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Location: 800 Magnolia Ave, Piedmont, CA 94611
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Principal: Dr. Yoshihara
Assistant Principal: Mr. Marik
This is related to last week's trivia question (see results below). We had 21 students get a perfect score last year on the CAASPP. I wanted to name that and recognize the fantastic effort of each of these students.
ELA:
- Emmett B.
- Gus vM.
Math:
- Max D.
- Zenn D.
- Sophia G.
- Ellen G.
- Aman J.
- Kasper J.
- Junlin J.
- Vaugn K.
- Ava S.
- Lewis S.
- Jacob S.
- Aliana T.
- Victoria V.
9th graders who got a perfect scored in Math in 8th grade:
- Joseph A.
- Olivia B.
- Audrey L.
- Rose R.
- Maxwell R.
- Bora S.
The Wellness Center supports 6th-12th grade students and their families to meet the challenges of adolescence, with the goal of fostering resilience and self-advocacy in all students. The Center offers free, confidential, on-campus counseling and refers students and families to vital community resources. The Wellness Center provides a safe, non-judgmental environment where students are encouraged to take responsibility for their physical, emotional, mental and social well-being.
The Wellness Center is funded in part by the Piedmont Unified School District, along with direct community donations, the Wellness Center Support Committee and PEF. All proceeds help to fund the PUSD Wellness Center, which serves Piedmont High School, Millennium High School, and Piedmont Middle School students.
Currently, there are several ways to donate to the Wellness Center.
- Donations to the Wellness Center Support Committee
- Donations to the Giving Campaign
- Donations through the Infinite Campus School Store
Thank you for supporting the Wellness Center!
What & When: Piedmont Anti-Racism and Diversity Committee (PADC) and the City of Piedmont will be hosting the 28th annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration at the Alan Harvey Theater on Monday, January 20th, and would like to invite all K-12 students to submit personal art or writing inspired by the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to contribute to this special event! Check out this video to see some of last year’s amazing work! All participants will be entered into a drawing to win one of 10 gift cards to Mulberry’s. The deadline is Monday, January 13.
Creative Prompt: The theme of this year’s celebration is “Separate is Never Equal: What Unites Us?” Students are asked to create a piece of art or writing in response to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s quote:
In a speech in March 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called on people to never feel comfortable with any form of segregation, tyranny, or supremacy.
“I never intend to adjust myself to segregation and discrimination. I never intend to become adjusted to religious bigotry. I never intend to adjust myself to economic conditions that will take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few.”
What does this message mean to you?
Submission Details: Art should be made on 8.5. X 11 paper; writing should be limited to one page. It can be dropped off at the front office of your school or uploaded to PADC’s website. Please include your name somewhere on your work. If you are dropping it off, please fill out and attach this form.
Questions? Please reach out to Ellen Lee at hiellenlee@gmail.com.
With the holidays upon us and folks gathering indoors, we’d like to remind you of some of the important ways we can all work together to keep our community healthy this winter. Not only have we entered cold and flu season, but RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus), pertussis (whooping cough), walking pneumonia (Mycoplasma pneumoniae), and of course, COVID-19, have all been circulating in the community as well. It is therefore important to be mindful when gathering with friends and family this season to prevent the spread of illness.
For the full message from our district nurses, please click here. Thank you.
Kaiser Permanente Undergraduate & Graduate Medical Education is pleased to announce the 3rd Annual Black Men in White Coats Youth Summit on March 1, 2025! The in-person event will be held at Las Positas Community College in Livermore, Ca.
The goal of the summit is to educate middle school through college students, parents, teachers, and community leaders on what it takes to become a medical professional while allowing them to establish and expand their networks. Kaiser Permanente Undergraduate Medical Education seeks to achieve these goals through robust discussions and activities with dynamic speakers and diverse panelists, educational breakout sessions covering an array of topics including communication skills, CPR workshops, interactive simulation activities, educational guidance from local counselors, and informative workshops for parents.
Audience
The audience will include students listed below from the San Francisco Bay Area including North, South, and East Bay areas, as well as the Central and Sacramento Valleys.
Students of all cultural backgrounds and genders are welcome to attend.
- Middle school students
- High school students
- College students
- Post-baccalaureate students
- Parents/guardians/caregivers
Summit Date & Time
- March 1, 2025
- 9:00 am – 3:00 pm (doors open at 8:15am for registration and breakfast)
Location
Las Positas Community College
3000 Campus Hill Dr, Building 4000
Livermore, CA 94551
*Note: This is not an endorsement of Kaiser but an offering for our students that we believe may be of value.
SAT ordering is now live! Please go to the school store and place your order.
PHS/MHS will host an in-person SAT administration on Monday March 17th, 2025. This will be a digital exam and students will need to use their school issued chromebooks. This exam administration will be for rising 11th and 12th graders.
Cost of the exam is $70. If you have any questions, please reach out to Mr. Marik.
Mark your calendars! Our annual Career Day is set for Friday, February 28, 2025, and we need your help to make it a success.
We're looking for parents, alumni, and community members who are willing to spend a morning sharing their work experiences with our high school students as a presenter. Whether you're in tech, healthcare, the trades, arts, business, or any other field – if you're passionate about what you do, consider sharing that passion with curious students!
What does it mean to be a presenter at Career Day?
- The overall time commitment is approximately 1-2 hours of preparation in advance, and then 2 hours on the day of the event (Friday, Feb 28)
- On the day of the event, after a brief orientation, presenters will give two back-to-back 25-minute presentations to two separate groups of students during the Academy period (approximately 10:15 - 11:15).
- Presentations typically include information about the presenter's education/training, high level overview of their career path, what a typical day includes, and opportunity for student Q&A.
- Presenters will be provided with guidance and tools to create their presentations.
Interested in participating? Please complete our brief Google Form no later than January 10, 2025.
As we aim to represent a wide range of careers and industries, we may not be able to accommodate all volunteers this year. However, we deeply appreciate every response and will confirm speaking opportunities with selected presenters.
You'll hear much more about plans, including some new activities related to Career Day in the coming weeks.
Thank you for helping our students explore their future possibilities!
This event is just a few days away. ALPS has generously agreed to help sponsor the event and will provide light refreshments in the lobby. As such, we will open the lobby at 6:00 to allow for some mingling and early seating.
We will start promptly at 6:30 pm in the Alan Harvey Theater with the screening. The film is approximately 90 minutes. We will open with a few words from the Director/Executive Producer, Vicki Abeles.
This will be a community-wide event hosted by PHS (with generous support from PEF and our parent clubs) open to all. "Counted Out investigates the biggest crises of our time—political polarization, racial and economic inequity, a global pandemic, and climate change—through an unexpected lens: math."
We know math is everywhere. We do a great job with literacy. We want to do just as well with numeracy. Math is a language. This is the film. Math proficiency should not go down as students grow up.
We will be one of the first to host a screening of the film, and we plan to do a panel discussion afterwards with the director and others in the greater Bay Area. The audience will be given the opportunity to ask questions during this time as well. Vicki Abeles directed Race to Nowhere and Beyond Measure, reaching millions of viewers by focusing on social impact.
The panelists include:
- Vicki Abeles: Producer of the Film
- Rex Ridgeway: Volunteer in SFUSD/Lincoln High School (PTA President)
- Ella Levine: Founder of Firecracker Math
- Jelani Nelson: UC Berkeley Professor, Chair of Computer Science Division
- Sam Colburn: Math Instructor, PHS
Our moderator will be Auban Willats, Math Instructor, PHS
We will prioritize audience questions after the film.
This event is FREE to our community and we ask that you please RSVP below. Thank you.
Interesting in being a crossing guard? Perhaps you are retired or have a job that allows you flexibility? Piedmont loves our crossing guards (shout out to Valerie), and we know the community could use more.
You only work on school days and training is provided. Crossing guards earn $20/hr. If you work borth the morning shift (1 hour) and afternoon shift (1 hour), you get an extra hour ($60 total).
For more information, please reach out to Art at (650) 922-8374, text "kidssafe" to 22100, or visit this link.
Interested in knowing more about the district's new Independent Study program? Contact your school counselor to learn more!
Independent Study is:
- A voluntary, full-time program for high school students.
- Credits are earned through the completion of online courses monitored by a designated teacher.
- Courses are UC and NCAA approved.
- An option for students who can work independently and thrive with online courses.
We continue to work hard at getting our families to support our schools. We still have a goal of 75% participation and now we'd like to focus in on our individual grade levels. We would like to offer an age-appropriate event (candy party, pizza party, etc) to any (and all) grade that beats last year's participation percentage.
This is where each grade was last year:
9th: 59%
10th: 58%
11th: 48%
12th: 48%
We'd still love to get to 75%, but beating last year's percentage is a great incremental goal!
For more information or to donate, please visit www.piedmontedfoundation.org/donate.
A reminder to all that counselors and the Wellness Center are here for any students.
You can drop in, make an appointment, refer yourself to Wellness Center or come in and just take a short break.
We know as finals approach, busy holidays are coming up, and many are working through grief from the loss of our young community members, this is a stressful and anxious time.
Take care of yourself and one another!
Finals:
One more week and then finals week! Tips and ideas to be ready:
- Review Schoology and asks questions earlier than later about assignments
- Retakes? If a teacher is offering retakes, please make sure you are aware of the last day for any retakes.
- Teachers will go over what finals will look like next week.
- Please be sure that you know what you will be tested on for the final and where to find study materials.
- Form a study group!
- The library is open for the full day Wednesdays and Fridays. Stay on campus to have some quiet study time.
- And get some sleep and eat well before your finals!
We are here for you!
This week's student is Mina Herrgott. We start off by having staff share some thoughts on Mina.
What quality(ies) best describes this student?
Diligent, thoughtful, friendly, and inquisitive.
How long have you known the student?
One semester.
What is the most memorable event you have of this student?
Last week (week of November 11), Mina read her wonderfully written and thoughtful reflective essay in class. Mina's writing is exemplary and her reading was emotional, taking the class on a journey that was bittersweet in both tone and content. Her writing is mature and displays a lot of heart.
How does this student Achieve the Honorable?
Mina is always helping her classmates with extensive and thoughtful peer review, and she is not afraid to take a chance in sharing her thoughts and ideas with her classmates.
If there was one word to describe this student, what would it be?
Brilliant.
And from Mina herself:
- So far this year, what has been your most memorable experience? I went to my grandparent's 80th birthday celebration where my family and uncle's visited them. I got to spend time with family and have a lot of fun remaking connections with my cousins. We also went crabbing at a nearby lake!
- If you were to describe PHS to someone who is thinking about coming, what would you say to them? I would say that PHS is a great school, and you can take many opportunities and classes. There's also a good community and lots of support.
- If you were in charge at PHS, what is one action you might take to make it better? I would find a full-time librarian for the PHS library. The library is an important place, and it's closed about a third of the time.
- If you could share one sentence with your parents/guardians, what would you say? Thank you so much for supporting me and helping me thrive, I love you so much!
- What is your favorite word? Effervescent or ethereal
- What is your favorite song? Darling, the Planets by The Rare Occasions
- What is your favorite food? Pasta with marinara sauce tastes good and is easy to make.
- Can you share a photo of something from your summer and why it is special to you? This is a photo of the Girl Scout Cruise to Mexico that we went on over the summer. They had been saving for it since second grade, and I was also able to help for the last couple of years. Not only was it lots of fun, but I explored new places and I got to know the other people in my troop!
