Special Education Support for Parents - Are you familiar with Wellesley Parent Advisory Council (PAC)?

Annual Newsletter – August, 2012 www.wellesleypac.org
New Email: pacwellesley@gmail.com

The Year Ahead - 
We have some changes in store for the coming school year:
Before school starts in September, our web site will be new! It will be a work in
progress, but our hope is to make the WPAC web site a clearinghouse of information
for our families.

Also, please note that our email address has changed to pacwellesley@gmail.com.
Finally, we are moving our message board. We encourage WPAC families to sign up
for our new Google Groups.
Please visit: https://sites.google.com/site/pacwellesley/home/google-group to sign
up.

What is WPAC?
The Wellesley Parent Advisory Council (PAC) is an all-volunteer, non-profit
organization of parents and caregivers of children with disabilities affiliated with the
Wellesley Public School District. We meet to learn more about special education. We
sponsor workshops, informational meetings, discussion groups, legislative lobbying
efforts and a variety of other activities to help improve our children’s education.
The Wellesley PAC is comprised of parents just like you. Although your child is unique,
there are hundreds of parents in Wellesley who are familiar with the challenges you
face and that are engaged in some part of the Special Education process. We support
each other by offering our expertise and resources.

A Note From the President
This past summer, we have been working on improving the communication WPAC
members can have between each other. We’ll be launching a new web site before
school starts and we are changing our message board. I encourage all of you to check
out and contribute to our new resources. I look forward to hearing from you!
Laura Foody, laurafoody@gmail.com

2012-13 WPAC Meetings

The WPAC Meetings will be on the following Tuesdays in the Middle School Library:

September 18th 6:45 to 8:45pm

(Best Buddies Program Update)

November 13th 7-9pm

January 15th 7-9pm

March 19th 7-9pm

May 21st 7-9pm

We will also have some daytime informal coffee/chat sessions. Be on the lookout for dates and times!

2012-13 WPAC Board

We are looking for parents who would be interested in joining us. Most of these positions require a very small time commitment. 

Openings for the 2012-13 school year include:

1. Secretary
2. WMS Representative
3. Website/Google Group Coordinator

You may contact our board officers through our email: pacwellesley@gmail.com or you may
find your school representative contact information in your respective school directory.

Please join the WPAC Gmail Parents Group through our webpage:

https://sites.google.com/site/pacwellesley/home/google-group

CO-PRESIDENTS: Laura Foody
VICE-PRESIDENTS: Jill Larsen
TREASURER: Mate Converse
SECRETARY: OPEN
WEBSITE/Gmail: L. Foody/OPEN
PAC PTO REPRESENTATIVES:
PAWS – Fern Werth and Regina LaRocque
BATES – Marisol Rodriguez
FISKE – Robin Steinberg
HARDY – Sandra Baldinger
HUNNEWELL – Julie Vari-Nikolewski
SCHOFIELD – Julie Vari-Nikolewski
SPRAGUE – Elizabeth Young and Mason Smith
UPHAM – Jill Larsen
WMS – OPEN
WHS – Pam Lam and Marijane Tuohy
Out of District Rep – Liz Fahey