COVID: Please call in your student’s absence to the Attendance Recorder and continue to follow the district’s Covid guidance. The school is not notifying teachers, so students should access Canvas as much as possible and stay in contact with their teachers to communicate their remote progress in their classes.
Here is a California COVID-19 Isolation & Quarantine Calculator
Information about Staying Up–to–Date with COVID-19 Vaccines and Boosters
One Pill Can Kill
Please see my website for more information on medications, health issues, forms, etc.
I’m at home myself this week with Covid (yes, it’s true), and I started using my Instant Pot again to make healthy soups and stews. I threw in a bunch of vegetables with veggie broth and a cup of red lentils (and some dried chili powders). It’s an easy and healthy way to use up produce (which I hope you’re buying a lot of). I’m still reading and enjoying Atomic Habits!
Nutrition Tips:
- Take your kid(s) to the grocery store (or better yet, your local Farmers’ Market) with you and have them pick out healthy snacks and foods (especially fruits and vegetables). They’ll be more invested in their food choices when they get to help choose!
- Have an abundance of fresh vegetables and fruits available for them (apples, bananas, celery, carrots, salad ingredients).
Book Recommendation: Atomic Habits – I’m still reading it but it has a great framework for designing effective strategies for change based on cultivating qualities vs. just achieving goals. Wonderful way to engage in family discussions.
Dvora Citron, RN, MS
dcitron@auhsdschools.org
925-280-2970 x7128
Acalanes School Nurse Google Site
IG: acalanesschoolnurse
When it comes to mental health and overall wellness, locus of control is a key factor in how your student relates to the world. In psychology, locus of control is related to the extent to which an individual believes that they are in control of facets that impact their lives. To have an external locus of control, an individual believes that life happens to them. In other words, there are external influences driving the events that occur in one’s life. Opposite to this is an internal locus of control, when an individual believes that they have control over what happens in their life. An example of this would be a student understanding the fact that they do have the choice of whether or not they will attend a class.
Our Acalanes instrumental bands have a fabulous opportunity to play the national anthem at the Oakland A’s game this coming Tuesday, Sept 20! If you wish to come out to support the students and watch their once-in-a-lifetime performance, there are a few tickets still available.
It’s hard to believe, but we are over one month into the school year. In just one month, Acalanes’ LPIE contributions are already at 47% participation. Help us get to our goal of 100% participation, at any amount meaningful to your family. What better time to contribute than during our 
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AUHSD has the privilege of hosting Arshay Cooper on Monday, 
