Congratulations to Hillsdale Middle School students Rae Bel Neary, Mikal Palmantier, Anna Johnson, Alessandra Gulino, and Noah Cabral.   They were chosen best in state and best in region for their app concept design entry in the Verizon Innovative App Challenge.  http://appchallenge.tsaweb.org/2014-best-region  Rae Bel found out about the challenge on her own, gathered a team on her own, and the team worked outside of school hours on their app design.  This hard work included writing an essay, and doing a short video showing how their app would work.  Their video can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZIK36ZVyks&feature=youtu.be  One of the prizes for winning best in region is a $5,000 STEM grant for Hillsdale Middle School.  They find out if they win best in nation on Wednesday, February 26th.  Great job to these amazing Hillsdale Students!!

Chris Stephens
Assistant Principal
Hillsdale Middle School

Beginning in the 2014-15 school year, all Cajon Valley elementary and middle schools will implement a minimum day schedule on Monday. All schools will dismiss one hour early every Monday. On weeks with a Monday holiday, the minimum day will not be made up. The purpose of the minimum day is to provide teachers and principals time for professional development and instructional planning.

Granite Hills High School is happy to announce that student registration for S.T.I.N.G. is now open on our website and will be running until the 18th of March.

Beginning in March, Cajon Valley students in grades 3-8 will take a “test of the tests”.  The state of California signed on with the Smarter Balanced Assessment  Consortium for our Common Core State Standards Test.  This test replaced the California Standards Test (CSTs) which had been in place for over a decade.  This short video produced by the California Department of Education does a great job explaining the “test of the tests” from the perspective of students.

Principal Mike Serban engaged the Naranca leadership team and staff in a conversation with Stedman Graham on a purpose-driven vision for student success.  Board members Deanne Markle and Suzanne Mullins were in attendance.

Mr. Roemmich does it again in grand fashion!  Student speakers blew away the audience with powerful original written work based on literary works read in class.  Los Coches Creek student artwork provided a nice backdrop for the event.  Great job Mr. Roemmich and students!

Stedman Graham spent the entire day at our Community Day School working with students and staff on both setting and achieving goals.  Check this video out the students made to say thank you to Mr. Graham.