Please make sure you log in your hours using the link above. Families who have reached the 40 hour commitment will be recognized in future editions of the newsletter and on this page of the PIVOT website.

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Summit Rainier YahooGroup

Diane Tom

We are happy to announce the launch of a Yahoo Group to facilitate communication between Summit Rainier parents/guardians. This group is set up to answer questions and build community. If you would like to join this listserve/email group, you can join in one of three ways:

1. Go to the group home page and click Join

2. Send a blank email to this address and respond to the confirmation

3. Email group moderator, Diane Tom and she will send you an invitation to the group

Labels for Education

We are now collecting Labels for Education to redeem for school and athletic supplies for Rainier students. A full list of participating products is here. Drop off your labels in the box in the Rainier office.

Amazon.com

null Do you shop at Amazon.com? Bookmark our new Amazon link today and Amazon will donate up to 10% of your purchases to Rainier! The donation comes out of Amazon's pockets not yours, so it is a painless way to donate. To take advantage of this program, simply visit Amazon.com from this link, shop and check out as you normally would and Amazon does the rest!

P.S. For all of our wonderful families who have been using eScrip's Amazon link: please switch to this new Amazon link while continuing to use eScrip for everything else. eScrip gives Rainier a maximum of 2.5% per Amazon purchase while using our new link brings in a minimum of 4%!

Cafecito

Todas las familias de habla hispana est�n cordialmente invitadas a una sesi�n de preguntas y respuestas con los Directores de Summit Rainier y Tahoma. Nos vemos para tomar una tazita de cafe el jueves, 10 de octubre de 3pm a 4 pm en el Starbucks localizado en la esquina de Story Road y White Road. Si tiene algo que te gustar�a agregar a la agenda para nuestro primer Cafecito por favor env�e sus preguntas, comentarios o sugerencias a la Sra. Lamcke.

Message from the Directors

Dear Rainier Families,

We are pleased to share both a short-term and long-term facility update with our community. We continue to work with East Side Union High School District to address both the current short-term needs of our site, as well as a long-term facility plan. Last week, Ms. Lamcke, Mr. Richards, and Mr. Arambula met with the Superintendent and both Assistant Superintendents. We had a productive meeting, and are pleased to share the results with you.

The school district would like to negotiate a long-term lease for Rainier to stay at our current location on Mount Pleasant's campus. We are excited about the benefits of this - we can continue to improve our campus this year, and we will have the stability of a set facility for the next few years. We are continuing to explore additional options for a long-term facility, including looking for land where we may be able to build a facility for both Rainier and Tahoma. While this is our ideal plan, we have had little success finding anything suitable in East San Jose. We will continue our search, but are glad the district is providing us with another option.

In order to secure this long-term lease through the school district, we need your help! As you know, we have a one-year lease for the current school year. In order to apply for a new lease, we must reapply to East Side Union High School District through Proposition 39. Part of our application is that we must prove that we will have enough students to fill the space next year. On Friday, each student received a bright orange Intent to Enroll form from their mentor. Our goal is to receive 100% of these forms completed and signed by this Friday, October 11th. Each mentor group that turns in 100% by Friday will earn an ice cream party, and, if the entire school turns in 100% by Friday, we will earn a free dress day on Monday, October 14th. Please do your part and make sure your completed form is turned in. Forms are also available online in English and Spanish.

We are also continuing to negotiate with the district about our current facilities concerns, in particular the bathroom and water issues. At this point, the district would like to wait to secure a long-term agreement before making these major improvements to our campus. We will continue to work with them to agree on a timeline that works for all of us.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Ms. Lamcke.

Respectfully,

Pamela Lamcke, Principal

Lia Pinelli, Assistant Director

Summit Public Schools: Rainier

ComedySportz Tickets Available NOW

Our Fall Fundraiser and Community Event will be a ComedySportz Show, an interactive improv experience - great fun for the entire family and friends!

What: ComedySportz Show

Where: Mt. Pleasant High School Theatre

1750 S. White Rd. San Jose, CA 95127

When: Saturday, October 12 at 6:00pm

Cost: $10 per ticket pre-purchase or $15 at the door

Concessions will be available for purchase that night - pizza, nachos, egg rolls, and drinks.

We need to sell 200 tickets at Rainier, matching the 200 being sold by Tahoma. Tickets are available in the office or from parent volunteers. Please purchase your tickets in advance.

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Not comedy about sports, but comedy AS a sport! ComedySportz is the award winning interactive comedy show where two teams of "act-letes" compete for audience laughs and points while improvising scenes, games, operas and musicals based on audience suggestions. A referee governs the action, calling fouls and keeping the match moving at a blistering pace. The audience is always a part of the interactive show, and sometimes even winds up on stage! It's clean, fast and fun for all audiences. The Silicon Valley's longest-running show, they've been named Editor's Choice by the Wave Magazine and Best Local Theatre by the Metro's Best of the Silicon Valley.

Expeditions

As a reminder, Expeditions will run for two weeks - October 14 through October 25. Dismissal is at 3pm during Expeditions.

Greg Ponikvar

Expeditions Executive Director

Expeditions Executive Director

Greg Ponikvar has worked with Summit Public Schools for the past 4 years as a founding History Teacher at Everest Public School. He received his Teaching Credential and Master's in Education from Stanford University, and has a firm commitment to the belief that a quality education is one of the greatest responsibilities our nation holds. Through the Expeditions Program, Greg hopes to empower every student to find the relevance of their education, expose them to real-world challenges, and help each one find a passion (career or otherwise) that will last throughout their lives.

Internship Partners Needed

This year during Expeditions we are offering a career class for Summit San Jose students and are working toward placing students in off-campus internships this year and over the summer. We are eagerly seeking partners - businesses and organizations of all kinds - that would be willing to host high school interns. Here is more information about the Internship Program. If you have a lead, please contact Expeditions Teacher-Leader Kathryn Hopkins or by phone at 415-609-5127.

Recruitment for Fall 2014

Lia Pinelli, Assistant Director

Summit Rainier and Tahoma are part of Summit Public Schools - an organization of public, tuition-free, charter high schools. Our schools strive to provide students with a small and personalized educational experience with guaranteed college preparation in a physically and emotionally safe environment. Hear our students, parents, and teachers describe why they choose Summit schools: http://vimeo.com/57639234

Recruitment Open Houses

There will be Summit San Jose Recruitment Open Houses on Tuesday, November 5 and December 3 at 6:30pm on the Rainier campus. Interested families can find out more about our school at these events. This is the first chance to get and submit an application for the 2014-2015 school year and to sign up for shadow events and tours. Be sure to tell your friends and family to get their applications in by the February 28 deadline to have the highest chance of acceptance. If you have current 8th grade students, they need to go through the application process. Siblings do have a preference in the Lottery, but the application is their ticket into the Lottery.

Recruitment Parties

We would also like to announce that Summit staff is available for attending Recruitment Parties. If you bring a group of five or more new uninformed families/students together, so that our staff can inform your guests about our school option, you can earn parent volunteer hours, student free dress pass and a $50 Visa gift card. This is a great way to share about Summit and help change our community one student and family at a time. There is a form in the office.

Flyers available

Please help us recruit our new class of Rainier Bulldogs. Please distribute and post these flyers in English and Spanish. If you can help post in your child's middle school newsletter (or other appropriate forum), or know of high school information nights at your child's middle school, we would greatly appreciate your help!

Current Openings

There are a limited number of immediate openings in our current classes. For more information or if you have questions, please contact Assistant Director Lia Pinelli or call (408) 831-3104.

College Corner

College Visits

Register to visit a UC or CSU campus that's tailored to students applying. More information on the College Readiness website.

Make sure to check out the College Application Handbook for answers to detailed steps in the application process.

College Night for 10th Grade

We'll be holding a College Information Night for all 10th grade students and their families on the Tahoma campus on Thursday, October 24 at 6:30pm. This night is specifically for the 10th grade class and will give families important information about what both students and families can do to start planning for college.

LEDA (Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America)

This organization searches the nation to recruit approximately 60 students from socioeconomically disadvantages backgrounds, currently underrepresented in our nation's top colleges, universities and ultimately, leadership sectors. The Aspects of Leadership Summer Institute is held annually at Princeton University and is an intensive seven week program including leadership study, writing instruction, standardized test preparation and college advising. The deadline for 11th graders to apply is October 31. More information at their website. Mr. Avarca is available to guide you through the process.

Athletics

Coach J Bumagat, Athletic Director

Winter Sports Meeting

There will be a mandatory parent and athlete meeting for all Winter sports (Basketball, Wrestling and Soccer) this Thursday, October 10 at 6pm in the Tahoma campus auditorium. So far we only have three boys signed up for Soccer - if we have enough for a team, we also need a coach.

More information about our sports teams is available on our website: www.rainierbulldogs.com

Facilities

Maria Sousa, Facilities Chairperson

Workday - Saturday, October 26

There will be a Facilities Workday to take care of some of the Facilities issues on our campus. We plan to:

* Repair a stall door in the girls' bathroom

* Attach a larger tarp over the lunch service area

* Build a cage/box to protect the drip irrigation timer/backflow from vandalism

* Repair building vent at base of teachers' lounge building

* Weed front entry path garden

Bring work gloves, sunscreen and please check the link below for supplies we need and tools we would like to borrow for the day.

We want to make sure we have enough people to help, so please sign up to let us know you're coming. Students are welcome to participate! Sign up to volunteer here.

Annual Fund Drive

We are on our way to our $100,000 goal with generous donations from the following Rainier families and friends!

Bulldog Circle

Scott Angel

Lisa & Mark Kobayashi

Rainier Family & Friends Donations

Christina & Mitch Aronen

Brigitte Cabalse

Elizabeth Franco-Lee

Benjamin & Makiko Hartwell

Joseph Schraml & Jennifer Wolf

Helen & Stuart Sironen

Mr. & Mrs. Ronnie Tanhueco

Diane Tom

Matching Grants

United Way

Apple

Rainier Family & Friends Pledges

Isela & Jose Balleza

Marybel Lombard

Noelia Villareal

Raquel Zaragoza

We are asking each family to donate or fundraise $400 or more per student for this school year. All donations to Summit are tax deductible. Your annual donation is a small price for what a Summit education includes for our children, such as new Chromebooks (laptop computers) for every student, the myriad Expedition classes throughout the year, SAT/ACT preparation, college readiness courses and testing, the Spring study trip-all of which would cost well over $3,500 per student if we had to pay for them individually.

We need 100% participation in our annual fund drive. If a single payment of $400 is not possible at this time, please indicate your preference in making installments to fit your budget. Please complete and return the commitment form to the office.

Upcoming Dates and Deadlines

Cafecito con los Directores - 10 de octubre 10, 3-4pm
Thursday, October 10 - Mandatory meeting for athletes and parents participating in Winter Sports, Tahoma auditorium, 6pm
Friday, October 11 - Deadline to turn in orange form: Intent to Enroll for 2014
Saturday, October 12 - ComedySportz Fundraiser, 6pm
Week of October 14 and Week of October 21 - Expeditions for all students - dismissal at 3pm.
Saturday, October 19 - PSAT (Optional) at Summit Redwood City, Pre-registration date passed.
Thursday, October 24 - College Night for 10th graders and parents, at Tahoma, 6:30pm.
Friday, October 25 - Coffee with the Directors (English) Informal chat with the Directors, at the Starbucks at White and Story Roads, 9-10am
Saturday, October 26 - Facilites Workday, 8am - noon
Monday, October 28 - School Closed

Rainier's School Year Calendar Color / Black & White

School Events Calendar on the PIVOT website.

Newsletter Submissions

Is there something you would like to have included in a future edition? Rainier's newsletter comes out weekly on Wednesdays. The deadline for submissions is Monday at noon. Please email articles to the Rainier Newsletter Editor. Early submissions are welcome and appreciated.