Modeled after their Eagles Excellence program, Ellis School launched Ellis Compassion Project this year. Spearheaded by Kim Moya, a therapeutic special day class aide and “Compassion Coordinator”, and supported by Ellis Principal, Pepper Butler, the Ellis Compassion Project is a…
The other day while attending a Sunnyvale Challenge Team meeting I was struck by a wonderful realization. In attendance were representatives from thirteen different organizations gathered together for the purpose of supporting the youth of the Sunnyvale community. These organizations…
This fall, the Parent-Teacher-Student Association (PTSA) at Sunnyvale Middle School (SMS) presented an encore version of its well-received “Successful Strategies for Middle School” program, originally piloted in March 2011. Successful Strategies for Middle School is a free, three-part education series…
San Miguel Elementary School collaborated with Reach Potential Movement (RPM) on an ambitious project: providing a bookshelf for every one of their kindergarten families. Reach Potential Movement is a local non-profit whose mission is to help under-resourced children reach their…
This fall, Sunnyvale School District took the concept of Professional Learning Communities (PLC) to a higher level: the first collaborative session across the district’s two middle schools, Columbia (CMS) and Sunnyvale (SMS). On Wednesday, October 12, 2011, teachers from both…
Sunnyvale School District Has Been Working On Conservation for Years On October 20, 2011, the Board of Education for the Sunnyvale School District was given an award acknowledging our years of dedicated effort in the realm of energy conservation. The…
On January 25, 2012 students and parents will have an opportunity to learn, hands on, the process of imagining, planning and creating a book via a 90-minute workshop conducted by authors Hans and Jennifer Hartvickson, creators of “Mister Lemur’s Train…
Sunnyvale School District elementary and middle schools participated in the Nationwide “Walk and Bike to School” day on October 5, 2011, with Walk and Roll to School assemblies at various schools. Traffic Safe Communities Network (TSCN) in Santa Clara County…
Sunnyvale School District provides arts education in all eight elementary schools by contracting with Starting Arts, an organization that recruits and trains artists to teach in classrooms. Each class receives six 30-minute sessions of instruction from Starting Arts artists, who…
Sunnyvale School District’s Child Nutrition consultant, Gail Burke, shares creative holiday celebration ideas that are healthy and fun. Halloween parties do not have to be sugar-fests and Thanksgiving feasts do not have to be overly fattening. You can even help…
Students across California in grades 2-8 took standardized tests in reading, language arts and math last May, and the results are in! The Academic Performance Index (API) is used to measure school, district and subgroup achievement on a scale of…
YOU can positively influence the lives of the children in our community. Research proves that possessing key traits, many of which are environmental, will help children thrive. These traits, coined by the Search Institute of Minneapolis as “Developmental Assets”, are…
Through a partnership with Community Health Awareness Council (CHAC) and El Camino Hospital, Sunnyvale School District will be able to provide on-site counseling at all ten of our district schools this year. CHAC will provide two counseling interns for each…
There are two Board of Education positions open for election in November 2011. The following candidates will be running for these seats: Nancy Newkirk (incumbent) Reid Myers John Mumy The League of Women Voters of Cupertino/Sunnyvale is sponsoring a Candidates’…
A grant from El Camino Hospital helps support the Playworks program at Bishop and San Miguel Schools. Playworks is a national nonprofit organization that supports learning by providing safe, healthy and inclusive play and physical activity to schools at recess…