What's New Be sure to check this link often for updates! Upcoming events at Rosa Parks include: Thursday, November 19. Honor
Roll Assembly for grades 2 - 6 at 8:30 A.M. in the
multipurpose room.
Rosa Parks Discover Club in association with Waxwing Media, click on the item below:
To get information about the PTA sponsored flu clinic in December, click here. Prince George's County Public Schools (PGCPS) makes it easy for parents, students, and employees to learn the operating status of the school system as soon as it is available. PGCPS unveiled a new subscription service in October 2008 available to anyone through the school system's Web site (www.pgcps.org). By clicking "SUBSCRIBE NOW!" subscribers receive an instant email of all weather alerts, and they can choose to receive press releases, school lunch menus, and other information. For a PowerPoint featuring our Health Fair held April 18, 2009, click here. For a brochure explaining the Pre-Kindergarten program, click here. For the new Board Systems Oversight Policy, click here. To check the current status of Prince George's County Public Schools as regards delayed openings, closings, and early dismissals, click here. For the superintendent's letter on procedures relating to weather-related delays, closings, and early dismissals, click here. For the English version of the superintendent's letter on
staph infection, click
here. For our "Hands" video dedicated to the troops in Iraq, click here. For our "Rosa L. Parks Elementary School" video, click here. Thank you to all of our parents who has volunteered thus far. According to new board regulations, all volunteers must be fingerprinted before working with our children. Unfortunately this may be an inconvenience for some, but safety for all of our children is our first priority. Tips for Reading with Your Child:
Parents are encouraged to remind the students to walk on the main roads to school each day. We can ensure our children's safety if the students follow the directions of the crossing guards. Students will not be allowed to walk through the community parks as a means of a short-cut. Adult supervision will not be available in those areas. All visitors to the school must sign in at the main office and wear the visitors' badge. Parents violating this request will be ask to report to the office or leave the building. We must always ensure the safety of our students.
2009-2010 Master School Calendar 2009 2010 Educationally Speaking... Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others. ~Rosa Parks Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mine worker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another. ~Nelson Mandela Education, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man. ~Horace Mann All who have meditated on the act of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. ~Aristotle Tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. ~Malcolm X A person's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Train a child to follow in the right path, and when he grows up he will not depart from it. ~Proverbs 22:6 A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ~Henry Adams Children have more need of models than of critics. ~Joseph Joubert I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand. ~Chinese Proverb I touch the future; I teach. ~Christa McAuliffe It takes a village to raise a child. ~African Proverb Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher. ~Japanese Proverb Failure is instructive. The thinking person learns as much from his failures as from his successes. ~John Dewey Self-education is fine when the pupil is a born educator. ~John Shedd The school of hard knocks is a good school, but the fees are high. ~Heinrich Heine It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. ~Alec Bourne Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. ~John Ruskin Genius without education is like silver in the mine. ~Benjamin Franklin Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. ~Thomas Edison The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows. ~Laurence Lee What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. ~George Bernard Shaw Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. ~S. J. Perelman Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ~Ambrose Bierce A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear. ~James B. Stockdale The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ~William Ward The best teachers make themselves progressively unnecessary. ~Thomas Carruthers Learning how to learn is life's most important skill. ~Tony Buzan I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. ~Albert Einstein Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. ~Benjamin Franklin Education has only one purpose: living. And living has no purpose except--living! ~Erich Fromm Learning never exhausts the mind. ~Leonardo da Vinci Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ~Mahatma Gandhi Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. ~Albert Schweitzer There is no more beautiful life than that of a student. ~F. Albrecht Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. ~Winston Churchill A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. ~Alexander Pope A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. ~Frederick Douglass No dreamer is ever too small, and no dream is ever too big. ~Anonymous The things which hurt, instruct. ~Benjamin Franklin Knowledge is the one thing in life no one can take from you. ~Folk Saying Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. ~Gail Godwin The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. ~Herbert Spencer Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. ~James A. Garfield To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains. ~Mary Pettibone Poole Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. ~Pete Seeger The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. ~Plato The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. ~Plutarch Knowledge speaks, wisdom listens. ~Jimi Hendrix You aren't learning anything when you're talking. ~Lyndon B. Johnson Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius. ~Michael Gelb Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. ~Robert Frost There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation--veneer isn't worth anything. ~George Washington Carver In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply. ~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. ~Marilyn vos Savant When I learn something new--and it happens every day--I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest. ~Bill Moyers Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you. ~Barbara Sher You have power over your mind--not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. ~Marcus Aurelius Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. ~William Shakespeare Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. ~William Butler Yeats Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. ~Thomas Jefferson All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten. ~Robert Fulghum Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten. ~Wendy Kaminer Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. ~James Baldwin Knowledge is power. ~Kikuyu Proverb A sure way to lift up yourself is by helping to lift up someone else. ~Booker T. Washington The lack of knowledge is darker than night. ~African Proverb Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. ~Seneca My interest is in the future because I'm going to spend the rest of my life there. ~Charles Kettering Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ~Joseph Addison No nation that does not take proper care of its young can survive--or deserves to. ~Father Flanagan A child miseducated is a child lost. ~John F. Kennedy To teach is to learn. ~Japanese Proverb Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give. ~UN Declaration Only the educated are free. ~Epictetus Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. ~John Dana Out of the public schools grows the greatness of a nation. ~Mark Twain Nothing in life is to be feared, only understood. ~Marie Curie As the twig is bent so the tree inclines. ~Virgil What we are born is God's gift to us; what we become is our gift to God. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make ye free. ~John 8:13 If you light a candle in a very dark place, it shines a long way. ~Dr. Tom Dooley If you can read this, thank a teacher. ~Bumper Sticker |