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Ms. Valerie Rainey, School Inprovement Support Liaison at Martin Luther King, Jr. High School says, “#iVolunteerBecause support is the best remedy.”

Volunteer Appreciation Month Recap

Posted on May 1, 2018
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Categories: Family News & Resources
FACE had a blast celebrating our volunteers during April, which was National Volunteer Appreciation Month! Check out some of our favorite moments below, or go to Facebook/Twitter and search the hashtags #VolunteerAppreciationMonth #VolunteersForPHLed! The James J. Sullivan School SAC honored their 16 volunteers on Thursday, April 26 for National Volunteer Appreciation Month with a luncheon...
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SAC Parent and FACE Deputy Chief Share Expertise on Panel at William Penn Foundation Event

SAC Parent and FACE Deputy Chief Share Expertise on Panel at William Penn Foundation Event

Posted on April 27, 2018
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Categories: Family News & Resources
Meaningfully engaging and communicating with families is something that all educators and administrators struggle with—even us here in FACE! In a city as diverse and large as Philadelphia, communication with families is especially challenging. What will grab parents’ attention? Which communication vehicle works best? How do we phrase our messaging? The William Penn Foundation hosted...
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FACT Course Spotlight: “Eat.Healthy, Be.Happy” by the Eat.Right.Now. Program

Posted on April 27, 2018
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Choosing a meal that is both healthy and something your kids will enjoy can be difficult and frustrating for any caregiver. But that doesn’t always have to be the case! Last month, The District’s Eat.Right.Now team (SNAP-Ed funded) hosted a cooking workshop where over fifteen caregivers came out to learn about healthy eating and try...
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Mayfair SAC Hosts Educational Family Night

Posted on April 27, 2018
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Categories: Family News & Resources
Mayfair’s School Advisory Council (SAC) organized and hosted a Family Academic Night on Tuesday, March 27. Parents had the opportunity to spend the evening in the school, attending workshops led by the school’s teachers and staff and enjoying a dinner served by the leadership team. Thirteen different workshops were planned, and a rotation allowed families...
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Parent Spotlight: Sana Hassan, Robert B. Pollock Elementary School

Posted on April 26, 2018
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Categories: Featured FACEs, Multilingual Family Support
Signs welcoming families to Pollock. Robert B. Pollock Elementary School has an incredibly diverse student body. The school serves grades K-6 and is located in Northeast Philadelphia. About 642 students attend Pollock, and the student body speaks over 26 languages, and Pollock prides itself on diversity and inclusion. The staff recognizes that their school serves...
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Multiculturalism in Education: Indonesia

Posted on April 26, 2018
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Categories: Multilingual Family Support
Philadelphia is an incredibly diverse city, and its schools have students from all around the world. With such a multicultural school district, how do you educate students in a way that honors and gives a voice to all of their cultural experiences? Indonesia is a great example of an entire nation that is doing just...
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The Power of SAC & Community Partnerships: Webster School’s New Community Library

Posted on April 26, 2018
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During their Winter Title I/SAC meeting, a parent at John H. Webster School mentioned that she would like to have a functioning library in the school because there wasn't a library in the neighborhood. Principal Sherri Arabia explained that unfortunately there was not room in the school for a library, but perhaps they could work...
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FACE Celebrates Volunteer Appreciation Week with Clifford Reading Parties!

Posted on April 26, 2018
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In case you missed last month’s Focus on FACE Newsletter, The Office of Family and Community Engagement celebrated Volunteer Appreciation Month with all kinds of fun social media posts, articles featuring some of our wonderful volunteers, and snazzy Volunteer Appreciation materials. The FACE Office also invited the following five schools with outstanding volunteer programs to...
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You are Cordially Invited to the End-of-Year Family Celebration!

Posted on April 26, 2018
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Categories: Family News & Resources
Get Pumped for Summer with FACE!   The FACE Office is excited to invite you to the 2018 End-of-Year Family Celebration on Friday, June 1, 2018, 4:30-7:30pm at 440 N Broad Street!   The Celebration is a time for us to thank families for their contributions to our schools and as a way to kick off...
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Community Partnerships at Bayard Taylor School

Community Partnerships at Bayard Taylor School

Posted on April 5, 2018
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Bayard Taylor School, a K-5 elementary school located in Hunting Park, has two new community partners that are excited to be working with its students. These new partners are the Springboard Collaborative Afterschool Program and Girls Inc. Both partners started at Taylor less than a year ago, and even though both community partners focus on...
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