Fred Sheldon wasn’t a bad student, just bored, so getting by was the best he did. He didn’t fit the rote routine of school. Sheldon was fading into nowhere, his creativity untapped. Until he learned how to blast off a bottle rocket, and get credit for it. Pegged as an “average” student, Sheldon was fortunate [...]
Fristers, a nonprofit that assists teen moms to become self-sufficient, has added a new school-readiness program for children of their clientele. The Kidsters Childcare and School-Readiness Program in Newport Beach is offered simultaneously with the life coach program offered teen moms. Teen mothers rarely can afford preschool, though studies show there are great benefits. Children [...]
After a half-year of playing a string instrument in third grade, novices are left in the lurch with no bow to turn to until high school. That will change next fall with the addition of a strings section to the elementary and middle schools’ regular music curriculum, a step towards the district’s goal of developing [...]
In 2010, the entry-age for kindergarten and first grade changed. The new law requires that kindergarten students turn 5 years of age by Sept. 1 in order to enroll. The requirements were designed to be phased-in, beginning with the current school year, said a district statement. For those “young 5s,” children turning 5 between Sept. [...]
Laguna Art Museum seeks volunteers to join its team of docents, who help to form the museum’s education department. Prospective docents undergo an extensive nine-month training course, which begins Oct. 1. The curriculum includes learning about California art, its wider art-historical context, visual thinking strategies, and effective tour techniques. Classes meet once a week and [...]
Editor, As a parent of students within the Laguna Beach school district, I found it troubling that the current incumbent school board members would be surprised by two challengers entering the race (“Surprise Challengers Enter School Race,” Sept. 14 edition). Jan Vickers notes that the public doesn’t attend their meetings. Maybe she is not aware [...]
Top of the World Elementary’s second-grade teacher Linda Barker finds that her student’s knowledge of technology advances with every school year. Barker recognized this knowledge as an opportunity and introduced the iPod touch to personalize student learning. “Students are already adept at using smart phone technology and they have a natural connection to small, hand-held [...]
Brenda Conlan’s truthful account of her own adolescence, derailed by early addiction to drugs, gives special credibility to her presentation as the featured speaker in PTA’s Coffee Break education series on Wednesday, March 21. The talk about the myths about drug and alcohol use takes place at the Aliso Creek Inn and Golf Course [...]
Children who are members of the Boys & Girls Club’s TLC Branch in Bluebird Park participated in a pilot environmental education program that goes beyond the ABC’s. Instead students learned about the five R’s: reduce, reuse, recycle, repurpose and rot, curriculum aligned with state science and social science standards and created for Inside the Outdoors. [...]
Opus Bank awarded a $5,000 grant in support of The Laguna Playhouse’s award-winning Youth Theatre, according to Donna Inglima, its director. “Success in the workplace begins with imagination in the classroom,” said Katie Steele, director of the bank’s foundation. “Unfortunately, due to budget cuts, it will be some time before K-12 arts curriculum can [...]
The public is invited to attend a town hall meeting on the federal government’s role in public education on Saturday, Sept. 17, at 9:30 a.m. in Neighborhood Congressional Church’s Bridge Hall, 340 Saint Ann’s Dr. The discussion hosted by the League of Women Voters will explore whether the government should mandate a core curriculum [...]
The public is invited to attend a town hall meeting on the federal government’s role in public education on Saturday, Sept. 17, at 9:30 a.m. in Neighborhood Congressional Church’s Bridge Hall, 340 Saint Ann’s Dr. The discussion hosted by the League of Women Voters will explore whether the government should mandate a core curriculum [...]
Come September, some freshman at Laguna Beach High School will enroll in global studies and study skills, a new class recently approved by the school board and organically developed by social science teachers to establish a platform for higher-level coursework. The new course replaces the district-required freshman-level world geography class and goes beyond it in [...]
Police Use Taser to Subdue Assault Suspect
An assault involving three men escalated into a struggle with Laguna Beach police, who ultimately deployed a taser twice to subdue the younger combative suspect in the 300 block of Cozumel around 1:15 a.m. Friday, May 10, police said. Police ultimately arrested Laguna Beach resident Sergio Gabriel Borgognone, 51, for allegedly resisting arrest and his [...]
