PTA & The Law & Legislative Assembly Workshop
October 5, 2013  9am-12pm
Ballard High School

The Legislative Assembly Workshop is being offered at the same time as PTA and The Law this coming Saturday.  What a great opportunity for Legislative/Advocacy Chairs to learn about what will happen at Leg Assembly and get to hear from one of our District's legislators from the 46th.

RSVP to [email protected] to ensure enough materials

October 16, 2013
Shoreline Room, Shoreline Center

6:30pm Sign-In Mingle
7:00pm Meeting
7:30pm Guest Speaker - U. S. Department of Education Attorney Elizabeth Caldwell, from the Office of Civil Rights/504
 
see attached flyer for details:

The September WSPTA Leadership News for 9/25/2013 covers the question brought up at Monday nights Council meeting: When should we pay membership to State?

Go to: http://wsptaleadershipnews.blogspot.com/2013/09/due-dates-for-membership-service-fees.html

What I Said and What I Ment: Improving Cross Cultural Communications
Free Workshop with Rosetta Legg
October 8, 2013
4:30-6:00pm
Shoreline City Hall

Humans communicate on many levels: spoken language, tone, body language, style and personality. The fact that we have complex cultural identities and a host of differing past experiences increases the probability of cross-cultural miscommunications. This workshop presents major cross-cultural communication theories, ways that cultural values, power, privilege and differences affect the
way we communicate, tools for questioning assumptions, and ways to improve cross-cultural  communications skills.

Space is limited:  Register at:  [email protected]

Sponsored by Northshore Shoreline Community Network

October 18-19, 2013
Marriott Hotel, Sea-Tac

Registration for this year's 2013 Legislative Assembly is now available on the WSPTA website.

http://www.wastatepta.org/meetings/leg_assembly/index.html

Please read through the tentative agenda for the explanation of classes that will be offered during the weekend.  Registration is $140.00 if paid before Oct 3 and $185.00 after.  Registration does not include meals.

Reservations for hotel can be done directly with Sea-Tac Marriott and ask for the PTA group rate.

Check out Volunteer Spot's newest tool that went up this past week.  Group pages allows your PTA to list the volunteer opportunities for ALL your programs and events off of one link.

http://blog.volunteerspot.com/volunteer_guru/2013/09/new-group-pages-on-volunteerspot.html#axzz2fYZZLy9r

Reminder to all Presidents and Council Board members the first Council meeting of the year is Monday, September 23rd (4th Monday) at 7 p.m. in the Arden Room of the Shoreline Center.  

Presidents - if you are unable to attend you may send a delegate to attend on your behalf.  

We are excited to welcome the new Shoreline Special Needs PTSA.  They got their application for affiliation approved yesterday by the Washington State PTA.  Information on their kick off meeting will be out soon!  Please welcome them as the take part in Council programs & events.

Texas PTA
FREE webinar for PTA Leaders! Tuesday, September 17, 1pm CST. 
Every PTA leader is only as effective as the tools s/he brings to the table. Learn effective tactics for using free power tools like VolunteerSpot, Google Forms, Dropbox, Donors Choose, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. http://ow.ly/oR8CZ

The first Superintendent's Coffee of the year will be Thursday, September 19th at 9:30am in the Sherrick Room (D105) of the Shoreline Center.

The coffee is open to all Shoreline PTA Council board members and Shoreline PTA local unit Presidents or their appointed liaisons.  This is a wonderful opportunity to get to know the Superintendent & District staff, receive current information on goings on around the district & to ask questions.

Coffee is provide by the Shoreline PTA Council.