Key dates
January 13
Spirit Night with the Hawks
January 15
Martin Luther King Jr Day - no school
January 22
Spring Enrichments begin
January 29
Board of Directors meeting
February 2
Lunar New Year celebrations at LC & UC
February 8
PTCC Spirit Night at Panda Express (Northlake)
March 23
PTCC Auction
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Dear GLOBE community,
The Parent Teacher Community Council (PTCC) is very excited for the spring semester. We would like to take this opportunity to re-introduce our co-chairs, Ana Catarina Teixeira and MJ Levine and also highlight some of the exciting events we have in store over the coming months.
Ana Catarina is currently serving her second year as PTCC co-chair. She has two children at GLOBE, one in 4th grade and the other in 5th. MJ is in her first year as a co-chair. Her two children also attend GLOBE in 3rd and 5th grade.
Annual PTCC Auction
We are thrilled to announce that our Annual PTCC Auction will take place on March 23 at the Distillery of Modern Art. All funds raised at the auction, as with all of our PTTC fundraising events, go directly to support the GLOBE school, staff, and community, so be sure to mark your calendar!
In addition to the Auction, we will also lead Exceptional Children’s Week, Earth Day, and Staff Appreciation Week and support school-led events such as Field Day, Lunar New Year, Francophonie, Black History Month and AANHPI Month.
A call for volunteers
In order to execute these events, we urgently need to fill four PTCC leadership positions and confirm leads for individual events. As per our GLOBE handbook, we ask each family to volunteer at least 10 hours per year. Without our wonderful volunteers willing to organize and lead, many of the PTCC initiatives may not take place. Below is a list of our most urgent and immediate needs:
Join our PTCC leadership team. We are seeking one Classroom PAC Co-Lead, one Global Awareness PAC Co-Lead, one Community Support PAC Co-Lead, and two Co-Leads for our Fundraising PAC. If either of these roles interest you, please email us. We work as a team, thus no one person is responsible for doing a major task. We collaborate to make it happen. Join us!
Volunteer to co-lead an event or initiative. We are looking for co-leads and/or teams to help us this Spring with the PTCC Auction Committee, Spirit Wear Co-Coordinators, Lost & Found Team, Used Uniform Team, Field Days and so much more. If you have other ideas, we would love for you to share them with us.
PTCC in the weekly newsletter
Each week the PTCC feature volunteer opportunities, fundraising updates and event information in this weekly newsletter, so please make sure you read all the way through so you don't miss out on any important updates.
Fall 2023 was a huge success!
PTCC organized and/or supported a variety of major events and initiatives last semester and we would like to convey our sincere thanks to the current PTCC Secretary, Ariel Intondi, Treasurer, Ann Dunaway Teh, as well as our PAC Co-Leads (Emily Jensen, Anya Parkes, Kimberly Williams, Charnelda Lewis, Zakiyyah Williams-Belo) and their committee leads for their time and expertise organizing and staging the events listed below.
- Orientation | Ice Cream Social | Stock the Staff lounge | Wonderful Wednesday | International Fest | Science Fest | Spirit Wear and Used Uniforms | Book fairs | Teacher and Staff Grants | Spirit Nights | Royalty programs | Volunteer Coordination.
PTCC also supported school-led initiatives such as Hispanic Heritage Month and Peace Week, and contributed to GLOBE Trot, a fundraiser organized by the Board of Directors.
We truly couldn’t have accomplished it all without our volunteers. Thank you so much, let’s make the second half of the school year just as amazing!
Sincerely,
Ana Catarina Teixeira and MJ Levine
GLOBE PTCC Co-Chairs
Teachers and administrators attend Chicago language convention
Before the holidays, GLOBE middle school language teachers and administrators attended the American Council on Teaching Foreign Language (ACTFL) Convention in Chicago, IL.
Teachers and administrators had the opportunity to attend educational sessions and participate in hands-on learning environments that provided them with tangible resources and ready-to-use techniques that will help build content knowledge and learn new strategies. They were exposed to the timeliest topics, the latest research, and the most current trends in language education today.
6th grade ELA students take part in "sustainability" activity
Students researched and wrote an essay on a teen activist, then created presentations and signs (pictured). They began their presentations on Monday.
High School Transition Information Evening
Thank you to everyone who joined us for this event during the final week of the first semester. A recording of the evening's presentation can be viewed here. Current high school transition resources are available here.
Finding Ollie
The latest two episodes are available here: episode 6 | episode 7. The Finding Ollie series is produced by students in Mr Brantley's 8th grade Leadership and Communication class. As the episodes unfold, all of Upper Campus' incredible students will get a chance to share their light.
Connections at UC
We recently started a Team Handball unit and students are loving it!
New athletics web portal on the way
We have been busy building a Teamsnap web portal for GLOBE Athletics. This will provide a digital platform on which to bring GLOBE athletics 'under one umbrella', and include information about our sports programs, coaches, events and fundraising, whilst adding registration to our current Teamsnap scheduling and messaging capabilities. There will be a link from our main GLOBE website and the targeted launch day is this Friday, so all being well, watch this space.
Student returns from winter national tennis championships
Violet Hall represented GLOBE in the girls’ 12U division of the USTA National Championships in San Antonio over the winter break. She had a great time, played extremely well and even notched a win! This was her first L1 tournament and we are so proud of her efforts and progress.
PTCC Spring Auction Planning, Join Us!
The PTCC Auction will take place on March 23 at the Distillery of Modern Art. Join us for our Spring Fundraising Event planning meeting this Thursday, January 11, at 7pm via Zoom. Meeting ID: 753 614 0314. Last year’s auction raised over $90,000 for GLOBE events, multiple initiatives and faculty support. We can’t do it without help from volunteers so please join us!