ICE Summer Camp Fund - Year 2

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Last summer, thanks to your generosity, we managed to give over a dozen students the experience of lifetime, going to sleep away camp! We'd like to build on our success and provide this opportunity to even more students. Please help us by donating (again) or sharing the page with family and friends. 

Post it on your Facebook pages, send it far and wide ... 

Thank you very much!

ICE Parent Volunteers Needed

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SPRING FLING TEAM

  1. Donation Assistant (1 Volunteer) Enter donor and donation info onto Bidding For Good

TREASURERS-IN-TRAINING
Treasurers-in-Training – 1 volunteer, 2hrs/wk @school, rest online

  1. Spearhead the development of the PTA budget with the Administration & PTA Co-Presidents

  2. Maintain a record of all income & expenditures by the PTA

  3. This is a shared role that is why we need 2 parents (Join with a friend). Two hours a week at school during school hours. Everything else can happen at home, online using QuickBooks and PayPal. We will show you everything you need to know.


FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE
Join the team, help mange the fundraisers we currently have and bring in new fundraisers.
Fundraising Committee Team Members  (3 volunteers to join the team)

VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR
Volunteer Coordinator – Call for volunteers for event as needed, update volunteer page on the website



For a full list with detailed descriptions of opportunities visit our website to view the "Parent Life" tab or click Volunteer Opportunities now.


ICE Community Lunch 

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The first Community Lunch was a wonderful success - teachers and students from all grades gathered together to share food, laughter, and lunch tables! Beautiful dishes were prepared by staff members, a parent volunteer, and were set up & cleaned up by the Community Service Club.

We want to extend the invitation to contribute food to a Community Lunch to you all. If you'd like to participate, please fill out the form below and select a date that is convenient for you. You will receive a confirmation email that will include the reminders below. We will create a Community Lunch at least once a week, and your help is invaluable!

(Students are welcomed to join with their home lunch if they prefer to bring their own).

If you would like to help, please see the information below:

1. Here is the google form, please fill it out (** takes 1 minute)!

2. Please drop off donations at one of two times on the day of the community lunch:
(1) morning advisory: 8:00-8:20
(2) 10:30am-10:45am
During either of these times, someone will be waiting at the 16th St. ICE entrance, with a cart, ready to bring your food upstairs.

3. For ease of serving, we ask that you please send your donation in a full or half size aluminum sheet pan (like this).

4. Please label your dish (this is especially helpful for students with food allergies).

Thank you in advance!
 

ICE Parent Volunteers Needed 

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SPRING FLING TEAM

  1. Donation Assistant (1 Volunteer) Enter donor and donation info onto Bidding For Good
     

TREASURERS-IN-TRAINING
Treasurers-in-Training – 1 volunteer, 2hrs/wk @school, rest online

  1. Spearhead the development of the PTA budget with the Administration & PTA Co-Presidents

  2. Maintain a record of all income & expenditures by the PTA

  3. This is a shared role that is why we need 2 parents (Join with a friend). Two hours a week at school during school hours. Everything else can happen at home, online using QuickBooks and PayPal. We will show you everything you need to know.


FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE
Join the team, help mange the fundraisers we currently have and bring in new fundraisers.
Fundraising Committee Team Members  (3 volunteers to join the team)

VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR
Volunteer Coordinator – Call for volunteers for event as needed, update volunteer page on the website


For a full list with detailed descriptions of opportunities visit our website to view the "Parent Life" tab or click Volunteer Opportunities now.


Calling All High School Students Aged 16+  

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Beam Center* is gathering a select team of motivated young makers and builders to make the first ever NYC Beam Project! The NYC Beam Project is a spectacular, architect-designed project for public display in NYC. Project Fellows will learn new building skills and tools, interpret plans and blueprints, and lead teams of younger children and other community members to build the project. More info and application here.


*Beam Center is the Brooklyn-based parent organization of Beam Camp, a STEAM/Maker camp that some ICE students have an affiliation with.

Calling For All Used/Refurbished Cell Phones   

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THE NEPAL AND MALAYSIA INTERNATIONAL YOUTH MEDIA GROUPS
ARE ASKING PARENTS, STUDENTS, AND FRIENDS OF ICE TO DONATE
THE CELL PHONES THEY NO LONGER USE.

• NO, WE DON’T NEED THEM TO MAKE PHONE CALLS. 
• WE NEED THEM FOR THEIR PICTURE TAKING ABILITIES!
THE NEPAL AND MALAYSIA INTERNATIONAL YOUTH MEDIA GROUPS WILL BE SHARING THESE USED PHONES AS CAMERAS FOR THE CHILDREN THEY WORK WITH IN NEPAL & MALAYSIA!

SO PLEASE, IF YOU HAVE ANY OLD CELL PHONES, SMART PHONES ETC. WITH PICTURE TAKING CAPABILITY, PLEASE HAVE THEM BROUGHT TO JEFFREY (the International Youth Media Advisor/Program Director) in room 419B. 
• Please be sure the phones – as cameras – work.
• It would also be helpful if each phone-camera donated came with a charger.
• Also, VERY IMPORTANT, please be sure to include the code to access the cell phones.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact Jeffrey.


ICE PAC (Parent Action/Education Advocacy Committee

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From New York State Allies for Public Education:

Last month, NY State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia asked the Board of Regents to approve a new $225,000 grant from the Gates Foundation for “enhanced communication” efforts around the standards, testing and data collection --  to convince parents that State Ed is on the right track in all these areas. 

The new standards that the NY State Education Department has adopted are still developmentally inappropriate and little different from the last set of standards. There is still too much emphasis on flawed high-stakes testing.  Moreover, NYSED has failed to enforce the state student privacy law, passed in 2014-- though the legal deadline for implementation was more than four years ago.  Meanwhile, NYSED’s own data system has been audited twice by the NYS Comptroller, and found to be highly insecure and vulnerable to breaches.

PLEASE CLICK HERE to TAKE ACTION and DEMAND that the Regents give back the Gates funds. Instead of trying to sell parents us on State Ed’s  policies, include parents in authentic decision-making on all issues affecting our children, including standards, teacher evaluation, and privacy. The State Education Department should also be barred from any effort to expand student data collection until the 2014 student privacy law has been fully enforced and the SED’s own data system made secure.