January 24, 2025

Dear LHS Students, Families, and Staff,

It is important to PPS that immigrant families and staff feel safe and supported. A number of families have expressed to me and other members of our staff that they are concerned about possible immigration actions under the new presidential administration. I want to personally reassure you that our top priority is ensuring the safety and well-being of all of our students and staff. We continue to work closely with PPS leadership and our community partners to uphold Oregon law prohibiting state and local law enforcement from arresting or detaining people based solely on immigration status. Additionally, Oregon law protects student educational records from use for immigration actions.

In times of uncertainty, it is always beneficial to be proactive and prepared, and it’s crucial that we have up-to-date contact information for you and your student. If you have not done so already, please complete the yearly student verification form to ensure we’re reaching you via the right information and in the right language. This information is protected and will not be shared with non-PPS staff.

I also wanted to provide the following resources:

• This FAQ and this webpage answer many questions about the steps Portland Public Schools will be taking to safeguard staff and students going forward.

• This page from the Multnomah Education Service District (MESD) includes a family resource hub and culturally specific information for families in the Portland area.

• The Immigrant Legal Resource Center Little Red Card is meant to help people assert their rights and defend themselves in many situations. The cards can be printed out in your preferred language and carried on your person.

• Know Your Rights for Families/Students (Oregon ACLU)

• Immigrant Rights Resources One Pager

• PPS’s Office for Civil Rights offers support addressing discrimination, harassment, and bias-related concerns.

Please contact me at peytonc@pps.net if you have any questions or concerns. We care deeply about all of our families and students, and this is a top priority for all of us here at Lincoln.

I also want to make sure you have all seen this budget related memo from our Superintendent. You can also read the recent coverage on OPB and in the Oregonian. PPS has adjusted our staffing timeline and we expect to receive our 2025-2026 staffing budget on February 28th. We will continue to update our community as we receive updates. Please take every opportunity to give feedback during the budget process via PPS surveys and community input meetings.There will also be opportunities to learn more about state advocacy at events held by local school communities . We need Oregon to fully fund a Quality Education Model (QEM) for our students and our state to fully succeed. I will continue to advocate for cuts and consolidations that best protect schools and best maintain school based programs and staffing. It takes a few hours to cut a program and too often it takes 20 years to bring it back. We are also always working to help families in private schools, and those new to Portland, fully understand all the incredible opportunities that exist across PPS, at LHS, and in our feeder schools. Enrollment remains crucial for our staffing and we appreciate all of your help as school ambassadors. This is always a hard political process and we appreciate everyone's steady focus on all the other ways we are working to support our students.

We are now officially done with the first semester of the school year! Congratulations on all of our students’ growth and hard work. We are excited to celebrate at our Winter Formal this Saturday night at the Melody Ballroom in Southeast Portland from 7-10. We will also be hosting a fun and inclusive schoolwide Chinese New Year Celebration on January 31st. We hope everyone will join us! According to the Chinese Zodiac the Year of the Snake brings transformation, renewal, and growth, as well as opportunities and new relationships. In this spirit we are excited to announce a new sister school collaboration with the Olympia School in Hanoi, Vietnam. The Olympia School is in the process of becoming an IB World School and is hoping to send 9th grade students to visit our school this spring with arrangements to be finalized after Tet, the New Year celebration in Vietnam. If all goes well we will be looking for host families for a two week visit as soon as this April. We have sent warm wishes, Chúc mừng năm mới, for the lunar new year from our school community.

Finally, we are incredibly proud to announce that LHS STEM teacher Ms. Ranjani Krishnan has been awarded the highest academic honor of Presidential Excellence in Mathematics & Science Teaching, and is now a national awardee earning the PAEMST Award for Science & Mathematics! Ms. Krishnan teaches CTE Computer Science and Coding, modeling life-long learning, always centering excellence and equitable practices in her teaching. Ms. Krishnan is also an accomplished musician and a highly collaborative colleague. We are grateful she chooses to teach at Lincoln! When we say we have excellent educators at LHS we are serious about excellence!

Cheers to the beginning of a new academic semester & Go Cards!

Peyton

Monday, 1/27- NO SCHOOL

Tuesday 1/28 - NO SCHOOL

Wednesday 1/29 - A Day

Thursday 1/30 - B Day

Friday 1/31 - A Day

Monday, 2/3 - B Day

Tuesday 2/4 - A Day

Wednesday 2/5 - B Day

Thursday 2/6 - A Day (Week of Action Special Schedule)

Friday 2/7 - B Day (Double FLEX)

On March 5th, 10th graders will be taking the Pre ACT, 11th graders will be taking the SAT and 12th graders will have graduation requirement offerings at Lincoln High. We are in the process of creating an opportunity for our 9th graders to visit career technical programs and/or different workplaces in the Portland Metro area. If you (or your workplace) would be interested in hosting a group of around 20 students for an hour-and-a-half please email Travis Johnson at tjohnson1@pps.net. Our hope is to offer students a menu of opportunities allowing them to choose a field they are interested in learning more about.

1/25 - Winter Formal at Melody Ballroom, 7-10pm

1/29 &30 - Lovegram Auditions

1/31- Lunar New Year Festival, Lincoln Commons

2/1 - LHS “Try Lacrosse Clinic”

Feb 3-7- BLM Week of Action with special schedule on Thursday 2/6

2/18 - Blood Drive 9-2pm

2/28 - Community Fair (Freshman Schnitzer Care fundraiser event)

2/25 - Arabic Cultural Night, Lincoln Commons

3/5/25 - SAT (11th grade) and Pre-ACT (10th grade) testing day

The ALL Things Senior page has recently been update on the Lincoln website. Please bookmark this page to keep up to date with important information about Senior Year at Lincoln including Graduation information, senior celebrations etc.

Check out the student created Join Choir video on YouTube! Just Sing! Go Choir Cards!

Auditions for LOVEGRAMS on 01/29 and 01/30 in the Black Box during lunch! Come out and join this long-standing tradition that spreads happiness on Valentine’s Day! Email lincolndramacab@gmail.com with any questions.

On Wednesday, February 19th at 7:00 p.m., The United States Coast Guard Band presents a free concert at Lincoln High School, located at 1750 SW Salmon St. This event is a part of the United States Coast Guard Band’s “Centennial Celebration” Concert Tour, under the direction of Captain Adam R. Williamson. Celebrating its 100th year in operation, your United States Coast Guard Band invites you to join us in its one and only centennial tour. This series of free concerts takes place from February 13th to February 24th throughout the Coast Guard’s Eleventh and Thirteenth Districts.

For more information about The Band including concert locations on the “Centennial Celebration” Concert Tour, visit www.uscg.mil/band. Ticketing for this event can be found at: https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/us-coast-guard-band/Portland

Find us and follow us on the following platforms:

Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/uscoastguardband/

YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/UnitedStatesCoastGuardBand

Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/uscoastguardband/

Spring Sports Registration is now OPEN! If your athlete is interested in Baseball, Softball, Golf, Tennis, Track and Field, Boys Volleyball, or Girls Flag Football, please register here! In order to be cleared for these sports, you must:

1. Submit a Spring season registration.

2. Have a valid physical on file on this specific form (Physicals are good for two years from the date of exam)

3. Before competition begins, we must receive your PIL fee!

We also offer Lacrosse in the Spring, who run their registration separately, please reach out to Boys Coach Adrian (coachadrian@lincolnlacrosse.club) or Girls Coach Lauren (lolohill90@gmail.com) for more information!

ALL Spring sports officially begin on Monday, March 3rd. Don’t wait until the last minute to get cleared! If you have any questions or need assistance, please email our Assistant Athletic Director, Rainey Shriver: rshriver@pps.net! GO SPRING SPORTS CARDS!

Kudos to Senior Jonathan Wilkinson, selected as the Portland Pearl Rotary January Student of the Month! Jonathan is an Advanced Choir Student, Choir Cabinet Leader, and on track to earn the Ib Diploma. He is also a professional barber, aka “Barber Johnny”, cutting hair to earn money and donate funds to non-profits that support the local community. Go JW!

Read Clay Street Table's Weekly newsletter which features interviews with Lincoln's Flock Feast leaders.

In case you missed it above and because it’s worth celebrating twice, Ms. Ranjani Krishnan has been awarded the highest academic honor of Presidential Excellence in Mathematics & Science Teaching, and is now a national awardee earning the PAEMST Award for Science & Mathematics! Go Ms. Krishnan!

All teachers and students, to celebrate the end of semester, any student or faculty will automatically receive a 20% discount on Monday and Tuesday of next week. As always we have buy one get one Mondays and our new Friday happy hour with 50% off smoothies from 2 till close. Come on over!

Until 2/3/2025, Cognizart is accepting applications from visual & performing artists ages 10 to 18 to participate in the 31st Young Artists Debut! The Young Artists Debut! offers fun and educational benefits including the opportunity to showcase and refine creative talents, professional photos and videos of creative works, guidance from mentors, and honoraria. One exceptional winning artist will receive $1,000 to further artistic endeavors as the first recipient of the Deveney Award.

The full details on the program are on our website at: https://www.metroartsinc.org/young-artists-debut

February 1st, 2025, from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM at the Creative Homies Building in Portland (Location: The Horizon Enterprise Building, Old Town-Chinatown, 406 NW Glisan Street).

This event, themed “Young Black Men Are ___________,” is a celebration of creativity and community, highlighting the voices of young people, especially BIPOC youth. Lincoln students Christopher Jackson and Elijah Graham,who are part of Word Is Bond will be performing we are excited to provide a platform for their talent and leadership.

Youth ages 7-19 who are interested in performing song, dance, poetry etc are invited to sign up here.

The passing of LHSAA President Glenn McMath last week has been weighing heavily on all of our hearts with many alumni calling and emailing to share the news and hard impact. Glenn was an amazing friend, leader, father to Lucy, husband to Dicky, always open minded and big hearted, saying yes to helping others and his LHS and Portland community. He fought a brave battle against pancreatic cancer, staying positive and involved to the very end. We will miss his warm smile and quarterly letters in the alumni magazine. We send all of our love to his family and close friends. We miss you Glenn McMath! Follow https://www.lincolnalum.org/News-&-Events for more information and updates regarding Glenn’s celebration of life. Donations to a named scholarship in his honor can be made here: https://www.lincolnalum.org/Glenn-Doyle-McMath-Scholarships-Donation-Form/ LHSAA hopes to be able to award the first Glenn McMath scholarship to a graduating senior this spring.

LHS alum Jim Rosenbaum published an illustrated children's book this week. It's called Eleanor and Geraldine and it's available on Amazon for $6. It's a bedtime story created for his two daughters who grew up on Hewett Blvd in SW Portland. Both are now physicians in their 40’s. It's a story about friendship, individuality, and unintended consequences.

Although the book was released just a few days ago, it is now #1 on Amazon for teen and family issues.

Urgent Walk-In Clinic 4212 SE Division (503) 963-2575 (Like Zoom Care for Mental Health)

DAILY 7am-10:30pm - insurance not a barrier

Kaiser Crisis Line (503) 331-6425 if you have Kaiser insurance

988 Suicide and Crisis Line: Dial 988 to get supporthttps://988lifeline.org/

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 24 hours a day 7 days a week

English: 1 (800) 273-8255 Spanish: 1 (800) 628-9454

Oregon Youthline: for youth to connect with other youth

Text: Teen2Teen to 839863 to instantly text with another person

Trevor Project: supporting LGBTQiA+ youth

Text START to 678678 or TrevorLifeLine 1(866) 488-7386

Lines for Life Racial Equity Support Line staffed by and for people of Color

503.575.3764

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