GATE Talent Academies cultivate creative connections
Some 100 students from Fullerton School District learned about ideal communities during this year’s GATE Talent Academies at Hermosa Drive School. The focus of the academies is cultivating creative connections through fostering creativity, solving problems and developing talent.
The students brainstormed what makes up an ideal community, what components, structures and people are important to include, and then they created visual representations of their community.
Past GATE Talent Academies focused on identity in the community and the impact of communication and the use of arts to better understand one’s inner self.
More information about GATE Talent Academies is available on the FSD website.
– Submitted by Fullerton School District
Buena Park School District students learn about compassion during kindness week
Buena Park School District students learned about charity, friendly attitudes and helping others during the district’s second annual Kinder Kindness Week celebration.
Some 375 kindergarten students were given medals and superhero capes for learning ways to make their campus, community and homes better by spreading kindness. Students also created artwork about how they’re reaching out to make new friends, planting trees, cleaning up their neighborhoods and being polite.
Each elementary school in the district is showcasing the artwork in multipurpose rooms and classrooms to spread goodwill to the rest of the student body and visiting parents. The Kinder Kindness art exhibit can also be viewed online at bpsd.us/parents/kinder-kindness.
– Submitted by Buena Park School District
Huntington Beach High School alumni help students attend model U.N. conference
Some teachers you never forget. Lynn Aase at Huntington Beach High School, who started an award-winning Model United Nations (MUN) program 50 years ago, is one of those teachers.
When Aase died in April 2021, alumni wanted to honor him and…
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