Category Archives: Committees

Agenda of TJPTSA General Membership Meeting on September 9th, 2021 from 7:00PM to 9:00PM

ZOOM Link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAlf-qtrDgtG9IrGj0JzGwwuENWPOGyWWq9

Attendees:

TJPTSA Officers

Dr. Bonitatibus

VA PTA Support Team representatives

Mr. Berke

A. Call Meeting to Order and Welcome (3 min)

B. Officer’s Reports

a. Treasurer’s Report: (20 min): Presentation of Audit Report, Approval of Budget, Reconciliation report for July & Aug

b. President’s Report: (3 min)

i. Action Items

ii. Meeting Dates for (current year)

c. 1st Vice President (3 min)

d. 2nd Vice President (3 min)

e. Recording Secretary’s Report (3 min)

f. Corresponding Secretary’s Report (3 min)

C. Committee Reports

a. Family Engagement – update on progress (3 min)

b. Diversity Committee – update on progress (3 min)

c. Academic Support Committee – update on progress (3 min)

d. College Outreach Committee – update on progress (3 min)

D. Representative Reports

a. Principal’s Report (10 min)

b. SGA Representative (5 min)

E. Unfinished Business (5 min)

F. New Business (5 min)

G. Announcements (1 min)

a. Our next meeting will be held on October 14, 7pm, via Zoom

b. General Membership Fee Structure Changes

H. Question & Answer (20 min)

a. Virginia PTA Support Team

I. Adjourn Meeting (9pm)

Appointment of College Outreach Committee Chair

The executive committee of TJPTSA met on September 1st, 2021, and has voted to appoint Ms. Tanuja Ghodgaonkar as the College Outreach Committee Chair. Tanuja, welcome on board!

2021-08-27 Welcome Back Ice Cream Social for Faculty and Staff

We had a good time with our amazing faculty and staff members on August 27th, Friday by treating them delicous ice cream! TJPTSA thanks our volunteers who helped or donated food and drinks for the event. In particular, we would like to shout out to Ms. Hyunjung Kang, Ms. Shalu Aggarwal and Ms. Elizabeth Howton for their dedicated service.

10-15-2021 Reflections Call for Entries

Reflections is a National PTA-sponsored program that encourages students to express themselves through the arts. Students can submit work in the following six categories: Dance Choreography, Music Composition,
Literature, Film Production, Visual Arts and Photography. The art is judged at the school level with the winner in each category moving on to the County level, then District level, State level and finally National level. This year, similar to last year, all the Reflections entries will be digital.

This year’s theme is: I Will Change the World.

Please carefully reviews all the rules and guidelines, or rules and guidelines (Spanish) and pay particular attention to the following additional rules:

Dance and Film: if background music is used, citation is required
Literature: include word count, entries must be less than 2,000 words
Music: list musicians and/or instrumentation
Photography and Visual Arts: list dimensions
Dance, Film and Music: recordings must not exceed 5 minutes, file size must not exceed 1.000MB

More information about specific rules for each category can be found here:
Film Production Rules,Film Rules (Spanish)
Music Composition Rules, Music Composition (Spanish)
Photography Rules, Photography rules (Spanish)
Dance Choreography Rules
Visual Arts, Visual Arts (Spanish)
Literature Rules, Literature Rules (Spanish)

Entries will be submitted directly through specific links which will be updated soon.
This year’s deadline is Friday October 15, 2021.

Click here to enter: https://form.jotform.com/212501133743140

If you have any questions, please contact the Reflections program Chair Meredith Caldwell at
reflections@tjptsa.org

2021-08-31 Call for Paid Volunteers: Picture Days

LifeTouch will be at TJ on 8/31 and 9/1 for underclass pictures. They need some PTSA volunteers to help them out!

LifeTouch photographers will be at TJ from 8:30-3:50 on August 31th, Tuesday, and 8:30-2:05 on September 1st, Wednesday. Volunteers will receive $14.99 off of their photo package.

Please contact Ms. Erinn Harris (eharris1@fcps.edu) as soon as possible.

2021-08-30 Call for Volunteers: College Outreach Committee Chair

For those parents that are interested in charing the College Outreach Committee, please send an email along with a short a CV to the TJPTSA Executive Committee at executive@tjptsa.org, preferablly by August 30th, 2021, Monday.

Call for TJPTSA Volunteers for School Year 2021-2022

The TJ PTSA seeks parents interested in becoming involved at TJ by serving on one of the TJPTSA committees.

TJPTSA has four main committees and numerous subcommittees. The committee descriptions are below. Think you might be interested? Fill out the Volunteer Interest Form to learn more about these opportunities.

1. Academic Support Committee: Educating parents about how best to navigate TJ in an effort to help parents better support their students. The Academic Support Committee fosters relationships with the TJ staff to build consensus for collaborative solutions through dialogue and engagement. Activities include Navigating TJ Workshop and Senior Sharing events.

2. College Outreach Committee: To assist students with a focus on junior and senior classes in understanding the college application process and career choices, assisting TJ’s College and Career Center (CCC) with what is needed to improve outreach to colleges and universities, and assisting the CCC in fostering better connections with college admission officers and promoting TJ by providing volunteers. Activities include organizing forums for students and parents.

3. Diversity Committee: To celebrate the diversity at TJ and champion effective, measurable strategies and actions that strength TJ’s ability to quantifiably attract, develop and graduate students from underrepresented minority groups. The TJ PTSA Diversity Committee sponsors event to promote awareness of STEM and TJ, with a focus on underrepresented students. In addition, the Diversity Committee promotes connections and community.

4. Family Engagement Committee: Increasing awareness of mental health and emotional well-being within the TJ community. Particularly, the Family Engagement Committee works to engage the TJ parent community in the school wide efforts focusing on student balance and wellness. Another important focus is to organize events to shown the faculty and staff at TJ our appreciation for their amazing efforts in educating and nurturing our children. This committee has the following subcommittees: All Night Graduate Party, Challenge Success, Health and Wellness, Hospitality, Membership, Reflections, and Human Relations.

Questions? Email executive@tjptsa.org. We look forward to working together to support our children and the TJ Community.

TJPTSA Executive Board

Appointment of Committee Chairs

Dear TJPTSA members,

The Executive Committee of TJPTSA met on August 8th, 2021, and has voted to appoint Mr. Randy Turner as Academic Support Committee Chair, Ms. Julia McCaskill as Diversity Committee Chair, Ms. Alice Wang as College Outreach Committee Chair, and Ms. Shawnna Yashir as Family Engagement Committee Chair.

We appreciate their willingness to serve in TJPTSA, and look forward to working together in the upcoming school year.

Lastly, thank you for the support regarding our fact-finding mission related to the “orientation” advertised by the TJ Alumni Action Group. I will keep the membership updated on our discussions, as I did with the update I sent today from the Office of the President. Any position statement by the TJPTSA will be voted upon by the general membership.

Best regards,

Harry Jackson

President, TJPTSA

2021-08-04 The call for volunteers to serve in TJPTSA committees is open now

Dear TJPTSA members,

The TJPTSA Executive Committee held a meeting on August 3^rd, and has decided to consolidate all TJPTSA functions into four committees with their specific missions given below:

3. Diversity Committee: To celebrate the diversity at TJHSST and champion effective, measurable strategies and actions that strengthen TJHSST’s ability to quantifiably attract, develop and graduate students from underrepresented minority groups. The TJHSST PTSA Diversity Committee sponsors events to promote awareness of STEM and TJHSST, with a focus on underrepresented students. In addition, the Diversity Committee promotes connections and community.

4. Family Engagement Committee: Increasing awareness of mental health and emotional well being within the TJ community. Particularly, The Family Engagement Committee works to engage the TJ parent community in the school wide efforts focusing on student balance and wellness. In addition, we organize events to show the faculty and staff at TJ our appreciation for their amazing efforts in educating and nurturing our children. This committee has the following subcommittees: All Night Graduation Party, Challenge Success, Health & Wellness, Hospitality, Membership, Reflections, and Human Relations.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT! The Executive Committee is actively seeking TJ parents to serve in all these four committees as either chairs or members. If you are interested in volunteering at any of the committees, please send us an email to executive@tjptsa.org, preferably by August 8^th,2021, with your name, your child’s class, the TJPTSA committee position of your interest, and a brief introduction of yourself.

We look forward to your service at TJPTSA that will make TJ a better place for our children.