Education
NCEA Honor Recognizes Excellence in Catholic Education
Cheryl Mitchell Guess, seventh- and eighth-grade language arts, social studies and literature teacher at St. Vincent de Paul School in Mission Hills, has earned the 2012 Distinguished Teacher Award from the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA). Guess will be honored at an awards ceremony during the association’s annual convention April 11–13 in Boston, Mass. “I […]
Rev Your Engines for a Hot Rod Fundraiser
Guests can don their leather or poodle skirts at the Silver Gate Elementary School’s 17th annual Hot Rods and Hogs fundraiser. The hot rod and motorcycle-themed silent auction, dinner and dance takes place Friday, April 20 at 5:30 p.m. at the Liberty Station Conference Center, located at 2600 Laning Avenue in Point Loma. The fun-filled […]
FREE! Personal Performance Workshop 3.7.2012 @ The Old Town Cosmopolitan
Please join us for a great networking event designed to build our collective Social Capital. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER NOW! Personal Performance Workshop Identify Positive & Negative Habits Create Your Own Powerful State Top Traits of Performers & Entrepreneurs The workshop will be followed by some structured networking. We invite you to bring business cards, […]
Mission Hills Branch Library
March 2012 Events Mission Hills Book Group 3/1, 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. The Mission Hills Book Group will discuss “Teacher Man” by Frank McCourt. New members are always welcome to attend and participate! Please read the book beforehand. Copies of the book are available at the Circulation Desk while supplies last. Dr. Seuss’s Birthday […]
Science Family Day at Balboa Park
Weeklong series of science and engineering events Over two dozen Balboa Park institutions and community partners will come together to demonstrate how much fun learning science can be at the Science Family Day. The park-wide Family Day, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Saturday, March 17 will kick off the weeklong San Diego Festival of […]
School for Homeless Children Is Expanding
A celebration took place this past month to showcase the new Monarch School campus at 1625 Newton Avenue, just south of Petco Park. The current site will be undergoing a massive remodel to become a state-of-the-art school serving homeless youth. The community has supported a long campaign to find the best site for the school […]
Mission Hills Native Shares Gift of Music
by Denise Montgomery Anna Robitaille gestures with a seahorse puppet while singing an ocean-themed song. Enthusiastic toddlers follow her lead, singing and waving seahorse finger puppets while sitting in parents’ and nannies’ laps. She tells the kids they will get to dance under a large blue parachute, which they will pretend is the ocean, and […]
Monarch School for Children Expands Executive Team
Monarch School, a San Diego public K-12 school for children impacted by homelessness and the only school of its kind in the country, is expanding its executive team with the addition of Erin Spiewak as the new CEO. Spiewak has a proven track record of nonprofit leadership and joins current CEO Ronne Froman, who is […]
Science Highlights at Grant K-8 School
The Grant K-8 School community had a fantastic kick-off to science adventures for the 2011 – 2012 school year. Over 350 attended a Family Science Night which featured geckos, snakes and other reptiles brought by Herpetology Culturist Cheryl Smith, the “Lizard Lady,” from Cheryl’s Reptiles and by Ashley Riley from Freedom Reptile Rescue. Jim Berrian, […]
Grant School Students Set Their Sites on Science Olympiad
Grant K-8school, participating in its second year with the San Diego regional Science Olympiad, will send two teams to compete on Saturday, February 4, 2012 at Rancho Bernardo High School and Bernardo Heights Middle School. They roll out of town to represent their school among 28 schools, with 90 teams, from around San Diego County. […]
