 4th grade and up. All are welcome to attend. End of year dates: looking over the end of the year, and thinking about how this winter is starting out, we want to put out the possible scenarios: As scheduled (up to 4 snow days): final day of school, June 17 ; Passages, June 15/16 ; Celebration of Learning, June 9 (yes, this is a change from June 4 – apologies) ; 8th grade graduation, June 16 If no snow days: final day of school, June 12 ; Passages, June 10/11 ; Celebration of Learning, June 4 ; 8th grade graduation, June 11 By early April we should know which schedule will apply. Apologies for the tentative dates, but such is the nature of snow days (or lack thereof). […]

Director’s Notes Dec 17, 2014 Hi all, Celebration of Learning this week – very exciting. Thursday, Dec 18 from 6-7:30 pm (excepting Brisbin/Akers Crews who will perform dances in the district Board Room starting at 5:30 pm). Students love to show their families the great work they have been doing this fall. Please make sure you show up and support your children. While we understand there are some conflicts with outside events, we want to remind everyone that you signed a Commitment to Excellence contract stating you would prioritize SELS events. And Celebration of Learning is one of our biggest bi-annual events. Looking forward to seeing everyone. No community meeting this Friday; we have four crews off-site watching the Nutcracker. We will reconvene with an assembly on Jan 9. […]

Director’s Notes                                                      Dec 10, 2014 Hi all, Just returned from the Expeditionary National conference. Learned lots and hope to get some of it into our program in the next Looks like we might have our first snow day coming up this week (big storm at least). Reminder: if snow day, you will be called by TTUSD by 6 am, or you can check their website (http://www.ttusd.org/pages/Tahoe_Truckee_Unified_SD) for updated information. […]

Director’s Notes Dec 3, 2014 Hi all, Welcome back from break; hope it went well for everyone. Now that the weather is changing, please make sure your children come to school dressed appropriately. If snow day, you will be called by TTUSD by 6 am, or you can check their website (http://www.ttusd.org/pages/Tahoe_Truckee_Unified_SD) for updated information. I will be out of the office Wed-Fri this week and next Mon-Tues due to a conference in Boston. Please contact Anna Demm if you need help. […]

Director’s Notes                                                 Nov 19, 2014 Hi all, Wonderful to see so many of you at Gratitude Evening. Really enjoyable meeting more people and hearing students share their appreciations. Great job by PTC and all the volunteers. There is some dishware left at the Rec Center now in the Office; please stop in and pick up anything you are missing. Reminder: NO SCHOOL next Mon-Fri, Nov 24-28. […]

Director’s Notes                                                Nov 12, 2014 Hi all, Gratitude Evening this Friday. Looking forward to seeing all of you. November is a really quick school month; lots of days off. Please make sure your children are here as much starts happening in preparation for the December Celebration of Learning. Our Girls on the Run Program will be starting in March 2015.  Even though it is still months away, we are trying to generate interest now, as well as recruit some coaches.  We can’t run it without your help!  The 10 week program, for girls in 3rd through 5th grade, will run March 16, 2015 through June 6, 2015.  The practices run 2 days per week, immediately after school, with 2 coaches at each practice.  Please contact Anna Demm (ademm@truckeecharterschool.org) if you think your daughter might be interested in participating and/or you are interested in being a coach.  Here is some more info on this amazing program: […]

Hi all, Great Bear Walk on Friday. Kids loved it and there were many of you here in support and helping. Thank you. Sadly, at this point it looks like Measure U will not pass. Word is there are still mailed-in ballots to count, providing a bit of hope. Many, many thanks to Kirsten Pekarek for leading the outreach efforts. Middle school movie night this Friday, 7-9 pm on campus. Movie to be decided tomorrow (all students will be informed). […]

Director’s Notes                                                                     Oct 29, 2014 Hi all, What a great first annual SELS Summit Day. First graders prepped all other crews for the adventure and students responded wonderfully; the solitude and reflection time at the pass was virtually silent for 15 min, and the shared thoughts of students was insightful and inspirational. Many thanks for the help driving and chaperoning, and to the Bell Crew for initiating and organizing the community building day. Electives is starting up Nov 14 and runs on Fridays from 12:45-2 until Dec 19. We are again looking for volunteers to help with the program. You can facilitate something of interest to you that would also be interesting to students; you can select your age range and number of students as well (we shoot for 8-12 students per elective). If interested in helping, please email or talk to Anna Demm (ademm@truckeecharterschool.org). We will also run two more blocks: Jan 9 – Feb 13 (skipping Jan 30 due to middle school minimum day) and Feb 27 – March 27. Volunteers are needed for all sessions. For those unfamiliar with Electives: this is a chance for parent “experts” to share with students interesting hobbies and/or skills (examples: knitting, songwriting/singing, photography, poetry, games, science activities, magic tricks, etc.). The time is meant to build community (the elective classes are mixed age), expose students to various experiences they would not usually get, and potentially build lifelong interests and skills. Staff also offer courses, so ideally there are 17-20 classes happening (thereby keeping group sizes smaller). The program only works when parents participate, so please join us. […]

Director’s Notes                                                            Oct 22, 2014 Hi all, Nearing mid semester and everything is going well. Thanks again to all those helping with fieldwork, in classrooms, and behind the scenes to provide activities and events for our community. As the weather continues to cool down, please make sure your children are dressed appropriately; we continue to have students arrive under-dressed and without jackets. Odyssey of the Mind is meeting tomorrow, Thurs Oct 23 5:30-8 at ACMS. In the past we have had teams from SELS; be great to organize one for this year (there are some interested 5th graders). This is a parent run activity, and to run a team you must attend this meeting. Please contact Jess Alb with questions: jalb@ttusd.org […]

Director’s Notes                                                       Oct 15, 2014 Hi all, Nice to have some rain. Reminder of our seasonal change; please make sure your children are dressed appropriately – they spend a lot of time outside. Thanks to all for being on time and prepared for goal setting conferences. You should all have received sign up info for Summit Day. We are all very excited as this will be our first all school adventure. […]