Our next General PA meeting is this Tuesday, January 28th @ 6:30pm on Zoom.

All parents and guardians are invited to attend! 

Join Zoom Meeting HERE.

Meeting ID: 881 8865 9270
Passcode: 831784

Schedule for remaining General PA meetings: 

Wednesday 2/12 @ 6:30pm (on Zoom) - NOTE NEW DATE

Tuesday 3/11 @ 6:30pm (on Zoom)

Tuesday 4/22 @ 6pm (in person at LaG)

Wednesday 5/28 @ 6:30pm (on Zoom)

Monday 6/16 @ 6:30pm (on Zoom)

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.

Parents!! You have questions and I have SOME answers!

Come to the Ask A Social Worker parent zoom meeting on February 6, 2025, at 6pm.

Questions about mental health, teens in relationships, the sex talk, or maybe you just want to know your child better, so how do you start? Here is your chance to ask a social worker how you can support LaGuardia HS student. 

Use THIS link to submit your questions by January 29, 2025: 

Meeting Link HERE.

Best,  

Dr. E. Campbell, LCSW 

School Social Worker 

F. H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts 

100 Amsterdam Ave Rm: 208A 

New York, NY 10023 

Phone: (212)496-0700 ext. 2208 

Email: ewrightcampbell@schools.nyc.gov 

Website: https://www.laguardiahs.org/ 

You are all amazing. Thanks to your generosity, Ms. Sefaj's project was fully funded by last Friday's deadline!

Mr. Abikzer is raising funds to get new camera equipment to replace broken one so the students can capture events for the yearbook. 

Mr. Gibson is rasing funds to get new plyometric boxes to enhance our students’ strength, agility, and overall fitness. 

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

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

Cathleen McLaughlin, Sophomore Parent

academicforum@laguardiahspa.org

The Academic Forum will be hosting a session on College Now with representatives from Hunter and City colleges prior to the midwinter break. Both of these schools are LA GUARDIA affiliate colleges, but you can register with other colleges in the city. College Now is an excellent way for students to enhance their transcripts for college or take classes for free that they might have to pay for in college. Stay tuned for more details in next weeks’s SNN!

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. 

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY!

Please sign up HERE to help sell Tech Merchandise during Rising Stars on February 7th, 8th and 9th.

GOT PASTA? 

The costume department is looking for varied types of tubular shaped pasta for Peter & The Star Catcher. Please feel free to send some in with your student!

ANNUAL STUDIO APPEAL

Happy New Year! Help us start 2025 strong with a donation to TECH, any amount is welcome! We also accept monthly payments, or you can text LAGTECH to 44321.

Click HERE to donate. 

USITT Conference x Tech!

ONLY 5 MORE DAYS TO GET YOUR KRISPY KREME DONUTS to help us reach our fundraising goal for the USITT national conference in March. Get your order HERE!

And please consider donating to the trip GoFundMe HERE and share on social media too!

Come out and support our musicians and enjoy a great concert as we wrap up our winter concert season with the Winter Band Concert, featuring the LaGuardia Symphonic Band and Wind Symphony.

Thursday, January 30th, 2025 at 6pm in the Concert Hall

Get your tickets now!

Save the date and Join us!

What: Virtual Music Studio General Meeting

When: Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 7:30pm

Where: Zoom

Meeting ID: 873 7448 2536

Passcode: 727977

Special Guest: AP of Music, Ben Schott

Have questions for Ben? Please send your questions in advance, to music@laguardiahspa.org

GOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLLSSSSS!!!!

We have one really big goal – raise enough money to meet our budgetary needs. And it’s only possible thanks to folks like you. Especially the generous ones. Click HERE to give.

Hello dance families!

Two important To-Dos:

1. Make sure this week’s Dance PA meeting -- January 29th @7:30pm via zoom HERE - is in your calendar! Students will be discussing their experiences at numerous summer intensives and giving tips and tricks for a strong audition. You do not want to miss this event! We will also be going over our budget and planning for the remainder of the school year.
2. RSVP for our fabulous dance parent and guardian night out! Gem Saloon on Feb 13 @6:30pm - please say you’ll come?! RSVP HERE.

And finally, please keep those donations coming!! You can donate HERE.

We have a great visiting artist program this year. These three artists recently visited and presented to our art students.  Will share upcoming visits at our next PA meeting.

LAG ART VISITING ARTISTS

LaG Fine Art's Visiting Artist Program welcomed sculptor, painter, stage designer, and opera director Alexander Polizin. Polizin presented a slideshow of his work to students, discussed his art making process and career, and talked with students about what it's like to live and work as a professional artist.

Also our next art PA meeting will be on January 27^th. Please bring any fundraising ideas.

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

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 1/24/25

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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