Announcements
• Save the Date! PARENTING MATTERS: Connecting Crayons, Computers, College, and Careers
Saturday, November
7, 2009 - Additional details are available in both English and Spanish.
•
ART CONTEST! Winner will receive $500 PIRC sponsorship for
college AND see their logo displayed on all
conference materials!
WHAT: Design a logo for the MD PIRC’s
Central and Northern Regional Conference
USE THIS THEME: Parenting Matters:
Connecting Crayons, Computers, College
and Careers
DEADLINE: Friday, July 31, 2009
Additional details available in English and Spanish.
• Parent Involvement Matters Award - The 2nd Annual Comcast Parent Involvement Matters Awards Celebration was
held on May 8 at the Jim Rouse Theatre
at Wilde Lake High School in Columbia, Md. During the event, Wendy
Panor of Queen Anne’s County was named statewide winner from the five finalists. The other four finalists were:
* Mark Lewis, Baltimore County; * James Carroll, Calvert County; * Brian Barron, Frederick County;
and * Ann English, Montgomery County. (more)
• 2nd Annual Hispanic Youth Symposium - June 23 - 26, 2009 at Towson University,
MD
• If you are an educator working and advocating for ELL families, make sure you join MELLFIN and network with
others
throughout the state that deal with the same issues. Click here for the application.
• Family Support Group for Families and Guardians of Children with Special Emotional Needs: Every
third Saturday