Nine Sunnyvale School District elementary students competed on March 28 in Sodexo’s Future Chefs Challenge. The national initiative aims to get students thinking about making healthy food choices while encouraging them to get active and creative in the kitchen! Sunnyvale…
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Students, families, and teachers are connecting with each other while learning math through San Miguel Elementary School’s math workshops. The work, which gets a boost from a Department of Education Bilingual/Biliterate Instruction for Bilingual Literate Youth grant, was recently featured…
Five Sunnyvale School District elementary students competed on May 17 in Sodexo’s Future Chefs Challenge. The national initiative aims to get students thinking about making healthy food choices while encouraging them to get active and creative in the kitchen! Sunnyvale…
Twenty-eight students at San Miguel were honored with Biliteracy Attainment Recognition for achieving proficiency in both English and Spanish. To meet the English benchmark, students earned qualifying scores on NWEA exams. To measure proficiency in Spanish, students wrote informative and…
Construction at Ellis Elementary School is nearly complete. We have installed new roofs (no more leaks and shingles that blow away in heavy winds!), energy-efficient double-paned windows, and upgraded HVAC. We have created a more efficient drop-off/pick-up and now have…
Last spring, students in Ms. Hostetler’s 4th-grade class at San Miguel Elementary School participated in a literacy unit called “Taking Action.” The goal of this unit was to develop persuasive writing skills in a business letter while simultaneously learning to…
Our Operations team had an impressively productive summer thanks to Sunnyvale’s support of past bonds that have enabled us to do this work! Check out some of the highlights! Sunnyvale Middle School Some major project milestones for Sunnyvale Middle School,…
San Miguel Elementary School’s Juntos program was recently recognized for its positive impact on student success with the Santa Clara County School Board Association’s Hoffman Award. Juntos is Sunnyvale School District’s Spanish-English dual-immersion learning program. In Juntos, children study both…
San Miguel Elementary students are learning about Latin culture through two dance programs, Danza Folklorica, and Latin Rhythms. Danza Folklorica is a traditional Mexican folk dance. Parent leaders garnered PTA support and funding to bring the Danza Folklorica program to…
San Miguel kids from preschool on up have been a little bit warmer this winter, thanks to gifts of nearly 450 new coats from Operation Warm. On January 20, San Miguel elementary students attended an event in the multi-purpose room…
Sunnyvale School District is part of an amazing community that has continually supported our district through the successful passing of local bond measures. Currently, we are utilizing funds from the Measure GG Bond to complete an entire campus modernization at…
Acknowledge Alliance recognized San Miguel’s Debbie Wiseth with its Teacher of the Year Award and the Front Office Staff of all 10 SSD schools with its School Community Heroes Award at its 15th annual Forget-me-Not Celebration on May 12. Our Forget-Me-Not…
Thanks to our fourth-grade neighborhood teacher, Michelle Hostetler’s diligent work with First Book, we have ordered enough books for each of our 384 San Miguel students to take home two free books! We were able to get the books in…
Written by: Juntos students, families, and staff This June, we will celebrate a historical moment in the Sunnyvale School District. We will shout “¡Felicitaciones!” to the first-ever graduating cohort of the Two-Way Spanish English Dual Immersion program at San Miguel…
The 2020-2021 school year brings many familiar SSD faces into new administrator roles! Many were highlighted in a story in our June 2020 issue here: http://sesd-district-digest.org/sunnyvale-school-district-welcomes-familiar-faces-into-new-roles/ Since then, we’ve also welcomed Mr. Daniel Poo as the new principal of Columbia…