AFFECT
Come to our next meeting on March 14 at 9:00
Come meet our new board and hear what we are planning
Our Expanding Mission
AFFECT originally formed to provide our kids and their families with access to more inclusive activities. We plan to continue doing that. In addition, we want to build a supportive and collaborative community who strive to help meet social, emotional and academic needs of our children, offer relevant events for parents and caregivers and fun events for kids, offer grants to our teachers to help meet differentiating needs, and promote more inclusiveness in the district and our community.
Upcoming Events
Thank you to everyone who came to the Winter Fun Fest in February. We had so much fun! Visit our Facebook page to keep in the know. https://www.facebook.com/affect220/
We are planning an Egg Hunt Eggstravaganza on the afternoon of 4/14, so mark your calendars! More details to come.
We also have a parents and kids night on 5/20, with Guest Speaker, Jarrett Wolske MS, OTR/L, who will be presenting on tips to help with executive functioning, sensory diets, zones of regulation and grounding techniques.
For more details on events and to register, please visit www.affect220.org.
Join AFFECT Today
Membership comes with a lot of benefits, including free access to almost all events, online access to our member only forum and news, and we hope to support teachers through grants to help meet differentiated needs and support an environment of inclusion where every student is respected, accepted and appreciated.
It is important to us that anyone who wants to be part of our community should be able to participate, regardless of their ability to pay. So please set a donation amount to the level you are comfortable with, including none at all.
To apply for membership, please visit www.affect220.org.
Presumed Competence is the Least Dangerous Assumption
One of our Core Values
You may have heard this phrase, as it is increasingly popular, for good reason. The meaning is simple: do not limit children because you assume you know what they know. Many children have higher receptive communication abilities than what they are able to communicate expressively. So a child with more limited expressive communications should not be LIMITED based on what one assumes that child knows because of what they are able to communicate to you. You will be surprised how much knowledge any child is capable of soaking up.
You can also make this argument by viewing it as the least dangerous assumption. For example, let's say you treat a child based on what that child is able to communicate expressively to you. Let's assume that this child is capable of so much more than what you have assumed. In this case, this child has been harmed by the limitations unfairly imposed on them. This is not the least dangerous assumption since this child has been limited and harmed by that limitation.
If we had presumed competence and treated this child with no limitations, this child would have benefitted from this assumption. In this case, presuming competence did not harm the child, but it actually helped the child.
Now let's assume that this child was not capable of much more than what was assumed. If we still presumed competence, then there was still no harm done. It is my personal belief, however, that there is no real way to test true receptive abilities, so I always believe that a child knows more than what is expressed. Even neurotypical children do not express everything they know. Why do we assume that for children who aren't able to communicate as well?
This is something we should all try to be mindful of, and it should be applied to everyone we meet, child or adult. It will help you appreciate differences in people and help hone your skills to be more adaptive to others by teaching you different ways to communicate and interact with others. This is something AFFECT strongly believes in. We hope you believe in it too.
School Board Candidates Panelist Session: 3/13 at 9:30am
All the candidates running for the Board of Education for our district will be attending the PTO Presidents Council candidate panelist session on 3/13/19 at 9:30 at the Barrington Area Library. Come get to know the candidates better, and if you cannot attend, please check out each of the candidates below before voting on 4/2/19. For more information on the referendum, please check out https://www.barrington220.org/referendum
Don't forget to vote on 4/2! The last day to register to vote by mail is 3/28/19.
Board of Education Candidates:
Dr. Barry Altshuler
https://www.drbarryfor220.com/
Eva Cole
Leah Collister-Lazzari
Matthew Gray
Angela Wilcox
AFFECT Board Meeting
Thursday, Mar 14, 2019, 09:00 AM
Barrington Campus Life Center, Barrington, IL, USA
AFFECT APRIL BOARD MEETING
Monday, Apr 8, 2019, 12:30 PM
Barrington Area Library, North Northwest Highway, Barrington, IL, USA
Egg Hunt Eggstravaganza
Sunday, Apr 14, 2019, 01:00 PM
TBD
Parent and Kids Night: Executive Functioning and More
Monday, May 20, 2019, 06:30 PM
Barrington Area Library, North Northwest Highway, Barrington, IL, USA
About us
Email: Affectbarrington@gmail.com
Website: Http://www.affect220.org
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/affect220/