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Dear Genesee Hill community,
It’s hard to believe we're a few months out from the end of school. As always we enjoy seeing many of you out and about at school events and in the community overall.
We look forward to seeing you at next month's general membership meeting (Tuesday, June 20 at the school), where a major agenda item will be the approval of the 2023-2024 PTA budget.
As we've discussed over the past few months, the budget challenges faced by the Seattle School District will have an impact on every school in the district. In consultation with the budget committee and school leadership, the PTA board will present a budget to you that responds to those challenges. We are planning informational sessions for general membership prior to June's meeting, so look for dates soon.
School funding, both at the state level and at the district level, will present challenges to Genesee Hill and other schools over the next few years. And while our community is generous, even we can not fill the gaps that will be created. Now, more than ever, this creates a great opportunity for our community to come together and support our kids. Leveraging our voice in Olympia and with the school board to ensure adequate funding for public education is essential and is our responsibility as parents and community members. We will be working diligently next year to organize opportunities for our community to advocate for our students.
Another important commitment we can make to help fill these gaps is by devoting our time as volunteers to support the Genesee Hill staff, teachers, and students. As your PTA we will help organize all the ways to engage and be a part of your child’s experience at Genesee Hill.
In addition to the important work outlined above, this year is also critical, as our Building Leadership Team (BLT) is working to develop Genesee Hill’s 2023-2026 Continuous School Improvement Plan (CSIP). For those of you who don’t know, the CSIP is an action plan for our school that identifies the areas our school plans to focus on in the next two school years, the performance goals we as a school want our students to achieve, and how we plan to collaboratively meet those goals. This document also outlines a Family Engagement Plan. As your PTA presidents, we help represent each of you on the BLT and we help bring the student and family voice to this process. And while we have worked hard to explore what strong family and school partnerships looks like this year, we ask ourselves what does Family Engagement look like to you?
Please let us know your thoughts. We encourage great conversations over this next month as we ask ourselves this important question and we hope to hear your ideas.
As always, thank you for your time and commitment to our kids and our community at Genesee Hill and West Seattle at large. We are excited to celebrate our Teachers with you this coming week at Teacher Appreciation Week!
In community,
Michael and Lia, PTA co-presidents
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