Sisters Olivia and Grace Clements of Chula Vista are the December Student Artists of the Month. Olivia is in the 5th grade and Grace the 1st grade at Springs’ Otay Ranch Academy of the Arts (ORAA). Their artwork is entitled “The Final Foodtier.” The sisters explained, “We wanted to build the solar system and then thought it would be fun to do it with food. We spent a lot of time finding different food items that would be the right shape and colors.”
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Sydney Tucker, a 10th grade student with Springs’ Journey Homeschool High School, is a gifted artist. She has been drawing for most of her life, and is currently taking art classes at Springs and Studio Pillar. Among her favorite artists is Camilla d’Errico.
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Springs Cherry Valley Student Center has completed its Character Build Assemblies in which students make presentations promoting the school’s Reach Core Values: respect, empathy, acceptance, commitment and honesty. Following the assemblies, students take the “Principal’s Challenge,” in which they complete a writing task associated with the spotlighted value. Students then take the challenge home to complete and then return to school for submission for “Lunch with Admin,” during which time students and administrators share stories at lunch.
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Venture Online 1st grade student Westley Beyer is developing an encyclopedic knowledge of space and is an astronomer in the making. At age 3, he developed an interest in space after watching Toy Story and becoming fascinated with Buzz Lightyear. He studied extensively, and three years later, as Westley was taking his 1st grade test in reading and math, he proceeded to teach his 1st grade Venture Online teacher all about Saturn’s rain, lightning on the moon, the Arcturus, the tornado on the sun’s north pole and the gas giant, Jupiter.
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Kim Bagby is the new principal of the Vista Student Center. She previously worked in the education field in her native Michigan. In three schools with which she worked, she was responsible for curriculum mapping and planning and aligning it to standards, ultimately resulting in higher levels of student achievement.
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Springs Homeschool hosted the Imagination Machine Assembly at Springs’ Riverside Pathfinder site with more than 75 students in attendance. Students participated in a creative writing workshop, including creating characters, establishing a setting, and resolving conflict in the plot. Some students’ stories will be selected to be acted out by Imagination Machine in February.
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Springs’ Bear River Student Center held an Apex fun run fundraiser which raised $30,000; wish list projects to be funded include a bus for field trips, new basketball courts and a gym. The school serves 700 students grades TK-8.
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Principal Lanise Goosby reports that Virtual Academy student Nathaniel Broxton, who was sponsored earlier this year to visit New York City with his family to watch five Broadway shows, has been cast as Travis in the South Coast Repertory’s production of A Raisin in the Sun. The show runs through November 12.
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Springs Venture Online student Sean Ower recently played the character Sweeney Todd in the musical “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” at Oklahoma City University. Sean has been performing in theater since age 8, as “it’s the thing that brings me the most joy.” He plans to continue performing in theater professionally when he completes school.
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Springs’ Cherry Valley Student Center’s new guidance counselor, Sylvia Miranda, “is making connections with our staff and students,” reported Principal Tammy Slaten.
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