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Baldwin Park Unified School District

  • Baldwin Park Unified Students to Compete in District Chess Tournament

    Baldwin Park Unified students grades one through eight will go head-to-head in a District hosted Chess Tournament from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 8 at the Elwin Professional Development Center. Over the last 10 weeks, students have studied and practiced the strategies and tactics of chess through Chess Masters, a program available to students in Think Together and available as pilot programs at Geddes and Tracy elementary schools. Trophies will be awarded to the top winners in the following grade levels: first to second; third to fourth; fifth to sixth; and seventh to eighth. Elwin Professional Development Center is located at 13010 Waco St., Baldwin Park.

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  • Baldwin Park Unified Students Craft and Learn During Lights on Afterschool

    Kenmore Elementary School students in Baldwin Park Unified’s Think Together program crafted giant piñatas, three-dimensional stars and picture frames with puzzle pieces during the annual Lights On Afterschool event on Oct. 25. Kenmore administrators and Think Together teachers incorporated Halloween festivities, with students dressing up as characters from their favorite movies, TV shows and video games. Lights On Afterschool is a nationwide celebration that highlights the importance of afterschool programs in students’ personal and academic development.

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  • Baldwin Park High Football Team Wins Crosstown Showdown, Secures Bell

    Sierra Vista High School’s Jack B. White Stadium was filled with Dons and Braves supporters, dressed in Sierra Vista High School red and black and Baldwin Park High School blue and white, for Baldwin Park Unified’s annual Crosstown Showdown Game on Oct. 20. The night was packed with energetic performances from both high school’s football, cheer, band, and color guard teams. Baldwin Park High ended the game with a strong 26-6 finish, ensuring the Braves will keep the historic community bell for another year.

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Baldwin Park Unified Gold Ribbon Schools Receive Title I Honors

Eight Baldwin Park Unified elementary schools honored as Gold Ribbon Schools in April are being recognized for their efforts to help students living at or below the poverty line achieve their goals.Baldwin Park Unified’s Central, Charles Bursch, Elwin, Ernest R. Geddes, Foster, Kenmore, Pleasant View and Tracy elementary schools were each recognized by the California Department of Education on May 3. The eight elementary schools were recognized through the Gold Ribbon program for boosting student achievement through programs that promote college, literacy, English/Spanish biliteracy, collaborative teaching and parent engagement. Title I is a federal program that provides money to schools to improve performance by disadvantaged students.

Baldwin Park Senior Accepted by Six Ivy League Schools, 5 UCs and Stanford

Baldwin Park High School senior Cesar Arevalo, who didn’t speak English at age 5 when his family came to the U.S. from El Salvador, has received letters of acceptance from 11 of the 12 colleges to which he applied, including six Ivy League heavy-hitters. Arevalo, 18, who plans to become an engineer, was accepted at Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, UC Santa Barbara, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, UCLA and Stanford. His only rejection: MIT. Arevalo, 18, announced Friday during an interview with KIIS-FM’s Ryan Seacrest that he is leaning toward Stanford. Next week, he will visit several of the Ivy League schools that are courting him.

8 Baldwin Park Unified Schools Earn California Gold Ribbons

Eight Baldwin Park Unified schools were named California Gold Ribbon Schools on Wednesday for boosting student achievement through programs that promote college, literacy, English/Spanish biliteracy, collaborative teaching and parent engagement. Baldwin Park Unified’s Central, Charles Bursch, Elwin, Ernest R. Geddes, Foster, Kenmore, Pleasant View and Tracy elementary schools were each recognized. The Gold Ribbon is California’s highest academic award, created in 2015 as a substitute to the Distinguished School Program to celebrate schools for model programs during rollout of the new California Standards.

Baldwin Park Unified Reaches 1,000s of Students with Late Breakfast, Supper

Baldwin Park Unified is serving thousands more students in need each day through a new supper program and an expanded breakfast program. The federally funded supper program, added this year, provides an average of 2,500 meals each afternoon to students at elementary and middle schools. This year, the District added nine sites to its Breakfast after the Bell program, which serves morning meals to students who cannot arrive before school starts. Breakfasts served have skyrocketed to 4,400 meals a day – with some campuses seeing service jumps that top 500 percent. The program was at five sites in 2014-15.

Baldwin Park Unified Honored for Creating Paths to Biliteracy

Baldwin Park Unified School District is being honored with the prestigious Multiple Pathways to Biliteracy Award by Californians Together, a statewide coalition of 25 parent, professional and civil rights groups. The District is one of just two honored across the state. Baldwin Park offers bilingual programs in preschool, five elementary schools, a junior high and a high school. In 2016-17, the program will expand to a second high school. The program includes a Spanish/English dual-language immersion program that is being honored with a 2016 Seal of Excellence award from the California Association for Bilingual Education.

Baldwin Park Unified Launches $314,000 Summer Enrichment Program

Baldwin Park Unified is partnering with extended learning titan THINK Together to provide an enrichment program this summer for more than 700 elementary students hosted at five school sites. The $314,000 program, approved March 8 by the Baldwin Park Unified Board of Education, restores a summer-learning program lost to Baldwin Park students during the deep cuts of the Great Recession. The program will span four weeks, running from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays at Bursch, Central, Elwin, Geddes and Kenmore elementary schools. It is open to all students who currently attend transitional kindergarten through fifth grade at any of the District’s 13 elementary campuses. Students will be bused from their home school to one of the host sites.

Baldwin Park Unified Students Win $4,000 at Local Youth Film Festival

Four Baldwin Park Unified high school students took home $4,000 in prizes Feb. 19 at the fifth annual Baldwin Park Youth Film Festival, the only youth film festival in the San Gabriel Valley. Sierra Vista High senior Santiago Sanchez snagged top prize and the audience favorite award with a psychological thriller called “The Most Dangerous Game.” Baldwin Park High senior Kelvin Parra claimed second prize with “Change,” a look at how children cope with the loss of parents to war. Third place went to Baldwin Park High junior Bryan Moran for his noir comedy, “A Murder Mystery.” Baldwin Park High freshman Karen Parr won best PSA with “Be the Change,” a commercial on how young people can better each other’s lives. View clips and event details at: animoto.com/play/uqz0MVl5sDm3KodbWI861A.

Baldwin Park Unified Middle School Students Honored by Internet Safety Group

Fifty students at Baldwin Park Unified's Olive Middle have won a "Role Reversal" Award in recognition of their Internet smarts from Safer Internet Day 2016 organizer ConnectSafely.Org. Safer Internet Day, held Feb. 9, brought together 300 students online and in person at Universal Studios Hollywood. Olive was one of five area schools on site. Nineteen schools and youth organizations from Florida to Massachusetts participated online. The Olive students won the accolade for describing how to encourage empathy and support among peers and adults as a way of improving online experiences. In the exercise, students reversed roles with experts, giving advice rather than listening to a talk.

Sierra Vista High Girls Soccer Team Advances to CIF-SS Semifinals

Baldwin Park Unified’s powerhouse varsity girls soccer team from Sierra Vista High School edged past Heritage Christian High School, 2-0, in Thursday’s CIF Southern Section Division 6 quarterfinal match. The Dons, 25-2-1, will face Grand Terrace High School, 15-9-3, in the semifinals on Tuesday, March 1. Sierra Vista is undefeated in league play, taking its ninth straight Montview League title this year. The Dons are the tournament's top seed; they are gunning for their second ever CIF-SS championship.

Baldwin Park Unified Honored for Dual-Language Immersion Program

Baldwin Park Unified’s Walnut Elementary School will receive a 2016 Seal of Excellence Award from the California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE), a recognition of the school’s exceptional dual-language immersion program, Soaring to Success. The program teaches a combination of English and Spanish speakers to be bilingual and bi-literate by instructing them in both languages, starting almost entirely in Spanish and ending with an equal division. Walnut Elementary launched its program in 1997, and is cited frequently as a model by other districts. The school will receive its award Friday, March 25 during CABE 2016, the bilingual education association’s annual conference held in San Francisco.