Be sure to order your greenery and poinsettias from your favorite choir member or email your order to jacksonchoirvolunteer@gmail.com.  Click here for the order form, and thanks for supporting Jackson’s amazing choir program!

Don’t forget Learnstein this Friday! Join us for dinner, a presentation on the Bernstein Learning Model, and performances by Jackson’s band and choir.

5:30pm – 6:30pm: Dinner, with a short presentation at 6:15pm

6:15 pm: Band/concert kids meet in the band and concert rooms for warm-ups and tuning. 

6:30pm ­- 7pm:  Tours for the parents/grandparents/special friends

7:10pm ­- 8pm: Band and choir mini-­performances ­

• 6th grade choir
• Ensemble
• Band
• Concert Choir

Wilson High School is YOUR neighborhood school!

8th graders and their parents are invited to Wilson HS on Wednesday, November 4, 2015, for an informative open house geared just to you. The structured program begins at 6:30pm, but come early at 6pm for the Wilson High School Club Fair.

Wilson teachers, counselors, and administrators will be on hand to answer your questions and provide you with the information you and your student need to make the transition from middle school to high school. Tour classrooms and meet current Wilson students and parents and learn about all that Wilson offers. Click here for more information.

Applications are now open for the next round of the Nike Community Impact Fund,with $250,000 in cash grants being offered to area nonprofits and schools.

The Nike Community Impact Fund – formerly called the Nike Employee Grant Fund – seeks to benefit communities where Nike employees live, work, and play in the greater Portland area (Multnomah, Clackamas, Washington, Yamhill, and Columbia countiesin Oregon and Clark county in southwest Washington). If you have a project at Jackson that you think qualifies for this grant, please contact the PTA with more information.

Grants are one-year awards totaling between $5,000 and $20,000 each. Grants primarily support organizations and projects that are creating a world where physical activity, play and sports are highly valued, with some of the grants awarded to support organizations and projects that address community challenges through innovative community-based solutions.

The full set of guidelines, along with the streamlined and straightforward online application, are available at www.oregoncf.org/nike.

A partnership with the Oregon Community Foundation, the Nike Community Impact Fund is an innovative approach to grantmaking that directly impacts communities in the metropolitan Portland region and Southwest Washington. A panel of Nike employees awards grants to organizations that promote sport and physical activity for youth, as well as to projects that address broader family and youth issues through sustainable, innovative and replicable community solutions. Since its inception in 2010, the program has awarded more than 250 grants to organizations with impact in the region and has benefited over half a million individuals.

All things Bernstein… and then some!

Join us in the cafeteria and auditorium from 5:30-8:00 on Friday, November 6th for a mac n’ cheese bar dinner followed by party board sign-ups. Party boards are a fun way for your kids to get together with other students and their teachers outside of class and benefit the Bernstein Artful Model. Get there early, as competition on the favorite party boards is FIERCE!

After a brief introduction in the auditorium to the Bernstein Artful Model and how it works at Jackson, take a guided or self-guided tour of the Bernstein units and master artworks the students have produced in previous years. The school is open to all: parents, grandparents and special friends.

The mac ‘n’ cheese dinner is $7 per person or $25 for a family of 4 or more.

For more information, download the flyer.

Southwest Neighborhoods, Inc. is hosting a tech connect at Jackson November 18th at 6:30pm. Explore how each school and each student can connect with 21st-century tech to help their education now and in the future.

Keynote speaker: Darren Hudgins, Director of Integrated Events, Organization for Educational Technology and Curriculum

Neighbors

Find out first-hand what SW Portland schools do and could do to integrate technology into the school’s program

Families

Get useful resources and hands-on activities for adults and students to use technology at school and at home.

Everyone

See students using technology, hear the latest updates and discuss issues that matter to you. Childcare will be provided, as well as light refreshments.

For more information, go to http://swni.org/schools

1. Call to Order
2. Introductions
3. Approval of September meeting minutes
4. Approval of Standing Rules
5. Treasurer’s Report
6. Reports
7. Cookie Dough Fundraiser
8. Learnstein
9. Membership
10. PTA status
11. Principal’s Report – State of the School
12. New Business
13. Old Business
14. Directory
15. Announcements
16. Book fair
17. Conference Staff Meals
18. PTA website

We are now taking volunteer reservations for the Scholastic Book Fair at JMS 10/19 – 10/22/15. We need a little bit of your time for setting up, organizing and selling books to our lovely kids!

Please click on the following link (or copy it into your web browser if clicking doesn’t work) to go to the signup sheet and then follow the instructions on the page. It only takes a moment to do.
www.volunteersignup.org/FBFCQ