SCHOOL COUNSELORS & SUPPORT SPECIALISTS

Our Virtual Counseling Office provides 24/7 access to our students for their safety.

Virtual Counseling Office (Click any picture to enjoy the virtual office).

•  There will be elective changes in the second semester.

Resources

ASD Website https://www.asdk12.org/FamilySupport

Alaska 2-1-1

Is a free, confidential health and human services information and referral system brought to you by the United Way of Alaska

https://www.211.org/

Online Student Resources

https://www.asdk12.org/domain/3308

CITC

https://citci.org/employment-training/covid-19-assistance/  or https://citci.org/

Teen Health & Wellness

https://teenhealthandwellness-com.sled.idm.oclc.org/

The Live Vape Free Program This is for parents and other adults concerned about teen use of e-cigarettes. https://alaskaquitline.com/not-buying-it/#quit 

Students can visit this teen focused campaign for more resources https://alaskaquitline.com/not-buying-it/

Free Homework Help - Monday - Friday 8am - 2am and Saturday and Sunday 12pm - 2am.  https://lam.alaska.gov/sled/homework

Hanshew - After-School Tutoring 

After-school tutoring will be starting up again in September; more information to follow.

Forget Me Not Grief Center of Alaska

Has a young person in your life experienced the death loss of someone important to them? Forget Me Not is a peer-to-peer grief support space for children, teens, and adults. Connect with forgetmenot.griefcenter@gmail.com for more information

Counselor Corner in Canvas - Students should be checking their counselor corner in Canvas for information that is being shared in announcements from their counselor

Career Exploration - Students can access AKCIS - Alaska Career Information System in an APP in their Clever accounts. AKCIS can help your student identify interests, abilities, lifestyle goals, and more. Have your student log in, show you how it works, and explore the program together.

Parent Connect - Parents can call the front office at 907-742-9930 and get their Parent Connect login information to email teachers, check grades, make payments, report absences, and more. 

Counselor Page on the Website - Check out the counseling page on the Hanshew website for various resources.  

Current Events

• YANA Club- brings awareness of healthy life choices, helps spread kindness, and will meet every other Wednesday starting September 13.  More information and permission slips will be sent out soon.
  
  

• Indigenous Peoples Day - October 9 is Indigenous Peoples Day.  We want to take a moment to acknowledge that we are on Dena’ina land and to give thanks and honor to the Indigenous communities on this land now and have been since immemorial.  We would also like to honor the Native Village of Eklutna, the local Tribal government. 

• End of First Quarter - October 19th is the end of the first quarter.  

LIBRARY - MS. Breuninger
Welcome to the Hanshew Library!  

Hours: 8:00-3:00 most days

Battle of the Books meetings are starting in October so please stop by the library to check out a Battle book or two and sign up for a team.  

Lunch@Library 

Passes

·       Are available for both 7th and 8th grade students MOST DAYS

·       Students may play board games, color, do homework,

·       Must be picked up at the library before 3rd period.  Students must eat lunch in the MPR.  They will then sign out of the MPR and use the pass to come to the library where they will sign in (full name) at the library.

Interlibrary Loan (ILL) 

ASD has about a million books that I can get for you as well as from the Anchorage Public Libraries and the Consortium Library.  There are blue forms in the library or please ask!  

Chromebooks 

Students returning to ASD this year were supposed to KEEP their Chromebooks and take them with them over the summer to have for next school year. Students who had to turn their Chromebook into their elementary schools may come get a replacement from me.  Students coming from outside ASD will be issued Chromebooks too.  All students are or will be asked to sign a Chromebook contract (shown below). Pricing for broken or missing Chromebooks are also below.  The district will not provide extra chargers to students who forget or lose theirs, so please remind your student to keep track of their charger and device.  I recommend charging devices at home to avoid losing or mixing up chargers with other students.  Dr. Hodge has ordered extra chargers for student's chargers that are lost or broken.  Students or families can pay Shani Pritchard (AA/Finance and Procurement) $20 and then come to the library to pick up their charger. 

A quick introduction to your new librarian…

I grew up in Helena, Montana, the daughter of a geologist and an artist. My childhood was filled with love, books and librarians, hiking and camping in the mountains with periodic trips to the southwestern national and state parks.  I spent my early and mid-twenties exploring the Rocky Mountain West as a geologist and ended them by teaching geology at a small rural community college in Southeast Missouri.  Subsequently, I moved to Seattle/UW and began, but did not finish, a PhD in Oceanography doing field work on the rivers in Southeast Asia basing out of Thailand and Cambodia.  On a whim, a friend convinced me to take a one-year teaching job at UAA so I fulfilled my grandfather’s wish to see Alaska.  Here I am, 19 years later, with the same friends plus more, but also a wonderful husband and stepson, a house and two goofball flat-coated retrievers that keep me outside and enjoying Alaska’s skiing, biking, hiking, canoeing, and foraging. I coordinate the Friends of the Municipality of Anchorage Libraries (FOL) May and November book sales and have been an active FOL board member for 13 years.