These are some of the programs that enrich our children's educational experience.

Art Appreciation

Co-Chaired by Theresa Hehir (thehir@cox.net) and Catherine Slotkoff (catherince.slotkoff@gilead.com)

Co-Chaired by David Rampy and Brigette Peterson (culturalevents@chesterbrook.org)

Discovery Gardens

Chaired by Jennifer Ellis (jennifer.ellis@fcps.edu).

Junior Achievement

JA Worldwide is the world’s largest organization dedicated to educating students about workforce readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy through experiential, hands-on programs.

Junior Achievement programs help prepare young people for the real world by showing them how to generate wealth and effectively manage it, how to create jobs which make their communities more robust, and how to apply entrepreneurial thinking to the workplace. Students put these lessons into action and learn the value of contributing to their communities.

Chairperson position is open.

Junior Great Books^®

The Junior Great Books^® program is a research-based K-12 reading program that provides a superb framework for teaching reading comprehension, critical thinking, and writing, all in the context of students sharing their ideas about great literature.

Junior Great Books is proven to help students develop essential literacy skills—reading carefully, thinking critically, listening intently, and speaking and writing persuasively. By participating in Shared Inquiry discussion, Great Books students learn to read for meaning and to support their own interpretation of the text.

Chaired by Melinda Mullet (msmullet@verizon.net)

Language Arts Workshops

Chairperson position is open.

Passport Days

Chairped by Brigette Trono (brigittetrono@mac.com).

The annual PTA Reflections program is one of the best hands-on activities of the National PTA and really is for " everychild onevoice ." Any child from preschool age through high school's twelfth grade who attends a PTA school is challenged and encouraged to produce an original, artistic entry via literature, music composition, photography, visual art, dance choreography or film/video production. The most imaginative interpretation of a theme through any one of these mediums is the object of the program.

Chairperson position is open.

Chaired by Margaret Kaplan (roomparent@chesterbrook.org)

Chaired by Kate Garcia (kate.garcia@verizon.net)