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INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

ADENTRO DEL FOLLETO:

What is SMART

and the SMART

Community?

Que es SMART y la

Comunidad

SMART?

How well do you

know the SMART

Staff? Check out the

Staff Bios.

Conocen a los maes-

tros de SMART?

Revisen nuestras

biografias.

Honor Wall

News at Arleta HS

SMART Corner

2016 — 2017: NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Before it even opened its doors in

October 2006, Arleta High School

was designed with one vision in

mind: to challenge every student to

attain academic and personal suc-

cess through a rigorous and rele-

vant curriculum that is supported

by positive relationships.

As one of Arleta High School’s

small learning communities,

S.M.A.R.T. shares in this same

vision.

S.M.A.R.T. stands for Science,

Math and Related Technology.

14200 Van Nuys Blvd.

Arleta, CA. 91331

S.M.A.R.T. Newsletter Arleta High School Home of the Mustangs

S.M.A.R.T. SCIENCE, MATH & RELATED TECHNOLOGY

MISSION STATEMENT

The mission of the Science,

Math and Related Technology

small learning community is to

empower students with aca-

demically relevant skills to col-

laboratively process infor-

mation in a technology based

world to meet the demands of

the 21st century.

Antes que abriera sus puertas

en Octubre 2006, La

secundaria Arleta fue diseňada

con una vision en mente: de

aventajar cada estudiante a

obtener lo maximo academico y

personal por parte del curricu-

lum rigoroso y relevante apo-

yado por relaciones positivas.

Phone: 818-686-4100

Fax: 818-890-1040

Website: www.arletahigh.net

Principal:

Casey Browne

S.M.A.R.T. significa Ciencia,

Matematica, y Tecnologia

Relacionada S.M.A.R.T. fue

creada para familiarizar a

nuestros estudiantes en estas

areas y promover las carreras

en estas areas.

NUESTRA MISION

La mision de la pequena co-

munidad S.M.A.R.T. es de

darle poder a nuestros estu-

diantes con estrategias aca-

demicas y relevantes y que

progresen colectivamente

informacion en un mundo

basado en tecnologia y asi

alcanzar las demandas del

siglo 21.

HERNANDEZ, VALERIE SOTO, JESSICA SANCHEZ, ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ, DILLAN CONTRERAS, JENNIFER SANCHEZ MORALES, ITZEL TULE, DANILE SERRANO, ANGEL GUTIERREZ, JERRY ARISTA, KAREN

RAMIREZ PINEDA, KIMBERLY ARANDIA, PATRICIA NICHOLE CONTRERAS, SUZANNE HURTADO, MANUEL BONILLA, SAUL TRUJILLO VERTIZ, GABRIEL JUAREZ, ERIKA CASTANEDA, ARNULFO LOPEZ-SANCHEZ, GISELLE SALDANA, DEANNA NAVARRO, ROXANA COLLAZO GONZALEZ, VANESSA SOTO, VIVIANA GONZALEZ, CASSANDRA

Honor Wall

(GPA 3.7 and above)

HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW THE S.M.A.R.T. STAFF?

QUE BIEN CONOCEN A LOS MAESTROS DE S.M.A.R.T.?

Name : Casey Browne School Principal Email: [email protected]

Educational Background: B.S. Kinesiology/ CSUN, MBA Educational Administration/

CSUDH

Interest or Hobbies: Sports, racquetball, Huge Denver Broncos fan

Unique Fact: About you: I ride unicycles (both 3ft and 6ft)

Name: Ana Saucedo Classes/Dept.: Smart Assistant Principal

Email:[email protected]

Educational Background: B.S. in Math, Master in Education and currently working on

doctor degree of educational leadership

Interest or Hobbies: Read, Sing, Dance, Observe Nature, Talk to my kids, Play little guitar

and Piano

Unique Fact: Love to Learn, Think, and Pray.

Name: Mrs. Amer Classes/Dept: Health

Email: [email protected]

Educational Background: Bachelor of Science

Interest or Hobbies: Dancing and Boxing

Unique Fact: Read and speak Arabic

Name: Lloyd Berriman Classes/Dept: Mathematics


Educational Background: AA in social studies at Moorpark College, B.A in Math at

CSUN , and M.A in Educational Administration at CSULA

Interest or Hobbies: Coaching Basketball

Unique Fact: Related to Sir David Lloyd George . Prime Minister of England during

World War 1

Name: Helene Burns Classes/Dept: English


Educational Background: Bachelors in English & Credential in English

Interest or Hobbies: Aerobics, Reading, and Yoga

Unique Fact: I used to ride a motorcycle

Name: Mr. Ceballos Classes/Dept: English


Educational Background : English B.A at Cal State Los Angeles

Interest or Hobbies: Travel, Swimming ,Cooking, Foreign Films , Art

Unique Fact: I ran three marathons within a year.

Martha Chavez Classes/Department: Smart Secretary


Interest or Hobbies: Music, Sports, and Hiking

Unique Fact: Loves to sing and play the guitar

Name: Mina Chung Classes/Dept: Counselor


Educational Background: UCSD (B.S)/ CSUN (M.S)

Interest or Hobbies: Fantasy Movie (Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Hunger Games)

Name : Bill Coan Classes/Dept: P.E/ Football


Educational Background: CSUN Kinesiology

Unique Fact: Coached two QB’s in high school that is now in the pros. ; Minnesota

Vikings QB Matt Cassel (Football ) and the Kansas City Royals 3B Mike Moustakas

(Baseball )

Maria Dorbritz Classes/Department: Science


Educational Background: B.A. Science/ Head of translations dept. for English and

German; B.A. in Translations University of Heidelberg, Germany

Interest or Hobbies: Languages and Science Fairs

Unique Fact: Likes to dress up

Name: Nery Duarte Classes/Dept: Counselor


Educational Background: Teacher/ Counselor

Interest or Hobbies: Travel

Mr. Edge Classes/Dept.: Physics, Chemistry and Astonomy


Educational Background: B.A.Chemistry, Whittier College

Interests or Hobbies: Swimming, Triathlons, and Model Airplanes

Unique Fact: I lived in Europe for 8 years.

CARMEN ANGELES ESPI Classes/Department: Foreign Language


Educational Background: Concondia University M.A. in Education / Cal State San

Bernandino B.A. in Spanish / Universidad Complutense Madrid B.A. in Criminology

Interest or Hobbies: Crochet

Unique Fact: I will become a great grandmother this month.

Name: Ms. Fernandez Classes/Dept: Mathematics


Educational Background: Graduated from UCLA, Teaching for 33 years!

Interest or Hobbies: Bowling and Sudoku

Unique Fact: I have over 100 first cousins.

Name: Jaime Gaxiola Classes/Dept: Technical Department Email:

[email protected]

Educational Background: “A” Plus Certification / Visual Flight Rules – Pilot Certification

Interest or Hobbies: Flying, Off-road Vehicle 4x4 Trail Riding .

Unique Fact: Pilot VFR, Diesel Truck Driver , Father of 2 Welder & DJ.

Name: Menerva Guiwa Classes/Dept: Science


Educational Background: B.S Botany , Special Ed. Credentials & Masters in Special Ed.

Interest r Hobbies : Singing ,Oil Painting , Cooking

Unique Fact : Participated in an oil painting art exhibit at the age of 11

Marcos. Patty Inaba Classes/Department: Geometry


Educational Background: CSUN with B.S. Mathematics

Hobbies: Tennis and Reality TV

Unique Fact: I have finished four 1/2 Marathons

James Magee Classes/Dept.: Dean of Discipline


Educational Background/Degrees: B.A../Masters

Interests or Hobbies: Coaching football, mountain biking

Unique Fact: I had curly hair.

Franklin Montiel Classes/Department: Dean of Discipline


Educational Background: A.A. Liberal Arts, Valley College, B.A. Sociology, UCLA,

Masters in Education, CSUN

Interest or Hobbies: Sports, Music and Reading

Unique Fact: Born in El Salvador

Name: Cruz Orozco Classes/Dept: Special ED. Math


Educational Background: B.A. in Sociology from UCLA

Interest or Hobbies: Spending time with family, camping and beach trips

Unique Fact: worked in the non-profit business sector before teaching.

Name: Marissa Ogdoc Classes/Dept: Geometry/Math


Educational Background: M.A Special Education , B.S Architecture

Interest or Hobbies: Baking, Swimming, Art and Crafts

Unique Fact: I have 3 children in High School , 1 in Middle School , and 2 in Elementary.

Name: Alejandra Rivas Classes/Dept: English


Educational Background: Bachelor University of Phoenix

Interest or Hobbies: Reading, Going to Disneyland and Karaoke

Unique Fact: I am an “I Love Lucy” fanatic.

mailto:[email protected]












HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW THE S.M.A.R.T. STAFF?

QUE BIEN CONOCEN A LOS MAESTROS DE S.M.A.R.T.?

Name: David Sousani Classes/Dept: History Email: [email protected] Educational Background: B.A Social Sciences (Option History) Interest or Hobbies: Cycling, Playing Poker Unique Fact: My wife and I share the exact birthday

Name: Veronica Stambolis Classes/Dept: English Email: [email protected] Educational Background: B.A. Communication Arts and Theatre at the Universi-ty of Md. and M.A. in English at John Hopkins Univ. Interest or Hobbies: Surfing, Swimming, Reading, Traveling, and Music Unique Fact: I lived in two countries and three states.

Name: Michelle Titmus Classes/Dept.: ELA 9/10 and Social Studies Email: [email protected] Educational Background: BA from CSUN; Humanities major, Gender and Wom-en's Studies minor Interests or Hobbies: Camping, dancing, reading, cycling, hiking, and cooking vegan food. Unique Fact : I once took a 30-day bus trip around the US.

Name: Yolanda Vazquez Classes/Dept.: Spanish Email; YXV2308lausd.net Educational Background/Degrees: Masters in Education/Masters in Spanish Interests or Hobbies: Poetry, reading bike riding, reading religious literature books Unique Fact: Love reading and going to Universal Studios/the zoo

Name: Beth Winningham Classes/Dept: College Counselor/ English Teacher Email: [email protected] Educational Background: Undergraduate-Cal Poly SLO Graduate- Cal Lutheran University,CSUN,& CSULA Interest or Hobbies: reading, riding, cooking, baking, and spending time with my family. Unique Fact: I just bought a horse!

London Woodfin Classes/Dept.: Social Studies Email: [email protected] Educational Background: UCLA - B.A. History, CSUN Teaching Credential Interests or Hobbies: Sports Unique Fact : Played in the 1994 Rose Bowl.

Jun Wu Classes/Dept.: Biology / Chemistry Email: [email protected] Educational Background: Ph.D from State University of New York at Buffalo Interests or Hobbies: movie, travel, hiking and yoga Unique Fact: worked on neurological diseases at UCLA for ten years before I became a teacher.

My name is Martha

Chavez and I am the

secretary for the

SMART SLC. I have

been at Arleta for about

11 years. I enjoy work-

ing at Arleta very much.

I love to help in any way

that I can. I have been

working for LAUSD for

about 25 years and have enjoyed working with students

very much which is the reason why I am still working and

haven’t retired. I also enjoy music very much.

Hi, I am Nery Duarte, the

11th and 12th grade Smart

counselor. I joined the Ar-

leta family as the School

Counselor two years ago. I

am very excited to work

with all you.

My name is Mina

Chung, and this is my

9th year as a counselor

in the SMART SLC.

This year, I am working

with 9th and 10th grade

students. SMART SLC

is a special place be-

cause we have caring

staff members dedicat-

ed to students’ success

and “SMART” students

who are leaders both in and outside of the classrooms. I

am proud to represent the best SLC in Arleta High School.

We Are S.M.A.R.T!

(Messages from S.M.A.R.T Office)




Welcome, Mustang families, this is the new principal, Casey Browne for Arleta High School. I have been in this education profession for 36 years now. I spent 26 years at North Holly-wood High as an SDC Special Ed teacher, athletic coach, coaching football , track and field and JV baseball. I was also the Athletic Director, Dean and Title 1 Coordinator within those 26 years. I was pro-moted to Assistant Principal at Sylmar High School where I spent 6 years and then was placed at Arleta at Dr. Calvo's request 5 years ago. I have been very blessed to work in a profession that allows us the privilege to be able to make a significant difference in the lives of young people. I be-lieve it is our mission as part of the human experience to do all we can to help others attain their potential in life. Teaching affords us that opportunity. I attended CSU Northridge and and earned my teaching credential and Bachelor's degree. I earned my Master's degree in Educational Administration from CSU Dominquez Hills. My goals for Arleta is to continue to move Arleta forward as a distinguish

school. For our students, I want them to dream. I want them to dream big. Dreaming allows people to set goals. Through hard work and sacrifice most people catch most of their dreams. I grew up very poor and I remember dreaming about what I wanted my life to be as an adult. I too worked hard and sacri-ficed and I now live a wonderful life. Many of the dreams I had, I caught. I want our students to fully understand their potential and with our support, and

their hard work will fulfill their potential and dreams. I also want our students to understand and believe in their mission as human beings to promote kind-ness and consideration for oth-ers. As part of the human expe-rience, our students must partici-pate in "random acts of kind-ness" toward others. Our world is far too violent and we need our youth to help make their world safer and kinder. We will work hard this year to promote

kindness and consideration for others in need.

Thank you again for working with us to ensure your child’s success.

Sincerely, Casey Browne Principal

MESSAGES FROM OUR PRINCIPALS

Hi, I am Ms. Saucedo, proud assistant principal of SMART. I have been at Arleta High School since it opened in October of 2006. I was born in Guadalaja-ra, Jalisco, Mexico and I am the oldest of a family of six children.

I came to the United States when I was seventeen years old and attended Mon-roe High School for two years. After high school I attended Los Angeles Val-ley College and transferred to CSUN, where I earned a Bachelor Degree in Mathematics and my teaching creden-tial. After a few years, I went back to school to obtain a Master Degree in Education Administration, which al-lowed me to be an assistant principal, and I am cur-rently enrolled at California Lutheran University work-

ing on becoming a Doctor in Educational Leadership, which I will complete by May of 2017.

Besides going to school, which I enjoy very much,

growing up I also enjoyed playing piano and guitar,

singing, and dancing folklorico. At the

moment I love learning, thinking, and

working at Arleta High School where I

can make a difference in people’s lives.

Sincerely, Ana Saucedo Assistant Principal (S.M.A.R.T)

LEARNING AND HAVING FUN TOO!

S.M.A.R.T Annual GLIDER Competition

Students and teachers competed in the GLIDER Contest.

Students were required to flight a Styrofoam glider as far as

they can and successfully land them at the designated spot.

Congratulations to these winners, who demonstrated crea-

tive and critical thinking skills!

PLACE STUDENTS ADVISORY

1ST Damian / Juan Mrs. Dorbritz

2ND Manuel Hurtado Mrs. Inaba

3RD Christian Carrera Mrs. Guiva

Math and Science Jokes

Q: Why do mathematicians like parks?

A: Because of all the natural logs.

Q: What do you call a number that can’t keep still?

A: A roamin’ numeral.

Q: Did you hear about the mathematician who’s afraid

of negative numbers?

A: He will stop at nothing to avoid them.

The House Problem:

A physicist, a biologist and a mathematician are sitting

on a bench, watching people entering and leaving the

house on the other side of the street. First they see two

people enter the house; A while later, they watch three

people leave the house.

The physicist says, “The initial measurement wasn’t

accurate.”

The biologist counters, “They must have reproduced.”

Finally, the mathematician suggests, “If one more per-

son enters the house, then it will

be empty again.”

LAUSD Service Learning Graduation Requirement

According to LAUSD Service Learning is “ a teaching/learning strategy in which

students learn and develop through active participation in high quality service that

meets the needs of a community. Service Learning strategies integrate into and en-

hance the rigorous academic curriculum. Service Learning is aligned with the state

standards, fosters civic responsibility, and provides structured time for student reflection.”

In order to earn a diploma, all students must participate in a service learning project

In order to provide all students with the opportunity to fulfill the Service Learning

requirement, teachers offer Service Learning projects in their classes.

Service Learning Opportunities include:

Day of The Dead (Dia De Los Muertos)

Career Research

Hombre de Valor

Author Study

Cesar Chavez March

S.M.A.R.T CORNER

WRITE A SECRET MESSAGE TO A FRIEND

Do you want to write your password down so that no

one can see it, or do you want to send someone a

secret message? Knowing how to make an invisible

ink message will make you feel like a secret agent in

no time.

The first 3 students showing their revealed message

to Ms. Dorbritz in B114 will receive a prize.

Here are a few recipes to make visible ink.

INVISIBLE INK THE BAKING SO-

DA WAY Mix about 1/4 cup (60 ml) of bak-

ing soda and 1/4 cup (60 ml) of

water. Next, write using a Q-

tip, toothpick or brush on a piece of

paper. Let it dry completely. To

read the secret message, paint grape juice concen-

trate across the paper with apaint brush or a sponge.

Don't forget - grape juice stains.

Why it works: Grape juice has an acid that reacts with

the baking soda. A different color appears wherever

the secret message is written.

INVISIBLE INK THE MILKY WAY

Put a little milk in a small bowl. Write with the milk on

a piece of paper with a Q-tip or a brush. Let your

message dry completely. To read the message, just

heat the paper. Use an iron or 100-watt light bulb.

Don't rest the paper on the bulb. Ask an adult to help

in case a fire starts and never use a halogen light.

Why it works: Milk is an organic product which means

it comes from a living thing. When it's heated, it burns

at a slower rate than the paper. Your invisible mes-

sage shows up brown.

INVISIBLE INK THE LEMON WAY

This works the same way as the Milky Way. Simply

dab a Q-tip or brush into a bowl of lemon juice and

write away. Just make sure you don't use too much.

To see the message, simply heat the paper after it

dries. Another way to see the message is put salt on

the drying ink. Give it a minute and then

wipe the salt off. Use a wax crayon to

color over the message.

Why it works: Both lemon juice and milk

are mildly acidic and acid weakens pa-

per. The acid remains in the paper after

the juice or milk has dried. When the pa-

per is held near heat the acidic parts of

the paper burn or turn brown before the

rest of the paper does.

These are only a few ways to make invisible ink. Us-

ing the same heat method, you can also use white

wine, vinegar, apple juice, and even orange juice, to

name just a few. Try some other fruit juices to

see what works.

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