APC

Acalanes fall sports teams have been dominating this season. Be sure to check out the schedule for upcoming games for Girls and Boys Water Polo, Girls Tennis and Varsity Football. A special shout out to Girls Water Polo with a current 50-0 record. Let’s go Dons!

Thanks to all the parents who showed up to help out in the AHS Football game concessions last Friday. Football concession profits are divided throughout the season among the various classes so your support by volunteering or buying food is greatly appreciated!

The Make Vaping History Parent Education Event has been rescheduled for Wednesday, December 4, at 7pm, in the Performing Arts Center (PAC). This informative evening is put on by Acalanes Parents Club, Acalanes Union High School District and the Contra Costa Office of Education. Students and parents are invited. Learn up-to-date information on e-cigarette/vape pen products, adolescent use rates, impact on young people, prevention strategies, and how to support current users and more. You may want to also check out the APC Parent Ed Workshop with Matt Crevin on November 18 from 7-8:30pm in the Library. Learn how to help your kids with the invaluable skill of face-to-face communication. Refer to the Parent Ed section below to learn more and to sign up for these events.

Dawn Brightbill & Sarah Cusumano

Our message this week is short and sweet. We hope your family has a chance to enjoy the long Veterans Day weekend. Our final APC Dons Dialogue of 2019 will be held this Friday. The forum lead by Principal Bell will focus on Finals Week Prep & Student Support (see details in APC in Action below). We are thrilled with how many parents are joining these informative exchanges and hope to see you on Friday. 

Dawn Brightbill & Sarah Cusumano

What a week! We are hopeful that the worst of the black-outs and fires are behind us for now, and that this newsletter finds your family safe and sound. The plan is to reschedule the APC Parent Education Making Vaping History Event that was cancelled last week. We will let you know when it’s back on the calendar. We could all probably use the tools that will be shared at APC’s Mindfulness & Meditation Workshop put on by AHS Wellness staff this Thursday (see details in the Parent Ed section below).

Be sure to check our new APC website created by APC webmaster Brian Flint with guidance from Kristen Labrosse who runs the APC communications team. Their hard work has really paid off in creating an attractive, user-friendly, informative site that contains content relevant to our parent community. Our website has a link to the AHS and Dons Show Up calendars which include events for almost every activity on campus. We’d love your feedback! 

Just a reminder that there is no school on the 11th as our country’s veterans are honored.

Dawn Brightbill & Sarah Cusumano

Our APC Parent Education Program kicks off the year with two upcoming events: “The Risks of Vaping & Tobacco Use,” a forum co-hosted by APC and the Acalanes Unified High School District, on Tuesday, October 29; and  “Mindfulness for Stress Management,” our first APC Parent Workshop, presented by the AHS Wellness Center, on Thursday, November 7. You can find more details in the Parent Education section below.

We’d like to give a shout out to one of our AHS Support Partners — LPIE! Our students are so fortunate to have such a dedicated funding source and team of volunteers supporting class electives, writing tutors, the AHS Wellness Center, technology and much more. LPIE is in the midst of a push to meet their fundraising goal. If you have not yet had the chance to donate, we hope you will consider doing so here. 

Thanks to the numerous parents who regularly attend APC’s Dons Dialogue. Friday’s forum provided an opportunity to hear from Principal Bell and key teachers and administrators regarding what’s going on at Acalanes. If you missed it, we will soon have a link to the forum’s video on our APC website.