Baldwin Park High School will present Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” as its spring musical, a performance in song and dance by 33 student actors, at 7 p.m. Friday, March 23, and at 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday, March 24 at the Baldwin Park Performing Arts Center, 4640 Maine Ave., Baldwin Park.
Sprint provided 35 Sprint ZTE hotspots to Baldwin Park High School students on March 23, the first stage of a project to provide 1 million devices over five years to students who lack home internet. The hotspots allow students to access 3 GB of data a month for free throughout their high school careers. So far, 40 devices also have gone to Sierra Vista High School students and 12 to North Park Continuation High School students. Some 172 more Baldwin Park Unified students are eligible to receive devices.
Students at Baldwin Park Unified elementary schools will be judged Thursday, April 12 on their construction of Rube Goldberg devices – complicated machines that do simple tasks – as part of the District’s 21st Century Challenge, a science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM) contest. Student teams worked on the devices for more than three months and recorded videos of the machines in action.
Recent graduates of Baldwin Park Unified credit Jones Junior High School counselor Sergio Barragan with helping them achieve academically, collaborate with teachers and inspire them to pursue their college dreams. Barragan founded College 411 in 2011, a program that connects students with Jones alumni like Caballero to learn about higher education. This school year, Barragan expanded College 411 to include college visits, with eighth-graders touring the University of La Verne, UC Riverside and California State University, Long Beach. Students were given an overview of academic and social life with opportunities to see lecture halls, classrooms and dorm-living.
A surge of red-cheeked runners rounded the last corner of the Baldwin Park High School track on March 23 as more than 160 students in kindergarten through sixth grade from Baldwin Park Unified’s Tracy and Vineland elementary schools completed the final mile of a 26.2-mile marathon. Tracy and Vineland students joined Rod Dixon’s Kids Marathon Run Club to complete the marathon in weekly stages. Photos are available
Dr. Susan Coats, a school psychologist at Baldwin Park Unified, has received the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) 2018 Outstanding Advocate Award for her efforts over the last 20 years to promote stronger mental health services, including a new state mandate to train school personnel on suicide prevention. Coats, who has worked for Baldwin Park Unified for 28 years, received the award at the NASP 2018 Annual Convention, held Feb. 13-16 in Chicago. Coats serves as the mental health and crisis consultation chair for the California Association for School Psychologists and as part of the state’s Student Mental Health Policy Workgroup.
Marie Margarette Rivas, a bilingual instructional aide at Sierra Vista High School, is being honored as the California Association for Bilingual Education’s Para-educator of the Year for going beyond the scope of her job to serve students and improve her community.Rivas, who has worked for the English language learner community for 27 years, will be honored at the CABE Awards Luncheon on Thursday, March 29. She will receive a $500 award. Rivas, who is studying to become a teacher, volunteers to teach literacy classes in a juvenile probation school as well as tutoring students and helping to teach parent education courses at Cal State University, Los Angeles.
Holland Middle School’s fledgling robotics team will compete in the VEX Robotics World Championships in Louisville, Kentucky, after scoring a series of come-from-behind victories to finish second in the state championship tournament. The event begins on Wednesday, April 25.
Baldwin Park Unified’s Kenmore Elementary School is being honored as a California Distinguished School for “making exceptional gains in implementing the academic content and performance standards.” The award is the state’s top honor for high-achieving schools. The state will recognize Kenmore at the California School Recognition Program Awards Ceremony on Thursday, May 3 at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim.
Sierra Vista High School junior Diana Aguilar will be honored for touting bilingualism's benefits and bilingual instructional aide Marie Margarette Rivas will be named Para-educator of the Year by the California Association for Bilingual Education on Thursday, March 29.
