Upcoming Events:
MON. (10/20) SCHOOL SITE COUNCIL @ 5:30PM IN ROOM 500
CELEBRATE MY DRIVE Contest Continues!
Check Our Social Media Posts For More Information
Details: If we can get enough people we know to pledge to drive safely at
ALAMITOS HIGH, we can win $100,000 Grant and a performance by
a Grammy-Winning Artist. Spread the word please!!!
TUES. (10/21) Teaching & Learning Abound!
School Starts @ 8:37am For Students
Teachers Meet In Departments For Collaboration :)
Special Assembly Schedule For Homecoming (See Here)
Fall Sports & Homecoming Court Introduced
THUR. (10/23) HOMECOMING FOOTBALL GAME AT VET'S STADIUM @ 7pm
Support Los Al As We Take On Marina High School
Homecoming Court Winners Will Be Revealed At Halftime :)
FRI. (10/24) HOMECOMING DANCE AT LOS AL
8pm - 11pm --- Be Safe & We'll See You There!!!
ATHLETICS: Pink Week at Los Al brought about a chance for our student athletes to bring awareness to the fight against Breast Cancer while compet-ing in front of thousands of fans at games and matches home and away. Every sport won this week, with football blowing our Newport 62-27, Girls Tennis defeating Newport and Huntington Beach, X-Country compet-ing at Irvine Regional Park, and Girls Volleyball with a huge comeback vic-tory against Edison in a match for the ages. Please continue to support Los Al as we compete for a sweep of League Championships in every sport!
No matter how you slice it, it's clear
#LOSALROCKSATALLSPORTS
10/27 ----------- The Start Of Red Ribbon Week!
10/30 ----------- Comedy Improv @ 3pm & 7pm In The Black Box Theatre
10/31 ----------- Halloween Dress Up Competition @ Lunch
11/6 ----------- LosAl4Life Ceremony @ Lunch
.............. Unlimited Possibilities!
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Dr. Kropp's State Of The District:
And It's Full Of Unlimited Possibilities For Students, Staff, And Community Supporters! 
Wearing her "Go Los Al" pin, Dr. Kropp stands in front of a group of hundreds at The Eagle's Nest last Thursday to deliver great news about the state of our district. From student achievement to national recognition, things are going wonderfully in Los Al!
All of us involved directly with our school district know how healthy and positive our culture of excellence is. After all, we're part of our students' growth and success as we work with them daily to maximize their achievement in school and throughout everything they endeavor to try in life.
 Still, yearly State Of The District addresses help unify the work we each do at our school sites. And for community stakeholders, learning about the Los Al's successful initiatives strengthens our relationships, and helps to highlight how integral our community is to the overall achievement of our students, teachers, and individual schools. All around, in fact, this year's State Of The District highlighted the power of this context. Indicative of the role we all play in Los Al's success, this year's State Of The District was filled with voices representing all aspects of our district's goals. From Congressman Alan Lowenthal, to Teacher Of The Year Justin Padilla of Oak Middle School, to Los Alamitos Education Association Richard Smith, it's clear that the strength of Los Al is within the diversity of our people and their dedication to kids!
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A Well-Attended Presentation Brought Students & Families Together Around Safety
Deputy Rodriguez (left), Deputy Barke (middle), and Officer Brandt (right) pose for a quick picture after giving a safety presentation to a room full of 300+ parents and students. The evening's focus was on Vapor Pens, E-Cigs, and Prescription Meds.
For the past few years, Los Al has been working to get out in front of community health issues by holding Parent Education Nights that foster healthy dialogues and suggest strategies for parents to use when communicating with their children about safety. Be on the lookout for our next event coming later on this Winter!
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Los Al Raises $1,500 For The Susan G. Komen Foundation
More Than Just Awareness, Pink Week Is About Celebrating Strength & Survivorship
Breast Cancer has impacted millions of people across the world, as well as near and dear teachers, parents, and friends of Los Al in various ways over the years. Thank you for your donations this week and for wearing Pink to increase our awareness.
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If Last Week's Show Was Any Indication Of What's
To Come, Los Al Show Choir Is Off To An Incredible Start Defending Their National Championship This Season!!!
Click The Picture Above For Videos & Clips From The Broadway Spectacular, Or Go HERE
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Teacher Talk Helps Our Students Learn:
During Their Last Instructional Rounds, Science Teachers Dissected Their Practice... 
In this file photo, AP Environmental Science teacher Gordon MacDuff talks shop with his colleagues about his own instructional practice. He then uses the feedback, validation, or introduction to new teaching methodologies to evolve his own repertoire of instruction. It's the discourse amongst colleagues, though, that fuels this process.
Instructional Networking at Los Al is nothing more than a conduit for great teachers to talk and observe other great teachers for the purpose of reflecting and evolving. On its own, the protocol is pretty simple --- watch a lesson, or be watched, with a couple of friends and colleagues, and set some time to debrief the experience shortly afterwards. That's where the magic happens :)
Last month, in the Science Department, teachers broke down close reading strategies and considered upcoming shifts in text complexity as the Next Generation Science Standards get ready to roll out around 2016. It was the conversation, not the observation, that shifted thinking and sparked meaningful discourse. Teachers getting together to talk is as simple a strategy as there is for increasing student learning. The beauty of it, of course, is that it works every time!
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Annotating Everything!
Across The Content Areas, Contextualizing Content Is A Helpful Strategy 
Here are two copies of EAST OF EDEN from two different students in Ms. Parson's English class. Clearly, they've infused their own perspective and experience into the their reading this iconic novel.
Annotating text is not just about "taking notes," it's about making the experience of reading deeper and richer, and enhancing the words on the page with context and background.
Wanna see an example? GENIUS.COM is a website dedicated to "annotating the world," and they're a great resource for students and teachers to access for the purposes of making or taking advantage of annotations of text. In this example, the first Chapter of EAST OF EDEN is available for annotation, and you can see just how important annotating can be to enhancing the overall meaning of a work.
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It's The People, All Of Us, Who Make Los Al
The Special Place That It Is...
Thank You For Inspiring Our Students!
From now on, if you need a picture from any of these
Monday Morning Memos, just find us on
The pics there are high quality, easy to access,
and always downloadable.
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Los Alamitos High School
3591 Cerritos Ave.
Los Alamitos, CA 90720
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