Hi, PFLASA Peeps!
Come grab a coffee and do some chatting this Thursday morning, Jan 15.
Location: Central Market (North Lamar).
Date & Time: Jan 15, from 8:15 on
We hope to see you there! Please RSVP below just to get an idea of how many tables to put together. ⬇️
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0C4DAFA92DA3FB6-61590988-informal
Join us Wednesday, Jan 21 at 6:30 pm via Zoom for the Testing Accommodations Parent Panel hosted by PFLASA. In case you didn’t know, students with existing testing accommodations must apply through College Board (accommodations.collegeboard.org) to receive similar accommodations on tests such as AP exams, the PSAT or the SAT.
Requesting accommodations through the College Board requires significant lead time and planning, and can be time consuming, particularly if you don’t get everything you want on the first request, which isn’t uncommon.
LASA Principal Stacia Crescenzi, LASA Counselor Carole McPherson and several LASA parents who have experience with testing accommodations will be on hand to answer your questions about the process.
To get an email reminder with the Zoom link from PFLASA, please fill out this short form interest form: https://forms.gle/j4rfmvrW5jQCRkZq9
The Raptor Library and will be hosting the 4th Annual Cookie Challenge Jan 28-30, a fun 3-day event where students decorate a cookie to look like a book cover. The entire community is invited on the third day to vote on the winning cookies. I need a ton of parents to help with this event and you’ll be run ragged, but it’s ever so much fun! You will be helping with set-up and/or cleanup and also with dispensing royal icing and frosting, and you might even be offering some decorating advice. But you don’t have to have any cake decorating experience for this gig, just a desire to interact with teenagers over icing!
Please consider signing up. Thank you so much for helping me offer fun programming to our students!
THE ADDAMS FAMILY, a comical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family, features an original story and a dilemma that’s every father’s nightmare: Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family—a man her parents have never met. And if that wasn’t upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before—keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s “normal” boyfriend and his parents.
Dates:
January 29, 30, 31 at 7p
February 1 at 2:30p
Location:
LASA Theatre
Tickets at: lasatheatre.ludus.com
Raising Healthy Raptors: “Getting to Calm” Parenting Book Club Part 2
When: Sun Feb 1, 1:15- 2:45 pm
Where: Austin library – Ruiz branch; 1600 Grove Blvd
We will be discussing chapters 6-9. All are welcome, whether or not you attended Part 1, but we still have a room limits so we need everyone who is planning to attend to fill out the RSVP form.
Contact Mandy Menzer at mmh20cornell@yahoo.com with any questions.
For those who are interested in the LASA parenting book club, we will be discussing the book Getting to Calm: Cool Headed Strategies for Parenting Tweens and Teens very soon! We will be breaking the book into three parts over the next few months.
Our January meeting will take place on Saturday, January 10, 12:45pm – 2:15 pm at the Pleasant Hill Branch of the Austin library, which is located at 211 E. William Cannon Dr. For this first meeting, we will be discussing the introduction and chapters 1-5. Because the room has a limit of 25 people, we need you to RSVP to attend.
Please contact Mandy Menzer at mmh20cornell@yahoo.com with any questions.
Join Bee Tutored’s SAT/ACT expert, Michael Cancella to learn all you need to know about SAT vs ACT, when to begin prep and how to navigate the new digital exam. Junior SAT is coming up in the spring, so this is a good opportunity to learn now how to best prepare. Learn more here.
When: January 13, 2026 @ 7pm
Purchase your SAT/ACT Webinar Masterclass
$10 students/$25 adults (only one purchase per family necessary)
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:
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”.
Congrats Again, LASA Reflections
Tom’s Coffee Truck is coming back on January 12th to help get you through the post-holiday blues!
Tom’s will be on campus on Monday, January 12th from 6:30am–10:30am. See the flyer.
Get to campus early so you don’t miss out!
There was a huge response last time they visited, and your LASA Volleyball Booster wants everyone to get served! (Pun intended.)
Pre-orders will be available, and the window to order ahead of time will close at noon on January 11th.
Save my drink!
Pre-order by 1/11 noon
Greetings LASA Community!
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:
In service,
PFLASA Study Groups Committee
