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San Mateo Union High School District
650 N. Delaware Street, San Mateo, CA 94401
650-558-2299 | www.smuhsd.org
10 Schools | 6 Cities | 1 District
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Thursday, September 26 Board Meeting | |
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Registration Now Open for SMUHSD College Fair on Wednesday, October 16
This year the District-wide College Fair will be held at Aragon High School in San Mateo on Wednesday, October 16 from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. This event is open to all SMUHSD students and their families.
College Fair Highlights:
- More than 75 college representatives will be in attendance!
- Hear presentations on paying for college, and more!
Register online at StriveFair.com to easily share your information with the colleges you are interested in: English | Spanish
More information will be posted soon at www.smuhsd.org/college-fair!
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National Hispanic Heritage Month: September 15- October 15
National Hispanic Heritage Month celebrates the histories, cultures, and contributions of those living in America whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America. The month includes the independence days of several Latin American countries, including Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Chile, and Belize. We believe that National Hispanic Heritage Month gives us the opportunity to highlight and celebrate the contributions of our Latino community. SMUHSD is committed to honoring the rich diversity of our Latino community throughout the year.
Read the proclamation, available in English and Spanish.
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Love the Arts? Attend an Upcoming Concert or Play! | |
Visit the District website at www.smuhsd.org/vapa for a list of upcoming concerts and plays taking place across the District. These upcoming visual and performing arts events are open to anyone in the community. | |
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Aragon
Burlingame
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Fall Play - The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee: November 14-17
Capuchino
- Fall Music Showcase: October 10
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Fall Play - Ghostlight: November 14-16
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Hillsdale
Mills
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Fall Plays - Steel Magnolias and The Play that Goes Wrong: November 7-9
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Groove-A-Thon: October 25
- Winter Concert: December 13
- CMEA Jazz Festival: January 31 to February 1
San Mateo
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District English Learner Advisory Council (DELAC) Meeting is September 25
The first DELAC meeting of the year is Wednesday, September 25! We invite parents/guardians and community members to attend these meetings!
The District’s English Learner Advisory Committee (DELAC) members advise the District’s local governing board on programs and services for English learners.
Learn more.
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Job Fair at San Mateo Adult and Career Education is Friday, September 27
San Mateo Adult and Career Education is hosting a Career Fair on Friday, September 27 with JobTrain. The Career Fair will be held from 1 - 3 p.m. at SMACE, 799 E. Poplar Avenue, San Mateo.
Learn about jobs, internships, apprenticeships, volunteer opportunities, community resources and more!
Registration
Download the flyer.
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2024-2025 Student Board Council Announced | |
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We officially welcomed the 2024-25 Student Board Council Members at their first meeting on September 18 at the District Office.
We are proud to include student’s voices from every high school in our District in the work we all do!
See a complete list of all student board council members and learn about their roles and responsibilities.
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Hillsdale High Students Wins Silicon Valley Bike Coalition Youth Leader Award
Congratulations to Hillsdale High School 12th grader Anya Lin - she recently was the recipient of the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition Youth Leader Award, presented at the August 29 14th Annual Silicon Valley Bicycle Summit. Anya was honored for her efforts to create a bike-friendly community in and around her school. Anya also spoke at the 14th Annual Silicon Valley Bicycle Summit about her club's efforts to improve the communities inside and outside of Hillsdale High School.
Anya serves as the president of Hillsdale High School Bike Club and her goals are to make biking more accessible, fun, and safe for everyone at our school. The HHS Bike Club runs a bike lending program where they receive bikes from the local police department, refurbish them, and lend them out to students for free, ensuring that anyone who wants to ride a bike, will be able to have one. The Club also promotes biking through events like “Two-Wheel Tuesday”, where students and teachers have bike races in the courtyard, and “Ride for Pancakes Day”, which encourages green transportation.
Additionally, as partners with the San Mateo Transportation Department and Alta Planning, the Bike Club has been actively making roads safer around campus. From participating in walk audits and planning sessions with city planners to assisting in project implementation, club members have successfully increased safety at key areas of congestion around the school.
Photo: from left, Tim Choy (HHS bike mechanic), Ethan Kong, Miles Kim, Austin Omeara, Jakob Gowdy, Anya Lin, Jonah Ng, Nico Lee, Nathan McFadden, Jacob Ng, and Lucas Ku.
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SMUHSD Summer Work Experience Program Expands to Serve More Students in its Fourth Year | |
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San Mateo Union High School District recently concluded the fourth year of its Summer "Work Experience Can Work" program in collaboration with the California Department of Rehabilitation (DOR). The program, in its fourth year, supports SMUHSD graduates who have previously received special education services from SMUHSD. The funding from the program is provided by the Federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act that the Department of Rehabilitation manages.
The young adults who have signed up for the paid summer employment program participated in a one day employment preparation boot camp to learn workplace readiness skills, participate in job exploration, and advance their self-advocacy skills. The participants had in-class support from SMUHSD program leads Matt Park and Cammy Leung, and various Student Service Counselors from the San Bruno and San Mateo Department of Rehabilitation offices. Transition Specialist Eli Poblitz oversees the program on behalf of SMUHSD.
The participants were matched to SMUHSD business partners along the peninsula for a work-based learning opportunity for the summer that started in early June. Students had the opportunity to work full-time until the end of August and earned $17.35 per hour. Students earned approximately $25,000 in combined student wages over the summer.
Thank you to the employers who are participating in our 2024 Work Experience Can Work Summer Program:
- San Mateo Medical Center
- Hassett Ace Hardware
- Millbrae Library
- Hillsdale Library
- Mountain Mike’s Pizza
- Orchard Supply Hardware
- The UFC Gym
- One Love Montessori
- Walgreens
- B Street Bookstore
- Old Navy
Learn about SMUHSD’s Transition Programs.
For more information about modeling this program in your School District or learning about being an employer with this program in the Summer of 2025, contact Matthew Park at mpark@smuhsd.org or Eli Poblitz at epoblitz@smuhsd.org.
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Annual Career Expo Connects Students with Career Pathways | |
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More than 400 SMUHSD students and their family members attended the Districtwide Career Expo on Tuesday, September 10.
The expo, formerly known as “Stay in the Bay with $100K,” is in its fourth year and was held at San Mateo High School and generously sponsored by San Francisco International Airport.
At the expo, students learned about high-paying careers, they networked with industry professionals, they got to participate in hands-on activities and they learned about various opportunities from the 50+ representatives from Bay Area companies, apprenticeships and training programs.
One goal of the Career Expo is to educate and expose students to opportunities for high-paying careers that don’t necessarily require a four year degree.
If you attended the 2024 Career Expo and would like to share feedback, please fill out our short survey.
If you are interested in participating in this event as an employer in 2025, please email Nancy Kane, SMHS Career and Volunteer Coordinator: nkane@smuhsd.org.
Thank you to SMHS student photographer Maya Welch!
View the photo gallery and a complete list of all participating employers on the SMUHSD website: www.smuhsd.org/careerexpo.
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Family Education Webinars | |
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The below Parent Venture webinars are free to attend and offer simultaneous Spanish interpretation unless otherwise noted.
Neurodiversity and Disability Support in College Admissions and Beyond
- Tuesday, September 24, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
- Presenters: Elizabeth C. Hamblet, Author, Seven Steps to College Success: A Pathway for Students with Disabilities and Eric Endlich, PhD., Psychologist and Founder, Top College Consultants
- Register
Topics:
- What supports are and aren’t commonly available, and how that impacts the college search
- What colleges expect from students with disabilities
- How students with disabilities can best prepare for the transition to college
Sexism & Sensibility: Raising Empowered, Resilient Girls in the Modern World
- Wednesday, September 25, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
- Speaker: Jo-Ann Finkelstein, Harvard Educated Psychologist
- Register
Topics:
- how to talk about misogyny, gender stereotyping, objectification, and consent — at different ages
- strategies for fine-tuning our daughters’ natural “sexism detectors” and safeguarding their self-esteem
- ways to help girls spot and contest the microaggressions they face in school, in the media, in relationships, and in public
- how to recognize and combat sexism in our own parenting
This webinar is in Spanish
Fentanyl/Opioid Safety and Education: Insights from Practicing Physicians (in Spanish)
- Thursday, September 26, 2024, 5:30– 6:30 p.m.
- Speakers: Marissa Aillaud, MD, and Susan Thorne, MD, Kaiser Permanente Redwood City
- Register
What should parents/caregivers, students, and educators know about fentanyl/opioids? To address fentanyl/opioid safety and education in youth, we welcome Marissa Aillaud, MD, Pediatrics, and Susan Thorne, MD, Family Medicine, Kaiser Permanente Redwood City.
How to Navigate a Life: The New Science of Finding Your Way in School, Career, and Beyond
- Wednesday, October 2, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
- Speaker: Belle Liang, PhD, professor and author of "How to Navigate a Life: The New Science of Finding Your Way in School, Career, and Beyond
- Register
Belle Liang, PhD, co-author of How to Navigate Life, devotes her career to counseling students and cutting through the daily pressures to find kids' “true north”: what really turns them on in life, allowing them to choose a course of study, a college, and a career. Even the gentlest parents tend to play into pervasive societal pressure for students to PERFORM. And when we take the foot off the gas, we ask kids to figure out what their PASSION is. Neither is a recipe for mental or physical health, or, ironically, for performance.
How to Navigate Life shows that successful human beings instead tap into their PURPOSE—the why behind the what and how. Best of all, purpose is a completely translatable quality to every aspect of life, from first jobs to last jobs and everything in between.
Suicide Prevention 101: Offering Hope for Parents and Teens
- Thursday, October 3, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
- Speaker: Dr. Pamela Morris-Perez, a nationally-recognized expert in adolescent suicide and Professor of Applied Psychology at NYU Steinhardt
- Register
How can we raise awareness and reduce the stigma around adolescent suicide? And how can we offer hope for parents, families, and teens impacted by suicide or suicidal ideation?
The goal of this talk is to empower parents to have the knowledge to ask and respond to their teen's suicidal thinking, and to help more youth get the care they need more quickly in the hope that doing so will save more lives.
Helping Your Child Build Good Habits - Parent Forum
- Friday, October 4, 12 - 1 p.m.
- Speaker: Erin Magen, PhD., Founder, Parenting for Humans
- Register
How can you help your child or teen build good habits for a lifetime? What strategies will help them gain the internal motivation they need to succeed? Whether it's walking the dog, doing their homework, or practicing a musical instrument, we all want our kids to develop good habits -- and enjoy the success of building new skills!
Eran Magen is a population health psychologist and the founder of Parenting for Humans, a organization that supports a relationship-first, judgment-free approach to parenting.
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Rotary Club of San Mateo Hosts Fun Run on October 20
The Rotary Club of San Mateo is hosting the Great Goblin Escape Fun Run 5K and 10K on Sunday, October 20 at Seal Point Park in San Mateo. SMUHSD Community members can use the code SMUHSD for a $5 discount on registration.
Sponsor proceeds from this event benefit college scholarships for local students!
Learn more on the San Mateo Rotary Club's website.
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Upcoming allcove San Mateo Events for Students
allcove San Mateo is a youth drop-in center where youth can hang out, study, attend events, and access services. allcove provides a unique space for students to access resources and support for family, friends and the larger community.
Students are invited to attend upcoming events in September to learn more about allcove, including:
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Stanford REACH Lab Substance Use and Abuse Prevention Webinars
Both of the below webinars are presented by Dr. Bonnie Halpern-Flesher of the Stanford REACH Lab.
Fentanyl Poisoning Awareness: Critical Information and Prevention Resources
Straight Talk About the Triangulum of Nicotine, Vaping, and Cannabis
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San Mateo County Arts & Culture Fest is Saturday, September 28
The San Mateo County Office of Arts and Culture and the San Mateo Area Chamber of Commerce are pleased to present the September Arts & Culture Fest - the best street festival on the Peninsula. This day-long event features LOCAL musicians, entertainment and cultural performances, artists and craft-makers, cuisine and beverages from around the world, and family-friendly activities in the heart of downtown San Mateo. The event is free and open to the public.
Details
Saturday, September 28, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
B Street (Between 1st and 3rd Street), San Mateo
Learn more.
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Free Mammograms Available at October 5 Pink Patch Party
The San Mateo Police Department is hosting their annual Breast Cancer Awareness event - the Pink Patch Party - on Saturday, October 5. The event will be held at 100 South B Street in San Mateo from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. and featured live music, food, games, raffles, and mammogram screenings!
Learn more about the free mammogram screenings and sign up.
Mammograms will be offered from 9 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Download the event flyer: English | Spanish
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Safe Routes to Schools Survey
The survey closes October 6
The City of San Mateo would like to learn your thoughts about students walking and biking to school. What would you like to see to make it safer and easier for students to walk, bike, roll or take the bus to school in San Mateo?
This survey will take about 5 minutes to complete. We ask that each family complete one survey per school your children attend.
Your responses will be kept confidential and neither your name nor your child’s name will be associated with any results. Your input will help us build a city where all students can safely, confidently, and joyfully travel to and from school by biking, walking, rolling, or riding the bus, building healthy habits and community for all.
Complete the Safe Routes to School Survey by Sunday, October 6, 2024.
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Saturday, October 12: Dia De Los Muertos Event
The San Mateo Police Activities League and The City of San Mateo Parks and Recreation Department presents a free event for the whole family celebrating Dia De Los Muertos on Saturday, October 12, 12 - 3 p.m.
Highlights
- Arts and Crafts
- Jumpers
- DJ
- Food Trucks
- Music and Dance Performances
- Craft Vendors
- Car Show
- Community Booths
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Park
725 Monte Diablo Avenue, San Mateo
View the flyer.
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We are Hiring
Check out notices of vacancies at our school sites, District Office and Transportation Department: www.smuhsd.org/careers.
Applicants need to register for an EdJoin account and apply online.
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Director of Facilities and Construction
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School Bus Driver Instructor/Transportation Coordinator
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We have an Immediate Need for Substitute School Plant Operations Employees and Substitute Utility Workers!
SMUHSD has an immediate need for substitute School Plant Operations Employees and substitute Utility Workers! Subbing with SMUHSD is a great way to get your foot in the door and find out about full-time positions!
Substitute School Plant Operations Employees (SPOE) earn $30.76 per hour and average about 80 hours a month. Apply now.
Substitute Utility Workers earn $30.76 per hour and average about 20-30 hours a month. Apply now.
Learn more.
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Student Nutrition Jobs
Contact Denis Vorrises at 650-558-2479 or dvorisses@smuhsd.org if you are interested in applying or want more information or apply on EdJoin today.
Highlights
- Work five hours a day, Monday-Friday
- Summers off and paid holidays
- Health benefit opportunities
- Starting pay is $24.17
- Employees with minimal experience in food services may be trained on all duties to be assigned.
Need more flexibility? We also have substitute student cafeteria opportunities.
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Additional Transportation Jobs
Please also check out the following openings in our Transportation Department:
School Bus Driver
Special Education Van Driver
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Substitute Positions
Visit www.smuhsd.org/substitute for more information about substitute teaching.
Substitute Classified (Non Teaching) Positions
Need a Flexible Work Arrangement? Try Substituting with Us!
Learn more about the following substitute opportunities and apply online on Edjoin today!
To see a complete list of current vacancies - permanent and substitute, visit www.smuhsd.org/careers.
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