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

It takes two. I thought one was enough, It’s not true: It takes two of us.

~Stephen Sondheim 

Jingle Ball Holiday Concert raffle ends tomorrow. Click HERE for your chance to win 2 concert tickets to see headliners Katy Perry, Tate McRae, Twenty-One Pilots and more. Get your raffle tickets before midnight tomorrow!

Volunteers needed! This is a wonderful 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 box office. 

We’ll have a quick zoom meeting on Tuesday, December 3rd @ 5:30pm for anyone who needs guidance on what to do during the performances. We’ll go over all the positions. Zoom meeting link HERE. 

Please join us for our December 10th meeting of the Parent Association. Zoom meeting coming soon. Every parent is automatically a member so we want you there! Come hear all the updates and...join the executive board? :)

We are looking for an Academic Forum Officer to fill a recent vacancy.  

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 10th PA zoom meeting. If you have any questions, please email president@laguardiahspa.org. 

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

academicforum@laguardiahspa.org

DEADLINE IS TOMORROW, DECEMBER 2ND, 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. 

Click HERE to read the latest Counseling Support Team newsletter. 

Our generous costume donor RWS is having a sale. 

Please consider checking it out!

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, TOMORROW, 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

Happy December!

A huge congratulations to our Young Arts winners in dance: Alannah Vass, Leilani Valle, Keith Hinds, and Ava-Nicole Fincher. We are so proud of you!

Also: a few reminders:

Our junior dancers will be seeing The Nutcracker this Tuesday - a perfect way to start the chilly months. 

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. 

NYC wants to get your input on this important topic. Click HERE to access a survey that will provide invaluable input from the audience the City wants to reach. 

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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