March From PTSA & Accountability

PTSA President: Kelly Rodak, kelly.rodak@jeffco.k12.co.us PTSA Website

Accountability Chair: Melissa Kohn, mekohn4@gmail.com Accountability Website

Next PTSA Meeting

Our next PTSA meeting will be Wednesday, March 13th, from 6:00-7:30PM in the Leawood Library. Child Care is provided! We hope to see you all there!

Voting for PTSA board positions will occur in March. Please join us to cast your vote!

We are still are looking for a treasurer! Please contact Aimee Crispin or Bethany Deherrera-Schnering if you might be able to help in this position.

aimee.crispin@jeffco.k12.co.us

bethany.deherrera-schnering@jeffco.k12.co.us

Box Top Drive Contest Winners!

The contest is over but continue to collect and send in those Box tops! We collected close to 2000! Way to go! Top 3 classes won a popcorn party. 1st place also won a special surprise!

1st Place: Mrs. Burnham

2nd Place: Mrs. Elton

3rd Place: Ms. Chasney

Dart Mania Community Night

Thursday, March 14th, 4 - 8pm

$10 for ALL YOU CAN PLAY!

Pizza slices will be available to purchase and PTSA will provide bottled water.

See this FLYER for more information

SCIENCE FAIR, Wednesday, 3/20

You may drop off and set up your projects beginning at 8:45 am. During the day, you will be pulled from class to talk with a group of judges (AP Physics students from Columbine High School) about your experiment.

Community Viewing ~ 6:30pm

Awards ~ 7pm

Please plan on taking your project home afterwards!

Family Math Night!!

Leawood will be having a Family Math Night at the school on April 11th, from 6 - 7:30 PM. Come to play games with the whole family (ages 0-100 are encouraged to attend!). Join us for games, prizes, giveaways and LOTS OF FUN! And the best part . . . it is completely FREE!

If you have questions please email Brianna Gillmore briannagillmore25@gmail.com

Spring Fling

Are you ready to ROCK N ROAR?! Come to the Spring Fling on April 5th to support our Leawood Lions! There will be a live and silent auction, caricature artist, 50/50 raffle, and entertainment from That Eighties Band! You can buy tickets up until the day of from this link events.handbid.com/auctions/spring-fling-2019

And don't forget to sponsor a staff member! Show your appreciation of our staff by sponsoring them in any $5 increment towards their ticket! squareup.com/sore/leawood-staff-tickets

Staff Appreciation 2019

(May 6th - 10th)

Would you like to help show our teachers, paraprofessionals, office staff, building maintenance team, and cafeteria crew how much they mean to all of our students and families? You do? Then I need YOU!

For the last few years I have led the efforts to shower our staff with notes, food, treats, etc… during National Staff Appreciation Week. This year I am looking for anyone that would like to help organize the events. I have a theme, I have idea, I have plans, but I need additional (fresh) ideas, and others that would like to help.

Please shoot me a text or give me a call on 303-570-6010. Thank you!! Stephanie Schmalz

SCRIP SCRIP SCRIP

Next paper order due March 15th!

Please turn in paper orders to the lock box in the lobby at Leawood. Do NOT give it to your teacher.

OR

Consider using the Scrip Mobile App or the website (ShopWithScrip.com)

Would you like to know more about scrip? Need help signing up for the mobile app/wallet? Interested in being in charge of Scrip for the 2019/2020 school year? Please contact Stephanie Schmalz at 303-570-6010 (call/text)

Accountability

Thank you to all who continue to come to the accountability meetings! EVERY VOICE COUNTS! We welcome family and community members to join us to discuss the school budget, upcoming events in the school, community, and district, and all the goings on in education. At this month's meeting we discussed how 5A impacts us directly, such as having a Social Emotional Learning Teacher in each elementary building. We also discussed the family partnership survey. In this survey we found the 2 areas that families wanted more clarification on were how their child is doing socially in school, and how to discuss problems. From this, we have created a communication plan that is currently being created by a team. Chromebooks will become a part of the curriculum for every student in the coming years, and we had a conversation about how this might look. The last item that was covered was how the teachers are working on differentiated lessons for each child as we continue to see the gap in abilities widen each year. Leawood teachers are working hard to see growth in all areas for all of their students.

The next meeting will be Wednesday, April 5th at 5pm in the library. We would love to see lots of people there. There will be FREE FOOD! And, if you bring a community member who is not a parent, you will be entered to win a gift card! Please join us for an important voice for our school.

If you have any questions or would like more information, please reach out to Leawood's Accountability Chair, Melissa Kohn at mekohn4@gmail.com

Wall of Pride

The Wall of Pride is Leawood’s way of acknowledging our responsible students. These good citizens are chosen by their teachers for demonstrating Respect, Responsibility and Safety. Students can be recognized for any of these traits during any month of the year, with the expectation that each student is recognized at least one time. These students will have their picture taken and will eat lunch with Mrs. Shehan during the monthly Wall of Pride lunch. The February Wall of Pride Students were: