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Dows Lane Parents: Join Us for Coffee with the Principals | Nov. 7th | 9 - 9:45am | Multipurpose Room or Virtual | Join K-5 Instructional Literacy Coach, along with Dr. Andrea Kantor, Mr. Chickery, and your PTSA school representatives to learn about literacy practices and instruction at Dows Lane. Attend in person for coffee or tune in virtually via Google Meet! | |
Dows Lane Book Fair Fundraiser!
Tuesday, Nov. 12th to Sat., November 16th
Multipurpose Room
The PTSA is excited to kick off this year’s major school-based fundraiser events with the Dows Lane Books Fair! Here’s how it works: your child’s teacher will send you an email with the day and time your child’s class will visit the fair to shop. You can visit the fair to shop with your child’s class, send cash OR fund your child’s eWallet so they can shop on their own!
Preschool families: Shop the Fair and join a special read-along with Dows Lane principals, Dr. Andrea Kantor and Mr. Tom Chickery on Thursday, Nov 14th at 3pm.
ALL families: Shop the Fair on Thursday, Nov 14th from 3pm to 4:15pm and Saturday, Nov. 16 from 9am to 1pm.
Parent Volunteers Needed: Click HERE to work at the Fair!
Questions? Email Melanie Robbins (mslrobbins@gmail.com) or Brittany Marcus (brittanymarcus@gmail.com)
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Join the Read-a-Thon, a Fundraiser to Support the PTSA | Activate Now - Start Reading Nov 18th! | Get your K-5 student excited about reading while raising money to support the PTSA! Here’s how it works: activate your reader today, use the easy digital tools to promote to friends and family to sponsor your reader, then just start reading and logging minutes read! Proceeds benefit the PTSA General Fund which provides grants to support programs and events in our schools. Click below to get started! | |
New PTSA Committee: Heads Up Rivertowns | |
First Public Meeting: Nov. 21st | 7:30PM
Shames JCC | ZOOM
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Heads Up Rivertowns (HUR) has rejoined the PTSA as one of our advocacy committees! The committee, which will be co-chaired by Jennifer Bowen Neergaard, Francis O’Shea and Yelena Sandigursky, aims to bring awareness, education, support and advocacy to encourage a screen smart community in the current and changing age of technology.
All community members are invited to our monthly HUR Committee Meeting on November 21st at 7:30PM in the Ark at the Shames JCC, or by Zoom.
HUR is actively seeking parent volunteers to join the committee to help advance initiatives like Wait Until (After) 8th, Gray For A Day and Smartphone Alternatives Holiday Gift Ideas.
Email headsup@irvingtonnyptsa.org to join the HUR Committee.
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Shop to Give to the PTSA! | |
Join our Shop to Give program and automatically make a donation when you shop or dine - at no cost to you!
When you sign up for our Shop to Give program through Givebacks, you’ll power donations to the Irvington PTSA every time you shop or dine at over 25,000 participating merchants. Simply sign up, link your primary credit card for in-store offers, and add the desktop and mobile browser extensions for online offers.
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The Shop to Give program has already raised over $100 in October 2024 for the PTSA with the participation of a limited number of Irvington PTSA officers and members. A little bit goes a long way, so please consider joining Shop to Give to support the Irvington PTSA. | |
PTSA Grants Highlights (October 2024) | |
A major focus of the Irvington PTSA is to support teacher- and administrator-driven projects/programs and provide the necessary resources for our schools. This month, we approved the following grant(s):
Dows Lane: Literacy Whole Grade Reading (Books for every 3rd grader) - $1,246
IMS: Tracing our Roots (Journey through African American History) - $3,900
Your membership dues are vital to helping the PTSA enrich and support our schools, and fund grants for programs and infrastructure. Please renew your annual membership today!
PTSA members can access our online student and parent directory. Here’s how to access the directory.
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IHS Student Voter Registration Drive Enrolls 142 Future Voters! | |
On October 7-8, 2024, the Irvington NY PTSA, in collaboration with the Irvington High School (IHS), registered 142 students during its annual student voter registration drive. During the two-day event, parent volunteers teamed up with students from the district’s Vocational Independence Program (VIP) to help students (age 16 and up) complete voter registration forms, hand out stickers, bracelets and candy, and manage sales of Irvington Bulldog spirit wear.
If your student is 16-18, and didn’t have a chance to register, they can register online or via the DMV.
Thank you to Dympna Kenny, who chaired the event, Sara Rust and Mystery Lusk, who partnered with the PTSA to organize and promote the drive, to the students from the VIP program for their hard work, and to PTSA volunteers, Aditi Chang, Rosie Cortese, Mavis Edme, Mara Gredick and Sonal Vasudev!
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PPS Workshop: Supporting Neurodiversity within Our Classrooms | Nov. 21st | 6:00 - 7:00pm | IHS CPR Room | The PTSA Supporting Children and Families with Learning Differences (SCAFLD) Committee invites parents and guardians of students with learning and development differences to a workshop hosted by IUFSD Pupil Personnel Services (PPS) on Supporting Neurodiversity within our Classrooms. Featuring Caroline Knudsen, Inclusion Coach, Susan Schermerhorn, PPS Psychologist, Brittany Beaver, 6-12 Behaviorist, Kayla Gersten, K-5 Behaviorist, and Matthew Weinstein, Special Education Teacher. | | |
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Join the Dows Lane
Birthday Book Club
| Looking for a special way to mark your child’s birthday while commemorating their legacy at Dows Lane Elementary School? Join the birthday book club to donate a book labeled with your child's name to the Dows Lane library. | |
Got a Question for School Administrators? Here's How! | |
All parents are encouraged to utilize the Parent Advisory Council or PAC, which is a forum to anonymously raise questions/concerns or share suggestions with school administrators about topics that impact the District, the school, the grade or a class. Each school (Dows Lane, Main Street School, Irvington Middle School and Irvington High School) has its own PAC which is composed of that school’s principal and assistant principal, and the PTSA Vice Presidents (VP) and Grade Parents. This group meets monthly to discuss the questions and concerns submitted by parents, and the PTSA representatives are there to be your voice and advocate. | |
No Idea Whom to Contact? Here's Help! | |
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Also, the school district's administration, teachers and staff can always be contacted directly. The IUFSD Board of Education has created a detailed communication resource matrix to help parents and guardians identify who, how and in what sequence to raise and escalate questions and concerns.
See the IUFSD School District Communications Matrix!
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New Irvington Spirit Wear for Fall 2024!
*BACK IN STOCK* Youth Size PJ Bottoms
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Support Irvington schools and celebrate the Bulldogs by purchasing spirit wear. Perfect for sporting events and fall picnics! Click HERE to buy Irvington’s signature Bulldog “Sweatshirt” or browse our PTSA Spirit Wear store for all our products including lots of new merchandise!
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A portion of the sales support the PTSA General Fund which brings grants and programs to our schools. | |
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District Wide
- Nov 1: Diwali - SCHOOLS CLOSED
- Nov 5: Superintendent's Conference/Election Day - SCHOOLS CLOSED
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Nov 6: PLRD One-Hour Early Release
- Nov 11: Veteran's Day - SCHOOL CLOSED
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Nov 12: Board of Education Meeting - 7:30pm - CPR and Virtual (Zoom Link)
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Nov 20: PLRD One-Hour Early Release
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Nov 21: HUR Committee Meeting - 7:30pm - Shames JCC and Virtual (Zoom Link)
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Nov. 21: PPS Workshop: Supporting Neurodiversity within our Classrooms (RSVP)
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Nov 26: Board of Education Meeting - 7:30pm - CPR and Virtual (Zoom Link)
- Nov 27: Thanksgiving - EARLY RELEASE
- Nov 28 & 29 - Thanksgiving - SCHOOLS CLOSED
Dows Lane
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Nov 7: PTSA Coffee with Principals - 9:00am - MPR or Google Meet
- Nov 12 - 16: Dows Lane PTSA Book Fair - MPR
- Nov 14: Book Fair Late Afternoon Hours for Families - 3:15pm to 4:30pm
- Nov 16: Book Fair Saturday Hours for Families - 8:00am to 2:00pm
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Nov 13: Dows Lane PAC Meeting (Submit a Question | Read Minutes)
- Nov 14: Dows Lane Preschool Read Aloud - 3:00pm
- Nov 15: Dows Lane Photo Retake Day
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Nov 18: Read-a-Thon Fundraiser starts - Register Now!
Main Street School
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Nov. 4: Welcoming Schools Family Learning Session *PTSA Grant* - 7:00pm - RSVP - Auditorium
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Nov. 6: Parent/Child Book Club *PTSA Grant* - 7:00pm to 8:00pm
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Nov 13: MSS PAC Meeting (Submit a Question | Read Minutes)
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Nov 13: MSS/PTSA Talent Show Rehearsal - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
- Nov 14: MSS/PTSA Talent Show Performance - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
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Nov 15: Author Visit - Global Read Aloud *PTSA Grant*
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Nov 18: Read-a-Thon Fundraiser starts - Register Now!
- Nov 22: MSS Photo Retake Day
Irvington Middle School
Irvington High School
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