Reading Time: 1 minute Untangling Family Life with Dr. Lisa Damour: Dr. Damour discusses her book, Untangled, why she wrote it, and why it matters in this video: All Things Untangled. She describes seven tasks that teens need to complete for healthy adolescence: Parting with Childhood, Joining a New Pack, Harnessing Emotions, Contending with Adult Authority, Planning for the […]
Reading Time: 1 minute Next Tuesday, March 10, is Testing Day for 9th, 10th, and 11th grades. Testing Day room assignments are emailed to students! Bulldog Blast for this week can be found here!
Reading Time: 1 minute Our College Fair is this Monday, March 2 from 6-7:30pm! SUA is co-hosting a Cincinnati Spring College Fair with St. Xavier at St. Xavier. We cannot underestimate the value of exploring this fair and talking with reps from many colleges and universities across the US! All juniors should plan to attend. You can pre-register for this event or register […]
Reading Time: 1 minute We already have 40 folks signed up for the last Confident Parents | Remarkable Students event of the year: Planning For a Career in Medicine with Dr. Brian Grawe and Top Cincinnati Physicians! Join us on March 6 at 7AM (come before work!) in the Keller Student Center (we'll have coffee!) as we talk with several of […]
Reading Time: 1 minute We are thrilled to announce our first ever Parent/Guardian(s) + Student Family Speaker Event: Planning For a Career in Medicine with Dr. Brian Grawe and Top Cincinnati Physicians! Join us on March 6 at 7AM (come before work!) in the Keller Student Center (we'll have coffee!) as we talk with several of Cincinnati's top physicians […]
Reading Time: 1 minute Tonight at 6pm! College Credit Plus Information Night for SUA families will be held virtually. Please mark your calendars for this event and plan to attend if your daughter is interested in taking CCP courses (including the two courses we teach at SUA: Essentials of Entrepreneurship and Foundations of Engineering Design Thinking in 2026-27)! Meet link: meet.google.com/txe-nxuw-erk Last […]
Reading Time: 1 minute Untangling Family Life with Dr. Lisa Damour: Teenagers do break rules and push boundaries. It’s a natural part of teen development! What are parents supposed to do about this? Dr. Damour talks through the top three questions she gets about managing adolescent misbehavior in this short 17-minute video: How to Handle Teens and Discipline. By […]
Reading Time: 1 minute Next week! On Wednesday, February 18 at 6pm, we will hold our College Credit Plus Information Night for families virtually. Please mark your calendars for this event and plan to attend if your daughter is interested in taking CCP courses (including the two courses we teach at SUA: Essentials of Entrepreneurship and Foundations of Engineering […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes It's Academic Advising Season! Last week and this week we presented to each of the 9th, 10th, and 11th grade levels to explain the academic advising and course selection process. Students will have the opportunity learn about each of the electives open to them next year at the Elective Fair presentations on February 12 during […]
Reading Time: 1 minute Mark your calendars for Friday, March 6 at 7:00AM! For the first time ever, we are holding a career event for students to attend with their parents! Come learn about a variety of opportunities in various medical fields and careers with your daughter during this before-school event! Sign up information coming soon!
Reading Time: 1 minute Untangling Family Life with Dr. Lisa Damour: Anxiety alerts us when something’s not right. Anxiety is common among teens (and adults)! Dr. Lisa Damour helps us understand how anxiety operates, how to get it under control, and how to identify healthy -v- unhealthy anxiety in this video: How to Help Teens Manage Anxiety. Learning to […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes As a result of the needs assessed on our annual School Connectedness Survey, the SUA Counseling Department will run the following small groups for students this spring: Overcoming Perfectionism, Creative Expression, Freshmen Connectedness and Leadership, and Career Exploration. We have reached out to each student who expressed interest in participating. Please encourage your daughter to […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes REGISTER HERE! Our second Confident Parents | Remarkable Students speaker event for SUA families with Meagan Francis: Beyond Honor Cords: Rethinking Pride in Parenting Teens and Young Adults will take place on Thursday, January 29 at 7:00 pm virtually. When graduation season arrives, our feeds overflow with photos of honor cords, college sweatshirts, and shiny awards. But those highlight […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Testing Day is Tuesday, March 10. All students will receive information on their testing location from Counseling or ES via email the week before. Save the Date! On Monday, March 2 from 6-7:30pm, SUA is co-hosting a Cincinnati Spring College Fair with St. Xavier at St. Xavier. We cannot underestimate the value of exploring this […]
Reading Time: 1 minute Parents of Seniors: As a reminder, each senior must arrange a Job Shadow experience on either February 23 or March 18 as their Faith in Action requirement! Here are the instructions for this day. It is important that they line up their shadow experience now, as they will need to give a host several weeks' […]
Reading Time: 1 minute Mark your Calendars! Our second Confident Parents | Remarkable Students speaker event with Meagan Francis: Beyond Honor Cords: Rethinking Pride in Parenting Teens and Young Adults will take place on Thursday, January 29 at 7:00 pm. RSVP Coming Soon! Video call link: https://meet.google.com/nde-fxqb-fjr
Reading Time: 2 minutes Today, all students completed a survey about school connectedness. The Counseling Department regularly solicits feedback from students, both formally and informally, to understand how each student feels connected to classmates, faculty, and the SUA community because connectedness to school is a predictor of academic success. The information provided in this survey is confidential and individual […]
Reading Time: 1 minute Untangling Family Life with Dr. Lisa Damour: One of the most important topics of raising teens is helping teens stay safe and manage risky behaviors. The “safest” teenagers are the ones who feel close to adults and see adults as resources who can be helpful. Conversations about risk can bring us closer to our kids! […]
Reading Time: 1 minute Parents of Juniors: Reminder! On December 8, all juniors received an email from their counselor with information about how to schedule their Junior College Family Meeting. These meetings (which require at least one parent to be present) are scheduled between January and March. The email sent to your daughter has instructions on how to schedule her meeting with […]