August 2016 - Fresno Unified School District - Building Futures

August 2016 -- [img SRC="http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/content/kfsn/images/cms/BF_ABC_720-gray.jpg" ALIGN="" /][br /][br /][post ID="1449424" /][br /][Ads /][br /][url HREF="http://abc30.com/uncategorized/ibienvenidos-de-regreso---va-a-ser-un-gran-ano/1449416/" TARGET="" REL=""]Español[/url] | [url HREF="http://abc30.com/uncategorized/zoo-siab-tos-txais-rov-tuaj---nws-yuav-yog-ib-lub-xyoo-zoo-tshaj-plaws/1449419/" TARGET="" REL=""]Hmong[/url][br /][br /][post ID="1449109" /][br /][url HREF="http://abc30.com/uncategorized/universidad-para-padres-ofrece-clases-y-tiene-nueva-localidad-/1449106/[br /]" TARGET="" REL=""]Español[/url] | [url HREF="http://abc30.com/uncategorized/parent-university-qhib-muaj-tej-chav-kawm-nyob-qhov-chaw-tshiab/1449107/" TARGET="" REL=""]Hmong[/url][br /][br /][post ID="1449071" /][br /][url HREF="http://abc30.com/uncategorized/tres-grados-mas-tomaran-el-camino/1449054/" TARGET="" REL=""]Español[/url] | [url HREF="http://abc30.com/uncategorized/peb-qib-ntxiv-sam-sim-pib/1449060/" TARGET="" REL=""]Hmong[/url][br /][br /][post ID="1449035" /][br /][post ID="1449020" /][br /][post ID="1449202" /][br /][post ID="1449360" /][br /][post ID="1448983" /][br /][Ads /][br /][post ID="1448965" /][br /][post ID="1448963" /][br /][post ID="1449008" /][br /][post ID="1449378" /][br /][post ID="1449393" /][br /][post ID="1449399" /][br /][post ID="1450307" /][br /][post ID="1451413" /][br /][br /][br /][br /][b]Important Parent Dates[/b][br /][Ads /][br /]August 10 and 24: Board of Education meetings (watch for informative about alternative sites for meetings)[br /]August 15: Start of 2016-17 academic year[br /]August 23: New Parent University classes begin (see story this page)[br /]September 5: Labor Day holiday[br /][br /][b]Students Learn Theater Arts over the Summer:[/b][br /][br /]Liz Stoeckel, a teaching artist with the Fresno Arts Council, works with students during Theater Summer School at Roosevelt School of the Arts. The four-week program was part of a new initiative, Fifth Grade on Broadway, made possible by a $100,000 donation from Francine and Murray Farber of Fresno.[br /][br /]Five teaching artists from the Fresno Arts Council and two Fresno Unified elementary teachers taught theater movement, visual arts, script writing and acting each day of the program.[br /][br /]Eighty students from second through fifth grade from five schools in the Roosevelt region participated. For video, go to[br /][url HREF="http://www.vimeo.com/fresnounified/summertheaterarts2016" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow"]vimeo.com/fresnounified/summertheaterarts2016[/url]