Helen Lehman Elementary School Principal Alisa Haley has a mission: Collect a college t-shirt for each of her 530 students to wear. The idea is to help kids believe they can go to college, she said. Most students at Helen Lehman would be the first in their family to go to a [...]
Curious about Montgomery High School's International Baccalaureate Diploma Program? Interested students will have a chance to learn more during one of a series of fall presentations, the first of which is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 13. During the orientations, parents and students in grades 7 to 10 can learn more [...]
Sonoma State University Sophomore and El Molino graduate Claudia Sisomphou, a resident of Forestville and a graduate of El Molino High School on Oct. 30 was named Student Volunteer of the Year at the North Bay Business Journal's Nonprofit Conference and Leadership Awards held at Sonoma State University. "Compassion is the greatest thingsyou [...]
We're taking suggestions: The Press Democrat is seeking to highlight exemplary teens, student who are engaged in something interesting that others would like to read about. We're interested in hearing from educators, parents and students who may know someone they’d like to nominate for a Teen Face profile on Sunday’s Teen [...]
Brook Hill Elementary School recently received a $4.200 grant to create a community garden, said third-grade teacher Katie Cooney. The grant comes through a San Francisco Giants program called Step up to the Plate for Education, which provides $100,000 in grants to 25 Bay Area schools. The $4.200 will help [...]
Students work on a Maker project at Comstock Middle School. Comstock Middle School's Project Make recently earned Santa Rosa City School District the prestigious Golden Bell Award. The award, given by the California School Boards Association, recognizes innovative school programs around the state. "It's a great honor," said Comstock [...]
Three hundred medical biology students at Piner High School this year investigated how health issues interfere with student achievement at their school. They presented their findings to a panel of district officials and community health leaders on Thursday, Oct. 23. The students used a creative problem-solving strategy called Design Thinking, which [...]
Casa Grande High School's United Anglers group will be holding a fundraiser Nov. 1. The Anglers have been active at Casa Grande for 32 years, learning about and raising Chinook salmon and Steelhead trout that are then released to the wild. They also clean up streams and repair habitat for [...]
Kids and their parents can learn to ride bicycles at a Family Bicycling Workshop on Saturday, Oct. 18 held by the Sonoma County Bicycle Coalition. The workshop is designed to teach families how to ride with safety and confidence. They will practice riding through a series of drills and maneuvers [...]
Photos courtesy of Sonoma County Office of Education. About 300 Sonoma County kids and their parents descended on the county fairgrounds Saturday to craft whimsical creations out of old boxes in an event called the Cardboard Challenge. During the challenge, one child wandered around the fairground's hall of [...]