Ensure learning through quality best first instruction, intervention, building culture and community, and PLC work*. Continue to make LHS a destination for quality education and an amazing high school experience!
What does this look like for your Zebra?
CULTURE: Celebrate all that makes LHS a great place to be! Create opportunities for our students, families and staff to engage in our school and find their place as a Fighting Zebra.
Our framework is YDI to support culture and community
We will invite student voice through our new District Student Senate our our Site Student Congress
BEST FIRST INSTRUCTION: Continual learning as a team of educators and students.
Focus on learning rather than teaching
LHS is AVID Sitewide - AVID is our framework to support best first instruction
INTERVENTION: Build systems that support learning and set our students up for success in their college and/or career goals.
Focusing on all students through quality, data driven intervention. Placing focus on freshmen, English language learners, homeless and foster youth, and low socioeconomic youth to support success
We’ll use a tool called SMARTPASS to support effective intervention times/space/activity this year!
We’ll continue to build a strong MTSS system (MTSS = multi tiered systems of support - focusing on academics, attendance, and behavior) and train in PBIS (PBIS = positive behavior intervention supports) to support all students
We continue to offer incredible supports through our counselors, Wellness Center team, the Foundry, and trusted adults!
PLCs*: Use data to drive decision and make decisions that are best for our students
Focusing on the 4 questions from the DuFour’s Learning by Doing
What must they know? How do we know when they’ve learned it? What do we do when they haven’t? What do we do when they have?
*PLC stands for "professional learning community" and these are the collaborative grade/subject/focus level meetings our teachers attend on Mondays when we dismiss school early.
On Wednesday, 9/6, LHS is hosting our annual fall Back to School Night. We know that all of our families have busy schedules, so we have a digital and in-person option for participation. However you chose to participate, we hope you find the information/experience informative and helpful!
You can participate digitally by logging into Schoology (more info about Schoology access here!). Each teacher will have a short video posted on their main page where they introduce themselves, and go over their course, syllabus, and expectations. All videos will be posted by Wednesday evening for you to view at any point. In addition, our Admin Team has created a welcome video - you can find it now at lhs.wpusd.org > Families > Resources > Back to School Night & Zebra Showcase, or click here.
We are also opening up our campus for in-person visitors on Wednesday evening, and we really hope you'll come by to meet our staff, check out our classrooms, and learn about our course offerings - there is so much to be proud of and excited about! Here is the agenda for the evening:
5:30-7:30pm
Food Trucks & Resource Tables
In front of Pence Gym
5:30-6 pm
Frosh (Class of 2027) Family Meeting
Theater (on left side of Pence Gym)
Focus on need-to-know information for Frosh, including campus resources to support success towards graduation!
6-7pm
Classrooms open for drop-in visits
The format is a meet and greet; there will not be formal presentations; teacher welcome videos are available via Schoology for each teacher, too
7-7:30pm
Senior (Class of 2024) Family Meeting
Theater (on left side of Pence Gym)
Focus on Senior Activities, Sober Grad, Caps & Gowns, College & Career Preparation, and Senior Counseling Information
We love having our families attend events on campus - here is what is coming up in September:
Fall Athletics Contests / see our schedule of games here
Back to School Night / Wednesday, 9/6 / details above
Homecoming / Week of 9/26-9/29
- Volleyball at Home / Monday, 9/25
- Tennis at Home / Tuesday, 9/26
- Powder Puff / Tuesday, 9/26 at 6 pm
- Night Rally / Tuesday, 9/26 at 8 pm
- Volleyball at Home / Thursday, 9/28
- Frosh Football at Home / Thursday, 9/28
- JV & V Football at Home / Friday, 9/29
- Dance / Saturday, 9/30 (contact Mary MacQueen at mmacqueen@wpusd.org if you would like to help)
We have three opportunities for families to provide input for LHS coming up:
English Language Advisory Council (ELAC)
for our Spanish speaking families
Monday, September 18th
6pm, LHS Library
Focus: Tours of Campus and Q&A about LHS
School Site Council
Wednesday, September 27th
6pm, LHS Library or via Google Meet (meet.google.com/pdt-kaim-cfc)
LHS Booster Club Meeting
Tuesday, September 19th (third Tuesday of every month!)
5:30pm, LHS Library
You can help us keep LHS a safe and supportive environment by letting us know if something isn't right. Stop It is an anonymous tool you can use to safely let our admin team is someone needs help or if something is happening on campus that is not in alignment with our values of Care, Courage, Connect, and Character. Your reports are anonymous and will be followed up on.
Click here: bit.ly/wpusdstopit or click "safety concern" at the top right of lhs.wpusd.org.
Lincoln High School is selling ASB Cards (Associated Student Body) - having a card gets you into all home, non-playoff games for free, and gets you a discount for HoCo Dance Tickets. This fall alone, buying an ASB Card will help your Zebra save over $210 if they attend all home games.
The cost is $75.00 plus students get a free Hawaiian shirt with the purchase of their ASB Card. You can purchase it online here.
Also, this is the cheapest time to purchase a yearbook for your student. $80.00. Use this link to order your yearbook from Jostens today!
LHS offers an incredible tutoring program that is designed to help students get their homework done, get organized, to ask questions, to get reteaching, and even to take care of test retakes (for some teachers!). We are prepared to offer support in all content areas taught at LHS. Tutoring will start on Wednesday, 9/6.
Where:
- In Person at LHS Library or online using Google Meet - code: LHStutoring
When:
- M-F from 7:15-8:15am
- M from 2:30-4:30pm
- T-Th from 3:30-5:30pm
Keep in mind, that the library hosts our tutoring program to support students with learning. The library is not open for hanging out during tutoring times - all students must be actively involved in some type of academic activity during the tutoring program hours if they are in the library.
Your counselor might be new this year.
- Sherri Sandoval: Freshmen, English Language Learners & Special Populations, ssandoval@wpusd.org ext 37830
- Misty Alarcon: Gr 10-12, Last names A-L, malarcon@wpusd.org ext 37832
- Robyn Court: Gr 10-12, Last names M-Z, rcourt@wpusd.org ext 37831
Our counselors have been busy in August getting our new students enrolled and getting our classes balanced. As we look to September, our counseling team will be meeting with families at Back to School Night (see details above) and beginning to schedule individual, class, and other group meetings during intervention.
Your student can make an appointment with their counselor by stopping into the office to see Mrs. Emerson, or directly via our Counseling Website.
Click here to make an appointment and click here to learn more about the Counseling departments supports and services!
September is a busy month at the College and Career Center. Click Here to see what services we offer. This time of the year, we are busy scheduling college visits on campus. Now is the time to start planning for what colleges might interest you. It's never too early to start. Students at any grade level may attend the presentations that are held in the library during intervention times. You can view the list here for updated days, times and to register. Students must sign to attend. A reminder to use our platform, Pathful Explore, to get you started. With interactive tools and assessments, students can discover diverse career pathways.
Senior Highlights:
- College Application Season has approached. University of California has 9 Campuses, One application. Fall 2024 UC application opens August 1st.
- The California State University has 23 Campuses, One Application for Infinite possibilities. Fall 2024 CSU application opens October 1st.
- The Common App has 1000s of unique colleges and universities you can access and apply for all in one place. Fall 2024 Common App opens August 1st.
- One thing to note this year, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) opens sometime late December. All Seniors must apply for FAFSA.
Please stop by the College & Career Center (located across from attendance at the end of the 70s building) and make an appointment if you need help or have questions.
The Wellness Center is open and ready to support students. As a reminder to families, if your student is struggling with their mental health and needs a safe place to land during the day, we are here to help. Students seeking wellness support simply ask their teachers for a wellness center break in room 14 where they will be greeted and offered space to talk or take a break for 10-15 minutes.
Welcome Stephanie
Please join us in welcoming our newest Wellness Center staff member, Stephanie George-Mello. Stephanie is an MFT intern with William Jessup University. Stephanie will be bolstering our existing counseling and therapy services, as well as supporting the drop in needs of our students. She is incredibly excited to be with us and we're thrilled to have her.
*NEW* Virtual Calming Room
We are thrilled to be able to bring the community our first iteration of the virtual calming room. This is a free and discreet website that we have curated for students who struggle with finding and identifying coping skills. We know that not all students will show up to the wellness center for support, and that's okay. Our goal is to remove as many barriers as we can to student wellness and success. We hope to continue to tweak and improve the resources on this page as the year goes on.
The LHS/PHS Foundry is located in Portable 65 (one of the portables on the north side of the LHS parking lot. They are open on Tuesdays and Thursdays after school for now. Be watching for expanded hours!
For more information about the Foundry, reach out to site director, Emilee at Emilee@foundrylincoln.org.
Social Media
- Facebook @LincolnHighSchoolWPUSD
- Insta @lhsfightingzebras
Calendars
- School and Athletics Calendars are here!
Staff Directory
- This directory contains some staff who are no longer at LHS, but it also includes all of our current staff
Specific Course Information
- All of our teachers posted information about their class on Schoology - parents and students can always go back to revisit syllabi and a video introducing your teacher on their Schoology pages: https://wpusd.schoology.com/ > Courses > Select tile for the class you want to learn more about!
General School/Course Information
- Website: lhs.wpusd.org
- Course Catalog: https://lhs.wpusd.org/academics/course-offerings/course-catalog
- Handbook: https://lhs.wpusd.org/our-school/about-us/student-handbook