One of our core beliefs in the Sunnyvale School District is that an effective school provides an environment that is positive, purposeful, and safe. To help accomplish this, the Sunnyvale School District administered the California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS) to…
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…
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…
Sunnyvale School District is pleased to announce another year of its Stanford Summer Explorations program for students in current grades kindergarten through seventh. The elementary program will be held at Ellis Elementary School and the middle school program will be at Columbia Middle…
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…
At Bishop Elementary School, every child is being taught that he or she can be a leader—on the playground, in the classroom, or at home—today and every day. The K-5th grade school is officially a Leader in Me school. The…
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…
Eight Sunnyvale School District students and two Fremont High School Union District students will be recognized at a special ceremony March 9 through the Association of California School Administrators’ (ACSA) brand new Every Student Succeeding program. The program honors students…
Administrators and board members celebrated the recognition of the District’s Outstanding Educator of the Year, Jonathan Watts, at the annual Murphy Awards held on Feb. 20 by the Sunnyvale Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Watts has been making a difference in Sunnyvale…
The California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) will be given to students in grades 3rd through 8th between April 18 and May 27. Each school site will provide specific days and times of testing within this window. This will be the…