[ Encourage and interact as a family]
The idea of encouraging the students should be highest priority of the parents. It's a new environment and they're not sure what's going on - it's important them to recognize that they have a loving family. It's also important to interact as a family in terms of learning English. Te entire family is going through a life-altering transition and it will be much easier for everyone to be able to relate to one another.
Try to speak more English at home or maybe have a night or two out of the week where the entire family will sit together to play games (in English!). This kind of interactions is just what you would expect from normal families - don't change up the dynamics of your family. It has been enough of a change moving to a new country and stability is an important issue.
The Irvine Unified Council PTA (IUCPTA) will host a candidates forum for the Irvine Unified School District (IUSD) Board of Education Trustee Area 2 on Wednesday, October 17 at 7 p.m. at the IUSD District Office, located at 5050 Barranca Parkway, Irvine. This free event is open to the public and will also be broadcast live on Cox Channel 39, AT&T U-verse Channel 99 and streamed live from iusd.org.
This year, three candidates are running for one seat. They are: Governing Board Member Sharon Wallin; Retired Irvine Teacher Jean Anne Turner; Tutor Ilya Tseglin.
During the forum, each candidate will have the opportunity to make a statement and answer uniform questions presented by an unbiased moderator from the League of Women Voters. The questions were developed by the Irvine Council PTA Executive Board. There will also be a limited amount of time for questions from attendees.
IUCPTA, which comprises of more than 13,000 members from 40 individual PTA units, has traditionally invited school board candidates to share their views in advance of local elections. “We are proud to host the Candidates Forum for the upcoming School Board election,” said IUCPTA president Mary Kelly. “An important aspect of the PTA mission is advocacy. Bringing all the candidates together allows us to engage our parents in the legislative process and hear the candidate’s solutions to the issues that impact both our PTA parents and students.”
Note: Governing Board Member Ira Glasky is running unopposed in Trustee Area 4 and will not participate on the panel. Click here to view the IUSD Trustee Area Map.
