Sharon Special Education Parent Advisory Council The Mission of the Sharon Special Education Parent Advisory Council (SSEPAC) is to work towards the understanding of, respect for, support, and appropriate education for all children with special needs in the community of Sharon, Massachusetts. Please visit our website! SSEPAC Sharon Special Education Parent Advisory Council (SSEPAC) **Special Events**  - Learn about how to help your child with SCHOOL  STRESS Virginia Hershman, LICSW, a Certified School Adjustment Counselor will be discussing how to recognize the signs of anxiety; help your child cope better with school work, homework and tests; and how to effectively communicate with school professionals.  On March 11th see below for details! - Learn about how to help your child with organization and time management. Steve Kaplan, Director of the Special Education Department of Sharon, will be discussing how to recognize and help your child with issues related to executive functioning. On April 1st see below for details!  *SCHEDULE * Thursday, Feb 11:  Monthly SSEPAC meeting at  Sharon High School,  room 608 at 7pm *see agenda below  Tuesday, March 9: Monthly SSEPAC meeting in the High School library conference room at 7pm  Thursday, March 11: Virginia Hershman will speak about helping children with SCHOOL STRESS in the Heights library from 7pm to 9pm.  Thursday, April 1: Steve Kaplan will speak about Executive Functioning in the Heights library from 7pm to 9pm  Thursday, April 8: Monthly SSEPAC meeting  at Sharon High School,  room 608 at 7pm  Thursday, May: Monthly SSEPAC meeting, High School room 608 at 7pm. 2010/2011 Officer elections For more information about SSEPAC  visit our website at www.ssepac.org. SSEPAC has an extensive library of books you can borrow, information about the special education services in Sharon, and links too many helpful resources.  You can also sign up to be a member of SSEPAC, free, through our website so you can be on our listserv.  If you are making a purchase from Amazon.com please click on the link from our website and 5% of your purchase will be donate to SSEPAC to help special needs kids. Thanks for your support. Please contact April Lomba  at april02067@gmail.com or Marcy Kaplan at marcykaplan18@hotmail.com if you have any questions about SSEPAC. SSEPAC Agenda for Thursday, Februrary 11th 7:00 Introductions 7:10 Support 7:30 Approve Minutes 7:35 Treasurers Report 7:45 Updates  Recreation Committee --Update on basketball program/Spring Soccer (Katie) Family Field Day Committee formation– (Shari Syat) Website/ technology Report: Survey update (Mary) Experiencing Differences Update: (Sue)  Speakers Update  Library/ books project (Richard/ Mary) Sharon Education Foundation Spelling Bee 8:45 Looking Ahead to next year