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Green City, Clean Waters 2018 Art Contest

The Partnership for the Delaware Estuary is now accepting entries on behalf of the Philadelphia Water Department for its Green City, Clean Waters Art Contest! All entries must be mailed by Wednesday, February 28th. Please click here for a brochure containing rules and an entry form. Philadelphia students in grades K-12 attending public, private, charter...

Attendance Hero Sweepstakes

Families and schools across the city are working hard to get children to school every day on time, start to finish, so they've the best shot at becoming great readers and strong students. Grownups, share your superpower tips for getting your family to school every day on time. Use #AttendanceHero #ContestEntry on social media for...

Coming Soon to the School District of Philadelphia: Academic Parent Teacher Teams!

The FACE Office, in partnership with WestEd and the William Penn Foundation, is bringing Academic Parent Teacher Teams (APTT) to Philadelphia! Overview The purpose of this K-3 family engagement early literacy initiative, sponsored by the William Penn Foundation is to fund and support nine elementary schools as they plan, develop, and implement Academic Parent Teacher...

Inside a SAC Meeting: Overbrook Educational Center

This article was written by Jessica Maharaj, an AmeriCorps VISTA in the Office of Family and Community Engagement. Jessica is from outside of Savannah, Georgia and graduated from the University of Michigan in May 2017. In the following article, Jessica shares her experience attending a SAC meeting at Overbrook Educational Center in West Philadelphia. SAC...

FACT Course Spotlight: Writing Grants for Philadelphia Public Schools

In the past several years, many teachers, families, principals, and community members have utilized extraordinary and creative tactics to bring needed resources and money into their school communities. They've done this through their own personal time and effort, such as organizing drives and fundraisers, through groups like Home and School Associations, Friends Of groups, and...

FREE BACKPACK ALERT! Kids in Need Foundation is Giving Away 25,000 Backpacks to Schools

The Kids in Need Foundation's mission is to ensure that every child is prepared to learn and succeed in the classroom by providing free school supplies nationally to students most in need. Recent studies show that when kids have new school supplies of their own: Grades, classroom behavior, and engagement improve, Self-esteem increases, Attitudes toward...

Introducing FACT: Family Academy: Courses & Training

In January 2018, the Office of Family and Community Engagement (FACE) will launch a new program for our families called FACT, or Family Academy: Courses & Training! Family Academy: Courses & Training (FACT) is designed to serve as the gateway to mobilize family engagement in schools by promoting families as schools' allies in fostering students'...

Free Books For Read Across America Day

The Literacy Empowerment Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, invites your school to apply for FREE books for Read Across America Day. During the past year, LEF has distributed over 3,000,000 books to schools all across the country for Read Across America Day and other literacy projects. These books are free. Educators only pay shipping and...

National Title I Conference Coming to Philadelphia!

The National Title I Conference is an annual project of the National Title I Association and the only conference focused entirely on national Title I issues. And in February, it's coming to Philadelphia! Every day, some of our already vulnerable students come to our schools in the face of economic, social, emotional, language and cognitive...

PSAT Score Release and Resources

The School District of Philadelphia is very excited to announce that students who participated in PSAT School Day testing this fall will receive their scores on Tuesday, December 12, 2017. Students should log in to their College Board account (www.collegeboard.org) to view their scores. Parents will have to log in to their child's College Board...

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