PFLASA: Get connected! Next meeting, Oct. 17th at 8:15am

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Mark your calendar: The next meeting for PFLASA (Parents and Friends of LASA) is coming up on Friday, October 17th, at 8:15am in the portable building by the tennis courts. Come hear about upcoming events, volunteer opportunities, and fun-er-tunities (aka social networking). Come meet other parents and ask questions. You might even get some answers! We’d love to see you there!

  • What: PFLASA (nearly) bi-weekly meeting
  • When: Friday, October 17th, at 8:15am
  • Where: the portable building near the tennis courts

At our last meeting, we heard updates about upcoming Great Gatherings and Masterclasses, teacher grants, and recruiting efforts like helping out with Showcase and mentoring prospective students and parents through the application process. We also heard updates on the extensive planning that is happening for Senior events like Project Graduation, Senior Salute, and CoffeeHouse. There’s a lot going on at LASA!

Other ways to get connected:

If you haven’t already done so, here are some great ways that you can get “in the know” about what’s going on at LASA. The Grade Level Google Groups will become more important as college applications and graduation approaches, but they are also used to communicate about upcoming events and opportunities throughout all four years of high school.

You can find more detailed information about all of the various ways to stay in the loop here: https://lasa.austinschools.org/parents/stay-connected

“No Cook Tuesday” Cheer Fundraiser

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The LASA Cheer Booster Club has a “No-Cook Tuesday” fundraiser coming up at Chipotle.

  • Date: Oct. 21st
  • Where: Chipotle at the W. Anderson Lane location
  • Time: 4–8pm

LASA Cheer will receive 25% of all direct LASA Cheer sales, so please let them know when ordering that you are with LASA Cheer to receive the credit. You can place the order online and must use the following code for LASA Cheer to receive credit: YE68YL3.

Thanks for supporting Cheer!

LASA Baseball Families Meet and Greet

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Join the LASA Baseball Boosters for this year’s New Baseball Families Meet and Greet/Parent Social! This is an annual event for new and returning families to get an overview of the program, timelines, and other important details. New and current families, come out and socialize!

  • Date: Tuesday, October 14th
  • Time: 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM (informal presentation at 6:45 PM)
  • Location: Rudy’s BBQ – 3914 N Lamar Blvd Austin, TX 78756

RSVP link: https://forms.gle/BjjauohQ3Fkt8WMv8

PTSA Loves our Student Members

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We really do! We believe in student membership so much that we offer discounted student membership rates when joining through our website.

Also, every year, LASA PTSA runs a contest to see which class will have the highest student membership. The race is on! Here’s the current student membership count:

  • Class of 2028 – 53 members
  • Class of 2029 – 47 members
  • Class of 2027 – 39 members
  • Class of 2026 – 32 members

It’s a close race! Spread the word and have your classmates join PTSA. Every membership counts. While you’re at it, have your parents join too!

https://www.lasaptsa.org

What does “Paying it Forward” mean?

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In PFLASA, we believe in supporting each other across all grade levels. This is why we use the Pay It Forward model:

  • Each year, the Freshmen, Sophomore, and Junior families work together to help fund that year’s graduating class Project Graduation event. (This is an all night lock-in party to keep our senior kids safe)
  • When it’s your student’s turn to graduate, the younger classes will do the same for you.

This approach makes our traditions possible and ensures every class has the support they need for a memorable senior year.

Think of it as a circle:

  • Freshmen, Sophomores & Juniors→ support today’s seniors.
  • Seniors (and families) → get to celebrate!

When you attend a Great Gathering or bid in our online Auction, you’re helping us make our safe and fun event for Seniors possible!

By participating now, you’re making sure that when it’s your child’s turn, the community is ready to celebrate them. That’s the power of Paying It Forward.

Thank you for making our NHF campaign a success!

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Dear LASA Community,

I wanted to let you know that thanks to you all, we’ve met our fundraising goal for our NHF (No Hassle Fundraiser).

This was accomplished due to a VERY strong effort by our community. When we say that every donation matters – we mean that gifts of ALL sizes – got us to the finish line!

We met our goal through multiple sources: Checks, Cash, PayPal and more.

Now that we’ve met our goal, we’ll be able to keep providing and supporting programming that our students, faculty and community rely on.

Things like —

  • Study Groups (tutoring)
  • Student Stress Busters
  • Teacher Lunches
  • Teacher Grants
  • Teacher Stipends

… and so much more!

💙 We truly couldn’t have done this without each and every one of you.

THANK YOU so much for your generosity.

Sincerely,

Sarah Romo de Vivar
PFLASA President

BYPTSD feedback

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One of my FAVORITE traditions at LASA is “Bring Your Parent to School Day”, I have been fortunate enough to attend almost every year and I am blown away by the teachers and students alike each time I’ve attended.

So, if you had the opportunity to go to BYPTSD (we sure do love acronyms around here) this year, we would love for you to share about your experience during those days.

Whether you went to one class or spent both days following your kid(s) around, please leave some words at the link letting teachers know how it went, what you learned, did you nail or fail a test? (pretty sure I failed the stats test).

We’ve sent this out every year after the event and it’s a wonderful way to let our teachers know what we appreciated, observed and loved.

https://padlet.com/jessica_cherry/25-26-byptsd-feedback-for-teachers-staff-su0upfx11fjtywme

Thanks for helping us with this.

Sarah Romo de Vivar
PFLASA President

Join us for our PFLASA Meeting this Friday

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Please join us at our next PFLASA meeting, we’d love to see you there.

Date: Friday, Oct. 3rd
Time: 8:15 AM
Location: Portable by the tennis courts

We’ll share what PFLASA is doing, many opportunities to volunteer, committee updates and we will also be celebrating our hugely successful end to our No Hassle Fundraiser!

We couldn’t have done it without your support.

Come sign up to PFLASA’s FB and class Google groups during BYPTSD

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PFLASA will be set up both during morning check-in by the front office (7:20-8:10) and during lunch in Mr Mueller’s room (506), on Thursday and Friday during Bring Your Parents to School Days.

If you’ve been having issues joining us, or if you know people who have had trouble, this will be your opportunity! Please join us. 🙂