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Thursday, December 6, 2012
PACO December concert
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Site Council December 2012
GUNN HIGH SCHOOL SITE
COUNCIL
AGENDA
December 3, 2012 Ÿ 3:55pm Ÿ Staff Lounge
CALL
TO ORDER
Grace Park
OPEN
FORUM: Members of the public may address
the Council on non-agenda
Items. (LIMIT of FIVE MINUTES per person.)
OLD
BUSINESS
Approval
of November 5, 2012 Meeting Minutes (five minutes)
NEW
BUSINESS
Agenda Lightening Round - List of Critical Topics
not on the Agenda
(To add to end of agenda or for future agendas or follow
up)
Constituency Representatives’ Reports
§ Principal’s
Report
Katya Villalobos
WASC/SPSA Plan
Feedback on current
calendar
Facilities
and Guidance
Katya Villalobos
Update Facilities
Update on Guidance Advisory
Committee
Effects on Gunn of Passing of Prop 30 (at 4:30) Yancy Hawkins
§ Board
of Education
Katya Villalobos
§ PTSA Becky
Thomas
§ Parent
Report Linda Lingg
§ SEC
Kathleen DeCoste
§ Site
Council
Rene' Hart
Revised Budget Overview/Carryover
(handout)
Evaluation handouts
Next meeting January 7 at
3:55pm
Round Robin - questions or concerns
Light refreshments provided
by Linda Lingg and Becky Thomas at 3:45
Friday, November 9, 2012
Host an AFS Exchange Student/ Study Abroad with AFS
Submitted by Pam Wong
Invite Adventure – Host an AFS
Exchange Student
Adventure brings personal challenges and the excitement of
exploring the unknown. A really good adventure can reveal new insights into the
familiar. It’s possible to invite adventure
right into your home.
AFS host families open their homes to students from all over
the world. Taking in a student from another culture for a semester or academic
year invites the challenge of building lifetime relationships with someone who
can be your guide to a new culture. And your own neighborhood seen through the eyes of that new
son or daughter can look like an amazing and novel place.
For more information please visit www.afsusa.org
Taking a look at your world by leaving – Study abroad with AFS
The world is a big place, even if it’s easy to find a picture of a house on the other side of the planet on Google Earth. AFS sends American students to 90 countries worldwide to immerse themselves in a new culture and learn a new language. Traveling to a new place as a visitor is fun, but the journey of a high school student on an international exchange living with a local family is more than a trip to a foreign country. It’s an inner journey
Here at Gunn our student Maya recently returned from Spain. If you’d like to consider a year or semester abroad, AFS can answer your questions at an information night/at Ask an AFSer etc.
For more information please visit www.afsusa.org
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Parent Ed event Advocating for your Child
Submitted by Karen Mueller
The IEP Process and Best Practices for Advocating for Your Child What are effective
ways to advocate for your child’s education? Patty Hurley, a child advocate, and Hilarey Davis,
a retired MVLA director of special education, will discuss how to prepare for the IEP, the
importance of collaborative parent involvement, and how to prioritize your efforts to obtain
services and accommodations for your child. They will also focus on the time surrounding
the diagnosis or the time parents first become aware of their child’s developmental/academic
challenges.
Wednesday, Nov 14, 2012 – meeting is 7 to 9 pm. Hospitality begins at 6:45pm. Covington
Elementary School Multi, 205 Covington, Los Altos 94024.
This parent education event is sponsored by the SELPA 1 CAC (www.selpa1cac.org) All of our
events are free and open to anyone who feels they might benefit. No registration is necessary.
P4P event
Submitted by Kathryn Latour
Thursday, October 18th we had a great P4P event and a solid biking turnout among our Gunn students
with a total of 624 bikes counted in all the bike racks. We say this is a great biking count since it is well
over 1/3 of the student body, and it exceeds the number of bikers to Paly both by absolute number
and per capita. However, normally these numbers are even higher when there are no special events
like Homecoming that made it more difficult for some students to bike. Congratulations, Titans! Special
thanks also goes to volunteers Lawrence Baker (who flew in just for this event), Steve Hubbell (illustrious
past P4P co-chair), Penny Ellson (PTA Traffic Safety Rep), and Iris Latour (former-Gunn-student-now-
college-graduate) for greeting each biker and thanking them with a Rice Krispy Treat.
On a more sober note, we have two areas of concern. Principal Villalobos related that there are still a
great many bikes left unlocked in the morning as proven by those who discovered their bikes gone at
the end of the day and reclaimed them in the office. If students forget to bring their bike lock to school,
there are extras in the office; securing a bike is the surest way to avoid bike theft. The second concern is
that there seems to be many more students biking without their helmets. The law states that all bikers
under the age of 18 must wear a helmet. This law was enacted for your protection since head injuries
from biking accidents can be severe, even fatal.
For November, look for announcements about the Palo Alto-sponsored bike survey and the November
1st Walk About where students can give input about biking concerns. Thanks, Gunn students, for doing
your part to help the environment, congestion, and traffic safety!
Kathryn Latour
P4P Chair
Safe Routes Walkabout
Submitted by Sylvia Star-Lack
Safe Routes Walkabout
Thursday, November 1st
2:30pm in the Staff Lounge
Join us for snacks in the Staff Lounge at 2:30pm on Thursday, November 1st. Parents and students are invited to attend an important meeting at Gunn focused on how to make the daily school commute safer for all Gunn students. The Gunn Safe Routes Walkabout will start at 2:30pm on Thursday, November 1st. Parents and students will begin at the Staff Lounge for a tour around the school to identify problem commute areas, with a particular focus on walking and bicycling. We will meet back in the Staff Lounge for a discussion of what we saw. We also will
use large-scale neighborhood maps to discuss broader school route issues. Student voices are particularly encouraged at this event. Snacks will be provided!
Please look for announcements about a follow-up meeting to be scheduled in January. This meeting will be open to the broader community and will include review of a draft Walk and Roll to School map showing recommended walking and bicycling routes for students traveling to and from Gunn.
The City of Palo Alto has received a grant to strengthen Palo Alto’s Safe Routes to School program and has hired a consultant specializing in non-motorized school commute solutions to lead us through the development of the Walk and Roll to School map. These information-gathering meetings are an opportunity for our school community to provide input on suggested walking and biking routes and areas along commute routes that need attention from the city or school district.
Please mark your calendars and RSVP to Sylvia Star-Lack to attend the November 1st meeting. The outcome of this process will only be as good as the input from the Gunn community, so if you can’t attend the meetings, be sure your feedback is heard. Please RSVP or send your comments to Sylvia Star-Lack at saferoutes@cityofpaloalto.org<mailto:saferoutes@ cityofpaloalto.org>.
Yearbook Baby Ads
Submitted by Mark Gleason
THE OLYMPIAN
gunn.the.olympian@gmail.com
Dear Parents of Seniors,
Every year, the yearbook staff sets aside a portion of the yearbook for Senior Baby Ads. These ads allow parents of seniors to honor their child and send them a supporting message. Graduation from high
school is a noteworthy step in every child’s life that surely makes every parent proud. As a long-standing tradition at Gunn, these Senior Baby Ads help celebrate this monumental achievement.
The 2012-13 yearbook will continue to be published in full-color, follow a journalistic style, and showcase all-digital photos. As in previous years, each ad will be designed by the yearbook’s graphic staff
and will be printed in full color.
Size and Pricing
This year we are trying something different in the name of equity for our school community. Rather
than 3 different sizes, our standard will be a half-page ad for all participants.
Half Page Ad ($100.): 5 photo maximum, 100 word maximum, 9” x 6”
As always, we have tried to determine a pricing that will be affordable to all parents. All proceeds go
toward yearbook printing and production.
Please note that the final ad is only as good as the photos submitted. If we receive a photo quality that
we think will contribute a negative overall effect to the ad, we may choose not to use it and to compensate by making the other photos larger. Also note that although we put our very best effort into making
the design for your son or daughter’s ad aesthetically pleasing, we wish to make all the ads similar in
style and matching in theme, as to give no visible preference to any one student. We know that your
child is very important; however, under our current restraints we may not be able to make his or her
ad match your exact expectations. Please be understanding of our situation, and we hope you enjoy this
coming year’s Senior Baby Ads.
Ordering Information
In order to scan pictures and design pages for a class of some 400 students, we must have orders in
by Friday, October 5, 2013. Places in the yearbook are on a first-come, first-served basis. Any orders
after the deadline will have a 25 dollar late-fee added. Ordering is simple; just complete the order form
on the reverse, and deliver to Mark Gleason at Gunn. We would greatly appreciate it if we could get
orders as soon as possible.
Thank you so much for your cooperation. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at
gunn.the.olympian@gmail.com or contact a yearbook staff member.
Sincerely,
Nitika Johri Mark Gleason
Editor-In-Chief Olympian Advisor
2013 Senior Baby Ad Order Form
1. Contact Information
Name of Parent
Name of Student
Telephone No. ( ) email address
2. Photo Submission
Number of photos
Format (digital or hard copy)
You may send in digital/scanned photos to gunn.the.olympian@gmail.com (hi-res only!)
Please:
•Arrange all your photos into an envelope and mail it along with your order form.
•Label all your photos with your son/daughter’s full name on the back of each picture.
•Allow ink to dry before stacking photos so as not to damage them.
•Indicate which photo you want to be dominant, or largest, in the layout (if you have a
preference).
•Include a stamped self-addressed envelope if you want the photos returned to you.
3. Text Submission
•Please email your letter or text to the yearbook at gunn.the.olympian@gmail.com
•In the subject of the email, type “(Your Son/Daughter’s Full Name) Baby Ad.
•In the body of the email, type your letter to your child.
•Please make sure that you send your edited letter through email, as we will not
edit any of the text. Also, please take into consideration that we will be formatting
the text to fit our Senior Baby Ads designs. Therefore please keep your letter in
paragraph form.
4. Check and Payment
We would prefer a check payment for $100. made out to “Gunn High School Yearbook”. If you are submitting this after Oct.5, please include the $25 late fee in the
payment.
Please mail to: c/o Mark Gleason
Re: Gunn Senior Baby Ad
780 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto, CA 94402
Or place in Mr. Gleason’s box
in the main office.
Again, please mail out all of these items by Friday, October 5th.
Please be considerate of this deadline, because designing all of the individual Senior Ads
is time consuming, and we wish to make them as pleasing as possible.
The Olympian Staff
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