A Better World Festival and Youth Conference

If you are looking for a way for your child to stay engaged in the ICE principles of compassion, activism, and community, a recent ICE alum is organizing the perfect solution.

A Better World Conference + Festival is a celebration of the differences that strengthen our community and common desire to work for positive change. The festival offers specific opportunities to engage with causes we care about, and will highlight arts and culture with activities and performances. This is Sunday, July 14th from 12-5 in Bliss Plaza (46th street station on the 7 train). The conference will be a group discussion on what it means to make the world a better place and how young people can make a difference. The conference is Saturday, July 13th from 10-3 at Sunnyside Community Services (43-31 39th st in Queens). Register using this link

PTA Committee Chairpersons Needed

If you are a parent who would like to do your part in supporting the ICE community but cannot attend monthly meetings consider joining one of our Committees.

Committee Chairpersons - there are several seats available on the

1. Fundraising Committee

   1. Co-Fundraising Chairpersons (2 volunteers needed)

   2. Family Contribution Coordinator (1 volunteer needed)

   3. Spring Fling Event Coordinators (2 volunteers needed)

   4. Spring Fling Auction Coordinators (2 volunteers needed)

2. PT Conference Scheduler (2 volunteers)

3. Town Meeting Scribe (4 volunteers)

Our current volunteers are graduating therefore it is vital for us to fill these roles NOW.

If you are interested in one of these roles please send an email to iceschool345@gmail.com for more information. In your email please tell us the role you are interested in.

Screenagers Tech Talk Tuesday

Below is the May 14th article.
 

SUBJECT: Sharing, Not Scaring, is Key to Managing Screen Time

Scare tactics, so popular in our society, do not work. We often give information to others hoping to elicit fear with the goal of changing behavior. Think for example of schools teaching kids about cyberbullying and sexting and having police officers deliver the message. It is clear that the teens should be scared, really scared, of consequences, but does it stop them from posting mean comments or from sending compromising pictures of themselves?

Unfortunately, scare tactics for long term behavior change have proven not to be very effective. Let me give one example.  Massive public health campaigns designed to combat smoking that showed images of damaged lungs and testimonials from people who were diagnosed with lung cancer from smoking were meant to scare us into not smoking.

It turns out that those campaigns had surprisingly little impact on behavior decisions. What eventually turned the tide for cutting smoking rates were two main tactics: substantially raising the cost of cigarettes and placing strong limits on the places where people could smoke. Of course, continuing to educate about the ill effects of tobacco is important but if we had just focused on using scare tactics we would not have made the major progress we see today.

Scare tactics can work better for short term behavior change—but the main point for today is to exam a better tactic than scare tactics which I call “Share Tactics."

Learn More About SHARE TACTICS here

ICE PTA Meeting

Wednesday, June 12
6-7pm, Rm 518
Your participation is important!
 
Below are the candidates for the Executive Board positions of the ICE PTA for 2019-20 as of today The deadline for Nomination is Monday, June 3. Anyone interested in filling these seats please contact Penny Chan-Jansens of the Nominating Committee by June 3rd.

PRESIDENT 
Dianne Darbouze

CO-PRESIDENT 
Lavita McMath Turner

VICE PRESIDENT
Kemala Karmen

TREASURER
Peter Kos

CO-TREASURER
Amy Gropp Forbes

RECORDING SECRETARY
Astrid Lewis Reedy

CO-RECORDING SECRETARY
Marinda van Dalen

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
Meibell Contreras

CO-CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
Rachel Pratt

SLT (5)
Emmanuelle Chiche
Miranda van Dalen
Catherines Lyons
Alexandra Reddish
Cary Sanchez
 

ICE MS Jazz Big Band Wins Award!

The ICE MS JAZZ BIG BAND won a GOLD award at NYSSMA last week! This is the hardest competition in our state and this is the first time in ICE history that the MS Band has received this distinction.