POWWOW Meeting Tomorrow

POWWOW Parent meeting

Wednesday (TOMORROW), August 1, 2007 at 6:00 pm
WHS Library

1. Topics to be discussed will include:
2. Registration
3. Book distribution
4. 4X4 schedule
5. Small Learning Communities (SLC's)
6. Autonomy
7. Adult School moving onto WHS campus
8. Parent Center
9. Campus Safety and Campus Supervision

Parent Survey

If you haven't done so already, please complete the Parent Survey below. Click on the document, print, complete and return the form by email to powwow4life@aol.com . Thank you.

Bright Star Charter School Headed to OWMS Campus

Bright Star Charter School is moving to the campus of OWMS.

Mr. Rochelle (OW Principal) took our founder, Crissina Johnson, on a brief tour of the area where Bright Star Charter will be housed. Several classrooms, including a computer lab, will need to be moved in order to accommodate Bright Star. From what she observed, not much has be done to prepare for this transition. We are hopeful the necessary fencing and classroom changes are done before school begins.

Matters That Need Your Attention

The Westchester Public Library and KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) have reached out to the school to assist in the number of OWM and WHS students who congregate in these locations either during lunch and/or after school.

There have been some incidents of violence. In an effort to resolve this matter, School Administrators, School Police, Healthy Start and POWWOW parents are partnering to insure our students are orderly and safe on and off campus.

Please encourage your child(ren) to avoid these areas.

Adult/Continuation School Headed to WHS Campus

An Adult/Continuation School is moving to the campus of Westchester High School this Fall. The school will occupy the east area of Westchester High School (the "S" bungalows and classrooms adjacent to the student parking lot). This area will be fenced and gated with separate entrance and exit gates.

MEETING REMINDERS & UPDATES

1) POWWOW Weekly Meeting: Tuesday, July 24th @ 7pm -- CANCELLED

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2) Neighborhood Council (NCWPDR) Education Committee Meeting -- Tuesday, July 24th @ 6.30pm -- Westchester Municipal Building (7166 Manchester Avenue) Community Room

This meeting is open to all registered stakeholders/parents of Westchester. Please note: Registered Stakeholders must live, work or own real property within the boundaries of NCWPDR.

See our previous posting below for information on becoming a registered stakeholder.

http://powwow4life.blogspot.com/2007/06/ncwpdr-education-committee-meeting-june.html

NCWPDR's 7/24/07 Agenda includes:

Welcome and Introductions
Minutes of June 26, 2007 Meeting
LMU Family of Schools Working Group Report
LAUSD Innovation Division Developments
Westchester High School Developments
Orville Wright Middle School Developments
Public Comment

If you're a registered stakeholder, please MAKE CERTAIN YOU PARTICIPATE!

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3) Healthy Start/Village Policing Combined Collaborative Meeting: Wednesday, July 25th @ 1.30pm -- Westchester High School Library

This is a meeting of agencies and law enforcement entities that work with students on the Westchester High School campus. They include School Police, LAPD, Airport Marina Counseling Service, Loyola Marymount University, Metro bus company, representatives from the mayor's office, the city council, and LAUSD together with administration, faculty, parents and students.

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4) LMU FoS MEETING ON AUTONOMY: Wednesday, July 25th from 4pm to 6pm -- Loyola Marymount University

CRITICAL and PIVOTAL MEETING! GET INVOLVED! BE THERE!

This is the SECOND OF ONLY THREE CRITICAL MEETINGS that will be held this summer (and that's it!!!) to address the following questions:

Do any or all of the schools within LMU FoS want to submit a proposal to the Innovation Division of the LAUSD seeking greater school or cluster autonomy?

What are the ways in which to articulate the role of the many stakeholders within the structure of a Family of Schools?

LOCATION CHANGE: LMU -- AHMANSON 1000 AUDITORIUM IN UNIVERSITY HALL

We have changed the location for this week’s meeting and it will now be held in the Ahmanson 1000 Auditorium in University Hall at LMU. For those of you who were able to join us for the first meeting, this is on the opposite end of the first floor of University Hall (it is the same room we used for the Town Hall meetings in June). For directions to University Hall, please visit www.lmu.edu/maps.

VIEW THE LMU MAP HERE: http://www.lmu.edu/AssetFactory.aspx?did=7234

1 LMU Drive
Los Angeles, CA
90045-2659

Our Guest Speakers

Many, many thanks to all of our amazing guest for their participation and encouragement of POWWOW. We enjoyed "getting to know you" while each of you were "getting to know us!"

Our founder, Crissina Johnson and all of our POWWOW parents look forward to an even bigger/grander "Parent Reception" in the fall.

We leave you with pictures of our guest speakers presented in the order of appearance.

Enjoy...



Douglas Waybright, Local District 3 (LD3)--School Services, Director, High School
Marvin Cooper, Healthy Start, Coordinator, Westchester High School
Susan Allen, Local District 3 (LD3)--School Services, Director, High School



Lainey Rogers, Local District 3 (LD3)--School Operations, Administrator
Jess Womack, LAUSD, Deputy General Counsel
Stephen Rochelle, LAUSD, Principal, Orville Wright Middle School



Drew Furedi, Loyola Marymount University (LMU), Executive Director, FoS
Suzanne Steptoe, PTA President, Westchester High School
Audrey Kitayama, PTA President



Mylah Wessels, PTA President
Ingrid Lamoureux, PTA President, Orville Wright Middle School
Kelly Kane, Westchester Playa Educational Foundation (WPEF), President



A.J. Duffy, Union Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), President
Terry Marcellus, Neighborhood Council (NCWPDR), Education Committee Chair; Westchester High School, Academic Booster Club
Rebecca Berverl, Assembly Member Curren Price's office



Coach Avery Delton, LAUSD, Westchester High School Athletics Department
Ron Mito, Past PTA President