2nd "Big E" Ad Features NE Community/Edison Partnership in This Week's Northeaster

NE Community BBQ Coordinates with NE MPS School Open Houses to Celebrate New School Year! Aug. 25, 3 - 8 pm @ Edison (1700 22nd Av NE)

For the very first time in history all of our Northeast MPS schools (Marcy, Pillsbury, Sheridan, Waite Park, Northeast Middle School & Edison High School) will be “kicking off” the new school year together by inviting families to a Community BBQ held at Thomas Edison High School from 3:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. The BBQ attendance just keeps growing every year!

As always, the “Northeast Community Celebrity Grill-Meisters” will push the grill to the limits. We have learned there is heavy competition for the honor of preparing the cole-slaw this year. The inside scoop is that a citrus flavored coleslaw is the front runner. Wow! Other highlights to follow but for now just Mark Your Calendars! As always everyone is welcome! We know the Open Houses make for a busy day, especially for those that have to attend a couple of them. No dishes or preparing meals for you on Open House night.  Join us when it’s convenient for you.

MPS encourages families to attend Student Placement Open House: Aug. 3

MINNEAPOLIS – The Minneapolis Public Schools Office of Family and Community Engagement on Wednesday, August 3, will host an open house at Student Placement Services, located in the North Star School. Families can enroll children in school for 2011-2012, preview designs of the new MPS Educational Service Center and meet MPS partners and stakeholders.

WHAT: Student Placement Open House
WHEN: Wednesday, August 3, from noon – 6 p.m.
WHERE: MPS Student Placement Services
North Star School
2410 Girard Avenue N.
Minneapolis, MN 55411

Light refreshments and door prizes will be available. For more information, call MPS Student Placement Services at 612.668.1840

Please complete this NOC Parent Survey - 5 Minutes to Help Our Mpls Schools

Neighborhoods Organizing for Change

Parent Survey on Education

Over the last year, NOC has been building a community of parents, teachers, and community leaders who want to work on improving education, especially for lower-income children. In the Fall, NOC is preparing to launch an ambitious campaign to improve our schools. Prior to that, the folks at NOC want to listen to parents just like you to make sure they work on the most pressing issues facing our community schools. That's why NOC needs you to spend about five minutes taking their education survey. You can click here to take it online right now.

Already, over 240 parents have shared their insights and experiences with NOC.  Their survey sample includes a good representative cross section of the racial, cultural, and economic diversity of the Twin Cities.  Your survey answers will help shape NOC's agenda for 2011, and our community will be stronger for it.

There is one more week to collect data, as NOC must finish the survey by this weekend so that they can start studying the results and preparing a report to release in September when school starts up again. After you take the survey yourself, please consider sharing it with other parents from your childrens' school, or from your neighborhood.

For further information about NOC:

The NOC Education Committee
www.mnnoc.org
www.facebook.com/mnnoc
(612) 246-3132

Pre-School Art Experience @ Logan Park next week: July 25-28

My Masterpiece Art Al Fresco

Monday-Thursday July 25-28 9:30-11:30

Cost: $55

Ages 3-5

Join us for a week of making art inside and out.  Paint in the park, get autographs from trees and build your own park sculptures.  Make homemade paper you can plant and grow.  It's art with summer fun in mind!  Camp includes outdoor playtime and free lunch.  

Instructor: JoAnne Peters. JoAnne has been teaching nature and art classes to children in Minneapolis for the past five years. JoAnne holds degrees in Visual Communication and Environment & Community. She loves to take society's flotsam and jetsam and make something beautiful. She lives in Northeast with her husband and two children.

Logan Park

690 13^th Ave NE

612-370-4927

minneapolisparks.org

Please register by Friday, July 22^nd  online at: http://activenet18.active.com/minneapolisparks/

Important Community Meeting on MSP Enrollment in NE Mpls: TONIGHT 6/22/11, 6-8 @ Windom Park

Community Meetings  

Join us to learn more and be part of developing solutions that may impact school communities for the 2012-13 school year.  Meetings will feature small group discussion to explore creative solutions.

Thurs., June 16, 5 - 7 p.m .Brian Coyle Center
420 – 15th Ave. S., Minneapolis 55454
Meeting Focus: The Somali community, MPS and increased enrollment
*Note: this meeting will be conducted in Somali


Sat., June 18, 2011, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Green Central Community School 
3416 4th Ave. S., Minneapolis 55408 
Meeting Focus: Increased enrollment in the Green, Jefferson and Andersen attendance areas

Wed., June 22, 2011, 6 - 8 p.m.
Pillsbury/Windom Park Community Center  
2251 Hayes St. NE., Minneapolis 55418
Meeting Focus: Northeast K-5 increased enrollment

Thurs., June 23, 2011, 6 - 8 p.m.
North Commons Park 
1801 James Ave. N., Minneapolis 55411
Meeting Focus: Northside enrollment
*Dinner, childcare and interpreters will be available at all meetings.

Welcome Chevy Chase to the Neighborhood @ the Edison HS Green Community Schools Kickoff!