On Tuesday, February 11th, everyone is invited to a showing of the documentary Screenagers at Newton North High School at 7pm.  This event is sponsored by the Newton PTO Council and four Newton elementary schools, including Lincoln-Eliot, and will be followed by a discussion and Q&A.

Screenagers synopsis:  “Are you watching kids scroll through life, with their rapid-fire thumbs and a six-second attention span? Physician and filmmaker Delaney Ruston saw that with her own kids and learned that the average kid spends 6.5 hours a day looking at screens. She wondered about the impact of all this time and about the friction occurring in homes and schools around negotiating screen time—friction she knew all too well.

“In SCREENAGERS, as with her award-winning documentaries on mental health, Delaney takes a deeply personal approach as she probes into the vulnerable corners of family life, including her own, to explore struggles over social media, video games, academics and internet addiction. Through poignant, and unexpectedly funny stories, along with surprising insights from authors, psychologists, and brain scientists, SCREENAGERS reveals how tech time impacts kids’ development and offers solutions on how adults can empower kids to best navigate the digital world and find balance.”

This Monday, January 13th, at 7pm, there will be a School Committee Meeting in Room 210 of the Education Center located at 100 Walnut Street.  These meetings are open to the public and anyone is welcome to attend!

At this meeting in particular, there will be an update from the Equity Committee, including a discussion of PTO spending across all the elementary schools last year.  This was a topic of great interest at our PTO meeting last week, so we encourage anyone who is interested to go to the SC meeting to find out more.

Meeting information at the SC website

Or if you can’t attend the meeting in person, all School Committee meetings are televised live by NewTV and archived meetings are available at NewTV’s website (https://newtv.org/school-committee-meetings).

Watch Live Meetings Broadcast on NewTV

Please reach out to us at secretary@lepto.org if you have any questions!

Thank you so much to everyone who came to Tuesday night’s PTO meeting with Superintendent David Fleishman and the School Committee members — we had a great turnout and were able to discuss several topics of importance to our community.  Most notably, there were several questions about the new building and about equity.

Click here for the full January 2020 PTO meeting minutes.

For more information about the Equity Committee and the current policy, please see the School Committee Equity page and FAQs.  

At the School Committee homepage, you can also sign up for their email updates by filling out the form at the bottom of the page.  The updates include School Committee meeting minutes and any news about the progress of building projects, high school start times, etc.

The new Lincoln-Eliot building at 150 Jackson Rd. is currently expected to be ready in three and a half years, and the Design Review Committee has room for another LE parent on it.  If you are interested or want to find out more, please reach out to John Mulligan or Principal Morrissey!

As always, if you have any questions or thoughts, please reach out to us at secretary@lepto.org or president@lepto.org!  Thank you again to everyone for coming and supporting our school (and apologies for anyone we missed on the attendance list!)!  We hope to see everyone at our next PTO meeting on Tuesday, March 10th!

At our PTO meeting this Tuesday, January 7th, we will be joined by Superintendent David Fleishman and School Committee members Ruth Goldman (Chair) and Margaret Albright.

The Superintendent and School Committee members visit each school throughout the year to answer questions and provide information to each school community.  This is a great opportunity to ask questions specific to our Lincoln-Eliot community and learn more about district-wide initiatives.  If you would like a certain topic to be addressed and are unable to attend the meeting, please forward your questions to president@lepto.org and we will pass your questions along at the meeting. 

For a preview of the rest of our agenda, you can view our slideshow presentation here.

The PTO meeting will take place from 6:30-7:30pm in the library.  We are hoping as many families can attend as possible.  As always, child care will be provided in the gym for the duration of the meeting.  We look forward to seeing you there!

This coming Thursday, January 9th, our 4th and 5th graders will be performing their Winter Concert in the L-E gym at 7pm!  Come see our 4th grade strings, 4th grade band, string ensemble, 5th grade band, and the 4th and 5th grade chorus perform!  Everyone is invited to attend and support our young musicians.

The music groups will also be performing for the younger grades during the school day on Thursday, so if you can’t make it in the evening, ask your kids about the concert and what music they heard!