Wednesday, March 16, 2011

1. Welcome to our March HOPE Meeting Wednesday, March 16, 2011

2. Agenda • Magnificent 7 notes • Coordinating Council Notes • February Attendance • SAT Boot camp • 8th Grade Parent Night • HOPE group at Walnut Elementary • Cal State Fullerton Day • Chicano Latino Youth Leadership Project • Upcoming Events

3. Magnificent 7 News • Summer School will be scheduled as usual with Tuition courses being offered. • Mt. Sac not offering classes to 9th graders • Breaking ground for the pool May/June. Should be finished by Fall 2012 • Dean Conklin committed to no lay-offs for next year. No pink slips went out to anyone • We lost the lawsuit to Rowland • Big push to reach International Students

4. Magnificent 7 news continued • School wide fundraiser by Foundation has only raised $3000 compared to $23,000 last year. You can use Pay pal. They will be sending letters • PINC is changing their name so they can reach more dads. SAPA • 15th Annual Teddy Bear Tea at Royal Vista Golf Club, April 30, 10am – 2pm Tickets $39 or table for $300. All proceeds used to fund Teachers Mini-Grant requests. Please respond by April 12. After this day $49. For more information or tickets call 909-964-4402 • Thank you to Connie Garcia and Ana Cortez for decorating our HOPE bears.

5. Coordinating Council Notes • Coordinating Council presenting “Creating Powerful Parenting Teams” – workshop on Parlimentary procedures, April 27 at 9:30 am Contact Debbie Dobson @ dobsonmom@verizon.net to sign up • I will be attending this. Please sign up and come join me

6. February Attendance • We had 19 adults attend our meeting • We had 9 kids attend our “HOPE Homework Club” • Total attendance for our January meeting: 28 people

7. SAT Boot Camp • We had 14 kids come to our Boot Camp • Thank you to Karen & Jaime Rodriguez and Chris Hernandez for attending • We have tentative dates for another Boot camp in Sept.

8. 8th Grade Parent Night • Wed, March 23, 2011 at 7:00 pm • If you are available and would like to come greet parents and welcome them, please come. • All of the parent groups will be present • Karen and I will be working the table

9. HOPE Group at Walnut El • They are starting a HOPE Parent group • 2nd Parent HOPE group that has been launched this year • I have been invited to speak about our group and what we have been doing here at DBHS • Thurs, March 17 at 5:30pm • Come join me! They are serving dinner at 5:30

10. Cal State Fullerton Day • Saturday, April 16, 8:00 am – 1:00 pm • Variety of workshops for parents and students and campus tours • We have 25 spots. Please sign up with Olga at ojauregui@roadrunner.com • Lunch can be pre-purchased for Carl’s. Contact Donna Barber from OC/Choice: Phone 1: (657) 278-7293 Phone 2: (657) 278-4124 Famous Star Hamburger Combo: $5.55 Spicy Chicken Combo: $4.27 Big Burger Combo: $4.27 Big Burger w/ Cheese Combo: $4.57

11. Chicano Latino Youth Leadership Project • Open to current 10th & 11th students • July 23-30, 2011 Cal State Sacramento • No GPA requirement or cut-off • Students selected to participate attend at no cost to themselves or their families • Strongly encourage students with leadership potential to apply • Deadline to apply is April 15, 2011 • www.clylp.org. If applying on line still required to submit all supporting materials via US mail

12. Upcoming events • Teacher Appreciation Luncheon, Fri, May 20 • We will be donating $350.00 towards it • 4th Annual HOPE Picnic, Sat, May 21, 2011 at Heritage Park, 12:00pm-5:00pm. Save the date! • Star Testing Week, April 18-22

13. Come to our next meeting! • Wed, April 20, 2011 at 7pm • Thank you to Liz Cortez, Ana Cortez and Soledad Roldan for bringing snacks tonight • Karen Rodriguez is taking snack sign-ups for the remaining months and will remind you • Please make sure you sign in tonight with Karen • Please continue to bring your kids to our HOPE Homework Club. We love having them here.