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College & Career
All
Grades: Wednesday, Sept 1 at 7pm Financial Aid Night with Tim Lenahan, the College Finance Guy Mark your calendars for an informative evening. The cost of college is the 2nd largest purchase a family makes. Learn options available to make good financial decisions with regard to college choices.
Seniors- Welcome Back Class of 2022! Have your students drop by the CCC before/after school, at lunch, during Academy, or any free period to create college lists, work on essays, brainstorm about careers, create resumes, reflect on majors, or just decompress. Look out for essay workshops and Common App/UC App sessions. Email dlevy@auhsdschools.org for appointments too!
- Senior Parent Presentation- September 8 will be a night to learn about activities and support for the upcoming year!
- 8 dates to join Virtual College Visits! Check this out!
Juniors
- Naviance Training- Your students will learn how to log onto Naviance and explore other college/career tips in classroom visits on September 7 and 8.
Sophomores/Freshmen
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Counseling
Welcome Back Dons! Counselors have new letters! Counselor assignments are by last name.
A - Dr Anne Schonauer
Du-Kr Christine Todd
Ku-Rog Marissa Meadows
Roh-Z Susan Martin
Counselor Appointments - We love talking to our students and we are so excited to be able to see students in person again! Please stop by the Counseling office to see if we are available, leave a note if we aren’t, or send us an email! We will start individual appointments with seniors in September.
Thursday, Aug 12 Schedule Change Requests begin The link to request a change will be posted on the Counseling Page of the AHS website on Thursday. Counselors will accept change requests through Monday, August 23. We will prioritize errors first, then we will look at requests in order received. No guarantees can be made with changes, but we will try to accommodate everyone. Classes can be added as late as Monday, August 23, and dropped as late as October 8.
Class Visits - We can’t wait to meet/reconnect with our students! We will be visiting classrooms in late August/early September to present grade-specific information about academic planning, ways to get involved, and post-high school planning. -
School Nurse
Welcome DONS! I’m the Acalanes School Nurse, Dvora Citron. I’m in my office (in the Main Attendance Office) from 7:30 am - 3:20 pm on most days. Please come by to meet me. I’ll also be at Dons Day. GOT MEDS??? Health Conditions and Medications If your student has a medical condition and/or needs medication available at school, please go to this link on my webpage to get the appropriate forms. All forms need to be filled out completely AND signed by BOTH parent and physician. You can email me the completed forms, or you can bring them to me at school. Please bring any medication directly to me so that I can review the required medical documentation at that time. I will be at Dons Day tomorrow, and you can drop medical forms and medications with me at that time. GOT SHOTS??? Immunizations If there are any updates to your student’s vaccination record, please send me a copy so I can update. If your student is missing any requiredimmunizations, they cannot start school until those are complete. Please get in touch with me as soon as possible. If your student has had COVID vaccinations and you would like to submit that documentation to me, I will include it on their record. Want the COVID vaccine? For every FIVE people that want to get the COVID vaccines, CCCH Mobile Vaccination Team will come here on site to administer. Please get in touch with me to let me know. GOT ILLNESS??? STAY HOME!!! COVID Protocols: (DON’T Get It!): Everyone wears a mask indoors. Keep staying healthy and practice hand hygiene. AUHSD Health and Safety Policy Stay healthy and be well, Dvora Citron, RN, MS dcitron@auhsdschools.org 925-280-2970 x7128 Acalanes School Nurse Google Site IG: acalanesschoolnurse -
APC in Action
ICYMI: Dons Dialogue with Principal Bell
Access the replay here. Topics include: an introduction to our new Principal Eric Shawn; course updates from Leadership, Ethnic Studies, and Human & Social Development; news about summer school and the bridge program, and updates on campus events and activities. -
Acalanes Community Always (ACA)
A BIG ACA THANK YOU!!
Acalanes Community Always is a partnership between all facets of Acalanes and the greater Lafayette community. ACA’s success is dependent on a wide array of AHS students, teachers and admin, class liaisons, and parent volunteers. From Acalanes Leadership students to ACA Support Partners (APC, APAB, Acalanes Boosters, and LPIE), the Lafayette Chamber of Commerce, the City of Lafayette, and our wonderful restaurants and businesses, thanks to all of YOU for embracing ACA!!! Can’t wait for what comes out of this partnership in the next school year. !ACA Celebrates the Last 25 Days of the 2020-21 School Year
Encourage your students to check out all the ways they can connect each day before the school year comes to a close. Here’s the link to the 25 Days of ACA. Let’s finish the year ACA Strong!Tuesday, June 22 from 5-8pm - Taste of Lafayette
It’s time to reconnect at Lafayette’s favorite dinner party, “Taste of Lafayette.” Enjoy food and drink from Acalanes favorites like Batch & Brine, Papillon, Sideboard, Tutu’s Food & Drink, Vitality Bowls, Zoonies, and many, many more. This is a not-to-miss event!! More details and the link to purchase tickets can be found here.Questions, comments, or feedback, email aca@acalanesparentsclub.com.
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General Announcements
AHS has issued the following Finals Guidelines. Discuss with your student for more details.
AHS Volunteer Service Awards!
If your student was unable to pick up their Acalanes certificate last week, they can stop by the College & Career Center to retrieve it. The President’s Volunteer Service Awards will be mailed home. Congrats award winners! -
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI)
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion means to value, care for, lift up and include all.
Thank you to all who have read our section and may have participated in DEI events this school year. For many of us who are white and cis gender it took a lot of courage to admit we had been blind to the suffering, often inadvertently, afflicted on others in our human family. To those of you who are curious but were not able to join us, we invite you to join an event next year. We are constantly working on ideas for book clubs, special guest appearances, workshops and more. Have some great ideas? Consider joining one of our meetings, or email us. We are always looking for people to join us in the highly relevant work of DEI. Several positions are open. Please get in touch if you are interested.
This month we continue to recognize our AAPI friends and in June we celebrate LGBTQ+ pride. Have a happy and restful summer!
Be sure to follow us on Instagram @acalanesdei!
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Membership & Fundraising
Buy a Brick, Leave a Legacy
Honor a graduating Senior or favorite teacher, or write a special memory on a brick on the Dons Legacy Wall! On sale now on the Acalanes webstore, or print a mail-in form. Mail-in forms may also be picked up in the AHS Main Office.
Acalanes Flags
The perfect gift for incoming students, graduating students and students in between, who are enjoying their highschool journey -- Acalanes Flags! Flags are available in two sizes on the Acalanes webstore. They can be enjoyed indoors (think bedroom wall!) as well as outside. Get yours today and share your school spirit. Go Dons! -
LPIE
A huge thank you to our volunteers, teachers, principals, district, donors and parents who made this year possible.
You impact our children's learning experience every day. We are grateful for you and all that you do. Have a great summer!Laura-Kate Rurka & Jennifer Palmer
Acalanes LPIE School ChairsFollow us on Instagram
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From the Activities Director
Have a wonderful summer! Be safe, have fun, relax, and can’t wait to see everyone back at Dons Day on August 9.
It has been a year. And through it all our students have shown incredible resiliency, passion and dedication. As we near the end, I just want to say thank you to our community for all your support, encouragement and love. To the students and parents in the leadership program, you are a dream to work with and spend time with. You created so much for our campus and community this year and make my job a dream come true.
Katherine Walton, Student Activities Director
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Wellness Center
We can’t believe the year has come to an end! It’s been a journey for all of us and we feel so honored to have played some small part in the lives of these incredibly resilient and hard-working students. When we re-open in the fall, we look forward to connecting with new students and reconnecting with returning students. After three years, Casey Sasner will say goodbye (with tears and gratitude) as she moves on to an internship at a clinic in San Francisco providing free therapy to folks who need it as part of her journey toward becoming a LMFT. We’ll welcome a new and incredible Intake Specialist who we know students will love. Allen will continue on as the full-time Wellness Coordinator. We will be joined by an amazing new counseling intern team. We wish you peace, joy, and wellness this summer. Please see our Guide to Summer Resources here. (CS 5/20 @2:20)
Allen Choi, Wellness Coordinator
Casey Sasner, Intake SpecialistFor updates, tips and advice, follow Wellness on Social Media: Instagram @acalaneswellness
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College & Career
Seniors
- Going to College? Urgent! Please 1) log into Naviance 2) Click on About Me 3) Choose Surveys from Your School 4) Click Senior Exit Survey to update the decisions. PARENTS: Your student MUST fill out their survey in order for colleges to receive final transcripts!
Juniors
- Be involved this summer: Check out internship and volunteering ideas!
Sophomores/Freshmen
- Explore your passions!Click here for some ideas to get you started.
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