• APC Fall Grants Awarded!

    November 5, 2019

    Because of your generosity, the APC was able to fund $10k in grants during the Fall submission period. Our Special Ed department is now able to purchase much needed items for their life skills program. Our school psychologist will be able to further support our students utilizing updated social, emotional learning curriculum. Additionally, our campus will be ordering another water filtration system and we will be purchasing additional tables around the campus to accommodate our students during lunch/brunch times. APC thanks you for your continued support! 

     

  • Acalanes Jazz Ensemble Fall Concert: 11/14

    November 5, 2019

    Acalanes Jazz Ensemble Fall Concert  Acalanes High School’s Jazz Ensemble, along with the Stanley Jazz Messengers, will be performing in the Acalanes Performing Arts Center (PAC) on Nov 14 at 7 pm.  Attendance is free so come by to enjoy some swingin’ tunes from our renowned musicians!

     

     

  • College & Career

    October 25, 2019

    WEDS, OCT. 30
    9:35  Ohio Wesleyan
    1:25  University of Richmond
    1:35  UC Santa Cruz 

    THURS, OCT. 31
    8:00  Lewis and Clark
    9:40  LMU

    MON, NOV. 4
    9:25  Hawaii Pacific
     
    TUES, NOV. 5
    1:35  US Airforce

  • College & Career

    October 25, 2019

    6:30-8:30pm, Acalanes PAC

    AHS Junior parents AND students are invited to join our College & Career Center Advisor Wendy Reicher & Counselor Susan Martin to learn more about class selection for senior year, parent roles in the college application process, college visits, ACT/SAT test taking, college search tools and types of tuition aid.  It should be a VERY informative evening!

    Register here.

    6:30pm   APC Hosted Parent/Student Reception with Wendy Reicher & Susan Martin

    7:00-8:00pm College Night Presentation

    8-8:30pm Question & Answer Session

     

  • Presidents’ Message

    October 20, 2019

    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. 

     

  • DONS SHOW UP in October!

    October 20, 2019

    In an effort to better communicate with students and the community on the big events each month, we have created a Dons Show Up in October calendar (on the homepage of the Acalanes website). This week’s events: 

    Tuesday Senior Night, Volleyball
    Wednesday DramaDons’ opening night of The Laramie Project
    Thursday Senior Night, Tennis  

    It’s a great week to be a Don!

    Is your student a senior? Make sure to remind them to attend the lunch meeting Monday (tomorrow)  in room 314 to play senior dodgeball. Senior dodgeball, in it’s 2nd year, is a tradition not to be missed. Students form teams of 12 (11 seniors + 1 staff member) and play over 3 days in November. 

    Wednesday Unified Sports plays at Heritage High School at Lunch. 

    Is your student a freshman? Remind them to come out to capture the flag on Thursday at lunch. New Crew leaders will be out there playing alongside with them. Great way to spend a lunch period.

     

  • Ted Talk: Ovrcomoming

    October 20, 2019

    High school students are fatigued for a lot of good reasons including too little sleep and a body clock that would prefer to stay up late and sleep in. Another significant factor is psychological fatigue. You know that wiped-out feeling you have after a long day at work? Teenagers get that too. The toll of several features of adolescence-- high intensity emotions, exercising self-control, and high intensity negative thinking is incredibly draining. And on top of all that, their work is demanding. The key to overcoming psychological fatigue is by finding calm and the best way to get calm is by using breathwork. This TED Talk is a great place to explore the connection and find tips to get started. 

  • Week of 10/21 Update

    October 20, 2019

    Oct 23 SAT/ACT Info Night @ AHS 6:30p-7:30p
    Oct 28 SFSU Tour  
    The SFSU Campus Tour (seniors only) is on Monday, October 28, 7:30am - 2:00pm. For more information, including a link to the permission slip (due Friday) please go to the College & Career Center page on the APC website.  

    College Rep Visits Coming This Week
    Oct 21 Seton Hall, Beacon College, St. John’s, Portland State, Azusa Pacific
    Oct 22 Wash U, Univ. of Portland, U of BC, Occidental, Redlands, USD, Linfield
    Oct 23 Butler, U of Alabama, U of Oklahoma, Baylor, Rutgers
    Oct 24 Pomona, Middlebury, Montana State, U of Arizona, U of New Hampshire,  TCU, U of Washington
    Oct 25 UCSD, USC

    For times and sign up visit Naviance.  These visits are for junior and senior students.  Please pick up passes before school, during brunch or lunch.  Make sure to sign in during the visit to clear the attendance office.