The staff at Springs’ Palm Academy is working hard to motivate their students to excel in the school’s ST Math Program, with students in teacher Salina Perales’ 3rd-4th grade class taking first place among the grades, reported Michelle Pantoja, TOSA Admin. The school has also kicked off an Attendance Challenge to improve attendance, she said.
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Holden Nowakowski, a 2nd-grade student at the Murrieta Student Center, is the January Student Artist of the Month. His artwork is entitled “Legends in the Outfield.” Holden enjoys drawing cartoon characters, animals, and images from the game Minecraft using markers and colored pencils. Besides art, he likes karate and baseball. When he finishes school, he’d like to be a major league baseball player.
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Springs 5th-grade Homeschool student Emanuel Herrera is a budding young artist. In one recent creation (pictured) he drew Luffy from One Piece. Teacher Hollie Cheowanich noted, “Emanuel has been concentrating on advanced coloring techniques, specifically blending different color tones and variations to achieve greater depth in his drawings of characters from comics, cartoons, television series, and movies.”
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Virginia Smith, Ruth Newsome, Sarah Adams, and Marissa McLedo recently participated in the IIRP Navigating Conflict: Restorative Practices in the Workplace training, bringing back valuable tools to better support staff and leadership, reported Julianna Hubbell, director of charter relations. The training was a week-long experience focused on building skills for addressing difficult situations and personnel issues in a more constructive and solution-focused manner.
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Throughout November and December, all Springs sites and programs are invited to participate in Springs’ Regional Preliminary Spelling Bees. Winners from each program or academy earn the opportunity to advance to the All-School Spelling Bee in January—a showdown where the strongest Springs spellers compete for a chance to move on to their local county competition.
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Journey Homeschool High School student John Lenoir participated in the Youth Leadership Forum, a week-long program for high school students focused on building advocacy and leadership skills, reported Nicole Collins, vice principal. Throughout the program, students collaborated in peer groups, created personal and career leadership plans, and built lasting friendships and support networks.
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The 4th through 6th grade students of Springs’ Temecula Student Center presented “We Are The World: Harmony in Diversity,” a fall concert that showcased the students’ “beautiful voices, teamwork, and spirit of unity,” reported Melissa Targos, program facilitator. Families and friends attended the concert in which students “sang songs of togetherness and hope.”
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Joshua Costa is the December 2025 Springs Student Artist of the Month. He is a 4th grade student from Connections Academy who lives in Chino. The title of his painting is “Team Work makes the Dream Work.” He likes to draw with a variety of different materials, and especially likes drawing anime. He is also a “gamer”, and enjoys playing Minecraft and Roblox.
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Springs’ Renaissance Valley Academy (RVA) in San Jacinto concluded its inaugural CIF football season. Twenty-six students, grades 9-12, participated, and their record for the season was 4-2. The coaching staff included Nate Fitzpatrick, Lionel Green, Jalen Jefferson, Ted McAllister, and Titus Watkins.
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Venture 9th-grade student Elizabeth Turner is a talented figure skater. She has been taking lessons and plans to participate in her first performance in December. The flexibility of the Venture program has allowed her to train. Elizabeth joined the Venture program this school year and has been bringing home good grades. After college, she hopes to work as a psychiatrist.
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