School Board Meeting 1/14

The Board of Education meet on Jan 14th - A-PAGE was in attendance.  Key items of parent interest were:

• Community Gardens has been funded $10,000 to continue to provide classroom instruction at AES. 

• Athletic and VoAg complex planning continues - the VoAg complex will now be a separate facility across Carroll Street on the south side of AHS.

Alamosa Elementary is a finalist for a $50,000 grant from Clorox to build a greenhouse at the school.

You can help make this a reality by voting here: http://www.tinyurl.com/alamosagarden

There are only 7 more days to vote and you can vote EVERY day. 

We need your help spreading the word! Tell your friends, family, and neighbors! Post it on your facebook page.  This is an easy and free way to help your kids and your community.

Follow this link to view the proposal and vote: http://www.tinyurl.com/alamosagarden

School Board Meeting 11/19/12

APAGE attended the most recent BOE meeting on 11/19/12. The Valley Courier did a very nice write up of the most important aspects of the meeting, free lunch for AES students and the National Clean Diesel Rebate Program. To read the article, click here.

School Board Meeting (Nov 5)

A-PAGE attended the School Board Meeting on Nov. 5th.  Notable parent related items were…

Group of parents of Gifted and Talented students addressed the school board concerning the inadequacies in the GT program from planning to communication to the spending of GT funds.

Community Gardens requested funds to continue to teach K-5 students garden science and nutrition.  The community gardens are also pursuing funding to build a year round greenhouse at the K-5 schools.  Everyone can vote at www.tinyurl.com/AlamosaGarden

District Accountability Committee (Nov 5)

District Accountability met on Nov. 5th.  Topics covered were:

Reviewed the Districts Improvement Plan and made recommendations regarding section 4 - Parent Engagement to include activities for various parent groups (ELL, SpEd, GT) and community partnerships (ASU & TSJC) as well as discussed ways to keep parent engaged through all school levels.

Discussed Parent Teacher conferences and the results of the pre-scheduling at OMS.  Brainstormed on ways to improve the process further including the recommendation that all teachers be available for PT conference along with a discussion on ideas to make this happen.  More discussion on this topic at the next meeting.

Discussion on the use of funds the district received for the sale of Boyd & Evans.  BAC recommended textbook purchases and will continue this discussion at the next meeting as well.

Alamosa Elementary K-5 BAC

The AES K-5 BAC met on October 18th. We discussed budget items from different Activity Fund accounts and made a few recommendations:

1. Use part of Cash Balance in "Music" Account to help alleviate parent financial strain (due to having to come up with money for recorders, school pictures, pies & Moose Nation t-shirts within 10-day period) by purchasing recorders for students.
2. Use a portion of projected $30,000 earned from Pie Fundraiser to help fund annual 4th grade field trip to Denver.
3. Allow student input into how Pie Fundraiser money should be spent.

We set the calendar for topics that we will discuss in all future 2012-2013 BAC meetings.

The Fall NWEA and DIBELS results were also discussed. First and second graders scored at or slightly above target while remaining grades were below target. We will compare with Winter test scores in January.

It was reported by Ms. McBee and Mr. Bilderbeck that the Fall Fun Run  was successful. It was also reported that the leveling & gravel work on the overflow parking lot is complete. Parents of 3-5 students are encouraged to use this lot for drop off and pick up. Mr. Bilderbeck will be writing an article for the AES Newsletter and chalk lines will be added to assist in traffic flow.

Ms. McBee commented on Parent Round-Up Sheets that were sent home. They did not get many responses so will sent them out again. She responded specifically to a parent concern brought up at a recent UDLT meeting about AES Libraries not needing or wanting parent help. She confirmed with both librarians that this statement is "not true".

The next AES BAC meeting will be held in the K-2 Conference Room on November 15th at 5:15pm.

A-PAGE receives positive feedback

Almost a year ago when A-PAGE began, we were not well received by the Alamosa Board of Education (BOE).  In the last year, we have made many accomplishments including a complete turn around by the BOE on their attitude towards our parent group.  At the October 15th BOE meeting, we shared the A-PAGE accomplishments over the last year and received very positive feedback from the BOE.  You can read more about it in the Valley Courier article here.  Thanks to the parents who have worked hard over the year on A-PAGE.

Not a member yet?  Sign up to be part of our group by filling out the form on the right side of this page.  Want to be more involved this year?  Email us at alamosapage@gmail.com to see how you can help out.