Monterey High School

Summer 2019 • Issue 4

IN THIS ISSUE

Fall 2019 Calendar

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Monterey High School has a new friendly face ready to greet all of our students and staff with a big smile in the office. Her name is Ms. Weaver and she is our new Assistant Princi-pal. Be sure to say “Hi” and welcome her back to Monterey when you get a chance!

What made you decide to apply for the Assistant Principal position? AW: “I wanted to help kids strug-gling in school and I also love helping at-risk students get back on track.”

What is your educational back-ground?AW: “I have a Bachelors Degree and my Master’s Degree is from San Francisco State University.”

In your opinion, what is your great-est strength as an educator?AW: “I lspend a lot of time helping individual students.”

What is your vision for Monterey High School?AW: “I would like to see Monterey become a positive part of the Bur-bank Community.”

What suggestions do you have for parents to help their student excel at Monterey?AW: “I would like to encourage

parents to help their students get to school on time.”

What are some things you would like to see Monterey students im-prove at?AW: “I would like to see students better manage their time and keep their motivation throughout the school year.” -Samari Pineda

Position:Assistant PrincipalHobbies: Cooking and making jewelryZodiac Sign: Leo Favorite Book: To Kill A Mocking-birdFavorite Music Genre: 90’s Alterna-tive Rock

Welcome to our newAssistant Principal,

April Weaver!

Student Awards

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Monterey Spirit Week

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Spirit WeekThe week of Back to School Night, August 19th-23rd, was Monterey High School’s Spirit Week. Monday was “Show Your School Spirit Day” so all the staff and students wore their Monterey t-shirts to school and showed off their school pride. Tuesday was “Hawaiian Day” so everyone wore their Ha-waiian themed shirts and accessories. During nutrition we played a game of musical chairs and the winner won a five dollar gift card to In-N-Out! Wednesday was “Twin Day,” so students and staff paired up with a twin. Our teachers Mr. Loyd and Ms. Elliot were twinning exactly! Mr. Loyd even went as far to put on a wig that closely resembled Ms. Elliot’s hair! Thursday was was “Pajama Day,” and the activity for this day was a water balloon toss event. The winners were presented with a five dollar gift card to In-N-Out and Yo-gurtland while also getting soaked by water balloons. Friday was finally “Sports Day” and everyone wore their favorite jersey repre-senting their favorite sports team. On this day we had a raffle and the winner won a twenty dollar gift card to AMC. Spirit Week was officially a success and all the students and staff enjoyed partici-pating in the activities. Al-though this was just our first time putting together “Spirit Week,” we hope to plan more fun activities like this in the future.

-Samari Pineda

Monterey High Spirit Week

Musical Chairs Waterballoon Toss

Twin Teachers!

Twin Day

Our In-N-Out Gift Card Winners!


Student Awards!

This could be YOU!

Each week the staff at Monterey High School wi l l be selec t ing students for our weekly student awards.

The different categories that students are selected for are...

Student of the Week (page 5)

Most Improved Student (page 6)

Rookie of the Week (page 7)

Mr. Guyer is a familiar face to all the students here at Monterey High School. He was our Assistant Prin-cipal for the past three years and is now our new Principal! Make sure to say “Hi” to him when you see him in the office or on campus.

What made you decide to apply for the Principal position? DG: “Out of all the high schools that I worked for, Monterey is my favor-ite. The school and staff feel like a united team.”

What is your educational back-ground?DG: “I went to high school in Kansas at Blue Valley North High School and received my bachelors at Milligan College. I then earned my his masters at UCLA.”

In your opinion, what is your great-est strength as an educator?DG: “I think my greatest strength is that I am warm, as in kind, but just as equally demanding.”

What is your vision for Monterey High School?DG: “I want Monterey to be a model continuation school. When people hear about Monterey, I want them to share good and positive stories. I also want Monterey to continue to be innovative.”

What suggestions do you have for parents to help their student excel at Monterey?DG: “I want parents to be more aware of where their child or stu-dent is in terms of their credit and course completion.

What are some things you would like to see Monterey students im-prove at?DG: “I would like to see Monterey students improve at consistency and perseverance.”

How do you like to spend your free time on your days off?DG: “I have three kids that take up a lot of my time, especially on days off of work. We like to go on bike rides, visit the beach, and swim. We like to be outdoors a lot. We like to play a lot of different sports and card games as well.”

-Samari Pineda

Position: PrincipalHobbies: Plays the drums, guitar, piano, and singsZodiac Sign: Aquarius Favorite Movie: Good Will Hunting and The Usual SuspectsFavorite Music Artists: Chris Stapleton and John MayerFavorite Music Genre: Blues Rock

Welcome to our newPrincipal,

David Guyer!


Monterey High School is a special place. Looking back over the first quarter as Principal, I could not be

more proud and encouraged. We have a wonderful community of students and parents, and we have a wonder-

ful team that comes to work here every day.

In this first quarter, we have completed our WASC report. We are prepared for the WASC visit on November 3-6.

WASC (Western Association of Schools and Colleges) is the accreditation process for all high schools. The team

here, including parents and students, has done a lot of reflection and planning for the future.

I’ll highlight two of the goals that we have. One goal is to increase our daily attendance rate. Our data

shows that our students who are doing well here are also attending regularly. Therefore, we’d like to see our daily

attendance rate increase. You will see and hear an increase in recognition for students who demonstrate good

attendance. The first such recognition is donuts and milk on Wednesday, September 18th, for all of our students

who were above 90% for their first quarter attendance. We will send home more messages and reminders to

families regarding attendance as well, so stay tuned.

The second goal I’d like share with you is that we want to improve our communication with parents and

students regarding their credit earning and grad status. You’ve already received some of the efforts of that work.

We revamped our progress report to include some student reflection about how many credits they are earning

and what their credits per quarter should be in order to graduate on time. This work was done in a new class

we’ve added called Advisory class. Each student is assigned an Advisory teacher to help teach and guide them

through their Monterey journey. If you have any questions about that progress report please call us. On Friday,

September 20th, we will be mailing out report cards. You will be able to see exactly what classes your student

finished this quarter and how many credits they earned. If you have questions or concerns, feel free to call us.

We are excited for another awesome year at Monterey. Again, it is a privilege to serve your students.

Sincerely,

David GuyerPrincipalMonterey High School 818-729-5900 ext [email protected]

A Word From Our Principal


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Students of the Week

Olivia Manjarrez Rodrigo DeSouza

Hugo Correa-Espinoza Pearl McArdle Elijah Alvarez

Amber Benitez Samari Pineda


Giovanni Calderon Mikayel Stepanyan Ethan Lucas

Jeremiah Calderon Hank Matusek Hailey Dougherty

Most Improved Students

Linda Johnson


Daniel Haritoonian

Rookies of the Week

Crystal Hopper Sebastian Aguiar

Richard Rodriguez Kyanna Block Dora Herrera


Fall Quarter Schedule (Oct.15th - Dec 19th)Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

Oct 13 Oct 14 Staff

Workshop

Oct 15 Instruction

Begins

Oct 16 Oct 17 Oct 18 Oct 19

Oct 20 Oct 21 Oct 22Early

Dismissal

Oct 23 Oct 24 Oct 25 Oct 26

Oct 27 Oct 28 Oct 29 Oct 30 Oct 31 Nov 1 Nov 2

Nov 3 Nov 4 Nov 5 Nov 6Early

Dismissal

Nov 7 Nov 8 Nov 9

Nov 10 Nov 11 Veteran’s

Day

Nov 12 Nov 13 Nov 14 Nov 15 Nov 16

Nov 17 Nov 18 Nov 19 Early

Dismissal

Nov 20 Nov 21 Nov 22 Nov 23

Nov 24 Nov 25 Nov 26 Nov 27 Thanksgiving

Break

Nov 28Thanksgiving

Break

Nov 29Thanksgiving

Break

Nov 30

Dec 1 Dec 2 Dec 3 Dec 4 Dec 5 Dec 6 Dec 7

Dec 8 Dec 9 Dec 10 Dec 11 Dec 12 Dec 13 Dec 14

Dec 15 Dec 16 Dec 17 Dec 18 Dec 19End of

Quarter

Dec 20 Dec 21

Early Dismissal: 1st Period begins at 8:45 AM. School is out at 12:58 PM.

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