Zebra Family Update!

We are approaching the end of Quarter 3 as of Friday, March 17th and we anticipate that quarter grades will be available on PowerSchool on the late afternoon of March 22nd. As we approach the last quarter of the year, our attention turns to celebrating our Seniors, supporting students as we finish strong, preparing for ELPAC, SBAC, CAST, and AP testing season, and getting organized to launch the 2023/24 year!

We also must take a minute to celebrate an incredible Winter Athletics season. Some celebrations:

• our comp cheer team took first in the state!
• our wrestling team took 5 male and 2 female athletes to Masters!
• our boys basketball team made it to the quarterfinals of their divisional championships
• our girls basketball team made it to the championship level of the Section (playing at Golden 1) and played in round one of the Nor Cal championships
• our boys soccer team made it to the championship level of their division (playing at Cosumnes River CC) and played in round one of the Nor Cal championships

This spring, we are excited to get our inaugural season of Lacrosse underway, and to cheer on our Zebras in baseball, boys golf, softball, boys tennis, track, boys volleyball, trap, and swimming. Details about our athletic events are available at lhs.wpusd.org > Athletics > Athletic Events Calendar.

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.

We are looking for parents to join our LHS Booster Club as a Board Member so that we can continue to provide the support and resources to our clubs, organizations, and athletics groups. Your current LHS Booster Club Board members as well the LHS Athletic Director, Justin Patterson will be holding an informational meeting next week. We hope you will all attend and let us answer any questions you might have. If you can't make it, reach out to lhszebraboosters@gmail.com for details!

Meeting Details:

When: Tuesday, March 7th

Time: 6:15pm

Where: Room 52 at the LHS Campus

Graduation is scheduled for Friday, June 9th at 8pm in the LHS Stadium. Each graduate will receive 8 tickets. A one-stop newsletter with details relevant to our Senior Class will be published on 3/20 and will be added to throughout the spring. Be watching for additional details!

Your most important next step - be sure you've ordered your Senior's Cap and Gown here!

The Zebra Sober Grad Committee are now in the midst of planning for Sober Grad Nite! Committees are forming and we’d love for you to be a part of it. Here’s the link to sign up as a volunteer and our volunteer google folder for more info:

Volunteer Sign up Form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeMUxAbipjUFhYlX69FSfHfrMylzMBZuitN0R7n59wL90iUPA/viewform

Volunteer Google Folder:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1K1PSdxQm2t2v-MOOyG-UPu8iKpQ3hNLe

Hope to see you at the next meeting - Monday, 3/27 at 6:30pm in the LHS Library.

Stay informed:

Facebook | Lincoln Sober Grad

Instagram | lincolnsobergrad

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.

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.

Our annual Science Expo is back! We'll be welcoming all 3rd graders to campus on Wed., 3/8, and the fair will reopen to the public that evening! Come and see our students in action - it's an incredible event featuring projects ranging from ag to robotics with life, physical, and environmental science included too! It's fun and you are likely to learn something too!

LHS Drama Department's spring production of All in the Timing opens on Thursday, March 16! All in the Timing is a comedy made up of six one act plays each exploring a different aspect of life and the passage of time. Two of the one-acts are completely student directed and produced as part of Drama 3. Don't miss the chance to see the excellent work of these dedicated students and to experience a hilarious and wholly unique evening of theater!

Shows are at 7pm on March 16, 17, and 18 and again on March 23, 24, and 25.

Please contact Mr. Florence (hflorence@wpusd.org) with any questions and get your tickets at gofan.co (search for Zebra!).

Our journalism class has been hard at work learning about journalism and local news writing - it is written by students for students! Their online newspaper is called "Zebra Heard" - clever!

Check out the current featured stories titled "Cooking with King Arthur," "Lincoln High AVID Joins 8000 students for Oakland A's Game," "Time's Ticking, Six Days of Six Plays" and "The Coolest Cat in Town, or at Least on Campus" and dig into the news, features, and sports articles they have available online - check in out here or find the link at lhs.wpusd.org under the splash pictures!

If you have a story you think should be told or a tip for a possible story, send an email with contact information to lhsjournalism@wpusd.org

Each month, the LHS counselors will provide you with information on hot topic items as well as areas of focus with students. Stay tuned for information on all things college, school success, academic planning and mental health support. Should you need to reach out to your child’s counselor, here is our contact information:

Julia Kent: Last names A-Di, jkent@wpusd.org ext 37833

Sherri Sandoval: Last names D0-La, ssandoval@wpusd.org ext 37830

Misty Alarcon: Last names Le-Re, malarcon@wpusd.org ext 37832

Robyn Court: Last names Rh-Z, rcourt@wpusd.org ext 37831

Sruti Vadgama, College & Career Technician, svadgama@wpsud.org

Kristin Gianola, Wellness Center Counselor (Room 14), kgianola@wpusd.org

Nancy Monroe, Wellness Center Counselor (Room 14), nmonroe@wpusd.org

March can be a crazy time in the academic counseling world! Seniors begin receiving college acceptance letters, Financial Aid Offers and are knee deep in submitting Scholarship applications. It is an exciting time, filled with big decisions and continued planning. Remember, the priority deadline for applying for Financial Aid, is March 2nd. If a student missed that deadline, he/she should still apply. Also, students should keep checking Schoology for any new scholarships opportunities.

If students have any questions about acceptance letters or offers, we are happy to try to help. In addition, students applying to Sierra College should submit their applications ASAP! Two of the counselors, Mrs. Court & Mrs. Alarcon, will begin meeting with all Sierra bound seniors who completed their application and Career Assessment to help them develop an educational plan.

Lastly, if your child missed picking his/her courses with the counselor when we visited with them in the library, we are reaching out to them individually to discuss it. Our goal is to have met with all students to help them pick courses by next week.

Summer School

We don’t have details yet, but as the counselors meet with students to plan their courses, if your child needs to repeat a course, we will let them know they are being recommended for Summer School. Additional information will go out in April/May. Typically, summer school runs from mid June until sometime in July. All classes are online, but often exams need to be taken in person at Phoenix High School. Summer School is a great opportunity for your child to make up a course without the pressure of 8 other courses. We strongly recommend that your child takes advantage of this opportunity if it is being offered to them.

The College and Career Center started a busy month, ending with FAFSA/CADAA and scholarship assistance to our students. We hope that many of our students qualify for free money from California upon completing FAFSA/CADAA. If they still haven't completed one, we highly encourage them to do so. We are also hoping our scholarship donors have a hard time selecting from the many applicants they received.

Next up is our Career Fair on March 21st, from 8:30am-12:30pm. Our goal is to expose our students to a variety of different industry sectors, businesses, internship and apprenticeship programs, allowing them to make successful post-secondary plans. We want our students to learn about all the career possibilities they can pursue, the education required and the potential salary earnings. There will also be two panel sessions the students can sign up for, “How to Start Your Own Business” and “How to Land Your Dream Job: What Employers are Looking For” We encourage your students to stop by, participate and interact. More information will be shared with them as the day approaches.

As we say goodbye to February, I wanted to take a moment to recap what we have been working on in the Wellness Center. In February, we were able to provide 16 in-class presentations to students on safe and healthy relationships. HUGE thank you to our freshman English Dept who incorporated the topic of healthy relationships into their Romeo and Juliet curriculum. We are so thankful for these ongoing collaboration opportunities and look forward to more.

We have provided a safe space to students over 200 times this month and hope to continue to expand and reach more students.

March Mental Health Focus: Social Media's Impact on Mental Health

As we move into March, we will transition into talking about the effects of social media on mental health. Social media is a powerful tool that has helped remove stigma from many aspects of mental health conditions and treatment. However, we know that unfettered access to social media comes with negative outcomes as well. The CDC recently released its Youth Risk Behavior Survey Data Summary & Trends Report and the results of some teen behavior is troubling.

• In 2021, 16% of high school students were electronically bullied, including through texting, Instagram, Facebook, or other social media. Female students were more likely than male students to be electronically bullied. American Indian or Alaska Native and White students were more likely than students from most other racial and ethnic groups to be electronically bullied. LGBQ+ students and students who had any same-sex partners were more likely than their peers to be electronically bullied. (Source)

• When highly susceptible adolescents used social media to interact with peers in the last hour, they felt less socially connected to others and more strongly craved social connections and novel sensations. Youth who are particularly sensitive to social input from peers may feel less connected to others and crave more connections and exciting stimuli within 1 hr after using social media to interact with peers. (source)

For further reading on the impact of social media on youth mental health, here is testimony given on Feb 14th of 2023, to our Senate by Mitch Prinstein, PhD, ABPP, and Chief Science Officer of the American Psychological Association.

The Wellness Center will be stationing ourselves in the quad during the lunch hour several times in March (gloomy weather permitting) with our spinning wheel and spreading the word to our campus about the impact on social media on mental health topics. We will also be doing a greater push on our social media account by sharing online safety tips.

March, 2023

• Homework Center is Open! for details click here

• Athletics Event Calendar - click here
• Tuesday, 3/7, 5:30pm: WPUSD Special Education Transition Program Open House (online)
• Tuesday, 3/7, 6:15 pm: LHS Booster Club Meeting (room 52)
• Wednesday, 3/8: Science Expo
  
• Monday, 3/13: ELAC Meeting
• Thursday, 3/16-Saturday, 3/18: Spring Play Production Weekend One (get tickets at gofan.co)
• Friday, 3/17: End of Quarter 3
• Tuesday, 3/21: Career Fair at LHS
• Tuesday, 3/21: Soroptimist Teen Esteem Program
• Wednesday, 3/22: Q3 Grades Posted online in PowerSchool (likely in the afternoon)
• Thursday, 3/23-Saturday, 3/25: Spring Play Production Weekend Two (get tickets at gofan.co)
• Friday, 3/31-Monday, 4/10: No School (Spring Break)

Spring 2023

• Monday, 4/17: ELAC Meeting
  
• Week of 4/17-4/21 (tentative): SBAC and CAST State Testing
• Monday, 4/24, 6 pm: School Site Council Meeting
• Thursday, April 27 and Friday, 28: Class Officer and ASB Elections
• First Half of May: AP Testing
• Saturday, May 13: Tentative Date for Junior/Senior Prom
• Monday, 5/15: Senior Awards and Senior Scholarship Night
  
• Tuesday, 5/16: LHS hosting School Board Meeting and highlighting LHS students and programs
• Monday, 5/29: No School (Memorial Day)
• Thursday, 6/1: LHS at the Potters!
• Friday, 6/2 (tentative): End of Year "Play Day"
• Tuesday, 6/6-Friday, 6/9: Finals Week
• Friday, 6/9: Graduation for the Class of 2023 / Last Day of School

Visit our community and athletics calendars for more details on special activities, sports, and school events!

IT'S A GREAT DAY TO BE A ZEBRA!

Vision: Lincoln High School empowers students to develop their potential, to advocate for themselves, and to make a lifelong positive contribution to the community.

Mission: Lincoln High School creates opportunities for all students to gain the education and experiences needed to be successful, knowledgeable, and responsible contributors to society.

Learn about our Student Learning Outcomes here.

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

Email: jhladun@wpusd.org
Website: lhs.wpusd.org
Location: 790 J Street, Lincoln, CA, USA
Phone: 916 645 6360