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NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY INDUCTS 63 NEW MEMBERS

The Lawrence High School chapter of the National Honor Society held its annual Induc-tion Ceremony on Monday, November 19th, in the Perform-ing Arts Center. Sixty-three new inductees – twenty-nine seniors and thirty-four juniors – joined the twenty-five current mem-bers from the Class of 2019, to being the total membership to eighty-eight. All members re-ceived Certificates of Member-ship, and seniors received gold stoles which they will wear at graduation. The National Honor Society is the nation's premier organization established to rec-ognize outstanding high school students. NHS serves to recog-nize those students who have demonstrated excellence in the areas of scholarship, lead-ership, service, and character. Election recognizes a student’s

accomplishments, and chal-lenges them to develop further through active involvement in school activities and communi-ty service. New inductees were selected by the HS Faculty Committee, in consultation with principals, after a comprehen-sive application process. In accordance with Lawrence High School tradition, the induction ceremony was con-ducted by the elected members of the NHS Student Governing Board: Alisa Colon, Glendimar Delacruz, Chabeli Garcia, Ly-nette Guerrero, and Angel Me-jia. The Board chose to invite LHS Superintendent Ms. Cyn-thia Paris as a guest speaker, asked Jennifer Capellan to pro-vide Spanish translation, and Gabriella Liriano to perform the National Anthem, after the LHS Junior RTOC Color Guard pre-

sented the flag. In her address to the inductees, Ms. Paris challenged the NHS members to seek our experiences in cul-tural spaces unfamiliar to them, to help them grow and learn to negotiate the world. The NHS Faculty Committee includes Kaitlin Dinet, Emily Manning, Jenny Blatchford, and Allen Scheier, assisted this year by Mery Lizardo and Es-ther Peralta. Richard Gorham is the faculty advisor. Check out the video of the In-duction Ceremony on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq2O97C1YVc

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RETURNING MEMBERS – CLASS OF 2019 Luisangel AlmanzarMariel Bloise Jennifer CapellanDerlin Catalino Eduardo ColladoAlisa Colon Glendalis Delacruz Glendimar Delacruz Jean Carlos Espinal Anthony GaitanChabeli Garcia Ana Gonzalez Lynette Guerrero Alexis Martinez Angel Mejia Francisco Melendez Frederick Monroy Mykayla Perez Carolina Reyes Genesis Reyes Simonaui SantiagoMimi Ton Kelly Torres Dalvyn VelezAn Vong

CLASS OF 2019New InducteesAlberquis AbreuAnahi AguilonJazmarie Alcantara

Milca AliceaSael CarbajalGandy CartagenaVivi DangElvianna De JesusEmeli DiazEdward EstevezLaura GabinoStarr GuererroRebeca GuevaraKyannah HernandezRachell HiraldoAshley JavierNguyen Le Tehanny LemmaNathaly LiranzoLeslie LopezWrileidy LopezNicaury MoraNatasha OcasioGenesis Pena Jadalee Ruiz Natalie SabaterEmely Siri Coral Tapia Helen Vasquez CLASS OF 2020New InducteesBridney AbreuYenaly AcevedoArianny AcostaLiz Almonte

Richard AlvarezKendrys AriasIsabel BatistaMonique BaxleyYeliber CalcanoYarlenny DeLaCruzYaritza Gil Jesus GuzmanJohanna GuzmanJenniffer HidalgoGladdys JiminianErika MartinezIsaac MetivierDysmeel MorilloLisalie ParedesMaria PaulinoDaniela PerezNanyeli PerezYarleny PintoJoanet PlasenciaEvilyss RodriguezIsabella RodriguezZulmary SalgadoRixandra SamboyJoseph TrinidadValerie VegaMelody VelozLisaidy ZabalaLuis ZorillaJune Zhang

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LANCER LEADERS DAYA day of leadership, preparing for action

Plans are under-way for “Lancer Leaders Day” to be held on Mar-tin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday January 21st; a day of speakers, workshops, and inspiration de-signed to help LHS students ex-plore leadership and civic engage-ment, in response to Dr. King’s urgent question: What are you do-ing for others? All are welcome to participate. A stu-dent committee of 27 has been formed to develop content for the event. The key-note speaker is LHS alumna Ana Victoria Morales, a political and social activist. Contact Mr. Fiato for more informa-tion.


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ADAMS SCHOLARS

The John and Abigail Ad-ams Scholarship provides a tuition waiver for up to eight semesters of undergraduate education at a Massachusetts state college or university. Students must score at the Advanced performance lev-el on one of the three high

school state assessment tests in ELA, Mathematics, or STE (Biology, Chemistry, Introduc-tory Physics, or Technology/Engineering); and score at the Proficient level or higher on the remaining two high school state assessment tests; and have combined scores from

the three tests that place them in the top 25 percent of stu-dents in the graduating class in their district.This year, 184 Lawrence High School seniors qualified for the earned Adams Scholarship!

Abimoussa, PamelaAbreu, AlberquisAbreu, Keyleen Acosta, Omara Aguilon, Anahi Ajualip, SamuelAlba, GelsandroAlcivar, Domenica Alicea, MilcaAlmanzar, Jeffrey

Almanzar, LuisangelAlmonte, ErisleidyAlvarez, JommyArias, AriannaAstudillo, ChristalAyala, MichaelBaez, DarvinBaez, Laudys Batista, BarbaraBatista, Yarannis

Bautista, JulianBelliard, Yeandry Benjamin, ChrisBernadeau, Jankiel Bonn, JustinBourassa, AramisBrady, JackCaceres, AlanCaceres, Jeremias Camacho, Valery

Cameron, DaniellaCarbajal, SaelCenteno, IvethCollado, Elisha Collado Rosario, Edu-ardoColon, AlisaCordero, JiannaCorrea, KayleeDang, Vivi

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USA INT LSA ENL RISE LIFE ALADe Jesus, Elvianna Dejesus, Leisha De La Cruz, EsmirnaDelarosa, YarilinDeleon, JasonDiaz, LuisDuran, YorvelynEspinal, AdryanEspinal, DennisEspinal, JeanEstevez, EdwardEstrella, EdwinFernandez, NicoleFichera, DevonFlores, LidiaGaitan, AntonyGarcia, ChabeliGarcia, EmelyGarcia, IlaisaGil, KarinaGomez, AndrewGonzalez, AnaGonzalez, EstebanyaGuandalin, AmandaGuerrero, BladimirGuerrero, EddyGuerrero, LynetteGuerrero, StarrGuevara, RebecaGuzman, Ismanuel Guzman, MarinaHeredia, AbigailHeredia, AndricHernandez, Jeremy

Hernandez, RichardHerrera, JuniorHidalgo, JisselHoang, TommyHurley, PatrickJavier, AshleyJavier, DariannyJimenez, JoshuaJiminian, ManuelaLajara, DalvinLajara, RennyLawrence, ChristianLawrence, LynseyLe, NguyenLemma, TehannyLightfoot-Taylor, DeionLiriano, GabriellaLopez, WilliamLopez, Wrileidy Lora, DelaneyMac, AlexanderMartinez, AlexisMartinez, AnayelysMartinez, BryanMatos, MiguelMedina, Kiarixa Medrano, RosmeryMejia, MadysonMejia, AngelMelendez, Francisco Mena, FelixMenendez, MauricioMercado, AdrianMercedes, Aldalys

Miranda, JonathanMonroy, FrederickMorales, AidanNavichoque, LesterNazario, AndrewNguyen, BenNival, XavierNjuguna, MichelleOcasio, NatashaOrtiz, AxelOrtiz, SavannahPagan, AlexaPeguero, AshleyPeguero, KarenPeralta, KeblerPeralta, Niurka Perez, BrianPerez, GaryPerez-Pena, ChantalPerez-Pena, Charlen-nyPho, VeronicaPichardo, KialyPlaza, NeyshkalizPolanco, GabrielPuello, Yarelis Ramos, KirmyRamos, OmarRamos, UrielRenta, RichardReyes, CarolinaReynoso, AlondraReynoso, AngelRich, Samantha

Rivera, KiaraRodriguez, AngelRodriguez, CrystalRodriguez, DianaRodriguez, ErnyRodriguez, LucinelviRoman, JamalRomero, RosalyRosario, ChantelleRueda, NeveahRuiz, JadaleeSabando, KelvinSanchez, KelvinSanchez Gil, AbrahamSantana, NyasiaSantiago, MelvinSantiago, NathanSantiago, Simonai Santiago, Tayriangely Santos, AndersonSimen, KaroleenSiri, EmelySoler, RaynerSosa-Polanco, Mari-elisSoucy, DestinySuarez, AlexTapia, CoralThai, JohnnyTejeda, RichardTorres, KellyTozzi, Rocio

HOLIDAY ARTS EVENTSIt was a busy December for holiday arts events! The LHS Dance Company held their “Dance Hall Halls” performance on December 6th. The Upper School Holiday Music concert took place on December 13th, and the Lower School Music Con-cert, “Stronger Together,” put the audience in the spirit of the season on December 20th.


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KEEP THE ANIMALS WARM

LIFE student Mahhailya Charles coordinated a "Keep the Animals Warm" towel and blanket drive for the Lowell Humane Society. LIFE students in the work based learn-ing component volunteer every Monday at the So-ciety by keeping cages clean, sanitizing feeding bowls and socializing with the shelter animals.

ENLACE STORYTELLERS CAFEENLACE held their fourth annual Storytellers Café event for students and families on Thursday,

December 20th.

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ACCREDITATION UPDATE

Lawrence High School continues preparations for the 2019 Accreditation Visit by the New England Association of Schools and College, scheduled for April 7-10, 2019. At the full faculty meeting on November 29, the faculty voted to approve the Self-Study, which came out of the Standards Committees. At the faculty meeting on December 13th, the faculty identified Critical Strengths and proposed solutions to administration. During the NEASC visit in April, a team of 18-24 teachers and administrators from through-out New England will visit LHS for four days, to evaluate LHS’ adherence to the Seven Standards for Accreditation, and how effectively we are living up to our own Core Values and 21st Century Learning Expectations. Ultimately, LHS will receive a final accreditation report, in the fall of 2019, with Commendations and Recommendations. Faculty and students alike have been completing an inventory of our 21st Century Learn-ing Expectations, to help identify where we are living up to our goals and where we need to continue to develop. Over the next few months, faculty will be asked to contribute to a portfolio of student work for the Visiting Committee. We will also put together a Panel Presentation for the visiting team to showcase Lawrence High School, on Sunday, April 7th. A cross-section of faculty members will be invited to be interviewed by the visiting team on that date as well. For more information on the accreditation process, contact Richard Gorham.

Lawrence High School Core Values, Beliefs,and 21st Century Learning Expectations

(adopted 2014, revised 2017)

Core Values Statement Lawrence High School is a community of learners fully committed to nurturing and devel-oping the skills and talents of our students that will be necessary for college and career readiness in the 21st century. The faculty at Lawrence High School provides students with a safe and positive learning environment in which the needs of our diverse student popula-tion are met through a variety of learning opportunities. Students will graduate from Law-rence High School as responsible, self-directed, life-long learners who have a clear vision for their future, and who demonstrate perseverance, courage and professionalism in the face of adversity and are socially and civically engaged members of their community.


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www.facebook.com/dresses2dreams

@DressestoDreams

@Dresses2Dreams

Dresses to Dreams is a community service organization designed to empower high school women in the Greater Boston Area. We offer a one-day event

that inspires attendees to reach their full-potential. The event is designed for local junior and senior high school women that otherwise may not be able to afford a prom dress. The day offers the opportunity for free prom apparel,

and continues through a series of workshops focused on goal-setting and self-confidence. In addition, lunch and refreshments are provided. We run

completely on donations, including prom dresses, accessories and food.

The dress is just the beginning...

Dresses to Dreamsat Bentley University

February 16, 2019 from 11am to 3:30pm

We recommend signing students up as early as possible as it is a first come first serve basis.Unfortunately, due to the amount of interest we will need to cap the number of students from each school

or organization so please be sure to recommend students who could truly benefit from our program.

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GIRL’S ENSEMBLE TRAVELS THE STATE

The Lawrence High School Girl’s Ensem-ble Choir had a busy fall, performing at events all over the state. Recent perfor-mances include at the Massachusetts State House on Veteran’s Day, at Law-rence City Hall for the Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony, and back to the State House for the tree lighting ceremony there. Directed by Nancy McGhee, the choir includes singers Erisleidy Almonte, Aliyah Barbosa, Jerty Cruz, Luissy De-Paula, Marinette Disla, Yzaira Figueroa, Estebanya Gonzalez, Lynette Guerrero, Tehanny Lemma, Heather Luzon, Kiarixa Medina, Natasha Ocasio, Yaislyn Pauli-no, Brandy Pena, Neyshkaliz Plaza, and Nayelly Rodriguez.


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NEED SUPPORT?

ANXIOUS, WORRIED OR TROUBLED SINCE THE GAS DISASTER?

Family Services of the Merrimack Valley is offering

3 free individual counseling sessions to residents struggling emotionally in the wake of the gas disaster.

No insurance or co-pay required. Each individual may schedule a total of

3 sessions with a mental health counselor.

LOCATION: Family Services of the Merrimack Valley 430 North Canal Street, Lawrence MA CONTACT: To schedule and appointment call: 978-327-6632 Please note: AVAILABILITY IS LIMITED!

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STAFF vs. STUDENTS BASKETBALLThis year our girls and boys basketball programs brought back the alumni games to campus and our alumni and staff really enjoyed interacting with our former alums. Next year we hope to collaborate with the girls and boys pro-grams to make this bigger and better going forward.


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LANCER PRIDE POSTER CONTEST

Ms. Pooler

The Upper School recently held a Lancer Pride Poster Contest in Seminar. Posted were judged by the student Seminar Leader Committee on creativity, Lancer pride, ef-fort, and the number of students involved. There were many outstanding entries. Win-ners were Ms. Blatchford’s junior Seminar and Ms. Pooler’s senior Seminar.

Ms. Blatchford Mr. Mobley

Mr. Pabon

Mr. Youngclaus Mr. Pierengeli

Ms. Tgibides

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LANCER WINTER SPORTSLancer winter sports are underway with compe-titions in boys and girls basketball and track, wres-tling, and cheer. Keep up to date with all the sports schedules (including freshman and JV teams) through the rSchoolToday app, which you can down-load on your phone.

Upcoming Lancer Sports ContestsFri Dec 21: Wrestling at Masconomet 4pm, Girl’s Basketball home 5:30, Boy’s bas-

ketball at Methuen 7:30

Wed Dec 26: Girls and Boys track at Reggie Lewis Center, Boston, 12 noon

Thu Dec 27: Girl’s basketball vs. Greater Lawrence at home, 11am; Boy’s basketball

at Commonwealth Classic Holiday Tournament, North Andover HS, 4:15pm

Fri Dec 28: Boys basketball at Commonwealth Classic; wrestling at Framingham

tournament, Girls basketball home vs. Amesbury 11:30am

Wed Jan 2: Girls Basketball at Amesbury 6:30, wrestling at Chelmsford 6pm

Thu Jan 3: Boys and Girls track at Boston Univ3ersity, 5pm

Fri Jan 4: Girls basketball at Chelmsford 7pm, Boys basketball home vs. Central

Catholic, 7pm


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LAWRENCE TEACHERS UNION WELCOMES YOU!

The Lawrence Teacher’s Union reminds LHS staff that the Union remains ready to support you. Check out the LTU website at http://010190.ma.aft.org/Upcoming LTU meetingsWednesday January 2nd, February 6th, March 6th, April 3rd, May 1st, June 5th All meetings at 4:15pm at the Relief’s In,

15 Market St., Lawrence

LTU Officers: President Frank McLaugh-lin ([email protected]), Executive Board Lisa Giurado, Lori Burnham, Cher-yl Travers, Kimberly Barry, Patricia Wool-ley, Katherine Delaney

LHS OPEN HOUSEOn Wednesday evening, November 14th, LHS hosted an Open House, inviting fam-ilies and community members to visit the school and learn about programs offered on Campus. Athletics, arts, dual enrollment, support programs, JROTC, extra-curricular offerings, and more were promoted. A high-light was the physics experiment exhibitions in Mr. Lynch’s classroom!

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LIBRARY CORNER

All our new books are in, on the shelves and

ready for checkout; many have gone out already! ELA class-es please feel free to schedule time to bring classes down by email-ing Ms. Pokrovski. All teachers are welcome

to email me for collabo-rative research lessons

including database instruction, web site

evaluation, and more. I have begun to work with the academies to

create summer reading

pro-grams for all

grades this

year. We are

also work-ing on Media literacy curric-ulum, and a teens and tech-

nology discus-sion/lec-

ture series for parents, starting in January.

The second meeting of the Library Com-mittee took place on

Tuesday December 18, from 3:30-4:30pm. The goal of the Committee is to develop a long-term plan for Library

and Media Services at LHS. If you’d like to be involved, contact me.

Remember, the LHS Library is open to all

students from all Acad-emies!

Have a very Mer-ry Holiday Season,

AND DON’T FORGET to “ABR” Always Be Reading! Set a great example for students

by modeling, have your head in a book as they settle in, or come into class, have a sign on your door or outside your classroom that says what you are

reading right now. En-courage independent reading, and when we

come back in 2019, bring students down for

the Resolve to Read New Year’s Resolution, challenge students to read one, two, five, or ten more books this

year than you did last year. Start small, it’s okay if you haven’t

read a book for fun in a while – set a goal, and

reach for it!


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LIFE STUDENTS PURSUE VOCATIONAL GOALS

Look at these LIFE students working on their vocational goals! Yuibileex Metz, Argenis Feliz and Carla Sanchez are interning for Mrs. Burke and helping her stay organized and ready for her meetings. Remember, team work makes the dream work!!!

LSA DOOR DECORATING CONTEST!The Lower School Academy “Decorate the Door Contest” was created by Ms. Holly Jones’ 10th grade Cohort Cup Ambassadors. Cohort Cup Ambassadors presented a Hol-iday challenge to 9th and 10th graders to see who has the most holiday spirit. Each advisory was tasked with choosing a holiday theme and decorating their door. Not only were the doors incredibly festive, but several entire hallways were transformed into Winter Won-derlands. Students and teachers worked side by side to spread

the holiday cheer last Thurs-day during Advisory/Seminar period. 9th grade winners: 3rd place - Ms. Gutierrez-Rey (Cohort 4); 2nd place - Ms. Hyslip (Cohort 4); 1st place - Mr. O’Connor (Cohort 3). 10th grade winners: 3rd place Warriors (250 pts.), 2nd place Bulldogs (500 pts) and 1st place and remaining in the lead - Huskies, now with 2000pts.

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NEW MURAL IN D-101Thanks to Eric Allshouse and his students for the new mural in Room D-101, the new Digital Library. One wall shows the transition from old books that contained all the world’s written information to the use of computers. All these people in the mural, both sections, are real teach-ers or students, repre-senting our school and efforts to improve the educational rigor here at LHS. The other wall highlights the importance of reading. Above it all, a U.F.O. hovers over the old book and is using it’s tractor beam to suck the words right off of the page, poking fun at the future of reading and learning, because no one knows how people may read information in the distant future. The U.F.O. is pulling in the highly important and meaningful quote about education by former slave and civil rights leader Frederick Douglas, “Once you learn to read, you will forever be free”.


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ONE GOAL VISITS BRIDGEWATERAbout 70 Upper School juniors enrolled in Year One of the One Goal recently took a trip to Bridgewater State University. Initially, many students had no interest in Bridgewater, however after touring the campus, learn-ing about their rigorous honors program, and the amount of supports offered to students, many added the college to the top of their list. The students got to tour the campus, see class-rooms, dorms, and eat in the dining hall.

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USA INT LSA ENL RISE LIFE ALAPLANT A SEED DAY

Join students all over the U.S. on March 20, 2019, for “PLANT A SEED DAY” The LIFE Garden Pro-gram will be assembling “Seed Starting Kits” so interested seminar classes may join Big-Green.org in planting a seed on the first day of spring. Big Green is a National Non-Profit dedicated to bring-ing healthy food and Learning Gardens to U.S. Schools. Students will be planting seeds donated to our program from: Seed Savers Exchange; Charles Hart Seeds; Johnny’s Seeds; and Burpee Seeds.

The Plant a Seed Kit will include: a plastic grow box; 8 peat pellets; one variety of seeds; and complete instruc-tions. Sem-inars will be asked to mon-itor the seed kits for several weeks in their classroom, un-til seeds have sprouted. Sprout-ed seedlings will be transferred to sunny locations or grow lights once seeds have germi-

nated. In May, seedlings will be planted in our LHS garden or shared with our community.

Please start saving empty salad containers such as the one shown in the picture. We will be recycling these for our seed kits. Contact [email protected] for more informa-

tion. Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lhs.life.garden/


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IMPORTANT DATESWed Jan 2: school re-opens (“B” day)

Lawrence Teacher’s Union meeting, 4:15pmFri Jan 18: No classes; all-day professional development

Mon Jan 21: No school; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. DayLancer Leader’s Day, 11am-2pm

Wed-Thu Feb 6-7: MCAS Bio re-testFri Feb 15: Half Day; February vacation begins

Mon Feb 25: School re-opensMon-Fri Mar 4-8: MCAS Re-test in ELA & Math

Tue-Wed Mar 26-27: MCAS ELA testThu Mar 28: Campus Long Thursday, NEASC

Sat Mar 30: Lancer Booster’s Club Fundraiser, Claddagh PubSun-Wed Apr 7-10: NEASC Accreditation visit

Fri Apr 12: Half day; April vacation beginsMon Apr 22: School re-opens

Tue-Wed May 21-22: MCAS Math Wed May 22: Special Olympics School Day Games

Mon May 28: No School, Memorial Day Fri May 31: Graduation

Tue-Wed Jun 4-5: MCAS STEThu Jun 13: Last Day of School (assuming 5 cancellation days)

ARTS CALENDARAbbott Lawrence Academy production of Evita Feb. 7-9

Handel & Hayden Concert week of Feb. 11-15“Dancing with the Stars – Teacher’s Edition” Fri Mar 1

Abbot Lawrence Academy production of Chicago Apr 25-27Spring Dance Recital Thu-Fri May 2-3

Upper School Spring Music Concert Thu May 9 Lower School Spring Music Concert Fri Jun 7

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