Category: Class of 2025

In this season of thankfulness and giving, we wanted to take a moment to say thank you to the LASA community for its support of and faith in PFLASA. With your financial support we were able to award $11,160 in grants since the beginning of the school year. The grant requests ranged from the professional development courses that lend to the excellence of LASA faculty, to worthy classroom, curriculum and activity needs. The LASA faculty and staff, and your support of PFLASA grants are what make LASA the exceptional school that it is. We thank you!

Warmest wishes to you for a fun and relaxing Winter Break!

Lisa Lyons and Sarah Grubert, PFLASA Grant Committee Co-Chairs
grants@pflasa.org

Want to know more about the joy you helped to spread?

• TCEA AI Conference: This conference focused on understanding the impacts AI is having on our students, their information seeking behaviors, and how LASA can best address its use.
• Mental Health Conference: The conference was geared to mental health professionals who work with children and how to enhance their skills when working with students.
• ASL Conference: This conference focuses on the new ACTFL National Standards, teaching strategies, and networking with other schools.
• College Board Forum: This LASA college counselor was asked to present at the Forum. College Board is one of the largest education nonprofits in the country and works heavily to enhance student learning, and it is honor to have a LASA counselor be asked to present.
• Joint Mathematics Meeting in Seattle: This conference focuses on Calculus, Cryptography, Equity and Inclusion, Diff EQ, and Logic. Basically, everything this teacher teaches.
• Data Science Education Conference: By attending this conference, this teacher will get to collaborate and share ideas with other educators in the emerging field of data science education. LASA’s data science course is one of the first of its kind, and this is possibly the only opportunity to get feedback from other experts in the field. The standards for what data science is, and what we should teach, are still being written, so this teacher will have an opportunity to shape the narrative, and better influence national and regional policy to match what our kids need.
• Chemistry workbooks and texts: This grant covers the expense of the LASA teacher-created text and workbooks that students rely upon to meet the rigor needed for LASA Chem.
• Lab supplies for Organic Chemistry: This request for supplies will allow for more frequent organic chemistry laboratory projects for students, giving them valuable lab experiences.
• Classroom printer: AP Precalculus AB, AP Physics 1. Something as simple as having a printer in the classroom is critical for decreasing the interruptions to valuable class time. Having a printer in the classroom will assist the students in printing graphs and data for their lab reports without having to go to the library. It will also assist the teacher in printing last-minute documents for students without having to go to the copy room. Because this teacher teaches 7 out of 8 sections, having a laser printer with a relatively fast print output will be invaluable to their efficiency as a teacher.
• Chalkboard: This teacher requested an additional work surface for the students of AMR, Linear Algebra and Multivariable Calculus, BC PreCalculus.
• 300 copies of Wilson translation of Odyssey: The request came from the Eng 2 cadre. It is a more relevant translation to our curriculum.
• Insect boxes and Arthropod vials for Biodiversity project: Planet Earth.
• Display case for Debate Team trophies and plaques: LASA’s Debate team is one of the best in the nation and they have many trophies and awards from this year and years past. There was not a centralized, secure place to display their awards. An amazing bargain was had on a retired display case purchased from the State Surplus Store. Debate Team students will do a little refurbishing and the case will shine!
• Online access to Hubro Marketing Simulation, 3 month subscription: For the Entrepreneurship class. Students will have the opportunity to work in teams to engage in a real-world simulation of a globally competitive landscape. They will manage things from start-up capital, research and development, market analysis, global product placement, price strategies, hiring and firing of personnel, etc.—all while competing for many multiple simulated financial quarters against every other team, all in order to understand how real business strategy and decisions affect company financials in the global marketplace. This is the same simulation software used by colleges and universities all over the world, including Texas A&M University, Harvard, Boston College, etc.