From the President Jennifer Gorena

Hello, I am Jennifer Gorena and am pleased to be the Friends President for 2010-2011. I have been a SCAPA parent for six years now and will do my best to make this a smooth and successful school year. I have a 10th grade ballet major and a 7th grade contemporary major and we have minored in band as well as drama. I have truly enjoyed being a part of the SCAPA community and am honored to serve as I consider SCAPA to be the city's best educational experience.

My goal for this season is to build greater involvement in the Friends of the Arts School activities which exists to serve all of our arts areas from 4th through 12th grade. FOAS has built a reliable organization to support our amazing pool of talent and we look to expand and improve. To do this we rely on our parents, guardians, extended family, friends and local community to take an interest and get involved. We have many seasoned board members who faithfully serve FOAS, but please know that we also strongly encourage and rely on our new parents to provide new ideas and support. I hope that each of you find a fun way to be involved with the year's activities as I'm certain it is our family involvement that is so much a part of what makes us great. We welcome all who would like to help out and usually have jobs to accommodate the time restrictions many of our families face.

Please be sure to keep track of this Friends newsletter as it contains relevant dates and times for events throughout the year. It can truly be a lifesaver as school progresses and fills up with all sorts of events you won't want to miss.

Finally, a grand welcome to all our new SCAPA families! I look forward to meeting as many new parents and guardians as I can at the back to school picnic and throughout the year.

Everyone enjoy the summer break!

Jennifer Gorena
gorenas@insightbb.com

From Beth Randolph, Bluegrass Principal

Dear SCAPA Families,

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” These words, attributed to Anne Frank, are so true. As you rest and relax this summer keep these words at the forefront of your mind and be conscious of how you can contribute to the SCAPA cause next school year. The magnificent works of parent and student volunteers, along with teachers going above and beyond the regular call of duty have built SCAPA into the landmark school that it is today. SCAPA will begin its 25th year of existence on August 11th, and we want this upcoming school year to be the best ever. To make that happen, we will need everyone affiliated with the school to pull together in new and historic ways.

First, all nine of our arts areas showcase students with productions, concerts, recitals, and readings throughout the year. Check to see how you can be involved and promote the students’ performance experiences. Second, the academic teachers constantly challenge our students to work to their fullest potential. Parent volunteers can assist in making the classroom experience its best. Ask how you can help. The office area is always in need of aides to welcome visitors, oversee the front foyer video monitor, and assist with routine office tasks. If you can, volunteer to lend a hand one morning or afternoon a week. Finally, the Friends of the Arts School (FOAS), our wonderful parent organization, have a myriad of ways you can become a contributing member to our school. Attend the July 28th meeting, and see where you can put your talents to use.

As we celebrate our country’s birthday this month, I’m reminded of our forefathers and mothers, soldiers of the past and present, who have given everything to make our country great. Their determination to design, develop, build, and maintain a just and noble country never waiver. Let’s take that same spirit of resolve as we go forth in building our school into what it can be. There are many exciting endeavors on the horizon and it will take all of us working together to make those dreams come true. I’m excited to see what the unified SCAPA community will accomplish by July 2012. Don’t wait a single moment more to be a substantial part of our community.

Sincerely,
Beth Randolph

• Feb 7 Edition
• Feb 21 Edition
• Feb 28 Edition
• Mar 14 Edition
  

From Vicki Ritchie, LHS Principal

Dear Friends of the Arts,

The new school year is in sight! Surprisingly, it has already been a month since our Class of 2011 said good-bye at graduation. Although we are still closing out the remaining few items of the last school year, plans are already under way for welcoming our new incoming senior class (Class of 2012!), as well as our juniors, sophomores and new freshmen!

Our Freshman Orientation is scheduled for August 3. Students visit with us at school during the day and parents and families can visit in the evening. More information and specific details will be posted online later in July. In addition, freshmen students will receive a letter regarding Orientation in July.

All students and families will be able to participate in Pre-Registration this year. We plan to have parent forms available on July 31 and August 1 and registration and payment of fees on August 2-5. Again, more information will be on the website later in July. The first day of school is August 11. Our Open House is scheduled for August 25. We planned this event earlier this year based on parent requests to meet the teachers and gather course information at the start of the semester.

Please be sure to check out the 2011 English Summer Reading lists. All students have a summer reading requirement, but they do have a choice. It is best to get the book early and not wait until the last minute. You can find each of the grade level lists on our website at www.lafayette.fcps.net

We look forward to a new year!

Vicki Ritchie

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The Illusion of Independence

by Carolyn Waterbury-Tieman

In my past career when working with parents I often asked them, “What are your goals for your children? What kind of people do you want them to become?” The most common response was, “Independent. We want them to be independent.”

What is this fascination, near obsession, with independence? You’d think we were raising hermits.

I suppose this fascination with independence stems from our political history, given that the cornerstones of our country’s foundation is the Declaration of Independence. Apparently what seemed to be a reasonable national goal was adopted as a reasonable personal goal as well. But in reality while we may be a self-governing nation, we are far from independent.

We are not hermits. We are social beings incapable of surviving independently from one another. So why do we continue to set this unattainable goal for ourselves and our children? A goal that leads people to live with the illusion of independence - believing they are independent because they live hundreds or even thousands of miles from any relative. Believing they are independent because they have cut themselves off from anyone who ever caused them pain. Believing they are independent because they have managed to remain uncommitted to anyone or anything other than themselves.

What I find even more troubling is when I hear parents attributing their children’s disrespectfulness, disobedience, and selfishness to their budding “independence.”

My concern is that we have taken this independence thing too far, a concern shared by family life professionals. Penelope Leach, M.D. states in her book, Children First, “Most Western children are encouraged to grow out of, rather than into, their families of origin – to see themselves as separate and autonomous individuals rather than as links in a continuing family chain.” When people experience themselves as “separate and autonomous individuals,” in short independent, they tend to lack empathy. They often fail to consider the impact of their decisions and behavior on the lives of those around them. They fail to consider this because they see no point in considering it. Their furious efforts to avoid appearing dependent and needy leave them detached.

After thinking long and hard about this issue, I have come to the conclusion that independence is not the goal of parenting. Rather, the goal of parenting is raising people who are capable of establishing and maintaining healthy relationships. Thus, the job of parenting requires us to continually address that delicate balance between the needs – ours and our children’s – for separateness and connectedness, individuality and commonality, self and others. The balance between these needs changes over time with age, experience, and maturity – ours and theirs. The fact is, our children will always need us, but the ways in which they need us will change.

Whenever there are changes in goals, there must also be changes in strategy. There are skills our children need and parenting strategies that accompany this shift in emphasis from independence to relationship.

Promote self-reliance. Many of us fall into the habit of doing things for our children that they could do for themselves. Taking over these tasks seems to make things easier (on us), save time (for us), and assure that they get done “right” (our way), but in the long run we are doing our children a disservice. They often interpret our willingness to step in and take over as, “I can’t do anything right so why try,” or “I don’t need to learn how to do that because somebody else will,” or “I am not responsible for taking care of myself. That’s someone else’s job.” Given time, our children’s self-reliance gets flabby and out of shape like a muscle that hasn’t been exercised.

Our job as parents is to teach our children how to take care of their bodies, their belongings, and their obligations. We have to pay attention to when they are ready to take on additional responsibility in these areas, take the time to properly train them, be patient while they practice, and then step back and let them exercise their self-reliance. By turning over to our children those things they can do for themselves, we send the message, “I have confidence that you can do it.” When we have confidence in our children, they have confidence in themselves.

Remember that part of being self-reliant means accepting the consequences of failing to perform those tasks for which we are responsible. While we shouldn’t hesitate to step in when consequences are life threatening, we need to allow our children to experience the consequences of their behavior. It is essential that our children learn to make the connection between what they do and what happens as a result of what they do, and that they are responsible for both.

Avoid confusing self-reliance with independence. Our children need to be self-reliant not because they will one day be independent, but because every day for the rest of their lives they will be living in relationship to others. People who are self-reliant are more successful in relationships because they are clear on where another person’s responsibility ends and theirs begins. Promoting self-reliance requires modeling self-reliance.

Foster self-awareness. When we presume to know what our children think and feel, and what they want, we deny them the opportunity to know and express who they are. When parents make statements like, “You know you don’t think science is boring,” “You can’t possibly be tired. You just took a nap,” or “You know you want to play basketball,” they reveal more about themselves than about their children.

Our job as parents is to teach our children how to think, not what to think; how to accurately identify and appropriately express their feelings, not what to feel; and, how to make choices based on what they want, not what we want. While our children may seem to be like us, they are not us. Kahlil Gibran so wisely tells us about children “…You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you, for life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday…” (The Prophet, pg. 17).

Avoid confusing self-awareness with self-centeredness. Our children need to be aware of what they think, how they feel, their likes and dislikes, not so they can always get what they want, but so they can more honestly share who they are with others. Fostering self-awareness requires modeling self-awareness.

Nurture self-esteem. When we convey to our children that they are unconditionally loved and valued we are nurturing their self-esteem. Unconditional love does not mean unconditional permission to do whatever you want or behave however you like. Our children know they are loved and valued when we express our appreciation for their efforts, demonstrate our affection for them just because they are, and when we care enough to stop them when they are doing what they shouldn’t.

Avoid confusing self-esteem with selfishness. Our children need to value and love themselves, not so they can feel better than others, but so they can feel better about others. The extent to which they are able to care for and value themselves will be the extent to which they are able to care for and value others. Nurturing self-esteem requires modeling self-esteem.

Encourage initiative. We live in a world full of things that need doing. We cannot afford to excuse our children or ourselves from doing these tasks by declaring, “Something ought to be done about that, but that’s somebody else’s job.” Whether it is as simple as seeing that the floor needs to be swept or the leaves need to be raked, or as complex as seeing people without a place to sleep or food to eat, the job is ours. While we may not be able to complete the job alone, it is our responsibility to at least start it and do what we can.

Avoid confusing taking initiative with taking credit. Our children need to know that when they see a job that needs to be done that they are capable of doing, they should do it – not so they can get recognition, but because they can make a difference. As Little Lord Fauntleroy’s mother told him, “The world should be a better place because you have lived.” Encouraging initiative requires modeling initiative.

Instill empathy. Empathy is the ability to imagine oneself in another person’s situation in an attempt to respond in a helpful way. Living in relationship requires that we try to see things from perspectives other than our own. An empathic person will ask themself, “If that were me, how would I feel? What would I wish someone would do or say?” and then they do or say it. Perhaps Native American wisdom says it best, “Before passing judgment, walk a mile in my moccasins.”

Avoid confusing empathy with pity. Pity is immobilizing and breeds contempt, whereas empathy is motivating and inspires hope. Our children need to be able to appreciate the plight of others and have compassion, not so they can give others fish, but so they can teach others how to fish. Instilling empathy requires modeling empathy.

Teach effective communication. Communication is effective when the message received is the message intended. Since we can’t not communicate, we want to be sure that our words match our tone of voice, facial expressions, and body language. Listening is the other key element in effective communication. Listening requires a total body experience and includes our eyes and feelings, as well as our ears. The feelings behind the words are just as important as the words themselves.

Avoid confusing effective communication with talking. People can talk for hours and never communicate effectively. Our children need to not only be able to clearly express themselves, but also to listen and understand. Teaching effective communication requires modeling effective communication.

Teach relationship maintenance. Each of us is the product of all the relationships we have ever had. We are indelibly linked to the past and the future through these connections. Greater knowledge of these connections enhances our identity as an individual and as a family. Maintaining relationships takes time and energy, but they are well spent in this endeavor. “There are two special gifts we should give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.” Not just roots. Not just wings. Both. The deeper we plant the roots, the stronger the wings. Teaching relationship maintenance requires modeling relationship maintenance.

Our goal as parents is to raise people who know how to live in relationship to self and others. We are not merely raising sons and daughters. We are raising husbands and wives – fathers and mothers. Like this great country we call home, they must learn to be self-governing, but they will never be independent. Happy Interdependence Day!

Prior to her role as SCAPA Arts Facilitator, Carolyn Waterbury-Tieman was a Parent/Family Life Educator and licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She was the author of The Parents’ Toolbox for The Lexington Family Magazine as well as Pastoral Parenting for the Church of the Resurrection newsletter.

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Announcements and Reminders

Attention: All New and Returning Lafayette High School SCAPA Students and Parents!

Keeping Up with AR Tests This Summer

Students, if you would like to continue taking your AR tests during the summer, you may have your parents contact Ms. Randolph and let her know the date and time you would like to do so. You can email her at beth.randolph@fayette.kyschools.us. Ms. Randolph will do her best to accommodate beginning July 12th.

SCAPA Application Window Changed

If you know someone planning to apply to SCAPA for the 2012-13 school year, please let them know that the application window has been changed to August 15th through October 7th. The new deadline for application is now Friday, October 7th, 2011. The audition dates will remain the same.

Practice for MAP Testing

Want to keep your math and reading skills sharp over the summer and improve those MAP test scores this fall. Here are some links to a practice website for MAP testing. You need to know your spring scores to get the most benefit from utilizing this site.

• Math
• Reading
  

Have fun!

SummerFest 2011

Join us us for a MONSTROUS summer in The Arboretum! There are several SCAPA students and alumni in the casts of these shows.

King Richard III by Williams Shakespeare
Directed by Sidney Shaw
July 6 - 10

Frankenstein by Bo List
Adapted from the novel by Mary Shelley
Directed by Joe Ferrell
July 13 - 17

The Rocky Horror Show
Book, Music & Lyrics by Richard O'Brien
Directed by Wes Nelson
July 20 - 24
Presented through Special Arrangement with Samuel French, INC.

Tickets at www.summerfestlex.org or at 866-811-4111
Purchase tickets ahead and receive a discount!
Gates open nightly at 7 PM
Curtain nightly at 8:45 PM at The Arboretum

Forms and Fees Sessions

Parents! Please mark these days on your calendar to go to Bluegrass SCAPA and complete all the necessary paperwork and pay next year’s fees. This process saves everyone time in the long run. See you there!

• 4th AND 5th Grade - Monday, August 8 from 4-7pm (There will also be an Ice Cream Social during this time for both grades combined, so bring your student!)
  
• 6th Grade - Tuesday, August 9 from 4-5:30pm
  
• 7th Grade - Wednesday, August 10 from 3-5pm
  
• 8th Grade - Wednesday, August 10 from 5-6:30pm

If you have more than one child attending Bluegrass SCAPA you may take care of all of them in one visit. If you can volunteer to help with the Forms and Fees Sessions, please contact Sylvia Aldrich, 381-3332 ext. 1106, sylvia.aldrich@fayette.kyschools.us for more details.

Announcing the 2011-12 Production Season!

• Disney’s Mulan, Jr., November 10 – 12, 2011
• As It Is In Heaven, November 17 – 20, 2011
• Dance SCAPA, March 16 & 17, 2012
• Into the Woods, March 29 – 31, 2012
• Hamlet or Does Father Really Know Best?, April 19 – 21, 2012
  

Extreme Makeovers, Birdhouse Edition

SCAPA is invited, once again, to participate in the annual birdhouse project sponsored by the Arboretum. Students and families are encouraged to use their imaginations to create unique dwellings for our fine feathered friends. The birdhouses will be displayed throughout the Arboretum in September and then auctioned off as a fundraiser for the Arboretum. SCAPA students have won prizes for the past several years for their entries! Let's keep the tradition going. Your student should have brought home an entry form in their backpacks recently. These entry forms have been stamped with the SCAPA logo. Please mark on your entry form that you are a SCAPA family.

• Entry Form
• We like to keep track of how many SCAPA students participate. Let the sky be the limit and have fun!
  

Friends of the Arts School (FOAS) Meetings

Meeting Minutes

• April 2001
• March 2001
• February 2011
• January 2011
• November 2010
• October 2010
• September 2010
• August, 2010
• July, 2010
• June, 2010
• May 2010 (TBP)
• April 2010 (TBP)
• March 2010
• February 2010
• January 2010
• December 2009
• November 2009
• October 2009
• September 2009
• August 2009
• June 2009
• May 2009
• April 2009

SBDM Meeting Minutes

• September 2009

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Recent Events

SCAPA Sings Farewell to Superintendent Silberman

Just days before the last day of school a request came from IAKSS for SCAPA students to sing during the final Leadership meeting of the year as a surprise farewell to Superintendent Silberman. Ms. Robyn Barker and her daughter, Gabrielle, solicited volunteers from the 4th-8th grades and held three rehearsals where students learned the words to "Raising Our Lids for Kids," a song written and composed by SCAPA students and faculty that was adopted as the district song during Mr. Silberman's tenure.

The SCAPA students were taken by bus to the meeting's location on Wednesday, June 8th, two hours early in order to have a chance to warm up before Mr. Silberman arrived (and to give the bus driver a chance to "hide" the bus in a parking lot close by). The group of 28 students were treated to a pizza lunch and waited patiently for their cue.

When the students filed in and took the stage, it was clear that Mr. Silberman was completely surprised. As you can see, he was also deeply touched. Thank you to Ms. Barker, Gabrielle, Ms. Randolph, the 28 students and their parents for taking time out of their first days of summer to give Mr. Silberman such a special, memorable experience.

5th Graders Travel to the Nation's Capital

The Washington, D.C. trip was exhaustive and exhausting, learning-filled and fun-filled. The weather cooperated, the students cooperated - so every day was jam packed with marvelous experiences in this fascinating, important area of our nation. We visited Jamestown & Williamsburg, a monument (Washington), all the memorials, and as many museums as we could, finishing with Monticello and Mt. Vernon. It was a tremendous culmination of our Social Studies units and the school year! - Submitted by Keith Lindsey

SCAPA 8th Graders Visit the Big Apple and Give Their Regards to Broadway

New York City was the destination of our eighth graders the first five days of June. A record number of eighth grade students and parents participated in the trip and everyone had a wonderful experience and a great time. What a great artistic, educational, and social learning experience the trip was for all the students.

Highlights of our trip included:

Another Winning Performance

Amir Abou-Jaoude performed his state winning speech, “Words,” for the Fayette County Board of Education Monday night, June 27th. Amir wrote, edited, memorized, and practiced his speech earlier this school year and then performed it throughout the speech season. In March, Amir was crowned the state public speaking champion and the state oratorical declamation champion at the Kentucky High School Speech League Junior State Speech Tournament. Although it had been months since he had practiced nightly, he delivered his speech flawlessly. Amir held the packed audience and board members spellbound as he spoke with both conviction and passion. Congratulations, Amir, for being such a great ambassador for SCAPA!

SCAPA in the Community

SCAPA Students Cast in Broadway Bound Production

Come see the following students in the Lexington premiere of "13: The Musical":

Cast

• Patrick Garr
  
• Emma Becker
  
• Anna Marie Miller
  
• Forrest Loeffler
  
• Scott DiMeo
  
• Hannah Hetzel-Ebben
• Paige Childers
  
• Elise Parker
  
• Andrew Padilla
  
• Ja’Co Johnson
• Katelyn Mofield
  
• Becca Peniston
• Emily Eckert

13: THE MUSICAL

A grown-up story about growing up! When his parents get divorced and he's forced to move from New York to a small town in Indiana, Evan Goldman just wants to make friends and survive the school year. Easier said than done. The star quarterback is threatening to ruin his life and his only friend, Patrice, won't talk to him. The school freak sees an opportunity for blackmail and someone is spreading the nastiest rumors. With an unforgettable rock score from Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown, "13" is a hilarious, high-energy musical for all ages about discovering that cool is where you find it, and sometimes where you least expect it. This musical was the first production on broadway to feature an all-youth cast. Be a part of the premiere performance of 13 in Lexington, KY! RATED {PG}.

Performances will be held in Memorial Hall on UK's campus

• Friday, July 22 at 4:00pm and 7:30pm
• Saturday, July 23, at 2pm and 7:30pm
  

SCAPA Spotlights

This section is reserved for recognizing accomplishments by SCAPA students, parents, faculty and staff. Please send arts accomplishments to Carolyn Waterbury-Tieman (carolyn.tieman@fayette.kyschools.us). Space limitations will determine how many we can include in any given month.

SCAPA Gets a Facelift SCAPA, Bluegrass has had a facelift this summer. The inside of our building has been painted from top to bottom. The eight colors used throughout the building have truly changed the appearance of our school. We believe the students will love what they see when they return. The pictures give a glimpse of what is in store when the building opens for business in August. We were fortunate to have a terrific team of painters who took their work very seriously. They did an exceptional job and were so pleased that we were happy with the outcome. Thank you to all the dedicated painters who have given a new face to SCAPA! It looks 100% better.

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Academic News

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Arts News

BG Band

• Band News
  

LHS Orchestra

• Lafayette Orchestra News

LHS Band

• Lafayette Band News
  

LHS Vocal

• LHS Vocal Newsletters
  

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Club and Team News

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Alumni News

Graduating SCAPA Alumni to Marry

Nathan Barker graduated from the University of Kentucky with a Bachelors of Music in Music Education. Lydia Kabalen graduated from the University of Kentucky with a Bachelors of Music. Lydia will be a graduate assistant at the University of Tennessee in the fall. Nathan and Lydia are engaged to be married next June.

Alumni! We Want To Know What You Are Doing!

We would like to make plaques to hang outside each of the arts rooms with the names of graduates and what they are doing professionally. Mr. Love has one on the wall just outside his door. Every year he takes his new 4th graders out in the hall, reads the names of past students and what they are doing, and tells the current students that if they dedicate themselves to their work, someday their name will be on the plaque. This is a great motivator! We want every arts teacher to have the opportunity to do the same thing. Please send me your name, year you graduated, major and what you are doing professionally so that we can expand and maintain this tradition. My address is carolyn.tieman@fayette.kyschools.us. We are looking forward to hearing from you and celebrating your success.

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Arts Roundtable

The Arts Roundtable is a place where we can share valuable information about the essential role of the arts in our lives and the lives of our children. (Please submit items to Carolyn Waterbury-Tieman, carolyn.tieman@fayette.kyschools.us, by the 20th of each month.)

White House Panel Calls for 'Reinvesting' in Arts Education

• Read the complete article

President's Committee Tackles Arts Education

With First Lady Michelle Obama and such celebrities as Sarah Jessica Parker lending support, the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities issues a report aiming to encourage a buildup of arts education in the U.S.

By Mike Boehm, Los Angeles Times, May 11 2011

Hoping to reverse a decades-long decline in arts education in American elementary and secondary schools, the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities has issued a report intended to help advocates press for more money, better teaching approaches and a fresh mind-set that doesn't treat arts learning as a frill or an afterthought, readily cut when school budgets grow tight.

• President's Committee tackles arts education (Source: Los Angeles Times)
  

Submit information to Carolyn Waterbury-Tieman (carolyn.tieman@fayette.kyschools.us)

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Arts Bookbag

The Arts Bookbag is a place where we can recommend books about the arts that we have found to be informative and inspiring. (Please submit titles to Carolyn Waterbury-Tieman, carolyn.tieman@fayette.kyschools.us, by the 20th of each month.)

• My Reading Life by Pat Conroy
• My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. Daniel Pink, 2009
• Keepers of the Children. Laura M. Ramirez, 2004
• The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life. Twyla Tharp. Simon & Schuster, 2005.
• The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron
• Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Genius by Michael Michalko
• A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future. Daniel H. Pink. (2005, 2006). Riverhead Books, 375 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014.
• The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything. Ken Robinson. (2009). Viking, 375 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014.
• Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative, Ken Robinson, Capstone, 2001
  
• 5 Minds for the Future, Howard Gardner, Harvard Business School Press, 2009
  
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay Books, 2007
  
• Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown & Company, 2008

Children

• The Art Lesson by Tomie DePaola
  
• Little Smudge by L. LeNeouanic
  

SCAPA FUNdraising Opportunities

Continuous SCAPA FUNdraisers

There are 3 ways that you can financially support SCAPA all year long with minimal effort!

• When you shop at Amazon.com, use the icon on the front page of the FOAS website, www.friends-scapa.org, and SCAPA gets money for every order you make!
• Purchase a SCAPA Kroger card from Miranda Hines, 351-4931, mhines@email.uky.edu. Use your SCAPA Kroger card!
• Put a sandwich-sized baggy on your refrigerator door. Clip Box Tops for Education and put them in the bag. Turn your bag of Box Tops into your child’s homeroom each month!

Remember that when you contribute to SCAPA it benefits every student, grades 4-12, in every arts area. You can make a difference!

Box Tops For Education

General Mills Corporation, sponsor of the Box Tops For Education program, has been involved in giving to educational programs since 1996. Over the past 13 years, participating schools have earned over $300 million dollars in funding. The Box Tops program is a simple way for our school to receive money without having to write grants, sell products, work hours, or buy things we don’t want or need. As a parent, relative, or friend of SCAPA, all you have to do is clip the “Official Box Top Coupon” off of the products you already buy and use. A complete list of these products can be found at boxtops4education.com. After clipping, send the box tops to school with your student. Each homeroom teacher has a container in their classroom for collection. Each month, the box tops are collected and counted, with the top collecting homeroom earning a prize. Come on SCAPA Penguins, keep clipping and collecting those box tops. Let’s make this an awesome box tops year.

Volunteer Opportunities

Please download a copy for each of the FCPS approved volunteers in your family. Completed forms may be turned in to Ms. Barbara Talbert at the front office of Bluegrass SCAPA. Thank you so much for your commitment to making SCAPA great!

• Bluegrass Volunteer Form
• LHS Volunteer Form

Please be aware that a records check is required in order to participate in volunteer activities in the Fayette County School system.

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FOAS Board Officers and Representatives

• Officers and Representatives

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