Agenda for December 15 General Meeting - Powerschool Demo at Tappan Middle School

Come to the computer lab at Tappan to learn how to effectively use powerschool to communicate with teachers and keep up with how your child is doing in school between report cards. Bring the Powerschool login info sent to you by your child's school.

We will also have trustee Susan Basket and a representative from the Student Advocacy Center to begin a series of discussions on protecting and exercising our students' rights.

Tentative Agenda:

6:30 p.m. Business Session
7:00 p.m. Student Advocacy
7:30 p.m. Powerschool Info and training
8:30 p.m. Wrap Up

Feel free to bring your children and if you have them, some quiet activities to help keep them occupied. We will all help each other with our children!

Discuss new high school graduation requirements at Nov 24 meeting

AAPSDW Black Parents and Students Support Group

PARENTS, SCHOOLS and COMMUNITY WORKING TOGETHER TOWARDS A BETTER EDUCATION FOR OUR CHILDREN

MEETING - **Tuesday, November 24, 6:30 P.M. – 9:00 P.M.**

Location - AAPS Preschool & Family Center

NEW HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR OUR SCHOOLS, STUDENTS AND PARENTS FROM ELEMENTARY TO HIGH SCHOOL.

6:30 p.m. – Executive Business Session (All Parents)
7:15 p.m. – New High School Graduation Requirements – Joyce Hunter, Secondary Administrator.
7:30 p.m. – Group discussions with questions and answers – Staff and parents from various levels and schools.
9:00 p.m. - Close

Free software for education

With more computers in the home today there's a good chance that your child's teacher expects some computer work to be done at away from the school's computer lab. Having working computer hardware is only half of the equation; you'll need software, some of which can cost more than the computer. There are however free alternatives that are file-compatible with the software used in school - i.e. your child can bring home a document that was created in MS Word on his thumb drive, open it in the free word processor Open Office, make edits, save it as a MS Word doc, then open it at school the next day. Below are a couple of links to tons of software for your computer that's free for the downloading:

http://www.educational-freeware.com/
http://www.osalt.com/
http://directory.fsf.org/category/educ/

Welcome!

Thanks for stopping by the new site. We've added new features and plan to add even more very soon. We hope to see you at the next meeting, please stop by the site often for all kinds of support and resources for your student(s) in Ann Arbor Public Schools.