Friends of ACPS is a community of parents and other citizens who will work together – and with existing student- and education-focused organizations – to promote a common mission and achieve the shared goals that result in greater academic success throughout the Alexandria City Public Schools System.
During this first meeting, we will talk about our Roadmap for progress, hear from academic experts, involved parents and ACPS representatives on progress that has been and still needs to be made across the ACPS system, and seek your input and discussion on our first initiative –Future Families – which seeks to educate Alexandria parents whose children do not yet attend an ACPS school on the facts about how ACPS and their local school may fit for them and give them a forum for asking questions to make important decisions about the future education of their children.
We will also provide opportunities for meeting attendees to pick up badges to become ACPS volunteers if they have registered through the ACPS website (https://knt2.
Thanks to all who have expressed interest and we hope you will join us as Friends of ACPS!
Your fellow Friends
Lee Lynch and Kristen Mason Coreas
Proposed Agenda for Friends of ACPS Meeting
Saturday, November 3, 2012; noon – 1:30 pm
TC Williams High School [specific room still TBD]
1. Welcome and overview of grassroots initiative – Lee and Kristen
2. Anatomy of a turn-around – what it would take to move ACPS from near the bottom to toward the top:
• Educational expert (non ACPS)
• ACPS representative
3. The power of parental involvement:
• ACPS FACE
• Local involved parents
• Fairfax turn-around parent
4. Where do we go from here:
• Describing who are we
• Agreeing on goals and objectives
• Short-term activities
• Dividing into working groups
• Getting others on-board
• Next steps and meeting
