Online W-L Directory:
Do you need contact information for a W-L parent, student, or teacher? The W-L PTA’s online directory can be accessed at https://wl.schoolhouse.directory. The directory enables you to search for phone numbers of W-L families, teachers, and staff. The directory is available from your favorite web browser and is also installable as a mobile device App.
The directory is password protected and only families of current students have access. The directory database is updated each October. Returning families use the user-id and password that you were e-mailed when your student started at W-L (you can click on “need your password?” if you do not remember your password). Families who are new to W-L are emailed a welcome notice explaining how to set up access (if you do not receive that welcome notice by late-October you can e-mail the contact link posted at the bottom of the directory home page).
Digital Device Handbook:
The APS digital device initiative provides each student in Grades 2 through 12 with a device for their educational use at both home and at school throughout the year. This is a good document that should answer most questions about the laptops that our children have received from APS. Please see this link for more information: Digital Device Handbook (online edition)
Naviance:
For Washington-Lee High School – the essential college career-planning tool: http://connection.naviance.com/washlee
College Application Resources at Arlington Public Library:
The following are resources provided by Lisa Cosgrove-Davies, Youth Services Librarian. Please click on the links below to see a few more details and whether the book is available for check out at any of Arlington’s public libraries.
College Selection:
- Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania by Frank Bruni
- Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges by Loren Pope
- Harvard Schmarvard by Jay Matthews
- America’s Best Colleges for B Students : A college Guide for Student’s without Straight A’s
- The College Blue Book (electronic book)
- College Board book of majors
- College essays that made a difference
- Colleges that Change Lives: 40 Schools that Will Change the Way you Think about Colleges
- Find the Perfect College for You: 82 Exceptional Schools that Fit your Personality and Learning Style
- Rugg’s Recommendations on the Colleges (Reference book that lists colleges by majors)
College Applications:
- A is for Admission: the Insider’s Guide to Getting into the Ivy League and Other Top Colleges
- Conquering the College Admissions Essay in 10 steps: Crafting a Winning Personal Statement
- 50 Successful Ivy League application essays
- Fiske Real College Essays That Work
- Peterson’s How to Write the Perfect Personal Statement
- Write Your College Essay in Less Than a Day
- Writing a Successful College Application Essay