Steele Lane Elementary School sixth grader Xochitl Camarena Palomera is Santa Rosa City Schools’ student of the month for February. Palomera has attended Steele Lane since the fourth grade and in that time has shown herself to be an all-around fantastic student, according to school officials. She is a leader [...]
Steele Lane Elementary School sixth grader Tom Anderson is Santa Rosa City Schools elementary school student of the month for January. Anderson has attended Steele Lane since kindergarten and stands out as a student with a ready smile and willingness to pitch in on myriad school activities, according to school [...]
Santa Rosa City Schools has released its annual attendance rates for 2011-12, tallied by school. Here is are the average rates of absenteeism (ranked highest to lowest) on each campus: ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Brook Hill, 5 percent Steele Lane, 4.94 percent Doyle Park, 4.71 percent Monroe, 4.57 percent Lincoln, 4.24 percent [...]
Alyx Anderson is Santa Rosa City Schools’ elementary school student of the month for February. Anderson, a sixth grader at Steele Lane Elementary School, is a member of Student Council and Girls on the Run. She is also active in GATE and was the school’s spelling bee champion as a [...]
Piner High School has nabbed the prestigious Golden Bell Award for its Geospatial Technology Program. Piner will be honored by the California School Boards Association at their annual meeting Dec. 3 in San Diego. Led by teachers Kristi Erickson and Kurt Kruger, the three-year pathways program teaches students global positioning [...]
Ron Calloway has been named the new superintendent of Mark West School District. Kay Schultz, who has led the district for six years, will retire in June. Calloway will take over July 1. Calloway is currently principal at San Miguel School. His background includes stints as assistant superintendent of human [...]
UPDATE: In response to the comment from reader Gerry below, ExtraCredit has made significant outreach efforts to encourage districts to send student of the month information. I'll include it as I can. As yet, only Santa Rosa City Schools has taken up the offer so typically three students from Sonoma County's largest [...]
Zoe Moore, a fifth grader at Steele Lane Elementary School, is Santa Rosa City Schools student of the month for April. Jose Davila, Moore’s teacher, told district officials that Moore is “the definition of an all-around exemplary student.” Moore is described as caring and thoughtful, both with her fellow students [...]
State schools chief Jack O’Connell announced this morning that the state is implementing a new “Migrant Student Information Exchange” system to help teachers and administrators keep track of students, their academic records and other information. As described by the California Department of Education, the system is designed to help track [...]