This weeks' schedule

Hi All,

Thanks for a great Exhibition.

This week is a little different from our normal week. Monday through Wednesday will follow our normal schedule. Wednesday will be the last day of semester one classes. As you all know intensives were originally scheduled this week, but have been canceled. Our students still need a well deserved break between semesters, so on Thursday we are planning a variety of trips for students. Some possibilities include: college tours to PSU, Reed, and PCC, museum visits to OMSI, the Portland Art Museum and Historical Museum. There might be also be trips to Women and Trades or a hike in Forest Park.

We are not needing drivers but chaperones because many of the museum trips are contingent on having a good ratio of students to adults. The art museum for instance asks for a ratio of 6:1. Please let us know if you would like a day at a museum, chaperons get in free!

Thanks,
HS Advisors

Eat Pizza Tuesday. Trillium gets the dough.

This Tuesday, February 1st, 20% of ALL SALES ALL DAY at the Pizzicato at 4217 NE Fremont (Ne 42nd and NE Fremont), will go to Trillium. Come out and support the school, and be sure to tell your friends and family!

End of Term Self Assessment

Find the End of Term Self Assessment form for regular classes here.
Or you can use this link.
Or this one.
(Three are provided in case you are filling these out for different classes, or stopped in the middle of one and need to complete the rest of the answers.)

SENIORS, fill this survey out for Senior Project.

ADVISING, please fill out this survey.

Peace Essay Contest

Greetings to all Oregon High Schools:

With great pleasure, Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility announces our third annual Greenfield Peace Writing Contest. Any 11th or 12th grade student in Oregon may enter by submitting an original piece of fiction, poem, or essay (maximum 600 words) reflecting on the following question:

What do we need to change to create a world without nuclear weapons?

Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility is a chapter of the U.S. affiliate of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize for publicizing the dangers of nuclear weapons. We continue our work to educate the public about the grave threats posed by the existence of nuclear weapons and the health effects of war. We are sponsoring this writing contest in order to encourage Oregon’s youth to consider their role in promoting peace, thus creating a safer world for us all.

Entry forms, a flyer, and all peace writing contest details can be found on our website at www.oregonpsr.org. Submissions may be sent by email or US mail and are due by February 15, 2011. A panel of judges consisting of noted writers and distinguished community members will select the three winning entries. The first prize winner will receive an award of $1000, the second $750 and the third $500. Oregon PSR will host an awards dinner on April 15th at the Oregon Zoo in Portland at which the three winners will be honored and the winning entry will be read. This awards ceremony will be part of our 30th Anniversary Celebration, featuring keynote speaker Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Laureate for her work with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.

Please help us in announcing this opportunity to all 11th and 12th grade students and their teachers. We greatly appreciate your support in spreading the word and your feedback on this project. Please feel free to contact us with any questions that your school, teachers or students may have.

In peace and health,

Sean Tenney
Communications and Development Associate
Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility
812 SW Washington Street, Suite 1050
Portland, Oregon 97205
503.274.2720 (o)
503.730.4520 (c)
email: sean@oregonpsr.org
www.oregonpsr.org

Tests are good for you.

So says a study in this New York Times article.

Service Day Tomorrow

At Ariadne.

Prepare for rain! And cold!

A good way to do that would be to wear rain gear, and dress in layers.

Class Sign Up and Course Catalog S2

This is the sign up sheet.
This is the S2 Catalog, the course descriptions.

This is it.

The end of the semester is upon us.

This is the last weekend to get things done.

Work, work while you can!

End of Term Self Assessment

Find the End of Term Self Assessment form here.
Or you can use this link.
Or this one.
(Three are provided in case you are filling these out for different classes, or stopped in the middle of one and need to complete the rest of the answers.)

Seniors, fill this survey out for Senior Project.

Eat Pizza. Trillium gets the dough.

The Pizzicato Dough For Dollars Event is Tuesday February 1st. Trillium will receive 20% of ALL sales at the Fremont Street location that day. You can come in and eat pizza, take-out, or have pizza delivered (within a 2 mile radius of the store).

You can also support Trillium by pre-ordering par-baked pizzas, appetizers, salads, and gift cards ($20 denominations). Twenty Percent of those sales will also go to Trillium. The food and gift cards will be available for pick-up at Trillium at 3:00 on Tuesday February 1.

We will be taking pre-orders beginning Wednesday January 18. You can fill out the attached order form or pick up a hard copy in the lobby before or after school. YOU MUST PAY WHEN YOU ORDER! (Checks go to Trillium Charter School.) All orders must be received no later than Thursday January 27th. They can be dropped off in the lobby before or after school, or dropped in the silver SCRIP box in the lobby.

Thank you for supporting Trillium!

Leigh Ann Kennedy
(Mom to Joshua Poe, Rob's class)

World War I Links

For the Middle School social studies class:

Origins of WWI video
Video on the Battle of the Somme
How europe has changed video
WWI Footage
Last American WWI survivor video
WWI Poetry
Great War on PBS
First World War.com
WWI on Wikipedia

Mercy Corps/Global Citizen Corps Partnership

The excitement is mounting for Trillium's latest partnership with Mercy Corp's Global Citizen Corps. For those students who get into the 20 person class semester 2, we will spend Tuesdays and Thursday afternoons in GCC trainings down at the action center, design our own community projects, and partner with students from GCC partner countries, Pakistan, Lebanon, Iraq, Indonesia, Jordan, and the UK. Here and here are more information on some of the opportunities.

Exhibition Night is Friday the 28th

The Trillium High School Exhibition Night is Friday, January 28th from 6:00 to 8:00 and features short individual presentations from each member of the high school to a group of their peers and family members. Several exhibitions will be going on at any one time, taking place throughout the building. Attendees can expect to see students reflect on one or two areas in which they have shown growth or development over the last few months. Student presenters may reflect on projects or work in the areas of academic, artistic, political, or social-emotional. Presentation slots, including question and answer time, generally run under ten minutes apiece. Students prepare for Exhibition Night by selecting work that feels meaningful to them and developing concise, thoughtful presentations that represent their learning. High School Exhibitions take place at the end of every semester. This is the first year that the event has been moved to an evening slot to allow for greater family and community member participation. If you have any questions about Exhibition, please contact any of the high school Advisors, Jess, Ken, Sarah, or Will. We look forward to seeing you there!

Trillium's Financial Need

Dear Trillium Community,

We are writing to you today unified in the goal of renewing our beloved school’s charter. Our upcoming renewal hinges on our ability to demonstrate our financial viability. This will likely not happen if we continue down the same path of relying primarily on the public funding we receive from the state.

There’s the long story and the short story of why we find ourselves in financial need. The shortest story is the one we all know: Trillium, like all charter schools in Oregon, receives substantially less funding for our students than traditional public schools.

The longer story is about how our community has responded to that reality, and how we are now choosing to evolve, organize, and empower ourselves.

We must blaze a new trail. In order to reach out to larger funding sources such as grants, we must demonstrate first that we have a community-based financial support network. Our financial commitment to our children and each other, combined with our dedication to our mission and staying involved is what will keep our children’s school open.

There are 2 ways to support Trillium’s charter renewal right now:

Tax deductible donation online: (your tax receipt is provided in an email)

CLICK this link: https://www.ticketturtle.com/index.php?contribution=trill

Donate the amount you can, or set up a recurring donation (it’s easy!).

OR

Send a check:

Trillium Charter School
Attn: Genevieve Bouwes
5420 N. Interstate Ave.
Portland, OR 97217

Please consider asking your employer if they will match your tax deductable contribution to a 501(c)3 non-profit such as Trillium.

Thank you for your continued support of Trillium.


Genevieve Bouwes-Executive Director, Trillium Board of Directors, Together For Trillium


--
Genevieve Bouwes
Executive Director
Trillium Charter School

Exploration and Resistance Field Trip

Find the letter to families and permission slip here.

American education has peaked

Some radical ideas on how to reshape schools from Marion Brandy's Washington Post piece.

Snowdays Again!

We are thrilled, pleased, and tickled to be partnering once again (for the sixth year running!) with the Snowdays Foundation. Snowdays volunteers will be picking us up in tomorrow morning, Saturday, January 8th and providing an absolutely free day of snowboarding to the lucky 15 students whose names came out of the hat, the majority of which have never been snowboarding before. Thank you, Snowdays.

If you are one of the lucky boarders tomorrow, and seem to have misplaced the proper information, here it is:

Here is the letter to parents.

Here is the Snowdays waiver and release form.

Be at Trillium by 7:30!

DRAFT of S2 schedule and catalog

Here is the DRAFT of the catalog for S2.
Here is the DRAFT of the schedule for S2.

We will work through any bugs in these in the next week, and do sign up after that.

Congratulations to Alex L!

We are most excited to learn that Alex L has been accepted to the World Affairs program to study in Serbia later this year. Congratulations, Alex!