Twenty-five students from Monrovia Unified’s Monroe Elementary discussed color, texture and the artist’s intentions for a 328-year-old tapestry before creating their own tapestries during a Jan. 18 visit to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). The visit was part of LACMA’s eight-week After School at the Museum enrichment program, which runs from 3 to 5 p.m. Thursdays through March 1. Photos are available
San Gabriel Unified’s Gabrielino High School is celebrating reducing English learner non-graduate numbers to 63 percent in 2015-16, down from 76 percent the previous year, following a four-year effort to develop and refine its English Language Development (ELD) program. As part of the changes, the ELD team removed barriers to classes that fulfill college requirement credit.
Whittier High School social science, technology and English students will boost the success of three local businesses through creative mobile and emerging technology solutions they will develop with a $20,000 grant from the Verizon Innovative Learning STEM and entrepreneurship program. Whittier High is one of five Los Angeles-area high schools accepted into the two-year program, which provides educators a unique experience to create a design-thinking curriculum, partner with local businesses and teach students entrepreneurship and technology skills through real-world challenges. More than 150 students from Whittier High’s Cardinal Computer Academy will take part in the program, set to begin in February.
Fontana Unified’s Sequoia Middle School is one of 22 schools in California named to the 2018 California Schools to Watch list for improving student achievement, creating a positive campus culture through student programs and teacher training, and lowering its suspension rate. Sequoia Middle School will accept the award in Sacramento on Saturday, March 3 and hold a campus celebration on Tuesday, March 6.
El Monte Union High School District Superintendent Dr. Edward Zuniga touted District successes, highlighted award-winning academic programs through live student demonstrations and discussed El Monte Union’s outlook over the next few years during the first-ever State of the District on Feb. 24. The event – held at the El Monte High School Auditorium – included an overview of the District's new vision, mission and goals, adopted this school year by the Board of Trustees, as well as its motto: Community Committed to College and Career.
Twenty-five Lynwood Unified parents will hold a commencement ceremony at 9 a.m. Friday, Feb. 2 to celebrate completing a program that taught them how to build digital-age bridges with their children and the community. The 12-week parent workshop, called Project-2-INSPIRE, was hosted by the California Association for Bilingual Education. The ceremony will be at Cesar Chavez Middle School, 3898 Abbott Road, Lynwood.
Baldwin Park Unified will hold the last two of three Family Science Nights exploring the evolution of massive star clusters. Cal Poly Pomona Associate Professor Matthew S. Povich and his team will show families how to examine the clusters using telescopes. The events will run from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 6 at Sierra Vista High School, 3600 N. Frazier St., Baldwin Park; and Thursday, March 8 at Elwin Elementary, 13010 E. Waco St., Baldwin Park.
More than 30 students at Alondra Middle School are bonding over their love for anime and Japanese culture through the school’s anime club. The group meets weekly to discuss anime shows, draw manga, learn Japanese vocabulary and explore Japanese culture. The Anime Club hosted an animation creation contest at on Jan. 30 at the school.
Banda Nueva Dinastia de Zoochila – a second-generation Oaxacan philharmonic brass band composed of current and former Lindbergh Elementary School students – will give a free performance during the inaugural Oaxacan Philharmonic Bands Audition from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 27 outside the UC Riverside Performance Lab Arts 166 building, 900 University Ave., Riverside. Musical director Jessica Hernandez, a Lynwood High Class of 2006 graduate, is the first female Oaxacan brass band director in California.
Paramount Unified School District is developing promise agreements with Compton College, UC Irvine and Cal State Long Beach to provide tuition assistance, academic support and priority registration to District students starting with the Class of 2019. The District is seeking guaranteed admission to UC Irvine and Cal State Long Beach for students who meet academic prerequisites and assistance with tuition, book fees and transportation for students attending Compton College.
