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Families, we are in need of donations of face tissue, pencils, and disinfectant wipes.  Please consider helping us restock our supplies? 

Since the school is located in the heart of the busy Eliot neighborhood, please follow all traffic laws and signs no matter how you plan to get to school. Student safety is our number one priority. Please consider the following transportation options and tips:

Dear Parents and Guardians of future Harriet Tubman Middle School students:

A group of parents representing all four feeder schools is proposing to create a Parent Teacher Student Association (PTSA) for Harriet Tubman Middle School. We want to get feedback from parents about this proposal.  We are strongly committed to creating a parent-teacher-student association that is reflective of the overall Harriet Tubman school community and that is explicitly organized to address issues of access, inclusion, academic achievement, equity, and social justice for every student. We want the new PTSA to embody and support the mission of the Harriet Tubman Middle School Community.
We are asking for your reply of an electronic survey by noon on Friday, August 31.

Welcome Tubman Middle School families! We hope your student enjoys their new school and chooses to join us for school meals.
What meals are available for my student during the 2018-19 school year?

Starting in September 2017, PPS conducted several months of Harriet Tubman Middle School community engagement meetings at Boise-Eliot/Humboldt, Irvington, Martin Luther King Jr., and Sabin schools. These included an open house attended by 450 people, and several tours of the building with families, community members and staff.  Updates were provided at each meeting, by Principal Natasha Butler, district leadership and other staff.

Harriet Tubman Alumni and Community Partners,
 
We are excited about the re-opening of Harriet Tubman Middle School and the promise of academic excellence and opportunity for students and families in North and Northeast. We believe that our success will be rooted in the efforts of alumna who have once attended Harriet Tubman Middle School and understand the importance of leveraging the skills and experiences of those that have paved the way.

Climate change was the theme when Astor students held a number of events to recognize Earth Day on Monday, April. Students who were not able to participate in the global student climate change event last month asked to do something for Earth Day and organized a variety of activities.

This week, we announced to our families and staff that all schools in Portland Public Schools will be closed on Wednesday, May 8. To recover the lost instructional hours, we have decided to use our last designated makeup day as the final day of school, on Wednesday, June 12.

How do our prejudices affect our children? That question will be discussed during an event on Monday, April 22, at the Board Room of the Blanchard Education Service Center. The event, which is open to all, runs from 4 to 5:30 p.m. and will be hosted by the Conversation Project.