Updated to reflect new location:  Thomas Jefferson Community Center! Please join us at our next monthly Arlington Special Education PTA meeting on Thursday, May 11, for a very special evening at the Thomas Jefferson Community Center!  Beginning at 6 pm, refreshments will be served.  At 6:30, SEPTA will conduct a very brief business meeting, followed by a […]

Friends, it’s SEPTA Award season!  And that means that, through this Friday, April 7, 2017, you have the perfect opportunity to see our community’s most deserving teachers, staff members, schools, students, parents and volunteer leaders recognized for their hard work and dedication to APS special education students.  Award recipients will be recognized at a special ceremony on Thursday, […]

Minutes of  Arlington Special Education PTA Monthly Meeting Thursday 3/9/17 7-9 PM Syphax Education Center 2110 Washington Blvd., Rooms 101, 103 Arlington, VA Minutes from February meeting: Presented by Caroline Levy, President for approval. Passed. Officers’ Reports: Treasurer’s Report: Adam Mann Reviewed actuals and budget 155 members as of 2/28. More than half our goal of […]

Wow, what a lineup of events we have going on this month. On Thursday, March 9, three Arlington parents will join us for our monthly meeting to discuss how they have supported the journeys to independence their children with special needs have experienced.  Syphax Education Center, 2110 Washington Blvd., 7-9 pm. On Saturday, March 18, SEPTA invites APS […]

Courtesy of SEPTA Secretary, Karen Sosnoski, here are the minutes from the most recent monthly SEPTA meeting. Thursday 1/12/17 7-8:30 PM Syphax Education Center 2110 Washington Blvd. Arlington, Rooms 101, 103 Minutes from December meeting Presented by Caroline Levy, President for approval. Passed. Officer’s Reports: Treasurer’s Report: Adam Mann. He came on board in September. […]

Thanks to SEPTA Secretary, Karen Sosnoski, and SEPTA member and friend, Tauna Szymanski, for reporting on last week’s very informative Student Roundtable and Superintendent Chat!  A video from the meeting is at least temporarily available via Twitter. 2016 SEPTA Superintendent Chat December 8, 2016 Arlington Education Center 1426 N. Quincy Street, Arlington, VA 22207 Moderated by […]

Courtesy of SEPTA Secretary, Karen Sosnoski, here are the minutes from the November 10, 2016 SEPTA meeting. Arlington Special Education PTA Thursday November 10, 2016 7-8:30 PM Thomas Jefferson M.S. Library Entendiendo Educacion Especial Minutes from October meeting presented for approval. Approved. Rocio Villalobos, translated the meeting from Spanish to English for Secretary Karen Sosnoski. President’s […]

Last December, SEPTA hosted its first “Sensory-Friendly Santa” event, specially designed to help make visiting with Santa more accessible and less stressful for children with special needs and their parents, and featuring a very special guest, former Congressman Jim Moran.  The event was a huge success, with many children meeting Santa for the first time, […]

Entendiendo Educación Especial : Un taller en español Este taller le ayudará a identificar las fortalezas y retos educativos de su hijo y también organizar la información importante sobre él. Podrá conocer y aprender las siete fases del proceso de educación especial e identificar las acciones específicas que puede tomar durante este proceso. Jueves, 10 […]

Here are the minutes from the October SEPTA meeting, courtesy of SEPTA Secretary, Karen Sosnoski: Minutes of Arlington Special Education PTA Thursday October 13, 2016 Syphax Education Center Arlington, VA Caroline Levy, SEPTA President, called the meeting to order. Caroline introduced September minutes; voted on and passed. Caroline introduced Adam Mann, new treasurer Adam Mann, Treasurer’s […]