Bettye Davis East Anchorage High School
East Quick Tips
Welcome to Bettye Davis East Anchorage High School
4025 East Northern Lights Boulevard Anchorage, Alaska 99508
Technology Support
Do you need a Chromebook, Internet, or Tech Support? Please call us at 742-2144 for Chromebook or Internet needs or contact a school counselor or administrator. * Personal computer devices cannot be serviced by Anchorage School District Internet Technicians.
School Meals
Breakfast is served from 8:45am to 9:45am on Late Start Mondays, and until 8:45am Tuesday through Friday. Lunch is served from 12:11pm to 12:51pm on Monday, 11:41am to 12:21pm. Normally, lunch is served from 10:23am to 11:04am Tuesday through Friday. On an Advisory day lunch is served from 11:59am until 12:39pm. One serving of Breakfast and one serving of Lunch is free for ALL students! For menus and more: https://www.asdk12.org/studentnutrition/
Detention
Did you receive a Detention? Detentions issued before lunch must be served within 1 day. Detentions issued after lunch must be served within 2 days. The Lunch Detention room is 114. You must be in attendance within 10 minutes of the first lunch bell or by 3:25pm.
Sports & Activities
The majority of successful students are engaged in Sports or Clubs. We have many sports and clubs to offer! For a complete list please visit our webpage. Do you want to play a school sport? Do you have a question about grade or NCAA eligibility? Would you like to start a club? Located in the Commons, across from the Deli Windows.
Activities Office 742-2141
Janeen Wilkins,
Activities and SWS Principal
Fanne Johnson,
Administrative Assistant
Attendance:
Attendance is essential! If you do not attend and participate it will be difficult to keep up, engage in class activities and pass your classes.
Attendance Office – 742-2169 –
Do you need to excuse an absence?
Located closest to the stained-glass window entrance, off Bragaw Street. Go to Q Parent Connect to “Report Absence” ”, or call the Attendance Message Line: 907-566-2002
Please call 742-2169 to inquire about extended absences.
Bettye Davis East Anchorage High School Offices
Freshman Academy – 742-2144
The Freshman Academy is the first step in the Anchorage School District’s College, Career and Life academies beginning in the 2025-2026 school year. It is open to all Freshman, unless they have been accepted into the lottery program, School Within a School (SWS) at East. Located in East’s Upper Benson.
Isidora Lopez,
Freshman Academy Principal
Main Office – 742-2162
Do you need a Parking Pass, or have a fee or fine to be paid? Located closest to the flagpole entrance off Northern Lights Boulevard, by Student Services.
Ron Brown,
Principal of East High School
Hope Uele,
Administrative Assistant
Rahni Johnson,
Financial Data Control Clerk
Curriculum Office – 742-2142
Do you need to request an Official Transcript? All parents/guardians or students 18 years of age or older can go here to order transcripts: https://anchorageak.scriborder.com/
Are you enrolling or withdrawing from East? Please call the office at 742-2100.
Located closest to the stained-glass window entrance, in the same hallway as the Nurse’s Office.
Russell Shurtleff,
Curriculum Principal
Christine Joy Garcia,
Curriculum Secretary
Student Services – 742-2170
Do you need to report an incident or request assistance with student behavior concerns? Located closest to the flagpole entrance, to the right of the Main Office.
Nichole Cheshier,
Student Services and Special Education Principal
Officer Matthew Ivacic
School Resource Officer,
Anchorage Police Department
Officer Gregg Beatty
School Resource Officer,
Anchorage Police Department
Nurses Office – 742-2185
Are you sick? Do you have medication to take during school hours? Located across from the Curriculum Office, next to room 112.
Siobhan Finnegan,
School Nurse
Academic Counselor School–Based Health Clinic – 742-2313
To request a referral or to discuss Mental Health Counseling, please contact your student’s Academic Counselor School–Based Health Clinic – 742-2313 – Basic healthcare, physical exams, and, for a limited number of students, Behavioral/Mental Health services provided with parent consent.
Students can request an appointment using this link: https://forms.gle/DUMfETYDpArMaV23A
Located in Upper Benson, room 209.
Heather Ireland,
Program Director
Phone: 907-917-6764
Sofia Sytniak,
Mental Health Clinician/Ph.D Student UAA
Volunteers of America School-Based Mental Health Services
907-891-3180
Students can receive professional mental health supports to reduce stressors and difficulties that impair their school performance and social-emotional development.
Kayla Jurchak,
School-Based Mental Health Clinician
Rachel Studebaker,
School-Based Mental Health Clinician
East Counselors
Who is your Counselor & how do you contact them? Each student is assigned an Academic Counselor depending on which House or Program you are in. If you are eligible, you may have access to more support and resources.
Cathleen Brown
SWD Counselor and Teacher 1/Counselor for students with last names from M to Z– 742-2330
She is in the Northwest Commons (left office). The closest classroom is NW18.
Angela Hartvigson
Northeast (NE) House Counselor, Teacher 1/Counselor for students with last names from A-L, and 504 Coordinator – 742-2224
She is in room 56.
Emily Halliwill
House Counselor – 742-2330
She is in room NW19. The closest classroom is NW18.
Gly Larson
College & Career Guide,
English Language Learner and Newcomer Counselor – 742-2283
She is in the Career Resource Room, across from the Attendance Office.
Ellen Piekarski
Freshman Academy Counselor – 742-2269
She is in Upper Benson in room 211C. The closest classroom is 213.
Leslie Rawson
Counseling Chair, School Within a School (SWS) and SLC Counselor – 742-2176
She is in the SWS Commons (left office). The closest classroom is S8.
Courtney Westmann
Alaska State School for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Counselor – 268-5477
She is in the second SWS hall. The closest classroom is S6.
Katie Bisson
English Language Learner (ELL)/Newcomer Liaison – 742-2171
She is in Lower Benson, room 115
Ralph Elook
Title VI Alaska Strong Coordinator – 742-2217
He is in room 36.
Andrew Navarro
Migrant Education Student Success Coach – 742-2263.
He is in an office in the SWS Commons. The closest classroom is S1
Cyndi Reeves
Title VI Indigenous Education Student Success Coach – 742-2217
She is in room 36.
Tanya Sauia
English Language Learner (ELL) and Children In Transition (CIT/H) Student Support Specialist – 742-2262
She is in the Curriculum Office.