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8th Period Lite Days is this Wednesday, 3/13/24 – this is the last 8th period lite. With the exception of Study Skills class all other 8th periods are canceled to allow teachers time for professional conversations, PLCs. If you are unable to pick up your child at 3:18 pm, they may report to a study hall provided on 8th period lite days ONLY.
Report cards will be mailed out this week.
Dayana Diaz Community Service Award is awarded each spring at the All School Awards celebration.Staff, students, or community members can nominate students for this award. A nomination form is available in the office. A committee assigned by administration will determine the award recipients. In addition to serving as a student ambassador in at least one PAPA event during the school year, the recipient of this award must be a student in good academic and behavioral standing (academic standing based on New Mexico Activity Association guidelines and behavioral standing with no discipline referrals during the current year). It will be presented to a student or students who consistently demonstrate qualities of compassion for school peers and members of the greater community. The recipient(s) must have provided unpaid service during the current school year for at least (2) two organizations not affiliated with the school. Community service is not limited to performing arts, although it is highly encouraged. Award recipient(s) must also attend at least one community-based workshop, conference or event promoting social justice, diversity, safety, non-violence, or healthy habits. Here is the nomination form: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Afwx6swi1XDJDCpgV9Z6UD4rNscx4C2xXAxdYzeMNno/edit?usp=sharing
Mark your calendars for Panda Assessment Week (PAW-tential) April 9th and April 10th. Thank you for your partnership in completing required state testing the best way, the PAPA way. At PAPA we embrace our student data and use test results in our planning and teaching. Grades 6-11 participate in testing while our Senior class works on graduation activities including cap decorating. During testing days students will participate in mindfulness activities like yoga, school wide breakfast, and afternoon activities. Please note that except for emergencies students will not be released during an active test session. We appreciate you checking the schedule and adjusting appointments as much as you are able. Most students will be testing from 8:45 am-noon on 4/9 and 4/10. |
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Save the Date
Blood Drive – March 18th
from 10am – 2pm @ PAPA
If you donate you will be entered in for a chance of winning $5,000.
Please check in with the front office and they point you in the right direction. Be on the look out for the digital form. |
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Health & Wellness
The National Women’s History Month’s theme for 2024 celebrates “Women Who Advocate for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.” The theme recognizes women throughout the country who understand that, for a positive future, we need to eliminate bias and discrimination entirely from our lives and institutions. To be a woman in history was difficult enough; subsequently, to have been a woman and queer in the past was fraught with unimaginable difficulties. But certain notable figures still managed — and in spectacular style. Today for Women’s History Wednesday we highlight 3 of these women: Bell Hooks, Audre Lorde, and Angela Davis. Bell Hooks (a stylized pen name for Gloria Jean Watkins) was the author of a multitude of books and articles on feminism, including Feminism Is for Everybody and Ain’t I a woman?: Black Women and Feminism. In her feminist theory work, Bell Hooks addresses race, class, and gender and has contributed greatly to the expansion of the ideas of intersectionality, queerness, and social activism. An amazing example of intersecting identities, Audre Lorde was an American writer and poet who identified strongly as a Black feminist lesbian, referring to herself as a “Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.” Lorde blazed a trail of Black female empowerment before passing away from breast cancer far too early in 1992. She must be remembered as a resilient civil rights activist who immortalized herself in her poetry. “You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” So said Angela Davis. A radical political activist and theorist, Davis gained fame in the 1960s and 1970s as a leader in the Black Civil Rights, Black Power and Black and feminist liberation movements. Pivoting off the Serenity prayer, Davis’s most famous quote is the one that threads through all her activism: “I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” |
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| Public Academy for Performing Arts
Where Art is the Heart of Education
11800 Princess Jeanne Ave. N.E. Albuquerque, NM 87112
Website: www.paparts.org
Phone (505) 830-3128 Fax (505) 830-9930
Attendance Line: Attendance@paparts.org or (505) 830-3128 press 5 |
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