Where is Asia? ... Africa? ...Anyone?

Professor Judith Adler at Memorial University in Newfoundland teaches a family sociology course with a world wide perspective.  She was shocked to learn that some of her students didn't have a perspective of the world.  She started popping an elementary quiz asking her students to label a blank map with the continents; some failed... Read the whole story here.

Smartphone Contract: Great Idea or Mean Mom?

Contract excerpt article #17.  Keep your eyes up.  See the world happening around you.  Stare out a window.  Listen to the birds.  Take a walk.  Talk to a stranger.  Wonder without googling.

Writer Janell Burley Hofmann gave her child an iPhone for Christmas... and a contract - click here to read the whole thing and decide if she has a point.  Do your kids have clear boundaries with their smartphone?  Do you?  Some great ideas here and maybe some not so great - leave a comment, we'd love to hear your take.

CAPSC Meeting

The Calgary Association of Parents and School Councils would like to welcome it's members back to the second half of the school year and we look forward to seeing you at our meetings in 2013.  First up is our January meeting which will take place Wednesday January 23rd at 7:00pm AE Cross School library (3445-37 St SW). 

This month we will be hearing from Jillian Drysdale who will be discussing her involvement with the Alberta Safe Streets initiative, which aims to extend playground zone hours to include all school start times.

Following her presentation the CAPSC executive will be hosting a conversation on how CAPSC as an organization can aid in promoting communication

Meeting Date Change

Unfortunately - due to scheduling conflicts, we need to change the meeting date next week to Tuesday, January 15th.  Here is a link to the agenda.

Back At It and Meetings Day Change

Happy New Year everyone.  I hope your holidays were fun, exciting, relaxing, rejuvenating, quiet, chaotic, or whatever it is that you needed. They are usually a mixture of all of the above in different measures.

A quick note to not only welcome everyone back (tomorrow) to school but also to remind you that our Council/PA meetings will be on Wednesday's from now on and the first one is scheduled for January 16th at 7pm in the library.  Hope to see you there next week.