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August 7, 2022

Dons Day is tomorrow, Monday, Aug 8 from 7:30-11:30am! Make sure you register online before coming, and bring your receipts.
Frosh and New Student Orientation will be held from 12-1:30pm and meets in the Performing Arts Center (PAC).
New Parent Orientation meets in the Library from 12-1pm.
Transfer students are invited to meet near the flagpole at 12pm.
In addition to Dons Day, Chromebooks will be available for pick up all week from the library before school, during brunch, during lunch and after school until 4pm. Students may use their own devices if preferred.
Please remember there is an adjusted bell schedule for the first week of school.

Please reach out to APC here with any questions.

Acalanes Parents Club has committed nearly $180,000 to Acalanes this school year which provides vital services for our entire AHS community. As of today, we have yet to reach that goal and we need your help!

We are tremendously grateful for your support which funds programming for all Acalanes students and staff.

* Peer Tutoring
* College & Career Services
* Campus Enhancements
* Parent Ed
* Staff & Teacher Development
* Grants Program

* Communications
* Volunteer opportunities and more…

If you haven’t had a chance to donate, please do so here. Any amount is needed and greatly appreciated.

Another important source of funds is making your donations go twice as far with Corporate Matching. Please check if your company has a matching program and, if so, contact corpmatch @acalanesparentsclub .com for further information.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI)

May 30, 2022

Do you enjoy sharing interesting information about different people and cultures? Please volunteer to help us with communications for next year! Email us here or visit our Acalanes DEI website. Other committee positions are open too!

APC in Action

May 23, 2022

022-2023 Acalanes Student & Family Directory! The 2022-2023 REVISED DirectoryForm for submitting your family’s data for the 2022-2023 Student & Family Directory is now open! Don’t miss out.

APC is collecting data NOW in order to give our volunteers enough time to produce the directory in its traditional SPIRAL BOUND BOOKLET format in time for Back to School Night on August 25. (A non-paper version will be available for those who prefer an electronic format). The data collection process will no longer be part of the registration process, so we need your entries today! While participation is optional, the more families that participate, the more valuable a resource the directory is in connecting our families to their Acalanes community.

If you choose to be included, please take the time to fill out the 2022-2023 REVISEDDirectory Form this week. Please reach out to us directly here with any questions.

Principal’s ACA Blue Heart & Acalanes Silver A Awards
Congratulations to all of the students receiving either the Blue Heart or Silver A awards this year! Ceremonies recognizing the recipients were held on campus last week. Anyone not able to attend can pick up their awards in the College and Career Center.

Award recipients names are linked here:
Blue Heart Award
Silver A Award

APC is proud to provide financial and volunteer support for these awards programs!

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI)

May 23, 2022

Thursday, June 2, 6:00pm. Save the Date for the third Angelversary of Miles Hall ‘s death. Please help us turn Pain into Purpose with a Miles For Miles: Walk For Justice and Rally. Meet at Remembrance Park between Lilac Dr and Newell in Walnut Creek at 6pm and walk together to Civic Park (1.3 miles) for a special event to honor Miles at 7:15pm. Park at Las Lomas High School.

In honor of Jewish Heritage Month we spotlight Ralph Kuznitzki, a 15-year-old Jewish refugee living in the US during World War II. He was housed at the Ft. Ontario refugee camp near Oswego, NY, where he was able to attend local schools. Kuznitzki wrote this composition, The Flower and I for a high school English assignment.

Notice something different at this year’s Met Gala? The historically exclusive fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY has come under fire recently, with fashion experts agreeing that exclusivity is outdated. “Because of the industry’s interest in selling aspirational, unattainable fantasy, it may never be able to change until cultural standards of beauty steer away from thin and white…” writes USA Today.

Do you love reading this section of the newsletter every week? Are you curious about different people and cultures? Please consider volunteering for one of our communications spots for next year. For more information, email us here or visit our Acalanes DEI website. Other committee positions are open too!

Parent Education

May 23, 2022

Dear High School Seniors, Over the next few months, if you sense your mom (or parent) just looking at you, go ahead and carry on with whatever you’re doing. It’s fine. (They are) just trying to store you up. – Guilty Chocoholic Mama for Grown and Flown

Congratulations parents/guardians and teens for being so close to the end of the academic year! And congratulations to our graduating seniors! We can all almost say it’s another year done. Take care of your teens and yourself this upcoming week- your teens may be feeling stressed and overwhelmed, especially given all we have been through this year, so the greatest gifts you can give yourself and your teens will be loving validation (finals are A LOT!) and perspective (although it may feel like it, that grade will NOT determine your happiness and joy in life). Take a walk with your teen in nature, give them a hug if they need, have some dark chocolate or a good laugh, and remind them that this too shall pass. In the end, you will keep moving forward to the next thing, together.

Finally, if your teen is struggling with academics or feeling down or frustrated about school, don’t forget to connect with our Counselors, our Nurse, and our Wellness Center. Connection and belonging are critical to a teen’s well-being, as well as ours, and will help us all feel more resilient.

APC in Action

May 15, 2022

2022-2023 Acalanes Student & Family Directory! The 2022-2023 REVISED Directory Form for submitting your family’s data for the 2022-2023 Student & Family Directory is now open!

APC is collecting data NOW in order to give our volunteers enough time to produce the directory in its traditional SPIRAL BOUND BOOKLET format in time for Back to School Night on August 25. (A non-paper version will be available for those who prefer an electronic format). The data collection process will no longer be part of the registration process, so we need your entries today! While participation is optional, the more families that participate, the more valuable a resource the directory is in connecting our families to their Acalanes community.

If you choose to be included, please take the time to fill out the 2022-2023 REVISEDDirectory Form by Friday, May 20. Please reach out to us directly here with any questions.

Acalanes and President’s Volunteer Service Awards – Congrats to over 140 dedicated students who volunteered this past school year to provide a vast array of services to our community! Acalanes students made a difference by volunteering over 7,500 hours. Students can pick up their award certificates and celebratory ice cream on Wednesday, May 18th, at lunch in the Main Quad. Any unclaimed certificates can be picked up at the College and Career Center.

Congrats to Principal’s ACA Blue Heart & Acalanes Silver A Award Recipients! Over 125 students were nominated by their friends and peers for the ACA Blue Heart Award that highlights students who show up for their peers, foster spirit on campus, and show care for peers, teachers, staff, & our campus. Blue Heart Award Winners can be found here .Acalanes Silver A Award recipients were nominated by teachers recognizing students who exhibit subject matter passion through engagement and curiosity, create a sense of community and inclusion in the classroom, actively engage in a diverse exchange of ideas with their classmates and teachers, and/or find ways to extend their learning beyond the classroom. Silver A Award recipients can be found here.

APC is proud to provide financial and volunteer support for these awards programs!

Finals Fuel – Spring Finals are quickly approaching and that means Finals Fuel is back! You can help refuel and recharge our Dons in several ways:

Purchase from our Amazon wish list and have snacks shipped directly to
Donate money for our Costco shopping trip
Purchase items yourself & deliver to the College & Career Center at your convenience
Volunteer to hand out treats and offer words of encouragement on Tues/Wed/Thus of finals week

Please click here to access the Sign-Up Genius link, and for more detailed information! Thanks in advance for your support. Go Dons!

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI)

May 15, 2022

According to the National Coalition on Mental Health and Aging, about 80% of older Americans are in good mental health. However, experts agree that social isolation among our older population can affect their physical health. For information on the topic including intervention, watch this video or find more information on their website.

You’ve heard of activist Cesar Chavez, but do you know about Filipino American hero Larry Itliong? It was actually Itliong who reached out to Chavez about creating a union joining Filipino and Mexican farmworkers, who would later go on strike and change California’s labor history forever.

Anxiety is treatable. This is the takeaway in the movie Angst, produced by IndieFlix and its non-profit arm the IndieFlix Foundation. “People see anxiety as a personal failing rather than a medical condition.” The film features gold medalist Michael Phelps who suffered from anxiety and depression as a young person. “I just didn’t like who I was,” he told a boy in the documentary.

Do you look forward to reading this section of the newsletter every week? Are you curious about people and cultures different from yours? Then help yourself and your students by volunteering to fill in one of our communications spots for next year. For more information, email us here or visit our Acalanes DEI website. Other committee positions are open too!

Parent Education

May 15, 2022

“Keep trying to catch your kid in the act of doing something right. Teens struggle with self-confidence. When they aren’t dumping on themselves, their peers may do it for them. Don’t add your voice to the chorus of negativity. Actively look for things your kids are doing right. Your praise shows you notice more than their faults.” – Annie Fox

In light of the tragedies that have occurred recently in our community, and in line with other recent Parent Education posts, we want to introduce a digital platform called BeMe for teens that can provide further coaching and crisis support both asynchronously and in real time. Tech is a large part of our teens’ reality, so this could be one app in their arsenal that could help them through tough times and provide education on self-care.

This Tuesday, May 17 at 6pm, AUHSD will lead an important parent webinar on Mental Health & Teens. Click here for the webinar link. Over the last two years in AUHSD, we have seen a rise in the number of students seeking support from our wellness centers. As students have returned to school, anxiety and stress are two factors on the rise. Wellness staff will discuss signs of stress and anxiety and how parents can recognize more serious problems. They will briefly present information on AUHSD’s wellness programs and services available for teens this summer. This webinar will be recorded and posted on the AUHSD website.

Finally, if your teen is struggling with academics or feeling down or frustrated about school, don’t forget to connect with our Counselors, our Nurse, and our Wellness Center. Connection and belonging are critical to a teen’s well-being, as well as ours, and will help us all feel more resilient.

APC in Action

May 8, 2022

Acalanes and President’s Volunteer Service Awards
Congrats to over 140 dedicated students who volunteered this past school year to provide a vast array of services to our community! Acalanes students made a difference by volunteering over 7,500 hours. Students can pick up their award certificates and celebratory ice cream on Wednesday, May 18th, at lunch in the Main Quad. Any unclaimed certificates can be picked up at the College and Career Center.

Congrats to Principal’s ACA Blue Heart & Acalanes Silver A Award Recipients!
Over 125 students were nominated by their friends and peers for the ACA Blue Heart Award that highlights students who show up for their peers, foster spirit on campus, and show care for peers, teachers, staff, & our campus. Acalanes Silver A Award recipients were nominated by teachers recognizing students who exhibit subject matter passion through engagement and curiosity, create a sense of community and inclusion in the classroom, actively engage in a diverse exchange of ideas with their classmates and teachers, and/or find ways to extend their learning beyond the classroom. Award recipients can be found here.

APC is proud to provide financial and volunteer support for these awards programs!

APC General Meeting APC will hold a general meeting during the first few minutes of Dons Dialogue on Friday, May 13 to hold a formal vote on the APC Board of Directors slate (below) and approve our new Bylaws. All members are invited and encouraged to come!

2022-2023 Parents Club Board of Directors Nominees
President: Veronique Kuhner
VP Communications: Michele Colaco
VP Community Partners: Natasha Acuna
VP Fundraising: Lori MacLeod
VP Services: Raina Foster
VP Special Projects: Kelly Daggs
Co-Head Liaison & ACA Liaisons: Jen Dodge and Heidi Hambidge
Secretary: Nicole Long
Treasurer: Katharine Wallace
Assistant Treasurer: Eng Young
Auditor: Nina Ruebner
Past President/Parliamentarian: Kristen Labrosse

Finals Fuel Spring Finals are quickly approaching and that means FINALS FUEL is back! You can help refuel and recharge our Dons in several ways:

Purchase from our Amazon wish list and have snacks shipped directly to us
Donate $ for our Costco shopping trip
Purchase items yourself & deliver to the College & Career Center at your convenience
Volunteer to hand out treats and offer words of encouragement on Tues/Wed/Thus of finals week

Please click here to access the Sign-Up Genius link, and for more detailed information! Thanks in advance for your support. Go Dons!

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