MCCPTA Safety Committee Meetings for 2009-2010
If you are passionately interested in improving any of the following safety concerns, please put your energy into action as we meet to evaluate safety concerns and work with MCPS and other community leaders to advocate for our children:
- not enough supervision on the playground
- safety and security on school grounds
- traffic issues affecting student safety
- gang or bullying problems
- drug and alcohol use
- poor condition of school buildings and portables / air quality in your school and portables
- emergency preparedness concerns.
We will have the following MCCPTA Safety Committee meetings at Carver Educational Building at 850 Hungerford Drive, Rockville. Meetings will be held in room 223 (second floor-Enter at East side
entrance and immediately go up the stairs.):
- Wednesday, September 23 at 7:00 pm (Guest Speaker: MCPS Director of
Facilities Management, Joe Lavorgna)
- Wednesday, October 28 at 7:00 pm
- Monday, December 7 at 7:00 pm
- Wednesday, February 10 at 7:00 pm
- Monday, March 22 at 7:00 pm
- Monday, May 10 at 7:00 pm
The Montgomery County Council of PTAs (MCCPTA) is sponsoring an informational forum on Artificial Turf and Natural Turf athletic fields on Wednesday, October 7 from 7:00-9:00 PM in the Carver Auditorium at 850 Hungerford Dr. in Rockville. MCCPTA will be sponsoring this information forum for PTA members and interested school community members. The overall goal is to share information from both sides of the issue related to artificial turf versus natural turf.
Confirmed speakers include a representative from FieldTurf Tarkett, Jay Nalls (Superintendent, Norbeck Country Club), Kevin Morris (Executive Director, National Turfgrass Evaluation Program in Beltsville, MD), Mike Riley (Deputy Director of Montgomery County Department of Parks), and Joseph Lavorgna (Director, MCPS Department of Facilities Management.) All PTA members and community members (including students and athletes) are welcome.
We will have a chance to discuss concerns with him as well as learn
about challenges and improvements that are being made in his Department.
All PTA members are welcome to attend.
Map and directions to
Carver:
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/publishingservices/PDF/cescmap.pdf
Note: There is plenty of parking available. Please enter at the side entrance close to the Board of Ed parking spaces (the same entrance near the BOE board room and MCCPTA Delegates room.)
Contact
Please contact the safety committee with any questions or concerns. Also, please consider setting up your own safety
committee and/or designating a liaison to the MCCPTA Safety Committee.
Laurie Halverson
Chair, MCCPTA Safety Committee
Email Laurie
MCCPTA Safety Committee Reports / Workplan
2009-2010
2008 - 2009
- Committee Report, May 2009
- Committee Report, March 2009
- Committee Report, February 2009
- Committee Report, January 2009
- Committee Report, December 2008
- Summary, MCCPTA Meeting with
MCPS Department of Safety and Security Leaders,
December 5, 2008
- Committee Report, November 2008
- Committee Report, October 2008
- Committee Report, September 2008
- Committee Report, August 2008
- Committee Workplan 2008-2009
2007 - 2008
2006 - 2007
MCCPTA Resolutions
See the MCCPTA Resolutions page for a resolution on improving building and
portable security passed by the Delegates' Assembly January 23, 2007.
Newsletters
Traffic
From MCPS
School Safety Information
Basic Facts on MCPS security policy and procedures, October, 2006
MCPS Definition of Bullying
At the October 2005 Delegates' Assembly, Director of Safety and Security Ed
Clarke distributed a form for reporting incidents of bullying. This form was provided by the State of MD, and it includes a definition of
bullying that deems only incidents that appear to be motivated by some type of bias (e.g., racial, ethnic, special education) as "bullying."
Some have questioned this on the listserve, as they are familiar with situations that they would deem as "bullying" that would not fall into
under these categories. For purposes of complying with required state reporting, MCPS is using the definition on the form. However, for
purposes of identifying and dealing with bullying going on in a school, MCPS uses a different, broader definition.
Teen Safety
Bus Safety
Lead in School Drinking Water
Emergency Preparedness
Portable Classrooms
Two guides for parents may be helpful during times of crisis:
(both in Adobe Acrobat format). They were developed by Linda Goldman, the author of many books and articles about children and grief including, "Breaking The Silence" and "Life And Loss." Ms. Goldman is a Montgomery County Parent and trainer. Her articles are reprinted here with her permission.
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