This year, our second grade conducted multiple classroom transformations for students to apply what they learned in a given math unit. The transformations targeted grade-level standards, academics, and social-emotional learning. Teachers reported the following impacts on social-emotional and academic learning: Promotes…
These are the finished products from Gretchen Gabriel’s fifth-grade class’s FAME presentation on Feb. 10 featuring the art of Georgia O’Keeffe. The students used watercolors, tissue paper, construction paper, and oil pastels modeled after the famous red poppies of O’Keeffe….
As you know, at Sunnyvale School District (SSD) we’re all about growth. We set goals for our students and regularly track their growth so we can be sure we are addressing their needs appropriately. As a district, we are always…
On May 2, 2018, Lakewood Tech EQ hosted their third annual Tech Night. Families were encouraged to explore all things tech and design thinking and how to balance screen time. Families were given a technology contract to sign and serve…
San Miguel hosted an after-school STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) event on May 2 from 3-5:30 PM with Hands On Bay Area and Nova. Twenty-five volunteers from Nova worked with Kids Learning After School (KLAS) students to complete a STEM…
Sunnyvale School District is proud to announce that Cumberland Elementary School has been named a 2018 California Distinguished School. Cumberland joins the ranks of 287 elementary schools being honored under the Distinguished Schools Program. This program returns after a three-year…
Administrators, principals, teachers, parents, students and community members came together for a day of collaboration Feb. 8 at the Sunnyvale School District’s annual Stakeholder’s Lyceum held in Washington Park. The event is an opportunity for all of the District’s stakeholders…
Sunnyvale School District congratulates Bishop Elementary School’s Cynthia Taylor and Jeanette Jacquot as well as SSD Instructional Coach Nicole Fiala for renewing their National Board Certifications! To date, 6,390 California teachers have achieved National Board Certification. Teachers with National Board…
From hands-on science experiments to learning new languages, students were exposed to a variety of learning opportunities at our summer programs. A total of 1,042 students participated in the six different programs Sunnyvale School District offers. Extended School Year (ESY)…
History really came alive for Bishop fourth-graders on May 25 where teachers and parent volunteers transformed the campus to Gold Rush-era California. The school tradition has been a part of the Bishop fourth-grade experience since 2001. Students learned how to…
Sunnyvale School District staff and teachers have been hard at work adapting science lessons to meet California’s new state standards for science, called the Next Generation Science Standards (CA-NGSS). The new standards are based on research about how students best…
The state’s new accountability and continuous improvement system for schools and districts, the California School Dashboard, is being unveiled to the public this month. The Dashboard will monitor multiple measures of student progress. The Dashboard will provide a much broader…
The Spartan multi-use building at Sunnyvale Middle School buzzed with energy on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 with students from every grade level participating in the school’s first mathematics festival in place of their normal math class. Students had 40-minutes to…
Like little shopkeepers ready to sell their wares, third-grade students from Fairwood Explorer Elementary eagerly set up stands outside and inside Book-a-Saurus on Murphy Avenue Nov. 2 in a unique opportunity to present their toy and literature projects to the…
The state Department of Education released testing results Aug. 24, and for the second consecutive year students in the Sunnyvale School District outperformed the state averages and reflected the county averages of their peers in English Language Arts and mathematics….