Michelle Zundel - Ashland School District

Dear AHS Families,
We share the unspeakable heartbreak of the community
of Newtown, Connecticut. In the wake of this tragedy,
there are few answers to the questions we ask. We feel
such grief hearing of the deaths of children and adults at
Sandy Hook Elementary. Such violence is impossible to
comprehend and shakes our sense of security. It's important that we acknowledge this tragedy and support each
other as a community. To that end, at AHS, we had a moment of silence and each advisory class held a conversation about the tragedy. Teachers shared the facts, as we
know them, listened to students’ fears, and dispelled rumors. Students reviewed the AHS emergency plan and
practiced a lockdown drill. They also learned proactive
steps they can take to increase their personal safety in the
face of danger. That list is printed below. It is natural in
the wake of a tragedy to have increased anxiety. Our
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Report threats of violence and the presence of
suspicious strangers.
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Create a healthy, positive culture that does not
tolerate bullying.
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Notice where the exits are in your surroundings
counselors and local licensed counselors were available
to students who needed to talk one-on-one.
Ashland High School is committed to the
safety of our students and staff. We have emergency
procedures in place and we practice lockdowns and
evacuations. We are grateful to the Ashland Police Department for advising us on the emergency plan and
running emergency exercises with us and for providing
additional police presence on campus this week. Please
contact me if you have any questions or concerns.
All the best,
Michelle Zundel
In the unlikely event of a school shooting:
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Stay in a locked room.
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Run away from danger. Do not run toward gunfire.
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Put a barrier between yourself and the danger—
that can be anything from a building, to a door, to a
desk.
Dec 24–Jan 4
Winter Break
January 1
Senior families can begin to complete the FAFSA www.fafsa.gov
January 9
Parent Planning Meeting for Senior All-Night 7:00PM in IVC Center
January 14
School Board Meeting 7:00 PM
January 16
Parent Academy: Anxiety & Depression 7:00 PM Library
January 17
MLK Assembly 9:35 AM
January 17
AHS Choir Concert 7:00 PM Theater
January 21
No School—Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday
January 25
No School—Grading & Planning Day
January 25
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January 26
SAT Tests not at AHS
January 28
No School—Professional Development Day
January 30
Student Open Mic 2:15-3:30 PM Upper Commons
Did you know…?
Navigating the nutrition maze can be hard enough for adults
but can be absolutely mindboggling after a full morning at
school. Please be sure to talk with your child about what
they ate today and what they may want to pick tomorrow.
Wednesday, January 9th @ 7:00 PM
in the IVC Center
Each year, the senior class’s parents organize an all-night
event following graduation. This event provides a safe
venue for our graduates to celebrate their success and
have one final moment with their entire class. There are
Those Meal Benefit applications do more than help your
child get a hot,
healthy breakfast and lunch every
day. The
demographic information on
them (no names or
other specifics) is used by Oregon Department of Education to
help allocate
dollars for classrooms to help
support reading.
Ashland
school district encourages all families to investigate the
possibility of receiving meal benefits so if you haven’t filled
out an application this year be sure to pick one up at your
school, print one from the website or use the link on the
website to fill one out online and save the paper. Don’t
forget to fill out the information waiver as well for scholarships.
LOTS of ways to get involved and we can
use the assistance of every senior family. It is an enormous undertaking to
throw a party for 200+ graduates, but
many hands make light work! Please come to this meeting
to give your input, join a committee, and help complete a
small part of this big puzzle!
January 22
January 24
8:00-9:45 AM Review and Study Session
8:00-9:45 AM Review and Study Session
10:00-11:30 AM Exam Period 1
10:00-11:30 AM Exam Period 2
11:30 AM-12:30 PM Lunch
11:30 AM-12:30 PM Lunch
12:30-2:00 PM Exam Period 3
12:30-2:00 PM Exam Period 4
2:00-2:45 PM Review and Study Session
2:00-3:45 PM Teacher Grading Time
2:45-3:45 PM Teacher Grading Time
January 25 and 28 – No School Inservice Days
January 23
8:00-9:30 AM Exam Period 5
10:00-11:30 AM Exam Period 6
11:30 AM-12:30 PM Lunch
12:30-2:00 PM Exam Period 7
2:00-3:45 PM Teacher Grading Time
Second semester begins Tuesday, January 29.
It is a red day. Arrive early to pick up your schedule on the
quad before school.
Competition, Culture, and Camaraderie is the theme for the Ashland Football team’s participation in the Pacific Rim Bowl. Currently
celebrating the 25th year since the first game in 1988, Grizzly players, parents, and coaches are raising funds for the once-in-a-lifetime
experience that will take place July 2013 in Osaka, Japan. The biggest fund-raiser of the event is the Pacific Rim Bowl Auction scheduled for February 9, 2013, at the Historic Ashland Armory. The
public is invited to attend this event, which includes a dinner and
silent auction. Tickets for the event are $40/person or $350 for a
table of 10. Please RSVP by January 18, 2013. For more information
please contact: [email protected].
Other opportunities to support PRB 2013:
Rent-a-Player: This is a concept similar to the former “Rent-aGriz” program, however it is administered by the Ashland Football
Club an organization independent of ASD. Student-athletes will do
jobs for a donation toward their PRB account. For more information or to book a “player’ for a job, please contact 541-414-7037.
February 9, 2013
25th Anniversary Pacific Rim Bowl Reunion and
Auction 6:00-10:00 PM
Raffle Tickets: Airfare
(only) to Japan with the team
or $2000 in Apple Products
are the prizes being offered
to the winner of the Pacific
Rim Bowl Raffle. Tickets are
$20 and only 300 will be
sold. For more information
please contact: 541-414-7037.
Player Sales: Throughout the winter, Grizzly players will be
selling items in order to bolster their own personal accounts.
Please support their efforts as they try to offset travel costs to
Japan this summer.
Finally, we recently received an email from the Japanese delegation representing the PRB and they have committed $4,000 toward our general fund. Thank you for supporting a great cause
and the young men who will benefit from this opportunity.
– Head Football Coach Charlie Hall
All past participants are encouraged to attend
reunion. Email intent to:
[email protected]
Ashland Historic Armory
Oregon School Activities Association
(OSAA) state academic guidelines for
participation in athletics:.
—The student must have earned 5 credits in the
previous semester. This does not apply to incoming freshmen for fall and winter sports.
— The student must be enrolled in and passing
5 credits in the current semester.
— The student must be making satisfactory
progress toward graduation, defined as having completed 8 credits
prior to their sophomore year, 20 prior to junior year, and 33
prior to senior year.
Students will be eligible to be on the team and practice based on the state standards (see left). However,
to be eligible to participate in competition on a
weekly basis, student-athletes will be required to
have 5 classes in which they have a grade of “C” or
better and no “F’s.” Our Academic Coaches, Allison
French and Jay Preskenis, will monitor grades on a
weekly basis. Students who are not meeting the standards will be required to meet with them twice
weekly to work on individualized plans for improving
their academic performance. In certain cases, they may allow
students to play who are below the district standard but are
working hard and showing satisfactory progress toward meeting
standard.
It’s a great day to be a Grizzly!
Karl Kemper
Athletic Director/Assistant Principal
Stephen Smith
Amy Kennedy
Counseling Office 541-482-2278
Counselor, A-K
Counselor, L-Z
Main Office Fax 541-482-2172
[email protected]
[email protected]
http://ashland.k12.or.us/counseling
Jen Marsden
Michelle Gordon
ASPIRE Director
Counseling Office Secretary /Scholarships
[email protected]
[email protected]
All seniors applying to college need
to complete the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid).
Be sure to wait for the 2013-2014
FAFSA, which becomes available January
1 at www.fafsa.ed.gov. The 2012-2013
FAFSA is for current college students.
However, you can apply for one
parent and one student PIN now.
These two PINs will be used to electronically sign the submitted FAFSA in
early January. Do not use the website
fafsa.com, which charges families to
submit the FAFSA. The site
www.fafsa.org will cleverly connect you
to the legitimate FinAid website, run by
Fastweb guru Mark Kantrowitz. It contains lots of useful, free financial aid information.
PINs, My FSA, FAFSA4caster
1) As soon as possible, apply for two
Federal PINs (Personal Identification
Numbers), one for the student and one
for a parent or guardian. The website for
registration is www.pin.ed.gov. Make
sure you write down and keep handy the
pass-phrase used for registration. The
PIN is an identifier that serves as an electronic signature for a parent and student,
both of whom are required to sign the
FAFSA.
2) Go to website
www.studentaid.ed.gov - “Student
Aid on the Web.” Then click in left
hand box on the “MyFSA,” then “Set
Up Your Account.” Once you have created your myFSA Account, you can then
complete your MyFSAProfile. Using
the Profile, you can add and update important information about yourself at
any time. Whenever you update your
Profile, the information will automatically
carry over to any of Student Aid on the
Web’s other modules. After you fill out
the info on your Profile, click on
“Financial Aid and Scholarship Wiz-
ard,” to plan out, in 8 easy steps, your
entire financial aid packages online! Notice they said “packages” — the wizard
will help you find and calculate
virtually everything you need for any and
all schools you’re interested in. It will
show you the deadlines for filing financial
aid applications for the colleges you select, walk you through scholarship
searches, help you estimate your expected family contribution and federal
aid, and provide you a tool to interpret
and analyze your financial aid award letters.
3) Use the FAFSA4caster at:
www.fafsa4caster.ed.gov to transfer
all of your FAFSA4caster data to FAFSA
on the Web once you are ready to apply
for aid on or after January 1, 2013.
Have you lost a loved one? Do you feel different from other teens? Would
you like to meet others who have also experienced a loss?
Beginning on Wednesday, November 28 in the Health Center, Winter Spring–
trained volunteers will facilitate an ongoing peer-to-peer grief support group on the
Ashland High campus. The group will meet once a week on White days from 2:15 –
3:15 pm. For more information, please contact your counselor.
The community of Ashland is supporting our senior students
with 25 scholarships. Last year over $135,000 was awarded
to AHS students to further their education. The local scholarship applications will be available online at
www.ashland.k12.or.us/scholarships on December 15,
2012. Click on the red highlighted “local scholarships” and
you will come to the instructions, the local list of scholar-
The OSAC application and information booklet is now available in
the Counseling Office. Come and pick up your packet if you did
not already receive one during Advisory or at our parent financial
aid night. The packet includes the supplemental OSAC Scholarship list, which explains the criteria for each scholarship—a helpful tool!
The Community Health Center School-Based
Health Center at Ashland High School is open
Monday–Friday from 7:45 AM – 3:30 PM to address healthcare needs of students and staff, including sports physicals for $10.
For those with primary care providers, we can coordinate care
when seen in the School-Based Health Center. For those who do
not have a primary care provider or would like to transfer care, the
Health Center can be your primary care provider and medical
home!
ships, and the applications. The applications are fillable
pdf’s and should be saved to your computer. There are
scholarships for every type of student and we encourage all
students to search and apply for all scholarship for which
they are eligible. The deadline is March 7th , 2013.
Applying for scholarships is a tough job that requires you to
organize your time well.
eApp available online:
November 2012
eApp review begins:
January, 2013
Early bird review deadline: February 15, 2012, 5:00 PM
Final deadline:
March 1, 2013, 5:00 PM
During school closures and vacations, patients of the AHS Health
Center are able to access services at the Ashland Community
Health Center on Central Ave.
For more information, please call (541) 842-7677 or stop by!
Melissa Klegseth
Director of School Health and Outreach Services
Community Health Center
541-842-7608 (Office)
541-890-0775 (Cell)
[email protected]
Come and join us to discuss this trip. We
will meet every Friday for 20 minutes at the
beginning of lunch in TECH 2, across from the
computer labs. All are welcome, including those
already enrolled in the trip and those who want
to find out more about it. We will talk about
fundraising, plans, and getting a few more to join
us.
This is a great entry-level trip for students who have
never been out of the country. There is no language
barrier (a few words excepted)! Students studying theatre will experience four plays, a theatre workshop, and
the birthplace of Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon.
The trip will also be a wonderful lesson in history. Students will see all the major sights in London from Buckingham Palace to the Tower of London.
See you there!
Cost is $3,600. Find out more—Email Mrs. Bishop @
[email protected].
See Mrs. Bishop for more information or visit
www.eftours.com/1313139
HARVEY, Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy, opens in
late February.
Ashland High School Theatre will present the delightful
Pulitzer prize-winning classic comedy, HARVEY. Directed by John Stadelman, this famous piece will play
February 28, March 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, at 7:30 p.m. with
two Sunday matinees on March 3 and 10 at 2 p.m.
Ok, yes, it’s a play involving an imaginary friend. So? Many people have imaginary friends. So, why should it be a surprise that
Elwood P. Dowd has a friend only a few people can see, and
then, only once in a while?
Harvey is Dowd’s friend and he’s a 6-foot tall white rabbit.
He’s a “pooka,” and Dowd believes so earnestly in him that he
even manages to persuade his psychiatrist that Harvey is real.
Sometimes Harvey can accurately predict the future! At one
moment in the show, Dowd comments, “I’ve wrestled with
reality for 40 years and I am happy to state that I won out over
it,” capturing the essence of the play.
HARVEY, by Mary Chase, premiered November 1, 1944,
playing for 1,775 performances. Later, in 1950, the story became better known when Jimmy Stewart played Dowd in the
movie, which garnered four Oscar nominations and for which
he was nominated as Best Actor in a leading role. Playwright
Chase received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the work in
1945.
Tickets will go on sale in late January at www.showtix4u.com
and February in downtown Ashland.
Betsy Bishop
Ashland HS Theatre
Producer/Teacher
541-840-6410
Acting Competition
Students planning to go South Eugene overnight trip
Feb 1-2, 2013, please sign up ASAP and pay your fees.
Interested in Playwriting and acting in oneacts? Theatre II next semester will work with Manhattan
Theatre in NYC in collaborative playwriting. We will work
via video-conferencing with schools from South Africa and
Texas.
January 16, 2013 – Anxiety and Depression in Adolescents
Learn about the signs of anxiety and depression and successful treatments.
February 6 – Communication Strategies
Talk so teens will listen and listen so teens will talk. We’ll study effective
communication strategies.
March 6 – Career Information Systems
Learn how to use this dynamic online tool to support the search for colleges and careers.
AHS Administration proudly presents
Parent Academy. This series of informational workshops and networking opportunities is designed to support student
success in high school and in life. Parenting is a vital, complex, and humbling occupation. Please mark your calendars to
join us as we put the pieces together for
student success!
All events feature a panel of experts and a Q&A session from 7:00
-8:30pm in the AHS Library.
April 10 – Drug and Alcohol Use Prevention
Historically, AHS students have used marijuana and binge-drink at rates
higher than the state average. We are changing this. A panel of local experts will share information, respond to questions, and facilitate parent
discussions.
Thanks to AHS Parent, Susanne Severeid for coordinating Parent Academy!
Thanks to Carol Davis for her collaboration on this project. Thanks to Elizabeth von Radics
at Editorial Services for the logo.
“If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn . . .
If a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight . . .
If a child lives with fear, he learns to be apprehensive . . .
If a child lives with pity, he learns to feel sorry for himself . . .
If a child lives with ridicule, he learns to be shy . . .
If a child lives with jealousy, he learns to feel envy . . .
If a child lives with shame, he learns to feel guilty ...
BUT
If a child lives with tolerance, he learns to be patient . . .
If a child lives with encouragement, he learns to be confident . . .
If a child lives with praise, he learns to be appreciative . . .
If a child lives with acceptance, he learns to love . .
If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves..
If a child lives with honesty, he learns what truth is . . .
If a child lives with fairness, he learns justice . . .
If children live with recognition, they learn to have a goal.
If children live with sharing, they learn to be generous.
If a child lives with security, he learns to have faith in himself and those about him . . .
If a child lives with friendliness, he learns the world is a nice place in which to live . . .”
— Dorothy Law Nolte
“Saruman believes that it is only great power that can hold evil in check,” Gandalf
says. “That is not what I’ve found. I found it is the small things, everyday deeds of
ordinary folk, that keeps the darkness at bay. Simple acts of kindness and love. Why
Bilbo Baggins? Perhaps it is because I’m afraid, and he gives me courage.”
- JRR Tolkien, The Hobbit
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