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Bacich Grade-Level Family Socials

There are many different opportunities to volunteer during school hours and for before and after-school community events. Please see the links below to discover KSPTA volunteer opportunities. Please complete the form for the opportunities that interest you, and a KSPTA committee representative will be in touch, thank you!

Kent Volunteer Opportunities

Bacich School Wide Volunteer Opportunities

Bacich Lead Room Parents/Art for Bears Coordinators/ Carline Coordinators

No-Drama Discipline with Best Selling Author Tina Payne Bryson.

September 19, 7-9 p.m. PST

Join us for an engaging workshop with renowned author and child development expert Dr. Tina Payne Bryson, based on No-Drama Discipline, her bestselling book, co-authored with Dr. Dan Siegel.

Complete with candid parenting stories and plenty of humor, Dr. Bryson will explore the whole-brain approach to discipline and offer parents an effective, compassionate roadmap for dealing with tantrums, tensions, and tears.

For more information or to register click here.

Sponsored by Center for Children and Youth.

How to Help Kids Develop Their Emotional Vocabulary

September 29, 5:30-6:30pm PST

Join Deborah Farmer Kris – educator, child development expert, and author of the new children’s book “You Have Feelings All the Time” – to learn more about the science of emotion and how everyone benefits when we learn how to name, normalize, and navigate our feelings.

Parents/caregivers, students, educators, mental health professionals, and community members welcome! Free admission. Simultaneous Spanish interpretation will be available.

Sponsored by Parent Venture.

How to Support your Upset Child

September 30, 2022, 12-1 p.m. PST

Join us for an all-new Parent Forum (English) with Eran Magen, PhD, founder of Parenting for Humans. Learn how you can support your upset child, especially during moments of emotional intensity (e.g., anger, fear, anxiety, frustration). In this discussion group, you will have the opportunity to interact with other parents like yourself, as well as hear from parent-child communication expert Eran Magen.

Eran Magen holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University. He is the founder and CEO of Parenting for Humans, an organization that supports relationship-first, trauma-informed parenting.

Parents/caregivers, educators, mental health professionals, and community members welcome! Free admission.

Sponsored by Parent Venture.

Upcoming KSPTA Meeting

Monday, October 3, 2022, 7-8 p.m. on Zoom

All are welcome to attend.

See meeting schedule and agendas here.

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