Tue, 11/19 Pizzicato (SE Division) Dine & Donate, All Day

Tue, 11/19 Race Matters, Taborspace, 5:30-8:00

Mon, 11/25 Family Conferences--NO SCHOOL

Tue, 11/26 Family Conferences--NO SCHOOL

Dear Mt. Tabor Families, 

Happy Friday! I hope your student had a great week!

Discover Franklin

Here's an invitation from the Franklin Staff:

Come Discover Franklin!

If your student is a current 8th grader and will attend Franklin High School starting Fall 2020, then we invite you to join us on:

Wednesday, December 4, 2019
 6:00pm - 8:00pm                                                                                   

At this annual event you and your student will have an opportunity to talk with teachers from all disciplines, meet with current coaches and players from a variety of our athletic teams, see the wide array of clubs available to our students, and tour our state-of-the-art school.

We hope to see you there so you can discover why we are FRANKLIN STRONG! Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.

Jill Register, VP Secretary
Franklin High School

Dance Day at Grant HS

The Grant High School Gendrills Dance team would like to invite your K-8 students to come participate at our annual Dance Day with the Gendrills event on Saturday, December 7th from 9:00 AM to 2:30 PM happening at Grant High School. At 2:00, there will be a showcase for all participants to show off their dances. 

We thank you for your support and look forward to meeting some of your students!

Thanks, Kali Capps kcapps@pps.net  

Book Fair

Here's a quick note from our awesome librarian, Annie Licurse:

Come shopping for books in the library during November Conferences! We are working with Annie Bloom's Books this year. 20% of sales will be book credit for our library. Cash or credit cards, cards preferred please. We will have a wide variety of popular titles including new graphic novels, cookbooks, and biographies. Monday 8-8, Tuesday 8-5 in the library. Thank you for supporting the Mt Tabor Library!

Race Matters: A Community Dialogue

Here's an important message from the Glencoe-Tabor Race Matters team:

Please join us Tuesday, 11/19, from 5:30-8:00 for an important dialogue with our feeder schools. The topic is Implicit Bias, and the presenter is art teacher Mrs. Molly Renauer’s husband, Brian.

Dr. Brian Renauer, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Portland State University, will be leading the Parent Equity Night in an exploration of “implicit bias.” We often think of bias as being a conscious part of our thinking and decision-making. However, recent research (e.g. see Project Implicit out of Harvard) has shown that biases against certain persons or groups can come from unconscious sources. In other words, we may not even realize this type of bias. Implicit bias means we do not always have conscious, intentional control over the processes of social perception, impression formation, and judgment that motivate our actions.

Dr. Renauer will engage the group in a general discussion of implicit bias focusing on The Implicit Bias Project out of Harvard. If you’d like to learn about implicit bias before the meeting you can read about The Harvard Implicit Bias Project here (https://www.projectimplicit.net/index.html). You can also take their implicit association test, which has been taken by over 2 million people, to explore your own potential implicit biases (https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/).
Please RSVP for translation services, pizza, or childcare.

Molly Renauer  mrenauer@pps.net

Have a great weekend, everyone! Talk soon!

Sean

With parent-teacher conferences just around the corner, it is important to know that PPS offers free interpretation services and other resources for our linguistically diverse families. If you need an interpreter for the conferences, which will be held Nov. 25-26, let your school know. 

School level data for the Successful Schools Survey is now available. The survey, which was conducted during the 2018-19 school year, is part of the district’s initiative to use data to make informed decisions about school climate and culture.