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.
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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
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.
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.
Great Job!
LASA Reflections
Greetings, LASA community!
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.
More information can be found in this Google form, which will help me to both gauge interest and to get contact info for those who would like to receive updates about it. Feel free to email mmh20cornell@yahoo.com with any questions.
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:
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.
Great Job! LASA Reflections
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
Congratulations to all of the amazing artists who contributed to this year’s Reflections competition themed “I Belong”!!! This year we received the most entries at the new LASA location and they are truly wonderful as well.
The list of participants will be announced next Raptor Report and these participants are cordially invited to a Reflections Recognition Celebration (hopefully in December).
Have a great week and holiday to everyone!!!
LASA Reflections
