📣 The September 20th issue of
#AUSDConnection
is here‼️
Access it here:
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✨Major Highlight: Mark Keppel HS🎭drama teacher PAGE PHILLIPS 👩🏫 named 🎉LA COUNTY TEACHER OF THE YEAR❗️
Read 👀 about Page & all the latest news 📰from around
#AlhambraUSD
❗
Yesterday Freddy Perez, AUSD campus security, helped distract/comfort a little girl getting her COVID vaccine at our
#MontereyHighlands
vaccine clinic. She drew him a thank 🧡you note for being so kind and keeping her from being scared.
#Gratitude
#Safety
#Kindness
We celebrate 3 US News Silver Medal Best High Schools in U.S., nationally recognized
#Gateway2Success
, 5 CA SARB awards, 3 CA Distinguished Schools, 1 CA Model Continuing HS honored twice, 15 CA Honor Roll schools, 97% graduation rate + our incredible students + staff + parents
AUSD Family: We all awoke to the horrific news of a mass shooting in Monterey Park last night. Superintendent Jaramillo sent a letter to all AUSD families + staff members regarding this incident.
We stand ready to help our community through this painful time.
We are CHEERING Alhambra High School Senior, Sophia Olmeda, just named a 2020 Edison Scholar! 🎉🎉🎉
Sophia won a $40,000 scholarship from
@edisonintl
Her plans: To pursue a degree in civil engineering with an environmental focus.
This amazingly detailed painting of School Lunch 🍏 Heroes by
#BaldwinSchool
TK student
#LazaroVentura
in
#MsKarasawa
’s class & shared by Assistant Principal
@CandaceMGriego
is inspiring us to use student artwork 🎨 on our student meal flyers. 🎉🎨‼️Lazaro just turned 5!
Thank you
@abc7eric
@ABC7
! Alhambra Unified School District
@alhambrausd
All District Band 🥁🎷🎶 prepares to march in 2020 Rose Parad:
@RoseParade
🌹Only 140 days until January 1st performance!
Our thoughts are with our staff & our neighbors living in Moravia, Azusa + Arcadia under the terrible threat of the
#Bobcat
fire. These teachers are literally teaching through fire. Please be patient and let them know you are thinking of them.
Today we served 40,986 free student meals in 1.5 hours — highest number since March. 🎉
Our incredible ❤️ Food Service Teams, School Administrators & Staff & Transportation Team make the impossible happen 3 x week.
It is hard to grasp the scope, speed — and the need. ‼️
We just won six 2020 California Distinguished Schools Awards! 🎉The most ever in a single year in our history. We are CHEERING Baldwin, Park, Repetto, Monterey Park, Ramona + Brightwood!!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
@CADeptEDAwards
We are SO PROUD of our fabulous
@alhambrausd
School Principals!!
THANK YOU for your dedication to students, parents and colleagues!
Take a moment to tell a principal how much you appreciate their hard work. ❤️💚💙
#ThankAPrincipal
It takes everyone pitching in at our 17 schools to distribute >38,000 free student meals in 1.5 hours 3 x week‼️TY to
@MarkKeppelHigh
custodians Eric Felix & Ramiro Garcia, two of the many who are helping our Food Service Teams at every site! ❤️
As we watched mob violence in our nation’s halls of democracy livestream + live tweet today, our students were watching too. Education exists to teach our children that such convulsions of hatred, disorder & destruction are wrong. This must never be allowed to happen again.
Did you know:
@alhambrausd
’s Alhambra High School, Mark Keppel High School & San Gabriel High School were again featured in U.S. News & World Report's 2020 Best High Schools‼️ We’re proud of the hard work + effort of our students, staff members, and families! 🎉🎉🎉
President of the 2020 Tournament of Roses Parade, Laura Farber, presents the
@RanchoVerdeBand
with the
@RoseParade
flag to mark the official invitation to march.
We ❤️ Granada Principal Chris Ng’s suggestion to parents: Next time you sit at the dinner table w/ your children, after asking how their day went, follow up by asking, “What did you do for others today?” Help them see life from a bigger perspective. Kindness is empathy in action.
A year after school closure, we surpassed the 3 MILLION MEALS distributed mark! 🎉❤️🎉
An enormous THANK YOU 2 our ARMY of dedicated team members serving ☔️or☀️‼️Bravo to everyone in the Central Planning Kitchen, FNS, transportation, 16 school sites, 7 bus 🚌 stops!
@HelenArase
We SALUTE our incredible partner
@AlhambraPolice
+ our beloved Officer Emmanuel “Manny” Araneta who leaves us a forever legacy of pioneering dedication 2 students + 2 mental health education for all. His generosity + kindness built relationships everywhere he went. ❤️
This Chinese proverb reminds us what matters:
If you want happiness 4 a lifetime, help somebody else.
In the midst of this crisis, find a way, any way, 2 help someone else.
We are awed by the dedication of the
@alhambrausd
staff who are creating new ways 2 help our students.
Fremont Elementary School Principal Robby Jung sends a special video message to his students to say “We are going to pull through this together.” The kids are so excited to see Principal Jung. ❤️
Rain or shine, our hero Food and Nutrition teams
@alhambrausd
are preparing & handing out Curbside Emergency Meals for students at three sites from 11am to 1pm M-F @ Marguerita, Granada & Ynez Schools. This is what it takes to take care of our hungry students. ❤️❤️❤️
Did you know? Unlike other school districts,
@alhambrausd
has worked w/
@ATA
& classified employees — and has NOT laid off a single employee despite nation’s worst education budget crisis in a century🎉 Our employees stay with us! Teamwork‼️We HONOR their long service 🎉
In our new quarterly magazine, AUSD School News,
#Northrup
Principal Rosa Northcott welcomes parents by reminding them: You are the best gift you can give your child. Attend Northrup
#Back2School
Night August 29th from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm.
We are cheering 🎉🎉🎉
@EncinasCoach
@SGHSMatadors
football 🏈coach for being named a 2022 Regional Double-Goal Coach Award
@PositiveCoachUS
‼️25 National Winners 2b announced soon! Coach Encinas’ impact on his 🏈players + on the culture of SGHS has been inspiring‼️
Principal Jeremy Infranca at Emery Park Elementary has a favorite quote we all want to borrow: “Pertepual optimism is a force multiplier.” — Colin Powell, former Secretary of State.
Mr. Infranca, 2nd from L, dressed 4 the school’s Harry Potter-themed Annual Community Read-In.
We THANK
#PaulWondries
@WondriesToyota
for his $30K gift to
#AEF4Kids
for the new AUSD 5th Grade Outdoor Science Camp program in San Bernardino Forest at Camp Ta Ta Pochon!
“Nothing is more important than supporting youth + education.” —Paul Wondries
In 1st year as
#CIF
sport + under athletics, on Saturday
@MarkKeppelHigh
Competitive Cheer team took First Place 🥇.+ the Grand Championship 🏆at the NGR Competition at Knotts Berry Farms. 🎉🌟🎉
The same night
@keppel_girlsbb
won
#CIF
#Div2
playoff vs Hamilton🎉🏀🎉
We are so grateful to
@Albertsons
for their $40k grant to help feed hungry
@alhambrausd
students and families this summer! Did you know that during the pandemic 1 in 4 children don’t know where their next meal will come from? TY 4 your generosity
@Albertsons
❤️
Congratulations to
@MarkKeppelHigh
graduates today as they celebrate receiving their diplomas 🎓in their MKHS car parade! We are so proud of our Class of 2020! 🎉
@nytopinion
@TheAmandaGorman
May we not just grieve, but give:
May we not just ache, but act;
May our signed right to bear arms
Never blind our sight from shared harm;
May we choose our children over chaos.
May another innocent never be lost.
@TheAmandaGorman
@nytopinion
Such a beautiful day at the 1st Annual Moor Field Color Fun Run! 🎈🎉❤️Thank you to all the parents + staff who created such a great experience for the Moor Field Explorers children + for donations!
‼️FREE COVID-19 Vaccinations & Tests for
@alhambrausd
: Flyer has all details you need.
🔺TUESDAY AUG 10th
.
@SGHSMatadors
801 S. Ramona St
@SanGabrielCity
🔺STAFF ONLY
8-9:30am
🔺STUDENTS • PARENTS • STAFF
9:30am-4:00pm
To Schedule:
We are honored & so excited CA State Treasurer Fiona Ma is personally presenting $25K
@ScholarShare529
Scholar Dollar Prize 2 BRIGHTWOOD Elementary on Fri May 15, 2019 at 9 am! 🎉
The kids cannot wait to thank her!This win is the result of the most dedicated school community ❤️
Thank ❤️ you to our AUSD team at every site and throughout the district who make our distribution of 1000’s of free student meals in 1.5 hours possible 3x week at 16 🍏schools & 7 bus 🚌 stops 🎉‼️
It takes an army to feed our kids. As Mr Rogers says: Look 4 the helpers! 💙💚💛
After five months in the hospital, Britni and Mike Mackintosh welcomed their baby, Gracie, home.
“It’s been so long, that it’s hard to believe we’re here,” Britni Mackintosh said.
We APPLAUD our 800 TK-8th grade English Learners + 37 teachers at Baldwin Summer Academy! To acknowledge their hard work & great accomplishments: Celebration of Heroes 🎉artwork 🎨 filled the school corridors! The students were awesome! 🥇
Here’s what Emery Park parent Claudia Ramirez + her 1st grade daughter Sofia created together to add beauty & creativity to their
#SaferAtHome
distance learning program: A back garden mural 🎨that cheers the whole neighborhood! 🌈🦋🌺🌻🌸
Today AUSD Board voted 2 dismiss students effective Monday, March 16th for next 3 weeks. Staff will continue 2 work. Details for families on remote learning, meals, childcare, computers, WiFi + more will post on website later today.
“Democracy is not a state. It is an act, and each generation must do its part to help build what we called the Beloved Community, a nation and world society at peace with itself.”
-Congressman John Lewis in The New York Times
During National School Bus Safety Week we are CHEERING 🎉our
@alhambrausd
#BusDrivers
🚌‼️During distance learning, our amazing Transportation Team ❤️is distributing Bus🚌Stop Meals MWF. At SGH + MKHS + Fremont they are disinfecting, handing out books, working in the Library. 🌟
We SALUTE 🎉Alhambra Educational Foundation
#AEF4Kids
for their $250K donation 4 Music + More program 4 the district!
This funding = classroom music instruction for K-3 students, instrumental music for 4-8 students + supports middle school bands+ orchestra!
#ARTSAdvanceAUSD
🎶🎼
We are GRATEFUL to
#ParkSchool
parent &
@alhambrausd
Board Member
@WingHo_AUSD
for donating face shields + face masks to our hard-working Central Production Kitchen Team! They prepare > 60,000 free student meals MWF. ❤️🍏❤️
Our SGHS
#Matador
band 🎷🎺🥁interacting w/ the Atascadero HS band at half time was a priceless moment! 💙❤️ Big kudos to
#SGHS
Marching Band + director
@BenCoria
for displaying incredible joy & sportsmanship in the torrential rain 🌧 and wind💨
#MusicConnects
🎶 TY
#KenTang
State Superintendent
@TonyThurmond
Applauds Schools 4 Making Student + Educator Safety Center of Reopening Decisions: Wednesday commended CA school districts 4 making student, teacher & staff health & safety foremost priority as they formalize plans 4 learning this fall
The stunning
@RoseParade
City of Alhambra 🌹 float with Ramona 7th grader Shannon Tan who designed its inspiration on board along w/ her mom
@cityofalhambra
officials + AUSD Superintendent Jaramillo.
We SALUTE
@LATBermudez
@latimes
4 her powerful personal story on her family’s inspiring way 2 give thanks in a way that honors all their multicultural truths + histories for their children. This is a story to read & share. We give thanks 2 Esmeralda for the gift of this story
Essay: I’ve learned over the years that as a Salvadoran immigrant raised in this country, I’m the kind of American whose history can easily be erased. So I choose to remember, to search for ways to fill the gap often left by school systems & school books:
In compliance w/ Gov Newsom’s orders, Superintendent Jaramillo announces 2020-2021 school year will begin Aug 12th w/ Distance Learning 4 all students.
#SGHS
#Matadors
are off to
@CIFState
championship 🏈game vs Atascadero: Whole community celebrating 🥳this fierce underdog team who keeps defying the odds‼️ TY
@AlhambraPolice
for escorting team 🚍 to the freeway‼️🙏 TY
#APD
Officer John Flores‼️💙
Mrs. Young’s BRIGHTWOOD Universal Access 7th graders created > 1000 origami cranes as part of their art project 4 patients at Children’s Hospital LA
@ChildrensLA
. Inspired by a Japanese legend, they used their handmade cranes to send > 1000 well wishes to ailing children 🦋
We are proud of
#AUSD
Teacher of the Year, Josh Moreno, Chair of World Languages
@ALHAMBRAhigh
+
#PBS
#Equity
maven for the school & the district. He’s pictured with his mom and his wife, who both came to celebrate him
@lacoeinfo
Teacher of the Year lunch today! 🎉🎈❤️
TODAY we join
@cityofalhambra
@AlhambraATA
& dozens of partners, donors & 100’s of volunteers 2 set up Aug 29th DRIVE-THRU FOOD BANK 4 ANYONE who needs help:
10-2 at 110 S. 2nd St, ALHAMBRA.
1st 1000 cars or until food runs out.
STAY IN CAR
OPEN YOUR TRUNK
WEAR A MASK
Curbside Emergency Meals beginning today 11:30am -1:00. Any one age 18 or younger in the vehicle is eligible 4 meal. See site + serving locations below. PLEASE REMEMBER 2 THANK OUR WONDERFUL FOOD SERVICE STAFF! ❤️
Happening Now‼️
AUSD clerical + purchasing staff are in our warehouse preparing 15,480 COVID test kits for students to take home Friday. 🙏
It takes all of us to keep each other safe‼️Thank you to our magnificent
#TeamAUSD
❤️
Students K-12: Join the wonderful free virtual
@ReadWithMalcolm
READCamp this summer. Your coach is the awesome Super Bowl Champ Malcolm Mitchell who wants to “up your reading game.”
We agree
@ClayCook_phd
! We salute you and say bravo to our
@alhambrausd
educators who every day demonstrate their dedication to social, emotional and behavioral supports for our students! It is inspiring to work together for excellence.
🎉THE
#SGHS
MATADORS 🏈 HEADING TO STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS‼️
Final score 46-34. Matadors dominated 2nd half.
“Kennedy gave us some trouble. When we figured out what the problem was, we made our adjustments + we hit big.”
@EncinasCoach
@SGVNSports
@PasStarNews
📸: Jocelyn Castro
Last night at the vigil at Monterey Park City Hall to honor the victims + survivors of Saturday’s incomprehensible violence, the beauty of the love and the sorrow at the loss was visual poetry, healing, unifying, powerful, empowering.
#RememberTheirNames
We are SO PROUD of
@ALHAMBRAhigh
junior, Nam Nguyen who just won the Speech & Debate
@CHSSAWeb
STATE CHAMPIONSHIP in Oratorical Interpretation!
His speech was "Dennis Shepard's Statement to the Court.”
Congratulations to Nam & his speech coach Mr. Kevin Tong! 🎉🎉
Alhambra just received the 2nd largest district funding request in the state budget: $25 million for our first state of the art community center. I am overjoyed to receive the support of CA Senate. Thank you Senator
@SusanRubioCA
&
@SenToniAtkins
!❤️🎉
@cityofalhambra
@PasStarNews
Did you know?
AUSD
@alhambrausd
’s history of resourceful licensing agreements means we are able to fund unique signature student programs like our Outdoor Science Camp in a National Forest for all district 5th graders?
A partnership w/
@TheYMCAofWSGV
#CampTaTaPochon
#AEF
#AUSD
“When I was a boy & would see scary things in the news, my mother would say 2 me, ‘ Look 4 the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’” — Mr. Rogers
The whole staff
@alhambrausd
are those helpers during the time of coronavirus. We SALUTE our
#AUSDHelpers
❤️
LACOE Superintendent Duardo on coronavirus truths: “The fact is coronavirus is not spreading in LA County. School is 1 of safest places 4 children. Public health is doing everything 2 monitor & keep us safe. There’s no need 4 any school 2 close.
Children who read by the end of the third grade > likely 2 graduate fr high school. Reading opens doors 2 academic fulfillment, career readiness & opportunities throughout a child’s lifetime. Benefits go beyond these practicalities.
TY
@latimes
At Repetto School, Ms. Chu’s precious kindergartners are excited about learning how to read, how to count, and about their new principal, Dr. Steve Suttle. ❤️
Students, Families and
@alhambrausd
Employees: Your actions during Spring Break will determine what April looks like in our schools just when we take the 1st step on the journey to having students on campus. If you insist on traveling outside CA you must quarantine for 10 days.