JSA Volunteer Opportunities
June 2019
"Thank you!" to all our wonderful Volunteers at Johnson STEAM Academy
STUDENTS: Apply for Summer Volunteer Opportunities with HACAP Today! Are you a student looking to get a head start on those service hours for class? We want your help! The HACAP Food Reservoir is looking for summer volunteers to help sort donated food items at our HACAP Food Reservoir in Hiawatha, IA anytime Mon-Thu from between the hours of 8am-5pm. 1515 Hawkeye Drive, Hiawatha, IA 52233 (319) 393-7811 volunteer@hacap.org
2019 Summer Book Drive
Everyone is invited to donate new or gently used children’s books to help United Way increase youth literacy through Summer10!
• Host a drive any time May–July to collect books for kids birth–5th grade.
• Schedule a drop off at United Way by contacting Laura Columbus:
319-398-5372 ext. 846
317 7th Ave SE, Cedar Rapids
• Or you can purchase and send us books from our wishlist at readingintosuccess.org/summer10
*see attached flyer below
Neighborhood Meals summer lunch for ALL
FAMILY FRIENDLY- NO charge & NO age limit
12-1pm Monday-Friday (June 10 – Aug 23, except 4th of July)
At St. Paul’s UMC 1340 3nd Ave. SE (use 2nd Ave. entrance)
Provided by your neighborhood church members & other community volunteers including Christ Episcopal, First Lutheran, First Presbyterian, Grace Episcopal, St. Paul’s Methodist & Westminster Presbyterian, with support from greater cedar rapids community foundation and SFSP. Licensed & Inspected.We do not discriminate on any basis.
sign up to serve at
neighborhoodmeals.org
donate at
stpaulsumc.org/neighborhood-meals
*See attached flyer below
CR Community School Summer Meals
SUMMER MEALS for KIDS & TEENS
Open to all children 18 and younger
NO Enrollment, NO Cost!
Meal Service: Breakfast 8:30 am - 9:30 am Lunch 11:15 am -12:30 pm
Monday through Friday
June 17th – August 2nd
Grant Elementary - 254 Outlook Drive SW
Grant Wood Elementary – 645 26th St SE
Hoover Elementary – 4141 Johnson Ave NW
Nixon Elementary – 200 Nixon Dr
Taylor Elementary – 720 7th Ave SW
June 10th – August 22nd
Wright Elementary – 1524 Hollywood Blvd NE
June 13th – July 18th
Jefferson High School – 1243 20th St SW (Monday-Thursday)
June 24th – July 18th
Roosevelt Middle School – 300 13th St NW (Monday-Thursday)
*See attached flyer below
JSA Families and Friends,
You are invited to participate in a family bike ride through our historic Wellington Heights neighborhood at noon this Saturday, June 8—starts and ends at New Bo Market!
*Just sign in at the “PEACA” booth outside the New Bo Market before noon on Saturday – you can register on-line---see invite below!
*Registration fee is $10 (per person OR $10 fee for an entire family if you are associated with JSA—just tell them at the check-in booth!) —all proceeds go the Paul Engle Association for Community Arts (PEACA)—they sponsor several of our after school JSA enrichment classes so…
Please join in the fun and learn about the famous writer, Paul Engle who grew up just a few blocks from JSA, played on our playground, delivered newspapers for the Gazette in our neighborhood etc. (see invite, registration and more details about the bike ride below!) –even get some fun quality exercise! (There’s even a special stop at the “secret” upstairs bike museum at Hall’s Bicycle shop!)
Let me know if you have any questions and please forward this to your friends!
Melissa Summers
JSA Music/Curriculum Integration Specialist
Hello JSA FAMILIES & FRIENDS,
You are invited to the following event:
Event to be held at the following time, date, and location:
Saturday, June 8, 2019 from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM (CDT)
NewBo City Market
1100 3rd Street Southeast
Cedar Rapids, IA 52401
Come join us on a history bike tour of Cedar Rapids and learn about Paul Engle's early childhood growing up in Cedar Rapids, as we Peddle for PEACA on Saturday, June 8, 2019 during #CycleFest at NewBo City Market from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
We'll leave the NewBo Market and ride the trail along the Cedar River into downtown Cedar Rapids for our first stop at the bicycle museum at Hall Bicycle Company. Founded in 1898 Hall Bicycle Company was open for business while Paul Engle and his family resided in Wellington Heights. When writing about his father, a Cedar Rapids livery stable owner, Engle states:
“...he always went back to the barn in the evening, seldom coming home before 9 p.m. In the summer he rode a bicycle the two miles each way;...”
Engle, a 1976 nominee for the Noble Peace Prize, was describing his childhood in the Southeast Cedar Rapids neighborhood of Wellington Heights. Born in Cedar Rapids in 1908 Paul Engle graduated from Cedar Rapids Washington High School and graduated magna cum laude in 1931 with a Bachelor's of Arts Degree in English. His Major Honor's Thesis was "Revelations of John Keats and Leigh Hunt."
In his collection of short stories, A Lucky American Childhood, Paul Engle describes growing up in Cedar Rapids. The history ride will follow Engle's route as a carrier delivering the afternoon edition of the Cedar Rapids Gazette in 1917.
“The newspaper was on the Cedar River next to the 1st Avenue bridge... That was where we hung out while waiting for the paper to appear.”
In addition to delivering papers Paul Engle worked in the neighborhood drug store one block from his home. The next stop on the tour will be the Paul Engle Center which is the building which housed the drug store at the corner of 4th Avenue and 15th Street SE. We'll leave the Hall Bicycle Company and ride the trail to 4th Avenue taking the 4th Avenue bike lane east to leave downtown.
“An old-fashioned neighborhood drugstore was a window into the whole area.” (Engle)
Our stop at the drugstore, The Paul Engle Center, will feature a tour of the building with discussions of its use throughout the last 100+ years as a fixture of the neighborhood. Water and snacks will be available.
“Over the years, I delivered the Gazette on 4th Avenue SE from 15th Street to 26th Street, the end of the city; I watched the kids grow, the new flower beds blossom, the changes in dogs.. the houses staying the same but families moving in and out,...” (Engle)
From here there are two options. For those who would like, the ride will continue along Engle's carrier route east on 4th Avenue, Meadow Brook Drive, and Upland Drive to 26th Street near Grant Wood Elementary. Then following the route back to the NewBo Market. Those uninterested in continuing the carrier route may return to the NewBo Market from the Paul Engle Center.
“I was a lucky kid, living close to those remote people. They brought a strange foreign quality into our modest Midwestern neighborhood of small wooden houses where all families lived cheerfully together in the shared condition of hard work and little money.” - Paul Engle
Tickets are $10 for the ride only. PEACA t-shirts will be available at the event for an additional $10. Get registered today!
Share this event on Facebook and Twitter.
We hope you can make it!
Cheers,
Paul Engle Association for Community Arts
Community Partnerships
As a means of addressing the ever-evolving needs of CRCSD students and to stay focused on equity and safety, our process for working with community partners is changing!
For the upcoming year and beyond, CRCSD has created a more consistent process for partnering with community organizations who provide services to our students. The process was developed with the following considerations:
· Student safety
· Equitable opportunities for community organizations to partner with CRCSD
· Increased family engagement in identifying and coordinating student supports
· Improved accountability for intended organizational outcomes
· Greater opportunities to celebrate and recognize community-school collaborations
The process requires ALL organizations supporting district buildings to complete a Community Partnership Application. Organizations will then be listed as a district partner with a brief description of their program/service/contribution.
If you are a community organization providing services to students, please use the site linked HERE. The application will be reviewed by a district team and approved or denied based on a number of criteria.
Organizations with staff who have direct student contact on a regular basis are REQUIRED to have an agreement in place and approved by the Board of Education to reduce liability for all parties. Questions about the partnership process can be directed to partnerships@cr.k12.ia.us.
This process DOES NOT change the use of Raptor for individual building volunteers.
Visitor/Volunteer Management System
VOLUNTEERS: The District requires anyone who volunteers in our school, to complete the online registration form. You can access that form at:
Click on “Our School”, scroll down, click on “Volunteer Register” and complete application. The approval for this can take up to 7 days, so please make sure this is filled out and submitted before volunteering. This application will need to be completed each school year. If you have any questions about the volunteer system, please contact Mrs. Ferring - LFerring@cr.k12.ia.us
VISITORS are required to have a driver's license or state issued ID to gain access to the building. The new Raptor system allows us to more easily track visitors and is designated to check visitors against the sex offender registry for an additional layer of safety for our students and staff. If you have any questions about the system, please contact Ms. Carlson 558-2174
PTA NOTES.....
JSA PTA Facebook page CLICK HERE
Next PTA Meeting:
September 2019
JSA Window Clings
Show your support for our school with your own 4" x 4.25" window cling for just $5!
All proceeds go to the JSA PTA to support before and after school enrichments and other programming.
*Order forms are attached below
2019-2020 PTA Board:
President- Brandi Parsons
V. President- Corrie Block
Secretary- Melissa Summers
Treasurer- Jessica Karma
Johnson STEAM Academy Magnet School
Johnson STEAM Academy provides an innovative, respectful, educational environment for all its students. It does this by focusing on academic achievement through a curriculum infused with STEAM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics.
Email: LFerring@cr.k12.ia.us
Website: http://johnson.cr.k12.ia.us/
Location: 355 18th Street Southeast, Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
Phone: 319-558-2174
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JohnsonSTEAMacademy?ref=aymt_homepage_panel
Twitter: @JSAmagnet