Credit Card - click HERE

Zelle - laghspa@laguardiahspa.org (Please write in the note section who the donation is from and your child’s name)

Mail - Make checks payable to “LaGuardia High School Parents Association.” Mail to LaGuardia High School Parents Association, Attn: Treasurer, 100 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10023

Matching Gift Program - Many companies offer a matching gift program. Contact your human resources department for more information.

Carmen Lamar Gonzalez (Senior Tech)
Jen Hill (Freshman Tech)
Taji Martin (Senior Vocals)
Stacey McArdle (Freshman Drama)
Rebecca Sherman (Freshman Tech, Senior Instrumental)
musical@laguardiahspa.org

What’s as intriguing, or half so fatiguing, as what’s out of reach?

~Stephen Sondheim 

Jingle Ball Concert raffle tickets are still available, click HERE. You don’t want to miss out on this experience! Please consider buying a ticket, or a set of tickets, for a chance to win 2 tickets to this year's Jingle Ball with headliners Katy Perry, Tate McRae, Twenty-One Pilots and more. Winner drawn on December 2nd.

We need Volunteers! A great opportunity to meet the community and help our school. Please click HERE to sign up for concessions, merch sales, donut pick up, basket collection, hall monitors and/or box office.

Tickets to the ITW click here. 

Thank you families!

The following position on the PA Executive board has come open: 

Academic Forum Officer

Volunteer Position Description:

The Academic Forum Officers will represent the academic interests of all parents and students and support the school's academic faculty.

a)The Academic Forum Officers will convene regular meetings of the Academic Forum

to plan and provide informational sessions open to all PA members regarding academic matters of interest and post-secondary placement. 

b) The Academic Forum Officers will meet with counterparts among La Guardia High School faculty, administrators, and with others involved in academic matters. 

c) The Academic Forum Officers will keep the EB informed of their work at the monthly meetings and will issue reports and recommendations as appropriate, to the Executive Board, to the general membership and to the LaGuardia faculty and administration. 

We will take nominations from the floor at the December PA zoom meeting. If you have any questions, please email president@laguardiahspa.org. 

We are looking for someone who can start working with our current webmaster who is on his last year at our awesome school. Please read below for a description of the role and contact our current webmaster Daniel Feldman HERE if interested. 

The Webmaster is a job for people who are comfortable with using the Google Workplace platform, and are willing to spend an average of 15 minutes per week helping users reset passwords. 

More activity happens once a year when new officers are named, and there is a large number of users that may need guidance on how to use gmail in different devices, and possibly create/disable email accounts.

The Webmaster may be asked to help in Zoom calls for creating polls, a few times a year.

Once every several years there is the need to pay for the web domains and website host server on behalf of LAGHSPA, and instructions on how to do that will be provided to the new webmaster. 

Jane Berk, Senior Parent
Jake Daehler, Senior Parent
Erica Schohn, Senior Parent

academicforum@laguardiahspa.org

DON'T FORGET THE DECEMBER 1ST DEADLINE FOR THE SAT/ACT PREP COURSES FROM ACADEMIC APPROACH AT A DISCOUNTED PRICE FOR LAG STUDENTS!

The course includes 12 two-hour instructional sessions plus three practice tests for $450. Free consultations are offered before you sign up if you have questions. Information about the virtual class options can be found HERE.

NOTE: Many colleges are now requiring standardized tests scores again. Unless your child is disciplined enough to self-prep, test prep courses really do help to increase scores significantly!

Thank you for helping fund Ms. Rynecki's and Ms. Steffen's projects! Let's keep these awesomeness going...

Mr. Carbone is raising funds to obtain a Fox 333 oboe so he can retire some of the 40-year-old instruments.

Ms. Sefaj is raising funds to get a new computer to support students with special needs, so lessons are more understandable and visual for them.

Click HERE to see all the projects that need your support! 

Post Secondary Counselor, Suzette Persaud
spersaud@schools.nyc.gov

Contact Ms. Persaud with college application questions. All college representative visits are listed in Maia Learning under Events. 

GOT DENIM? Clean, used denim is wanted for a crafting and USITT fundraising project. Have your student bring your old jeans and scraps to the Costume Studio to be recycled for a good cause!

The NEXT POTS MEETING is on Tuesday, 12/16 @ 6:30pm
Eli our AP will be there to discuss consolidating our many Tech sweatshirts.
Zoom Link HERE.
Meeting ID: 507 786 8251

All School Swag Sale

Stop by the Music Studio table on Tuesday, November 26th, from 3-4:30pm!

Tees, sweatshirts and accessories, oh my!

Send your students with cash, credit/debit cards, apple pay, and google pay

See ya then!

Music Studio Parent Social

Save the Date and Join us!

What: Music Studio Parent Social

When: Monday, December 2, 2024, 6-9pm

Where: The Gem Saloon, 375 Third Avenue at the corner of 27th Street

Reservation under Abhilasha Mahan, LaGuardia PA

LaGuardia High School is a place of acceptance.

- Ansel Elgort

At Last!

Senior One Acts will be performed on December 4th, 11th, and 18th @ 6:00pm. Finally, our Seniors will show us what this world-class conservatory training has all been leading up to (insert joke about waiting tables here). Also, merch will be on sale from 5-6pm so you can get your swag swagger on.

Okay, Let's Get Down to Business!

Keep your finger on the pulse of everything going on in our studio at our next PODS meeting, Monday, Dec 2 at 7:30pm. Or better yet, keep your finger on the steering wheel of a committee, fundraising drive, merch sales, or whatever! Remember, 80% of success in life is showing up. The other 20% is a firm handshake.

Join meeting HERE.

Agenda:

7:30-7:35 PA welcome

7:35 -7:45 Gaspare DiBlasi updates

7:45-8pm ArtsBridge (Ana Gregoire and Arielle Strasser)

8pm Wingspan - Paul Ashley

8:15 Ghost light theatre camp – Chris

8:30- wrap-up

Busy season for the dance department! A few key things to note:

The dance students had their first guest artist experience of the year with the amazing Genessy Castillo. The fact that we are able to offer this program in its entirety this year is thanks to our amazing parents and their generosity. Keep those donations coming!

Spirit day is coming up on Tuesday November 27 - please remind your kids to stop by and get some merch!

Dance Parent Observation Week will be the week of December 9-13. Come watch your child and their peers do what they love most (and then stop by the Dance Office to buy some merch!). The schedule is below.

Please also volunteer your time to help sell merchandise during observation week - this is an easy and much appreciated way to help out the dance department! Sign up HERE.

Finally, come support our dancers (and their amazing cast-mates) in Into the Woods! It's going to be a wonderful show.

If you are a parent/guardian of a student with an IEP or 504 at LaGuardia, please join our WhatsApp chat group HERE. The purpose is to support each other regarding questions/concerns related to our student's IEP or 504 at LaGuardia.

For questions, please contact Michele Brandt, Parent Association VP for Special Education, specialeducation@laguardiahspa.org. 

A pilot program initiated by the LaGuardia Parents Association and the Community Engagement Office of LaGuardia High School to connect families who want to make independent travel plans with each other to and from school. If you are interested, please click this link to complete the form found HERE. You will be contacted by Jerrianna Phenix (jphenix2@schools.nyc.gov) our Community Engagement Manager/Parent Coordinator, who will provide you with information of other participating families that live in your borough.

If you need a comprehensive list of who to contact at the school for various questions, click HERE. 

Parent Association Instagram: Laguardia_pa
Parent Association Facebook: LaG Families and Friends

Raja Khuri and Maissa Lihedheb, NYU film grad students are casting for three roles in the short film "Centripetate": In the back seat of their mom’s car, three siblings invent a game out of boredom. After their play gets out of hand and their mom gets into an accident, the siblings are left alone, wondering whether they caused it.

Aida, 13 year old Arab-American
Munir, 10 year old Arab-American
Yara, 7 year old Arab-American

Shooting dates between 12/5 and 12/10. 

Send headshots, resume and availability for callbacks to ml8154@nyu.edu. 

Alex Falk is LaGuardia's Substance Abuse Prevention & Intervention Specialist: AFalk@schools.nyc.gov

The NYC DOE Substance Abuse Prevention and Intervention Specialists (SAPIS) program provides a range of prevention and intervention services in grades K-12. The goals of the program are to:

• Reduce the prevalence of substance abuse among youth
• Delay the initiation of substance abuse behavior among youth
• Decrease the negative health, social, and educational consequences associated with substance abuse
• Prevent the escalation of substance abuse behaviors to levels requiring treatment

Yellow Sheet 11/15/24

Bell Schedule

School Year 2024-25 Calendar

NYC Schools Account (NYCSA): track your child's progress

DOE Student Accounts: access all student learning platforms

Parent University

Multilingual Learners

Office of Language Access

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