With fall, the first report cards and parent-teacher conferences of the academic year arrive. La Paloma Academy, your Tucson charter school, is no exception to this rule. Information on these one-on-one sessions with your child’s teacher will be going home shortly, making this the perfect time to discuss how to ensure these meetings are successful and useful for all involved. Every year there is more research documenting the connections between academic achievement and parental involvement in schools. La Paloma believes firmly that parent engagement in education is vital to the academic success of every student, and encourages parents to be active participants in their student’s academic growth. We all—parents, students, teachers, staff, and administration—play important roles in the achievement of a shared goal: academic and character achievement.
The quarter ends this month and La Paloma Academy, your favorite Tucson charter school, will be sending home report cards soon. Instead of just pin-pointing on the grades, look at these as part of an ongoing conversation about your child’s education. Report cards are a great way to notice and celebrate accomplishments, as well as a tool to help set explicit goals for the upcoming quarter or the rest of the year.
Join us for a family fun-filled night on Friday, October 30th, for our Harvest Fest! The fun begins at 6:30pm, where we will have face painting, dunk booths, a haunted maze, bungee run, a photo booth, plush riding animals, games, a cake walk, and concessions/food. Admission is free. There is a charge for all games and food. Don’t miss out!
In the Arizona Daily Star’s 2015 Readers’ Choice competition, the Tucson community voted La Paloma Academy as a one of the top 3 charter schools in Tucson. The voting concluded on August 31 and included 34 area charter schools. The paper published the Readers’ Choice Awards and Favorites in a special section of the paper on Sunday, September 27. You can also view them online.
We are truly grateful to have had the opportunity this past Friday to honor the heroes of 9/11 and those who continue to serve in our community today. Thank you to everyone who attended, especially our guest speakers, who continue to keep us safe every day.
At our Tucson charter school, we are adopting a new approach to our school culture—the Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS). This system basically involves catching students doing the right thing. Rather than focusing on negative actions or behavior, and negative language, we promote and acknowledge positive actions and behavior through positive language.
Parents want their children to succeed. While we may be well aware staying involved in our children’s educational process can help them excel, it’s not always clear how to best achieve this. La Paloma Academy believes academic success is a team effort, and families can be incredible advocates for a child’s education.
Stay in the know this school year. For the start of school, we wanted to give all our Tucson charter school parents and caregivers a handy reference tool. We’ve put together this list of important items to be aware of for a successful school year.
Hooray! We all made it through the first day of school. Now is the perfect time for a few reminders.
Remember parents, La Paloma Academy has a Facebook page. It is another great resource to keep up with what’s going on at school. We post about upcoming events, link our newsletters, and blog posts. These pages also have great school photo albums. So stop by—like the page, check out our snapshots or read some useful posts and articles. And once again …
Welcome to LPA!
This 2015-2016 school year, La Paloma Academy-South would like to extend welcome to Mr. Jayson Waugaman, who will be serving as the school’s new vice principal. Mr. Waugaman hails from a town of less than a thousand people: Worthington, Pennsylvania. In addition to growing up in the valley near Buffalo Creek, he came from a large family and is one of six children (one girl and five boys). After nine-and-a-half years in the U.S. Army and two combat tours—in Bosnia and Iraq—he entered a career in education. Mr. Waugaman has served nine years as a teacher and two as a vice principal.
Summer break can get expensive; the key word in this sentence is CAN. There are so many ways to keep children’s minds and bodies actively entertained while they are off school for the next few months. And enjoying fun-filled summer break activities does not mean having to empty your wallet.
