A RESOURCE every
parent should know about!
It’s called Family Access. Family Access is an
on-line cache of information and an emergency security blanket for every
parent in the district. Family Access lists the emergency contacts
you’ve specified for your children – those people and places you want notified
when bad things happen – when the school absolutely must get a hold of someone
quickly regarding a child of yours. If your information is out of date or
incorrect, the school may not be able to reach you quickly….or at
all.
Family Access
is also key
to your getting regular electronic messages next year from your school and the
district. The e-mail addresses you enter in Family Access will get regular district and
school E-News notices starting next fall. This means you will get quick
snippets of school and district news, saving you piles of paper and reducing
district printing and postage costs.
Recording
your contact info in Family Access NOW ensures you will be “in the loop” for the
rest of this year and next year with attendance, students’ schedules, e-mail
from staff, and monitoring of student grades.
It’s easy to check or update your
Family Access info:
1.
go to www.issaquah.wednet.edu
2.
look for Family Access in the left hand
menu
3.
Login to Family Access using the information sent to
each family from school last fall. (Or call your elementary school
secretary or middle and high school registrar if you have misplaced that
information.)
Family
Access software upgrades are expected over the summer, giving parents and the
district the potential for expanded and deeper communication links. Be
sure you are positioned to take advantage of what is available now and in the
future.
5 free Thursdays,
free childcare – even free dinners!
Did you know that 13 year olds
report that only half of their parents have ever talked to them seriously about
the dangers of alcohol and other drugs but that 8 out of 10 parents say that
drugs and alcohol are their top worries? What’s up with
THAT?
Parents of students aged 11-14
wanting to know what’s up can attend FREE seminars called “Guiding Good
Choices.” You’ll learn ways to increase school success for your students
and how to diminish the changes that your early teen will use alcohol, tobacco,
and marijuana.
Thursday, May 4, 11, 18, 25, and
June 1 at
Register by calling Laura at
425-392-6367, extension 210. (It’s VERY important for dinner and childcare
planning that you register!)
Thanks to Friends of Youth for
offering the classes and to Greater Issaquah Youth and Family Network for
sponsoring them.
Your generosity
helps Issaquah Schools Foundation’s
generosity
Nearly 40 individual school projects
are the recipients of more than $100,000 in ISF Kateri Brow Big Idea Grants and Classroom Enrichment grants for 2006.
Projects and grant recipients will
be honored Wednesday, April 19 at 5:30 pm in the Administration
Center Board Room. Don’t miss the excitement!
Money for the grants comes from your
generous donations to the Foundation.
Calling
for Kids
on May 23, 24, & 25 is your next opportunity to support ISF. Students
will be calling residents, giving you the opportunity to donate to phone-a-thon
goals to buy Junior Great Books series for elementary schools, graphing
calculators for middle schools, and science data measuring devices for high
schools.
Watch for more details coming after
spring break!
Enjoy spring
break, April 10-14
Please share this
information and E-News subscription link with others who might want regular
District updates and messages.
Please do not
reply to this E-News message as it comes from an unattended email address used
to distribute information to the community. To contact someone about topics in
E-News, please call (425) 837-7000. Thank you.
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