The 7th Grade Team at Sunnyvale Middle School coordinated the second annual Hunger Banquet on Friday, February 15, 2019. All students in 7th Grade participated in a hands-on simulation to raise awareness about global poverty and learn about how food…
The CMS music department rocked its first ever pops concert on Wednesday, February 13 at 6 pm in the Multi. Students performed music from Pixar, Hunger Games and much more in front of a jam-packed audience of family members and…
Since 2010, Sunnyvale School District has partnered with Stanford University’s Teacher Education Program (STEP), to offer a comprehensive summer enrichment program to approximately 800 students. Master teachers from Sunnyvale School District, along with Alumni of the Stanford STEP program, serve…
First grade students at San Miguel designed 37 different greeting cards for all occasions, many of which were bilingual, and hosted a greeting card sale the morning of Feb. 1 in the school cafeteria! All cards were $3 and the…
The Sunnyvale Chapter of Alpha Delta Kappa (ADK), an International Organization of Women Educators, will be putting on its eighth annual Luncheon/Fashion Show/Boutique fundraiser for Sunnyvale School District schools on March 2. The fashions are provided by Stein Mart in…
On Feb. 15, two Cumberland first grade classes had a snowball fight. You read that correctly, a snowball fight! For each book they read over the span of four weeks, the students wrote the title on a piece of white…
In January, Sunnyvale School District reached out to you to have a conversation around student support and family engagement. We asked for your thoughts about what we are doing well and what we could improve to better support students’ social-emotional…
Over $300,000 in grant funding from the State Public Utilities Commission’s will advance a joint venture with the City of Sunnyvale. The funding will provide 650 families with digital literacy training, access to Internet-ready devices and low-cost broadband internet services….
Administrators, staff, teachers, family members, students and community members came together for a day of collaboration Feb. 6 at the Sunnyvale School District’s eighth annual Stakeholder’s Lyceum held, for the first time, at Google’s Tech Corners offices in Sunnyvale. The…
Did you know that Dyslexia is more than just reversals and transposals and that it is more common than uncommon? On November 15, two Sunnyvale School District (SSD) psychologists busted these myths and others to parents belonging to the Community…
Have you seen Cumberland’s new Sensory Walk? This project was put together by the Cumberland Resource Department as a brain break tool for students that may be antsy or having a hard time focusing. They go through the sensory walk…
Reading Partners Silicon Valley is proud of its on-going collaboration with Google at Lakewood. As the Lakewood Elementary School Reading Center sponsor, Google helped Reading Partners provide 66 kindergarten through fourth-grade students with two, 45-minute tutoring sessions each week throughout…
On November 14th Ellis welcomed students and their families to come to the ‘Reading at the Amusement Park,’ a Family Reading Night. Students listened to read alouds from staff members, played sight word games, cozied up with their parents in…
In kindergarten at Cumberland, we are learning all about transportation! We learned that transportation is a way to get from place to place and that vehicles take people or things from place to place. We made lists of different types of…
The Sunnyvale School District would like to welcome the newest board member, Bridget Watson, to the board as well as the newly re-elected members Jeff Arnett and Michelle Maginot! They will serve a four-year term from 2018 to 2022. Members…