SOS (Student Organizational Skills) Classes and Parent Workshops are now available! 

Thanks to the Irvine Public Schools Foundation's ACE (After School Classroom Enrichment) Program, SOS classes are available to all 6th, 7th and 8th grade students in the Irvine Public School District. Check with your ACE site coordinator about 2009/2010 class schedules.

--Canyon View School -- SOS classes available Spring  2010. Contact Darcy Angel to enroll.

--Plaza Vista Middle School -- contact your ACE coordinator for the 2010 SOS class schedule.

--Brywood Elementary School --  Classes begin Feb 2010.  Contact Kathy Wong to enroll. (Limited to 6th grade students.)

-Rancho San Joaquin - Contact  Trish Simmons Ace Coordinator 

--College Park Elementary School -  Contact your ACE  coordinator to enroll.

NEW! S.O.S. PARENT AND TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS

Would your Orange, Riverside or San Diego County school or Parent or Teacher Association like to offer an SOS WORKSHOP? In this dynamic two hour workshop, parents and teachers of middle (or soon-to-be middle) school students learn practical techniques and strategies to help students handle the organizational challenges of middle school. Attendees learn how to work with their student to organize a Goof-Proof Binder, use a planner, successfully manage a group and long term project, self-advocate in middle school, use a rubric, understand grade averaging, remember their daily responsibilities and much, much more! 

Workshop Time: 2.5 hours

Location: Your school or community center

Instructor:  Susan Mulcaire, author of  The Middle School Student's Guide to Ruling the World! and  The Middle School Student's Guide to Ruling the World! (Instructor's Guide.) 

Fee: $25.00 per attendee - min. 8

Materials Included: Each attendee receives one copy of The Middle School Student's Guide to Ruling the World! ($10.95 value)

For more information or to schedule a Parent or Teacher PD Workshop, call 949-723-5131 or email info@middleschoolguide.com.

Conferences: 

Exhibitor: Texas Middle School Association conference, Arlington, TX  March 4-6, 2010 --  Booth 515.   Stop by to say hi! 

Presenter: California League of Middle Schools , San Diego, CA,-- March 2009

Session: "Organizational Skills and Underachievement in Middle School: Implementing an OSI Program at the Middle Level."

Presenter and Exhibitor: Step Up High School Summit, San Diego, CA- November, 2009  Session:  "Organizational Skills Instruction for Incoming and At-risk 9th Graders."

Presenter and Exhibitor: National Middle School Association, Indianapolis, IN - November 6,  2009 --  Session 2669 - 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM  “Implementing a Middle Level Academic Discipline Program”  Exhibiting:  Booth 132 

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