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White Oak Middle School PTSA
How You Can Stay Informed
- Meet your child's teachers and the staff at WOMS
- Check grades posted on your student´s Edline account
- Read the PTSA Newsletter and Principal's Bulletin
- Sign up for Oaknet* to send and receive email about daily announcements, school events, parental concerns and special opportunities for families and children. To join the Oaknet listserve, send a blank email message to oaknet-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
- Check this website for updated information
Mission Statement
Every Child, One Voice: To build a strong, dedicated WOMS community that encourages success for every student in a secure environment that promotes academic excellence, values a strong home/school partnership, and ensures respect for all.
Goals and Objectives for 2007- 2008 School Year
Goal #1 : To promote an atmosphere of respect and accountability through enhanced communication between the school staff, teachers, students, and parents
- Support character building and development programs
- Distribute monthly newsletter with contributions by students, teachers, parents and principal
- Produce a student/staff directory
- Increase Oaknet subscriptions
- Enhance staff/teacher/parent involvement in PTSA programs and staff/teacher/parent committees in school
Goal #2: To promote academic excellence
- Establish a clear message of “expectations” and “goals” throughout the school year both with respect to academics and behavior. Acknowledge this by establishing student and teacher “recognition” programs
- Ask Principal to seek staff inputs on specific activities that require parent volunteers
- Support development of a student mentoring program
Goal #3: To facilitate family and community involvement at WOMS
- Organize family events, such as turkey bingo and cultural appreciation day
- Enhance parental participation in both in-school and after-school activities
- Support teach, staff and student recognition in school and in the broader community
- Use the Comer Process as a tool to facilitate family and community involvement
- Provide support for the annual Comer School Development Summit
Goal #4: To leverage diversity as a strength at WOMS
- Highlight globalization and diversity through visuals in school and cultural arts programs
- Support greater inclusion of foreign languages in PTSA communications
- Liaison with NAACP Parent Council and the Latino Parent Group