Springs’ Rancho Cucamonga Student Center has launched a cybersecurity program for grades 6-8 run in partnership with Tomorrow’s Talent, reported Principal Amanda Deniston. The program focuses on staying safe online, protecting personal information, using strong passwords, avoiding suspicious links, and practicing kindness and responsibility on social media and gaming platforms.
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Vincent Timpe is a new English teacher for Springs Journey Homeschool High School, teaching at the Santa Ana Learning Center. He has been a teacher for eight years, teaching at a variety of grade levels in middle and high school, covering such subjects as English, journalism, speech and debate, Model United Nations, and yearbook.
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Journey Homeschool High School student Mia Brijandez was honored as a Murrieta Senior Student of the Month. Mia is a talented artist who is completing a Career and Technical Education (CTE) Pathway in Media Arts. She has already completed a CTE Pathway in Entrepreneurship and an internship, applying her skills to support both her sister’s and brother’s businesses.
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Springs’ High School Learning Center teachers participated in a two-day AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) workshop entitled “Creating Engaging and Rigorous Classrooms,” reported Homeschool Director Sherri Kemp. AVID strategies help engage students and enhance learning in the classroom.
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Venture Online 4th-grade student Summer Bityk (pictured with rapper Pitbull) is a budding young businesswoman. Three years ago, she launched Summer Bling, a business that sells such items as bracelets, headbands, necklaces, and rings. She noted, “This year, I learned to sew and have started adding sewn items to my business.”
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Amanda Deniston is the new principal of Springs’ Rancho Cucamonga Student Center. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from California Baptist University. She has worked as a teacher for the Riverside Unified School District, an assistant principal, an education coordinator, and a principal for the Moreno Valley Unified School District.
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Grace Stewart is a 5th-grade Homeschool student who has been attending Springs for two years. Her favorite class is “Countries and Cultures,” taught at the Riverside Learning Center by Marina Poulson. Outside of Springs, she is taking a class to learn Mandarin, shared her teacher, Nikki Dewispelaere. Other activities and interests include equine therapy, Minecraft, Girl Scouts, and DJing. Nikki notes that Grace has also improved her ELA academic achievement.
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High School Learning Centers are “a great place” to take core classes or attend the Study Zone in a supportive and engaging environment, believes Sherri Kemp, Homeschool Director of High School Learning Centers. She explained, “Our core classes are smaller in size, allowing students to engage in collaborative learning and receive personalized instruction from our excellent teachers’ hands-on activities, such as interesting science labs, making learning fun and challenging.”
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Students at the Del Rio Student Center are learning about the Elements of Art, focusing on “line” and “shape”, reported teacher Monica Peralta. TK and K worked on making different kinds of lines. First and 2nd used geometric shapes to create their own robot. Third through 5th learned about using lines to add texture to their drawings of animals and began using foreground, middle ground, and background. Sixth through 8th used organic shapes to create fold-out landscapes with foreground, middle ground, and background.
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Springs’ Otay Ranch Academy for the Arts (ORAA) teacher Jeannette Fetterhoff created a life-sized Zuri zebra mascot for the school. She researched zebras before beginning, then created it with such materials as cardboard, aluminum foil, and paper mâché. She painted it with rainbow stripes and put it on a platform with astroturf and presented it to Principal Brynne Dukes.
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