The effort to install lights on Piner High’s athletic fields ran into a hiccup this summer when the firm hired to complete the environmental impact report for the project scaled back its operations and closed the office that had been overseeing the project. Christopher A. Joseph & Associates closed their [...]
Santa Rosa City Schools this week released their annual internal report on college scholarships received by its graduating seniors. Santa Rosa High’s class of 2010 pulled in by far the most money: $1,717,717 between 142 students. There were 436 students in the graduating class. Montgomery’s grads pulled in $609,896 between [...]
I got a note from Judy Barcelon, the lead teacher of Piner’s Health and Science Investigation pathway, who is headed to Atlanta next week. Barcelon was chosen to participate in a one week intensive session at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta wherein teachers will attend content seminars as [...]
Piner’s Patty Michiels and Simone Spearman have been selected to read high school advanced placement exams this month. Michiels will read Spanish exams and Spearman will read language and composition tests. More than 1.5 million students take the College Board’s Advanced Placement courses each year. Each May, students have the [...]
Deanna Rafla-Yuan, who will be a senior at Piner High School next year, has been selected as the student board member for the Santa Rosa School Board for the 2010-11 school year. Student board members attend all school board meetings but are excluded from closed sessions. The student board member [...]
Piner High School's football team is holding a family fun night on campus Friday night to raise money for next fall's squad. The event is open to the public. From 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. the Prospectors will man jump houses, pony rides and things called "ultimate module obstacle course" [...]
Piner High students grabbed 13 spots in the statewide National History Day competition in Pasadena next month. Five of the 13 Prospectors have decided to commit to the competition, which means revamping and updating the award-winning project which earned their spot in the state contest, said teacher coordinator Nicole Housh. [...]
About 35 students at Piner High School spent Tuesday morning listening to talks from professionals from around Sonoma County about how they found their career and what it took for them to get there. The routes were not at all what students expected. When Diane Winsby, owner of Drapes & [...]
I spoke with Maria Carrillo High School assistant principal Craig Wycoff yesterday about the death of his father, lifelong educator Bob Wycoff. Bob Wycoff spent nearly three decades as a teacher at Piner High, also acting as department chair, FBLA club sponsor and other campus activites. Read the full obituary here: [...]