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La Cañada High School Supports Teacher Collaboration
Increasingly, high performing school districts are finding that best practices dictate the importance of providing teachers with time to collaborate. Collaboration time is critical to provide teachers the opportunity to analyze student performance data. The careful review of student data allows teachers to strategically adjust instruction for improved results, identify content standards where performance results [...]
Marshall Fundamental High School: Excellence by Example
Jacob Tragarz didn’t take the easy route when it came to his mitzvah project — he went big. The 12-year-old student decided to raise awareness about the suffering and violence in Darfur by organizing an assembly for nearly 700 of his peers at Marshall Fundamental High School… Read the whole story at the Jewish Journal. [...]
San Marino High School: Family Connection
Family Connection from Naviance offers a wide range of resources including a resume builder, college search tools and career assessments. This will also serve as the new way seniors will fill out their “Brag Sheet” and manage their college application process online. Through Family Connection they will share information about up-coming meetings, events, local scholarship [...]
Chandler School: Scripted Book Reports
Fifth-grade students dress up to present two-person scripts based on two events in books they read. Each student wrote a script and was assigned a random partner. In the scripts, two characters from the book argue about their interpretation of events in the story.
Sisters from The Gooden School Take Home 3 Honors in MLK Art & Essay Contest
“Looking back at Dr. King’s dreams, what advice would he give America’s leaders today to move the country forward?” was the theme of this year’s essay and art contest sponsored by the city of Pasadena and a host of other organizations, including The Martin Luther King Community Coalition, Altadena and Pasadena NAACP, Pasadena Unified School [...]
Cleveland Elementary School Students’ Visit to the California Science Center
Students from the Cleveland Elementary School recently visited the California Science Center last week and enjoyed a day of fun and excitement exploring the world of spectacular science shows, amazing demonstrations and visit the various uniquely innovative rooms designed to foster and support young children’s first science explorations.
Blair High School: Help Is Available!
The Parent Portal is a fantastic tool to conveniently go online and check your child’s attendance, assignments, grades and more. But for some parents, accessing the system has not gone smoothly. You can learn how to solve these computer problems at training sessions at the PUSD district office on Wed. Feb. 8th. 6:30pm The training [...]
Monterey Hills School: MHS Science Fair – March 8
Monterey Hills School (MHS) will be holding their annual Science Fair on Thursday, March 8, 2012 from 6:30 – 8 pm. Students are given projects to work either alone or with one or more students in their class and must contribute equally and share each other’s experiences. Students can ask for assistance but must make
Chandler School: A Friendly Debate
For the first time, Chandler played host to a debate tournament. Chandler sixth-graders welcomed Poly’s sixth-grade debaters for a friendly tournament based on the prompt eco-tourism does more harm than good. Seven of the nine Chandler teams won their debates, plus a Chandler team that won an intramural match. Teams are told what side of
Math Really Isn’t Only For People Who Are Super Smart
Ask any kid what his or her least favorite subject in school is and chances are the answer will be Math, with Science coming in a close second. It’s a difficult subject for a lot of students and there are some that need a little help with keeping up in class. Enter Foothills Mathematics Group
Chandler School: Self-made Fairy Tales
Chandler School’s Fourth-graders recently presented fairy tale plays in the Ahmanson Foundation Performing Arts Center. The plays were written by the students themselves, as was the accompanying music. Fairy Tales being full of magical creatures with heroes and heroines, will teach children about imagination. These tales aren’t only good for story time but will give
Blair High School: Book Talks and “Breathless Tour”
On Thursday, Kris Vreeland from Once Upon a Time bookstore in Montrose was here all day giving book talks on books by four amazing young adult authors who are coming to Blair on February 24th. The author visit is part of what’s being called the “Breathless Tour,” and it will feature popular authors Marie Lu
The Passion to Help Every Student Learn
The jury is still out on the best way to motivate your child to improve their grades, tests, or academic standing. There are a lot of resources in books, CDs, or the internet, but one local resource, Axia Learning, is one you may not have heard about. “My passion is to help every student have
Barnhart Kindergartners Celebrate 100th Day of School
Kindergarten enjoyed celebrating the 100th Day of School! They made 100th day badges, hats, and glasses, as well as yummy GORP with 100 pieces. A service project was incorporated into the celebration, where they brought in 100 cans for the Foothill Unity Center. It was such a fun day full of learning about the many