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.
November 25-29. Thanksgiving
break.
Friday, December 18. Second
quarter progress report released.
December 24-January 3. Winter
Break.
Monday, January 4. First day
back from Winter Break.
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 the Spanish version of superintendent's letter on staph
infection, click here.
For the English version of a fact sheet on staph infection,
click here.
For the Spanish version of a fact sheet 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:
- Do it every day and pick a regular time. By doing so, you demonstrate that reading is important.
- Read the book before you read it aloud. Reading aloud is performing. You will do a better job if you are familiar with the book.
- Read books you like. If you like the book, odds are your child will also. Start by reading books you enjoyed as a child.
- Read articles from magazines, newspapers, and other materials aloud.
- Read for information and for fun!
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.
- Students eating breakfast should report to school at 7:30 A.M. Students arriving before 7:45 A.M. will be allowed to eat breakfast.
- Students reporting to school after 7:50 A.M. will be marked tardy.
- Students are encouraged to wear the school uniform daily.
- Request for early dismissal must occur before 1:30 P.M.
- All parent correspondence and student information will be sent home on Thursdays.
- Parents are encouraged to get involved in their child's education by volunteering at school, a volunteer sign-up sheet is available in the main office.
- Remember to hug your child each day!
- Changes for students' dismissal must be submitted in writing to the classroom teacher. Telephone requests for dismissal changes will not be honored unless it is an emergency. Emergencies will be determined by an administrator.
2009-2010 Master School Calendar
2009
Monday, August 24. First
day of school.
Monday, September 7. Labor Day.
School closed.
Friday, September 25.
Professional Development Day. School closed.
Monday, September 28. Yom
Kippur. School closed.
Tuesday, October 6. First
quarter progress report released
Friday, October 16. MSTA
Convention. School closed.
Thursday, October 29. End of
first quarter (45 days).
Friday, October 30.
Grading/Teacher Planning. School closed.
Tuesday, November 10. First
quarter report cards released.
Wednesday, November 11.
Parent/Teacher Conferences. School closed.
November 25-29. Thanksgiving
break.
Friday, December 18. Second
quarter progress report released.
December 24-January 3. Winter
Break.
2010
Monday, January 4. First
Day back from Winter Break.
Monday, January 18. Martin L.
King, Jr., Day. School closed.
Friday, January 22. End of
second quarter (48 days).
Monday, January 25.
Grading/Teacher Planning. School closed.
Wednesday, February 3. Second
quarter report cards released.
Friday, February 12.
Professional Development Day. School closed.
Monday, February 15.
Presidents' Day. School closed.
Thursday, March 4. Third
quarter progress reports released.
Thursday, March 25. End of
third quarter (41 days).
Friday, March 26.
Grading/Teacher Planning. Schools closed.
March 29 - April 5. Spring
Break. Schools closed.
Wednesday, April 14. Third
quarter report cards released.
Monday, May 10. Fourth quarter
progress reports released.
Monday, May 31. Memorial
Day.
Thursday, June 10. Last day of
school. End of fourth quarter (47 days).
Monday, June 21. Fourth quarter
reports cards sent to the mailroom.
Educationally Speaking...
Thoughts on Children and the Field of
Teaching
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
