Vol 18 No 13; 11/11/19

Vol: 18 No: 13 November 11, 2019

Alliance of Parents & Teachers

APT is committed to OSA as a diverse, equitable and inclusive school community. A place where students thrive, and where parents, teachers, and students— together with the school leadership and board, partner to ensure the success of the school.

Please join us for the Monthly APT General Meetings! Download: 2019-20 APT Welcomes You!! – Info Slides

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November General APT Meeting

Time: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2019
5:30-6:00pm Community Building
6:00-7:00pm General APT Meeting
7:00-8:00pm Arts Emphasis Meetings (see emphasis that are meeting below)

Join us for an important and educational General APT Meeting Tuesday November 12th

Laura Alberti will be presenting a segment on sexting and the impact of digital sexual violence on youth, as well as an overview of BAWAR

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Bay Area Women Against Rape (BAWAR) will be leading a session for OSA’s APT. BAWAR is a sexual violence crisis center, serving survivors of sexual violence of all genders and identities since 1971.

BAWAR has begun implementing the California Department of Public Health’s Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) program at OSA, for which the agency is providing healthy relationships education and sexual violence response and prevention policy development for the school. At this APT meeting, BAWAR prevention coordinator Laura Alberti will be providing an overview of the program for parents and caretakers, as well as a brief segment on sexting and the impact of digital sexual violation on youth.

Location: OSA Student Center

7:00-8:00pm Arts Emphasis Meetings – The following Emphasis will meet AFTER the APT Meeting on November 12:

Instrumental Music (in Newberry)
Production Design
Visual Art
Vocal Music

Parents of Students with Disabilities (PODS) Meeting

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Time: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2019
6:00-7:30pm PODS Meeting

Do you want to learn more about how to support a young person with anxiety? Do you want to learn more about how to support a young person with depression? Do you want to learn more about disability justice and equity? Do you want to support OSA in building inclusion and equity for students with disabilities?

PODS is convening a meeting to talk about how we can assist our OSA community in supporting our students with mental health needs. We’ve received ideas from parents around the school and we want to hold a space to discuss these ideas and issues and support each other.

OSA Parents of Students with Disabilities works to help the administration and faculty create and sustain an educational community where students with disabilities are fully supported, and enjoy full inclusion, representation, respect, and dignity at OSA.

We hope to see you there.

Location: OSA

OSA High School Dance POSTPONED

OSA Student Council/Leadership will be hosting a meeting to set a new date for the OSA Fall High School Dance.

More information to follow…

Questions – contact: OSA Student Body at [email protected]oakarts.org

Afterschool: 3 O’Clock Rock Program

We are excited to offer Middle School and High School students in the Downtown Oakland area a fun after school music classes that involve creative writing, team building, and performance art.

Students participating in the 9-week session will write songs about their favorite characters from movies, shows, comics and games they like.

• Some musical experience is helpful, but not required.

• Instruments will be provided

• Studios conveniently located at 13th and Franklin st. (one block from 12th street BART)

• Students participating will perform their songs with other 3 O’Clock Rock bands on:

Sunday, February 9th SWEETWATER – Mill Valley, CA!!! 11-3 pm.

Monday Class Dates:

11/18,

11/25 – NO CLASS THANKSGIVING WEEK

12/9,

12/16,

1/6,

1/13,

1/27,

2/3,

2/10,

2/24

9 Monday meetings plus show on Sunday, Feb. 9th 11am-2pm

grades 6-8 on Mondays, 3:45-4:45pm and

grades 9-12 Mondays, 4:45-5:45pm.

Fee/student- $540

If interested, enroll HERE

For more info, please visit our website at www.3oclockrock.com/enroll

or EMAIL: [email protected]COM

For any questions/organize the middle schoolers to walk over to studio, email Angela Engel, angengel@gmail.com

Supplies NEEDED: Mindful Crafting

Mx. Kartane is holding a Mindful Crafting event for Intersession. Students will be given the freedom to create their own project(s), so they are now collecting crafting supplies. Items most needed are: paint, glue, paper, linoleum blocks, yarn, scissors, fabric, pens, markers, pencils, etc. Nothing will be turned away! If you would like to make a donation, please send them to Room 316. Thank you!

Questions – contact Shani Kartane at skartane@oakarts.org

Other Important Dates

OSA 2019-20 Academic Calendar
Download: Calendar

NO SCHOOL: Monday, November 25, 2019 through Friday, November 29, 2019
Thanksgiving Week

NO SCHOOL: Monday, December 23, 2019 through Friday, January 3, 2020
Winter Break

Weekly Announcements

Special Education Announcement

Please READ the following SPED Letter regarding 2019-20 Special Education Programming at OSA.

After School Program

Please READ and SUBMIT the following ASP Letter and Form regarding 2019-20 After School Programming at OSA.

OSA Student and Family Handbook

Please Download OSA Student and Family Handbook. Please contact Katy Zaugg for questions: kzaugg@oakarts.org

OSA Bell Schedule

Download OSA 2019-20 Bell Schedule. Be Sure To Be On-Time Everyday! Tardy Bell Rings at 8:15am for Middle School & High School.

3 Easy Ways to Support your APT:

1) When shopping on Amazon, a percentage of your purchase goes to the APT as a referral fee. Make sure you sign in through your www.smile.amazon.com account so OSA can get the donation.

2) Support your child’s Art Emphasis through your normal shopping activities. To make this happen, just sign up for Escrip. www.secure.escript.com

Collect Box Tops For Education

3) Ever see those pink box tops on cereal boxes, Ziplock bags, Pillsbury refrigerated/dairy items, Kleenex tissue, Nature Valley Granola products and many others, start clipping and saving those today. The school will get 10 cents for each box top turned in. It doesn’t sound like much but it sure adds up: If each OSA student just turns in 10 boxtops we will raise over $500.00 for OSA without spending an extra dime. It’s that easy!

How does it work?

Clip the box tops from participating brands and put them in a bag.
Drop off the box tops in the box located at the security desk at the 18th street entrance to the school.
Visit the Box Tops For Education web site to learn more and see all the participating brands. That’s it. It’s easy! Your family shops, our school earns dollars.

Parent to Parent

Events, activities, and classes shared by parents for parents.

Upcoming Events to be Posted Here. More to Come…

Useful Links

Donate to OSA Annual Fund
OSA Spotlight – June 2019 edition
Hot Lunch Menu (Forthcoming…)
OSA Commuters – Login to Konstella and JOIN the Commuter Sharing Social Group
KOSA Radio – student radio
smile.amazon.com – Use this link when shopping on Amazon. It brings money into the school!

News item submissions (deadline-end of school-day Wednesdays) osanews@aptosa.org
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