Education
Former Head of Francis Parker Upper School Receives Award
The High School Sports Association has selected Mr. Patrick Mitchell as a recipient of the Service to Sports Award. The former Head of the Francis Parker Upper School will be honored at the 24th Annual Winter Awards Night on Monday, February 6, 2012. The event will be held at the Seaside room in Marina Village. […]
Planting of Edible Fruit Trees
Stretch Island Fruit Co., makers of all-natural fruit snacks, and The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation (FTPF), an international nonprofit organization dedicated to planting edible fruit trees and plants to benefit communities, introduced their joint program Fruit Tree 101 at Smythe Elementary School and O’Farrell Community School in San Diego this past December. During the official […]
San Dieggan Earns KFC Colonel’s Scholars Scholarship
Today, a photo is worth more than a thousand words – it’s worth a college education. Kentucky Fried Chicken has announced that Daniel Galuppo from Torrey Pines High School in San Diego, California won a $20,000 KFC Colonel’s Scholars® scholarship based on a single photo shared on Twitter. KFC selected Daniel Galuppo from high school […]
Jimmy Johnson Foundation and Lowe’s Program Contributes to School District
Clairemont High, Pt. Loma High and SciTech at San Diego High are recipients of nearly $100,000 in total grants from the Jimmy Johnson Foundation/Lowe’s Toolbox for Education Champions Grants programs. Clairemont received $30,680.41 to replace half-century old woodshop equipment. Pt. Loma’s $25,342 will purchase a fuel-injected engine trainer and other equipment for their automotive technology […]
2012 Science Olympiad
Grant K-8 School has started its 2nd year with the Science Olympiad, nationally organized around an annual, single day competition. This year’s Olympiad will be held Saturday, February 4, 2012. Each student, competing in pairs, is eligible to prepare in up to 4 of 23 events covering all areas of science: biology, chemistry, physics, earth […]
Lichtman Named to U.S. Volleyball Woman’s National Team
Cassidy Lichtman, a graduate of Francis Parker School in 2007 and of Stanford University in 2011, was one of 12 players selected to represent the United States on the Women’s National Volleyball Team in the XVI Pan American Games at Guadalajara, Mexico. The competition took place from October 14-30 at the Pan American Volleyball Stadium. […]
San Diegans Participated in Statewide Earthquake Drill
At the sound of a bell, a recording came over the loudspeaker telling students the Great California ShakeOut had begun. More than 500 students at Taft Middle School dropped out of their desks and scooted underneath to protect their heads as part of the statewide earthquake drill today. “More San Diegans participated in the ShakeOut […]
Harsh School Discipline Challenged
Common Sense Approach Proposed The California Endowment announced events in support of the National Week of Action on school discipline, which occurred this past October, to shine a spotlight on the alarming overuse of suspension, expulsion and other harsh punishments in California schools. In the 2010-11 academic year, California schools issued more than 720,000 suspensions […]
Have we lost our Power to Speak?
Over the weekend of September 16-18, Business and Life Coach Fran Cannon held the first Mastering the Power to Speak seminar. This seminar marked the launching of a new series of self- and business-development programs. While Fran has a long history in the personal development field, one of the greatest challenges is to fill a […]
120 Graduates in Class of 2011 at Francis Parker School
The 120 members of the Class of 2011 recently culminated their Francis Parker School experience with commencement ceremonies held on the Linda Vista campus on June 4. Among those students were 13 from Mission Hills and two from Old Town that helped to make the Class of 2011 one to remember. The statistics for this […]
