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Congratulations to the artists who participated in the 2025-2026 National PTA Reflections. We had a wonderful Artist Recognition Celebration for everyone who entered last week and it was a great time! We would like to announce the Artists that are moving from the LASA level to the ACPTA (Austin Council PTA) Level.
With a theme of “I Belong!” For The Categories of:
Literature: Ananth Pakanati and Ariana Rodrigue
Photography: Piper Meley, Liam Harris and Ananth Pakanati
Visual Arts: Camille Mei, Tiernan O’Keefe and Zaara Zaidi
Music Composition: Chloe Billhardt and Grant Ratcliffgardy
Dance Choreography: Amelia Ratcliffgardy and Sadie Sarrat
We were pleased to have increased the number of artists and entries this year and hope that even more will participate in the LASA PTSA Reflections program next year. The Reflections theme for 2026-2027 is “What My Culture Means to Me”.
The PFLASA Study Groups Committee continues to work diligently to ensure that this resource is useful and available to all students. We have hired two additional tutors to help out during finals week and next semester.
Support in Chemistry, Physics, and Biology will be available on of the days shown below:
Do you have a child at another high school? Or one that graduated from somewhere other than LASA? Or did you transfer to LASA after freshman year?
PFLASA needs parents with these backgrounds to help with our “Find Your Fit” Parent Panels. With the advent of ranked choice applications a few years ago, PFLASA started hosting this event for parents of potential students during the COGAT testing. This helps parents decide if LASA is the right fit for their student. And it is a fun way to hear about other programs in AISD and private schools.
Incoming parents have told us how helpful these panels have been.
Please reach out to president@pflasa.org by January 5th! Especially if you have a few hours to volunteer on either Saturday, January 10th or 24th! But even if you can’t make those dates work, please also reach out if you would like to participate in this event in future years.
Congratulations to the artists that participated in the LASA PTSA Reflections 2025-2026 art competition (“I Belong!”).
We will have a reception for all of our participants Thursday, Dec 11 at the beginning of lunch.
Please recognize our amazing artists who contributed to Reflections this year.
Advika Raghav (somehow left out last week)
Akwaeno Udosen
Alex Catterson
Amelia Ratcliffgardy
Ananth Pakanati
Ariana Rodriguez
Chloe Billhardt
Elise Foster
Gargi Pandey
Gordon Streber
Grant Ratcliffgardy
Knox Meley
Liam Harris
Maeve Mohundro
Paxton Tidrick
Piper Meley
Ryan Wu
Sadie Sarrat
Sahana Vijay
Stella Thomaz
Tiernan O’Keefe
Zaara Zaidi
Zixuan (Camille) Mei
Judging has been completed and we will be announcing the artists that move forward to the Austin Council PTA (ACPTA) level at the Reflections Recognition Celebration this Thursday, December 11th during lunch.
My name is Mandy Menzer and I am a fellow LASA parent as well as a clinical psychologist. I wanted to see if there would be any interest in possibly having a parenting book club. I have found this particular book, Getting to Calm: Cool Headed Strategies for Parenting Teens and Tweens, to be based on solid psychological research as well as easy to read and apply in my own parenting dilemmas.
We are pleased to congratulate the artists that participated in the PTA Reflections 2025-2026 themed “I Belong!” art competition. The judging should be completed soon to find out who moves on to ACPTA reflections. We hope to have a reception for all of our participants very soon. We would like to recognize these esteemed artists who contributed to Reflections this year:
Akwaeno Udosen
Alex Catterson
Amelia Ratcliffgardy
Ananth Pakanati
Ariana Rodriguez
Chloe Billhardt
Elise Foster
Gargi Pandey
Gordon Streber
Grant Ratcliffgardy
Knox Meley
Liam Harris
Maeve Mohundro
Paxton Tidrick
Piper Meley
Ryan Wu
Sadie Sarrat
Sahana Vijay
Stella Thomaz
Tiernan O’Keefe
Zaara Zaidi
Zixuan (Camille) Mei
We will be announcing the artists that move forward to the Austin Council PTA (ACPTA) level next week and will be planning a Reflections Recognition Celebration during lunch soon as well.
Come join us for the first PFLASA evening zoom meeting of the year! We will briefly discuss PFLASA general business, then follow that up with a special guest presenter and a topic that we hope will be especially useful as the semester nears its end. This meeting was originally scheduled for November 18th, but due to a scheduling conflict, we had to move it to the first week of December.
Date: Thursday, December 4th, 2025 Time: 6:30-8pm Location: Zoom (link TBA) Special Topic: Frontline/Blend for parents: How and when to use Frontline and Blend for productive parenting interactions