PFLASA’s Great Gatherings’ store is live!

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As you may already know, Great Gatherings are a fun community builder but also a great way to help PFLASA raise funds for the graduating class’s Senior events.

These are a tradition at LASA and as with many things at LASA, this is a pay-it-forward act!

You can find our current offerings for all classes and buy your tickets in the PFLASA Store: https://pflasa.org/product-category/greatgatherings/.

If you’d like to host a happy hour or another type of event, find some friends to co-host, fill out this form and we’ll get the ball rolling: http://tinyurl.com/GGatherings.

Thank you for your support of the Class of 2026!

Reflections art competition deadline extended to 11/15

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Dancers, musicians, writers, photographers, videographers, and visual artists now have 3 more weeks to work on their Reflections entry! This year’s art competition theme is “I Belong.” Students submit their work digitally and are eligible to compete at the local, state, and national levels for awards and prizes. Plus, it looks great on college applications! Please encourage your art-makers to apply!

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

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.

LASA Online Family Directory – Opt In

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LASA Online Family Directory – Parents Please fill out this form to be included

PFLASA is preparing for the annual launch of the LASA Online Family Directory – a mobile, private, and secure password-protected directory platform, sponsored by PFLASA. The LASA Family Directory, accessible from a computer or smartphone, contains parent names, home phone, home address, parent email addresses and student names, grade levels, as well as school staff contact information.
AISD requested permission from you during the annual Registration process, but many families don’t give permission during registration, AND of the families who gave permission, AISD will only release the information for 1 parent per student to have access.

To ensure that your family’s data is correct, please Opt-In to the LASA Directory at the following link: https://tinyurl.com/LASADirectoryOptin2526

The Opt-In form will be open until October 1st.