This school year, in conjunction with the Every Voice Engaged Foundation, students at Sunnyvale Middle School participated in a project called SMS Decides where they collaborated with each other to make SMS a better place. The Every Voice Engaged Foundation…
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The Sunnyvale School District is proud to announce its 2016-17 Employees of the Year. Colleen Lynch Espinoza “Teacher of the Year” Colleen is currently a Kindergarten teacher in the Juntos Dual Immersion Spanish Program at San Miguel Elementary School and…
June 1, 2016 Dear Friends, As educators, we are necessarily focused on the formal learning process — developing school-time lessons and activities, gauging progress, and assessing understanding. We have rich summer school offerings thanks to our partnership with Stanford University’s…
Donning raccoon hats in Davy Crockett frontiersman fashion, San Miguel Elementary School Principal Christina Ballantyne and The King’s Academy High School Spanish Teacher Patricia Wiechec were recognized in May as ProjectCornerstone Trailblazers, for pioneering new ways to build assets in youth. The…
Second graders at Bishop Elementary School went head-to-head with students twice their age in an online math competition this spring, and won! Ms. Nancy Bierly’s class competed in the online Sumdog Math contest for all K-8 grade students in Santa…
March 1, 2016 Dear Sunnyvale School District Families, Less than a month ago, more than one million people from throughout the nation joined in Bay Area Super Bowl 50 festivities. Visitors traveled hundreds of miles and spent small fortunes for…
In 2011, the Sunnyvale School District began a partnership with the Santa Clara County Public Health Department to bring a Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Program to every school within the district. SRTS aims to create safe, convenient, and fun…
Columbia Middle School’s Darren Zhang scored in the top 5 percent on the Mathematical Association of America’s AMC 8 competition. Winners were announced in January. The AMC 8 is a 25-question, 40-minute, multiple choice test in middle school mathematics designed…
One Homestead High school senior is taking advantage of a personal disappointment and using the experience to help others. Shriya Ghosh, a 17-year-old Sunnyvale resident, was bummed when her parents told her the science program she was accepted to this…
In October, Acknowledge Alliance had an Appreciation Party with donors and educators in attendance. Since 1994, the organization has provided mentoring for educators, counseling for youth and social-emotional learning curriculum into all levels of learning at K-12 schools. Sunnyvale School…
The Holidays are upon us and there is an expectation that overindulging in food and drink and curling up under our blankets is part of the routine to help us get through the cold winter. Some believe that this routine…
The 2015 California STEM Symposium drew 3,100 teachers and school administrators to the Anaheim Convention Center in October. Educators participated in more than 300 workshops, roundtable discussions and hands-on lessons created to help schools funnel more students into Science, Technology, Engineering,…
Reading Partners and the 49ers teamed up in the name of literacy at Lakewood Elementary School in September. On Sept. 28, a group of San Francisco 49ers players spent their afternoon with Lakewood Lions teaching them the importance of reading…
Sunnyvale Wrestling Club, in partnership with Sunnyvale School District, launched the first ever Sunnyvale Youth Wrestling League (SYWL) Sept. 12 at five elementary schools, Lakewood, San Miguel, Ellis, Vargas, and Bishop. Sunnyvale Wrestling Club is providing this co-ed, 6-week program…
Through a partnership with Google and the nonprofit, Playworks, 300 students from Lakewood Elementary got to have a “Playday at Google” Tech Corners in Sunnyvale on Oct. 22. Students got to meet Google employees and take a tour, have recess,…