The new school, fundraising and employee contracts are on the agenda.
The board of the Poway Unified School District has scheduled a special meeting/workshop from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday at the district office, 15250 Avenue of Science, San Diego. On the agenda (full agenda attached):
Three parent group presidents were selected as overall district volunteers of the year.
The heads of parent volunteer groups at three schools have been named the Poway Unified School District Volunteers of the Year for 2012, it was announced Thursday. Ron Cole (Black Mountain Middle School in Rancho Peñasquitos), Sharon Stephens (Chaparral Elementary School) and Pilar Gross (Poway High School) were chosen from a pool of three dozen school site volunteers of the year for the overall district honors. Stephens died in March from breast cancer and was honored with a moment of silence at the April school board meeting. See below for more about each of the district winners from a PUSD announcement. A full list of the 2012 PUSD Volunteers of the Year is attached. Also see: PUSD Teachers of the Year PUSD Classified Employees of the …
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The Morans volunteer with Seniors Helping Our Kids.
"For us it is a singular honor, as we feel we represent all 150 SHOK/OASIS volunteers working in 13 elementary schools in the Poway Unified School District. "The SHOK/OASIS intergenerational tutoring program is important to us because we know its method works. Looking back over 12 years, we can see that the greater majority of children tutored by our volunteers have shown marked improvement in reading skills. We only wish for more volunteers to help more children."
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Sonya Wrisley has been the head of Oak Valley Middle School since 2004.
Longtime Poway Unified School District principal Sonya Wrisley has been chosen to head a new K-8 campus set to open north of Del Norte High School in the fall of 2014. The selection was unanimously approved at Monday's school board meeting and is effective July 1. "I am very honored and excited to have been selected to open Poway Unified School District's first K-8 school," Wrisley, who is currently Oak Valley Middle School's principal, said in a statement. "I am thrilled to have this opportunity to work on innovative, new ideas for the learning environment." Wrisley first joined the district in 1993 as the principal of Canyon View Elementary School. She has led Oak Valley since it opened in 2004. The K-8 campus, so far known as School No…
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The Poway Unified board is set to meet at 6 p.m. Monday, April 16.
The Poway Unified School District Board of Education is set to meet at 6 p.m. Monday, April 16 at the district office, 15250 Avenue of Science, San Diego. Here's a look at what's on the agenda (the full agenda is attached):
Mayor Fumiko Hayashi, from Yokohama, Japan, visited Morning Creek Elementary on Tuesday.
Morning Creek Elementary School students welcomed Mayor Fumiko Hayashi, of Yokohama, Japan, to campus on Tuesday with a flag ceremony as she stopped by to thank them for sending 1,000 cranes to Japanese students last year in the wake of the devastating earthquake and tsunami. “When someone hurts part of our world, it hurts all of our world,” Poway Unified School District Superintendent John Collins said at the ceremony, where K-5 students waved a mix of Japanese and American flags. Hayashi, who was accompanied by other Japanese officials, thanked the students for their support, through a translator, after wishing them a good morning in English. The students wished her a good morning in Japanese. The students in Japan were “impressed and …
Poway Unified's student board member, Gustavo Lopez, was chosen from more than 800 applicants to speak at a special conference this summer.
Poway High School senior Gustavo Lopez, the Poway Unified School District's student board member for 2011-12, has been chosen from more than 800 applicants to speak at a summer institute focused on closing the achievement gap. The news release: AVID Center has selected 16 high school students, two for each of the eight AVID Summer Institutes, and one postsecondary student to be guest speakers and tell their stories to more than 2,000 educators attending each Institute. Over 800 essays were submitted for the contest, and the semi-finalists also had to present their essay via online or video to be chosen for the coveted honor. Gustavo Lopez from Poway High School in Poway, California was selected to speak at the AVID Summer Institute in San …
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The school will offer free testing on March 27.
The County Health and Human Services Agency on Monday reported that students and staff at Mount Carmel High School in Rancho Peñasquitos may have been exposed to tuberculosis. The news release: An individual at Mt. Carmel High School was recently diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) and may have exposed students and staff to the disease, the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) reported [Monday]. HHSA is working in close collaboration with the Poway Unified School District to notify those who were possibly exposed. The period of exposure is from Jan. 3, 2012, to March 6, 2012. “TB spreads through the air when an infected person coughs or sneezes,” said Wilma Wooten, M.D., M.P.H., County Public Health Officer. “Typically, …
Three students received "Service Above Self" awards.
The Rotary Club of Rancho Bernardo awarded three students from Painted Rock Elementary with "Service Above Self" awards. Read the full story here.
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Valley Elementary will host a mandatory informational meeting on Thursday, March 22, for parents interested in enrolling their children in the 2012-13 school year.
Hearing your children say their first word is something special. Hearing them speak a foreign language can be downright magical. That’s what happens every day at Valley Elementary—the only school in the Poway Unified School District that offers a dual-language Spanish immersion program to its K-5 students. “Parents from our English-dominated side are really surprised,” said program coordinator Angelica Barragan of the curriculum’s success. “They know the value of language … and when (their child comes) home in kindergarten speaking another language, it blows them away.” She says many kids from Spanish-dominated families are already inundated by English given their residency in the U.S., so the program helps to teach them academic Spanish…
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