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6-12 June 2011 Welcome to spring, and it’s about time. If you’re a Seattle Times subscriber, make sure you pull out the Office Max 20% discount bag from the Sunday paper. I’m not using the dreaded “back to school shopping” phrase -- I’m just saying that you can always use another 3-ring binder and a supply of filler paper... I will be a little less available for school communications this week -- 30+ dance critics are coming to town so we can figure it all out in person. So if you send me a question or a Blast item, I might be slow to respond. Like they say in the Wizard of Oz, I’m going to “confer, converse and otherwise hobnob” with my colleagues! sandi kurtz submitarticle@csca.thecenterschool.net 206-523-6553 Center School Connections The Center School - http://www.centerschoolseattle.org/ Center School Community Association (aka PTA) - http://csca.thecenterschool.net/ Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Center-School-Community-Association-CSCA/100811430005511 Remember, to unsubscribe to this newsletter, click on the link at the bottom of the page to get to the CSCA website. This Week at the Center School Another Variation of the School Schedule This week’s version Monday -- 2/4/6 Tuesday -- 2/4/6 Wednesday -- 1-6 (with community meeting) Thursday -- 1/3/5 Friday -- 1/3/5W And this Friday, June 10, is the cut off date for late work.. CSCA Election -- Make Your Opinion Heard from Sam Star, CSCA Vice-President Parents, Please attend an important Center School Community Association (CSCA) general membership meeting this Wednesday, June 8th, at 6:30 pm at the school. This is your school Parent-Teacher Association. Agenda: Review and vote on a slate of CSCA officers, and the budget for the 2011 - 2012 school year. All parents may participate in the meeting, however, to vote you must be a member of CSCA. We'll have CSCA membership forms available. Suggested membership fee: $10 per person. Officers: We currently have a slate of people who have offered to step-up and serve as president, co-vice presidents, treasurer, and secretary. President: Sam Star Co-Vice Presidents: Pamela Pakker-Kozicki, and Steve Havas Treasurer: Aimee Bramble Secretary: Marty Hendley If you would like to serve as a CSCA officer, please contact Sam Star at: samstar500@yahoo.com and we'll add your name to the ballot. Nominations can also be submitted at the meeting on Wednesday. 2011 - 2012 CSCA Budget: This is the meeting to come and review the CSCA budget, ask your questions, make your comments, and vote to approve the budget.
Coming Attractions and Past Accomplishments Pomp, Meet Circumstance The Senior Committee would like to remind everyone that this year’s graduation will take place in the evening of June 16. 2011. It starts at 7pm. You definitely need a cap, tassel and gown for graduation. Please contact Nationalachiever.com or Rhonda Bremond 425-357-1338
Eat the Cannoli, Not the Diploma The Senior Committee is still taking applications for the senior dinner at Buca di Beppo’s in South Lake Union. After graduation the seniors will make their way to the restaurant for a relaxing celebratory dinner with their peers for a superb dinner and non-alcoholic beverages. Cost per senior is $35.00 and we have a number of seniors signed up. Forms went out two weeks ago but more forms are available from Mr. Greenberg. Scholarships are available as well, please contact Mr. Greenberg as well, if you need a scholarship to attend. We want to let everyone know that this year’s grad night festivities will be an exciting night, but unlike previous years we will only keep the evenings activities going until about 11 pm. Please keep this in mind when planning your graduation celebrations. Since the seniors are going to dinner nearly immediately after the ceremony there will be no food after the ceremony. Please contact Kip Kolodziejski at y_kolo@hotmail.com if you have any questions or you need forms. So This Is What They’ve Been Up To Center School seniors presented their individual projects last week, to their peers and their families. For those who weren’t able to be there (and especially for those who are curious to know what kind of work is done for senior projects, take a look here! The list is inventive, varied, and reflects some very thoughtful choices -- congratulations to everyone who took part! Sofia Aguirre Animation Maddie Bell Literacy Curriculum Stacy Bower Four-song EP Zoe Brozman Nine-track CD Kaylin Bryant Directing Show on Broadway Musicals Hoang Bui Original Music Gabriel Bullock Documentary about Urban ArtWorks Zach Butler Novella Dae Jin Cole Performance of Rap Ronnie Coulter Exercise Recording and Website Alex Diachuk Paintings Documenting Inspirational Moments in US History Karin Dietrich Stop-Motion Film Stephen Falling Original Film Cody Gagnon Shuffle Dancing Lamar Glover Documentary on Disaster Response Plan Moses Goldfarb Original Music Casey Graham Electricity-Producing Bicycle Dana Grant Students Inspiring and Creating Activism—Activist Group Keyche’ Grigsby Gang Awareness Campaign Devon Hall Six-track CD Acey Johnson Short Story in Spanish Zach Karp Drumming Taylor Leingang Political Magazine Jessica Mara Engineering Zoe Brozman’s CD Xochilt Martinez Chapbook of Poetry Gina Matassa Lesson on the Artistic Process Kathleen McIntosh Letters to the Editors Riley Moffitt Cooking Food from Ethiopia and the Philippines Amorette Moreno Chapbook of Poetry Paul Nguyen Anti-cyber Bullying Campaign Sarah Perkins Documentary on Being Multiracial Deandra Peterson Fundraising for FareStart through Bake Sales Krestina Petrosyan Art Portfolio Taylesha Proctor-Mills School Uniform Designing Catherine Quinn Turning Yard into Wildlife Habitat Leiah Rasmussen Students Inspiring and Creating Activism—Activist Group BeBe Redman Tutoring Toshi Shahbaghalian Glass Designs to Fundraise for Scoliosis Treatement Emma Sinai-Yunker Children’s Book David Singleton Documentary about the B-Word Patrick Tensen Book of Profiles of Famous Figures Who Overcame Learning Disabilities Ezzie Turner Feminist Fairy Tales Amber Worden CPR Lesson
Outside the Center School Community Dance for Global Awareness Global Water Dances is a world event planned for June 25, 2011. On this day, a 24 hour series of dances around the globe will be performed, centered around water issues. Beginning in the Western Pacific Rim, and encircling the globe, the series of dances will also be broadcast online. I am organizing a movement choir that will coincide with a larger one that is going on world wide, the Global Water Dance. It is to raise consciousness of issues pertaining to water around the world. We are hoping for a large, intergenerational movement choir (as many people as we can get of all ages) and part will be a choreographed dance with Mary Kay Bisignano Vadino which will include more experience dancers, ages 12 and up. It will be held at Kite Hill in Magnuson Park on Saturday, June 25th from 5:00-6:00 PM. It will be video taped and placed on You-Tube along with all the other ones that are going on around the world. I am calling out for dancers, and movement lovers. All levels welcomed. There will be about 4 rehearsals to create the movement choir, one will be at the park. and Mary Kay will arrange her rehearsal for the dance. The movement choir will have some choreographed parts, as well as improvised parts. The performance space is large and grassy, so we want to use a lot of the space. We will need to wear shoes. For those who are interested in reading more about this event please see the link http://www.globalwaterdances.org/event.html. Please contact me at clschouboe@aol.com if you are interested in participating in any part of this exciting and unique project. Please pass this on to anyone else who you think would be interested. Rehearsals will start very soon. Thank you, Carol Schouboe CMA, RMT
Beyond High School Design Careers for Mixed Ability Students from Barbara Quintana, College Counselor Here is a great opportunity for high school and college students with disabilities! Want to explore a design career and meet people working in those fields? Interested in learning more about creative and diverse career fields of design that you could pursue? Design fields include, but are not limited to, architecture, graphic design, interior design, urban planning, industrial design, landscape architecture, and human-centered design and engineering. High school and college students with disabilities interested in architecture, landscape, interior, and other design fields are invited to Access to the Design Professions workshop on Tuesday, June 28 and Wednesday, June 29 from 9am-4pm in the Seattle area. Participants will learn about design degree and certificate options offered at local colleges and universities, meet professionals in design fields, some with disabilities, interact with successful college and graduate students with disabilities, and participate in interactive design activities. To qualify you must be a high school or college students with disabilities, interested in design-related career options, and available to participate in a workshop on June 28 and 29. Register at: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/blaser/134410 For more information or assistance, contact Brianna Blaser at blaser@uw.edu or 206-685-3648 (voice/TTY). If you are interested in design careers but not available on these days, please email Brianna Blaser at blaser@uw.edu to find out about future trainings.
Summertime! Because You Can’t Sit Around All Summer Long from Karin Engstrom, Career & College Specialist Reel Grrls Film Workshops Reel Grrls Teen Video Camp - Monday - Friday, June 27 - July 1, 10 am - 4 pm Teen Video Camp (co-ed) at Billings Middle School - Monday - Friday, July 11 - 15, 9 am - 4 pm Reel Queer Youth - Monday - Friday, July 18 - 22, 10 am - 4 pm Reel Grrls Summer Animation Camp, I & II - Monday - Friday, August 22 - 26, 10 am - 4pm Digigirlz High Tech Camp Microsoft is offering the Digigirlz High Tech camp, August 8-12, 2011 in Redmond. You must be in grades 9-12 in the 2010-11 school hear and at least 13 years at the time of your applications. Only first time campers are accepted. Registration is online – read instructions carefully http://www.microsoft.com/about/diversity/en/us/programs/digigirlz/hightechcamp.aspx Seattle Youth Garden Works Be one of ten youth farmers who grow food on an urban farm and sell their produce at the U-District Farmers’ Market on Saturdays. Learn about business and the food you eat. Pick up applications at the Career Center or check online http://www.seattletilth.org/about/sygw Coyote Central WOW – a summer filled with classes in jewelry, animation, drawing, painting, photography, magic, cooking, dance, glassblowing and more. Student must be 14 or below. Seattle Public Theater SPT Summer Youth Program is open to all, regardless of experience or income. Participate as an actor or a tech theater person. Month-long rehearsal process ending in fully-produced performances at SPT home in the Bathouse Theater on Greenlake. Financial aid available for all classes. Program run by SPT artistic director Shana Bestock -- this has been a home away from home for many Center School students. 206-523-1370 http://www.seattlepublictheater.org/education-programs.htm http://www.seattlepublictheater.org/summer-tech.htm (Summer Tech Internship) Even More Summer from Barbara Quintana, Career and College Counselor Seattle Public Schools have cut back on their summer programs, but there are still opportunities available for academic and enrichment projects. Check the CSCA website at
Not the Old-fashioned Row, Row, Row Your Boat Looking for something fun and exciting to do this summer? Come try Greenlake Crew and learn how to row while staying fit and enjoying the sun. You'll get 40-60 PE hours of of the way, meet new people, and be on the water. Practices are June 27 thru August 5th, either 7:30-9:30 am or 9:45-11:45am, Monday thru Friday. For more info check out the website greenlakecrew.org or contact Terra Aalvik (2012) @ terraaalvik@gmail.com or 206-697-6754, (message from proud family follows!) Congratulations to Terra Aalvik for being chosen as the Greenlake Crew Girls Captain for the 2011-2012 season. Way to go Terra!! Last, But Not Least From the Wikipedia entry on typewriters: “In 1829, William Austin Burt patented a machine called the ‘Typowriter’ which, in common with many other early machines, is listed as the "first typewriter.’" I think he must have anticipated a lot of mistakes.
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The Center School Annual Report
Principal Letter for School Reports 2011