PTA Meeting Thursday February 17 @ 6 pm

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Staff, student, & parent perspectives on assessment @I.C.E.

Please join us tonight at 6pm for our meeting programmed by ICE PAC (Parent Action/Education Advocacy Committee.) We'll consider some of the ways that our school does and does not assess student learning. As a school in the New York Performance Standards Consortium, one of the most important ways that students at our school show what they know is via the PBAT, or performance-based assessment task. To demystify the PBAT we've invited our principal (Pete), a teacher (Josh), a current 12th grader (Elsa) and a recent grad (Owen) to join us on Thursday. They'll walk us through the nuts and bolts of the process and reflect on the value of the PBAT in the context of a larger educational environment that relies on standardized testing for student assessment. Members of ICE PAC will follow up that conversation by looking at historical and current developments in assessment and how these impact our children, our school, and maybe even us as parents. Hope to "see" you then!

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For Thursday December 23rd - Message from Pete

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Dear ICE Families -

First I want to share plans for tomorrow, Thursday December 23rd. Due to the low attendance I am going to allow most staff to work from home tomorrow. All kids coming to school should report to room 508 (right across from the elevator) where I will be present to supervise students along with a few ICE staff members. We will hold synchronous CREW at 9 am, and classwork will be posted for all classes as it has been this week.

I want to take a moment and wish all of you a healthy and safe holiday week. I hope that you are able to enjoy your families in a safe way. For those of you celebrating Christmas - Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year to you all. I look forward to getting past this spike in infections and returning to what was shaping up to be a great year.

Take Care, and see you in 2022!

I.C.E.'s Black Student Union Presents Michelle Browder

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Here is a recording of the event in case you missed it.

Please join the Black Student Union at I.C.E. this Wednesday, December 8th at 6pm via zoom for a very special speaker, art activist Michelle Browder. This event, along with lessons that have been incorporated into Crew periods, has been organized by our Black Student Union for BLM Week of Action.

To read more about Michelle Browder, see the links below.

The event will be moderated by I.C.E. Senior Elsabet Franklin, leader of the Black Student Union.

The Mothers of Gynecology Park Website, includes Michelle's bio on the "meet the team" tab:
https://www.anarchalucybetsey.org

Washington Post article about her work:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/mothers-gynecology-alabama-memorial-statue/2021/10/01/cca0a788-21fd-11ec-8200-5e3fd4c49f5e_story.html

ZOOM LINK for event https://zoom.us/j/95151673909?pwd=M3VOVGhlU0hSMmhFbWNUcWFWWjRJQT09


Book Drive

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Hi ICE families, we would like to inform you that the community service club is currently hosting a book drive in collaboration with Brooklyn Book Bodega until December 10th.

If you have any extra books that are lying around we would really appreciate it if you could donate them by dropping them off at the drop-off point in the 5th floor hallway. We will not be accepting any religious books, or textbooks/activity books. The books can be in any language.

If you would like to donate more books than you can carry or have any questions, please email me at micahhervey@iceeducate.org

PTA Meeting TONIGHT - Thursday October 21 at 6 pm

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Please join us on zoom to learn about and vote on the 2021-2022 PTA budget. If you have any questions regarding the budget, contact the co-treasurers Peter Kos and Amy Gropp Forbes at icetreasurers@gmail.com.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84901295279?pwd=UGRINzZ2RFNTSFNrQUw0UlhjRmNiZz09


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