Inglewood Unified will showcase its I-Ready curriculum – an interactive online learning environment – and show parents how to improve their children’s achievement from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8 at the District office, 401 S. Inglewood Ave., Inglewood. I-Ready is designed to tailor instruction based on each student’s unique needs.
Rio Hondo College students have created more than 60 ceramic bowls for a fundraising event benefiting the homeless. The eighth annual Empty Bowls event will run from 5 to 9 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6 at Santa Anita Golf Course Club House, 405 S. Santa Anita Ave., Arcadia. The event will feature area city leaders serving up soup made by more than 10 San Gabriel Valley restaurants with the bowls as gifts. Tickets are $50.
Plymouth Elementary will host its third annual Moon and Stars STEAM Night from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4 at Plymouth Elementary School, 1300 Boley St., Monrovia. Students and families will take part in robotics, arts and coding activities. The event will also celebrate the school’s Mandarin Dual Language program and students will perform a classic Chinese tale.
More than 500 El Monte-area middle and high school students and their families learned skills on how to succeed in high school, prepare for college and achieve their personal goals during El Monte Union’s second annual College and Career Family Conference, called “The Places You’ll Go!” Held in partnership with El Monte City and Mountain View school districts, the El Monte Promise Foundation, Rio Hondo College and UC Irvine, the Oct. 19 conference offered over 30 workshops in English and Spanish covering a range of topics, including financial aid, college entrance requirements, resources for Dream Act students and a review of the UC and CSU systems.
Baldwin Park Unified’s Central Elementary School will participate in National Walk to School Day at 7:25 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2. Students, parents, teachers and staff will meet at Central Park, 15010 Badillo St., Baldwin Park, and will walk together to Central Elementary, 14741 Central Ave., Baldwin Park. The event promotes physical activity and community engagement and teaches students the importance of pedestrian safety.
Arroyo High School officially opened its Regenerative Learning Garden – a 1-acre site that will double as a community garden and learning laboratory for students studying horticulture and water conservation – during a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Sept. 21. Developed through a partnership with Eco-Urban Gardens and the U.S. Green Building Council Los Angeles (USGBC-LA), the student-run garden underscores El Monte Union’s commitment to supporting ecological solutions and sustainable living in the greater El Monte community.
Baldwin Park Unified School District is gearing up for its 13th annual College and Career Fair, featuring workshops on college applications, financial aid and scholarships, and representatives from universities, trade schools and local businesses. The College and Career Fair is the culminating event for a week of activities and assemblies held throughout the District to emphasize college and career awareness.
Whittier Union has been identified as one of 167 California school districts to excel at supporting the learning of all students, particularly Hispanics, at higher-than-expected levels on the state’s new, more rigorous math and reading assessments in a “Positive Outliers: Districts Beating the Odds” study. Whittier Union ranked at 65 in the study, which was released earlier this year by the Learning Policy Institute out of Stanford University. The Institute is headed by Linda Darling-Hammond, president of the California Board of Education. Whittier Union’s earned reputation for attaining and sustaining substantial academic progress has been over two decades the making.
Eighteen Baldwin Park Unified Schools have been recognized with silver and bronze awards from the California Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) Coalition for encouraging safe and supportive learning environments. Silver awards went to 17 elementary and middle schools; Baldwin Park High School earned a bronze award. Photos available.
El Monte High School welcomed hundreds of students and their parents for the District’s annual College Night on Sept. 23. Students met with representatives from over 40 colleges and universities and participated in activities in preparation for college and financial aid application season. Students received information on programs, activities, entrance requirements and degrees offered by two- and four-year universities, including UC Berkeley, UCLA, Cal State Los Angeles, Cal Poly Pomona, University of La Verne and Rio Hondo College.
