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PPS is providing "Grab and Go" meals at Jackson MIddle School for free for all kids, ages 1-18 and all current PPS students. Meals will be available for pick up on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, between 11:30 am - 1:00 pm, beginning on Wednesday, November 1.

Meals will be distributed from the auditorium doors (7th grade entrance) which are the north doors in the circular drive. 

Parent-teacher conferences are right around the corner!

Monday, November 20th and Tuesday, November 21st

 8:30am to 8pm

Like last year, families will have the option of in-person or online conferences. Regardless of which format you choose, you will need to sign up for a slot for each teacher who you’d like to meet with. You can do so at .

(Please be sure to write in the comments section whether you plan to attend in person or online for each of the meetings.)

Teams are forming now!

6^th to 8^th Grade Division

• Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna by Alda P. Dobbs
• The Benefits of Being an Octopus by Ann Braden
• The Blackbird Girls by Anne Blankman
• The Boys in the Back Row by Mike Jung
• Focused by Alyson Gerber
• The Girl and the Ghost by Hanna Alkaf
• A High Five for Glenn Burke by Phil Bildner
• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien*
• Invisible by Christina Diaz Gonzalez and Gabriela Epstein
• Katie the Catsitter by Colleen AF Venable and Stephanie Yue
• Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
• Partly Cloudy by Tanita S. Davis
• Powerless by Matthew Cody
• Stowaway by John David Anderson
• Wink by Rob Harrell
• Yusuf Azeem is Not a Hero by Saadia Faruqi

*The official OBOB edition of The Hobbit is the 2012 edition from Mariner Books (9780547928227). You may read another edition, but page numbers and content will be taken from this edition. No questions will be created from any prefaces, introductions, afterwards, etc.

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Our media is flooded with images and stories coming out of Ukraine right now, and students may have questions, or need help thinking and talking critically about the information they are getting. These are general resources for engaging in conversations about harmful situations and news, with more specific resources to come as they are available. Our community is impacted on many levels by events around the globe, and yet it is important for us to help students understand that our neighbors are still our neighbors. The people of our community are still of our community, and it is our privilege and responsibility to look out for one another.

Curiosity and Questions: A presentation (and great dictionary of terms) from the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education

, a website from Child Mind Institute

 an article from Teaching Tolerance

, a toolkit from the ADL

9 Healthy Ways to Communicate, 9 strategies for sustaining and deepening conversation from educator and film maker, Lee Mun Wah

Principal Phu Dao is many things to the students and staff of Roseway Heights Middle School: mentor, role model, champion, friend. Ask anyone who has learned from and 皇家华人ed with him and they will tell you that he has dedicated his entire career to advocating for students, families, and educators. And now he’s being honored for that dedication.

Courageous Conversation, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit that 皇家华人s with individuals and institutions to address racial disparities through sustained, fruitful dialogue, has named Principal Dao this year’s recipient of the Dr. Charles Hopson Racial Equity Principal Leadership Award. 

Bird watching, Lego robotics, gardening, mindful art, coding, running and walking, the high-stakes world of self-governance. It’s all in a morning’s 皇家华人 for the students of Skyline K-8, where every Wednesday begins with participation in one of the school’s many C.A.S. clubs.

We need our community and PAT’s bargaining team to recognize that we are not unwilling to accept their proposal: we are unable. Even the proposal we have made will require at least $45 million in structural budget cuts over the next three years.

The PPS bargaining team had planned to stay into the night so the teams could continue to bargain. PAT chose to leave before hearing our counter proposal. We remain at the bargaining table. We will stay into the night. We will 皇家华人 weekends. We will do what it takes to reach a negotiated settlement and 皇家华人 schools open.