Option School Fair
Option Schools Fair
THIS SATURDAY March 13,
10 a.m. - noon
at the John Stanford Center for
Educational Excellence
(District Headquarters),
2445 3rd Avenue South, Seattle, 98134
UPDATE: Queen Anne Elementary, and the Accelerated Progress Program (APP) will also be represented at the fair.
(QAE: http://www.queenanneview.com/2010/03/04/new-queen-anne-elementary-to-focus-on-tech/)
(APP: http://www.seattleschools.org/area/advlearning/program_app.htm)
Come and learn about all of Seattle Public School District's unique and inspiring options for your children!
A Family-to-Family Event
Meet with families from throughout the school district. Parents will be on hand to answer questions about the schools and programs, with valuable firsthand knowledge.
Talk with enrollment personnel about how Option Schools fit into the New Student Assignment Plan, and find out how to enroll and apply.
Open enrollment for all schools is March 1-31, 2010.
Registration available onsite.
Represented schools will include:
AS#1 (K-8); Thornton Creek (K-5); Jane Addams (K-8); Salmon Bay (K-8); TOPS (K-8); ORCA (K-8); Pathfinder (K-8); Queen Anne Elementary (K-5); South Shore (PreK-8); the Center School (H.S.); NOVA (H.S); the new STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) School at Cleveland H.S., and APP (located at Lowell and Thurgood Marshall elementary schools, Washington and Hamilton middle schools, and Garfield High School).
What is an option school?
(from the district's site):
Option Schools are the schools that, in the New Student Assignment Plan, do not have specific attendance area boundaries.
Students may apply for any Option School in the city, and transportation is provided to specific linked Option Schools based on attendance area. Option Schools include a number of schools that follow an alternative curriculum (for example, expeditionary learning).
More info:
http://www.seattleschools.org/area/m_news/comp.dxml?app=Story&storyId=2386&settings=default
How to get to the John Stanford Center (2445 3rd Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98134, X-street: Lander):
MAP: http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Seattle&state=WA&address=2445+3rd+Ave+S&zipcode=98134-1923&country=US&latitude=47.581501&longitude=-122.329956&geocode=ADDRESS
http://www.seattleschools.org/area/jscee/map/jscee.xml
Sponsored by: the Alternative Schools Coalition
For Seattle Public Schools information on the enrollment and application process, the new student
assignment plan, and information about schools, please visit www.seattleschools.org. Select “Enrollment.”
THIS SATURDAY March 13,
10 a.m. - noon
at the John Stanford Center for
Educational Excellence
(District Headquarters),
2445 3rd Avenue South, Seattle, 98134
UPDATE: Queen Anne Elementary, and the Accelerated Progress Program (APP) will also be represented at the fair.
(QAE: http://www.queenanneview.com/2010/03/04/new-queen-anne-elementary-to-focus-on-tech/)
(APP: http://www.seattleschools.org/area/advlearning/program_app.htm)
Come and learn about all of Seattle Public School District's unique and inspiring options for your children!
A Family-to-Family Event
Meet with families from throughout the school district. Parents will be on hand to answer questions about the schools and programs, with valuable firsthand knowledge.
Talk with enrollment personnel about how Option Schools fit into the New Student Assignment Plan, and find out how to enroll and apply.
Open enrollment for all schools is March 1-31, 2010.
Registration available onsite.
Represented schools will include:
AS#1 (K-8); Thornton Creek (K-5); Jane Addams (K-8); Salmon Bay (K-8); TOPS (K-8); ORCA (K-8); Pathfinder (K-8); Queen Anne Elementary (K-5); South Shore (PreK-8); the Center School (H.S.); NOVA (H.S); the new STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) School at Cleveland H.S., and APP (located at Lowell and Thurgood Marshall elementary schools, Washington and Hamilton middle schools, and Garfield High School).
What is an option school?
(from the district's site):
Option Schools are the schools that, in the New Student Assignment Plan, do not have specific attendance area boundaries.
Students may apply for any Option School in the city, and transportation is provided to specific linked Option Schools based on attendance area. Option Schools include a number of schools that follow an alternative curriculum (for example, expeditionary learning).
More info:
http://www.seattleschools.org/area/m_news/comp.dxml?app=Story&storyId=2386&settings=default
How to get to the John Stanford Center (2445 3rd Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98134, X-street: Lander):
MAP: http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Seattle&state=WA&address=2445+3rd+Ave+S&zipcode=98134-1923&country=US&latitude=47.581501&longitude=-122.329956&geocode=ADDRESS
http://www.seattleschools.org/area/jscee/map/jscee.xml
Sponsored by: the Alternative Schools Coalition
For Seattle Public Schools information on the enrollment and application process, the new student
assignment plan, and information about schools, please visit www.seattleschools.org. Select “Enrollment.”
Comments
The problem is the districts allocation of services not the exclusivity of alternative schools.
That parent should aso receive an NCLB opt out letter in the fall w/ schools they can transfer to because hawthorn is in level 5 failure. Someone at the option school fair can explain that process to her.
AS1 may well be an exception, but the trend is pretty clear.
When no one asks questions or pushes back, then that's the way it stays. Sped just may be the weakest dept. in the district. But many of you already know that.
Services and opportunities for special ed and all Seattle students are of concern to me. As a supporter of alternative ed pedagogy, curriculum and practices, I will continue to advocate for these options as I see them as best educational practices for many children, not limited to gen ed kids. Aurora and spedvocate, if you have suggestions on how I can better advocate, please let me know.
~Nora- owlhouse88@hotmail.com
Even self-contained kids are supposed to participate in gen ed to at least some extent. This means more than just making lunch or recess open to them.
The district points spec ed parents to school principals if they complain. In fact, parents with any issues that arise with the new spec ed/ICS program are told that they need to work with individual school principals.
Owlhouse-
How about at the very least giving ALL kids the chance to find the school that is right for them (whether option or attendance area) without first closing options entirely (saying no spec ed seats) or by action (saying you can apply, but we won't necessarily be able to support your kid if they get in)?
What would you do if you were told that option schools were restricted or unavailable for your child? If you are a parent in an option school, ask your principal what he or she tells interested spec ed parents... maybe some places are more aware then others.
Thanks for your support and concern.
Owlhouse -- ask for inclusion programs in your alternative schools. These have already been requested and denied. If you want to be truly inclusive, you've got to have inclusion programs and you have got to include all students. All means all, doesn't it? It's a huge limitation of both alternative and charter schools that students with disabilities get no seat, or have limited access.
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