Spectrum June 2013 Issue - The Spectrum Magazine - Redwood ...

RCSD Corner: News From the Redwood City School District
Award-Winning Schools,
Students and Staff Bring Honor to Redwood City School District
During the 2012–13 school year, students who
attend Redwood City School District schools,
teachers who teach in the schools, district administrators
and school board trustees won numerous awards
celebrating notable achievements, including:
Students
• North Star fifth-grade student Adrienne Evans
was one of six winners in the SamTrans “Art
Takes a Bus Ride” Contest!
• Roosevelt students won the BizWorld
Challenge, competing against teams from
other local schools, including Harker School,
Woodside Elementary and North Star Academy.
• Kennedy Middle School Concert Band was the
only middle school band to receive the very
prestigious rating of “Unanimous Superior”
from the California Association for Music
Education. Kennedy String Orchestra received
the rating of “Excellent.”
• Adelante Spanish Immersion School was
selected as one of 15 finalists for the Embassy
of Spain’s prestigious Spanish Immersion
School of the Year program.
• North Star Academy was named a National Blue
Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education.
• North Star Academy was named a California Business
for Education Excellence Honor Roll School.
Roosevelt sixth-grade teacher Sarah Coyle was named
2013 San Mateo County Teacher of the Year for elementary
schools!
• Fair Oaks teacher Wendi Brown won the
Redwood City–Woodside Patch Teacher
Appreciation Contest.
• Superintendent Jan Christensen was named
Superintendent of the Year by the Association
of California School Administrators for Region
5, encompassing San Francisco and San Mateo
counties.
The Roosevelt School team brought home medals after winning the 2013 BizWorld Challenge.
• Hoover eighth-grade student Orlando Mayen
was named Youth of the Year.
• 472 students were reclassified from English
language learners to English proficient.
• Former Kennedy student Sofia Dueñas received
Outstanding Student Award from the Sequoia
Awards Program.
Schools
• Henry Ford School won a J. Russell Kent Award
from the San Mateo County School Boards
Association for its professional learning community.
• Kennedy Middle School won a J. Russell Kent
Award from the San Mateo County School
Board Association for its drama program.
Staff and Volunteers
• Sarah Coyle, a sixth-grade language arts and
social studies teacher at Roosevelt School, was
named the 2013 San Mateo County Teacher of
the Year for Elementary Education.
• Hoover volunteer Dick Imperiale was named
Citizen of the Year by the Sequoia Awards
Program.
• Hoover teacher Mrs. Zuno and her husband,
Hoover volunteer Mr. Zuno, received the San
Mateo County Reading Association Award for
Familias Unidas, a nine-week family literacy
series they started eight years ago.
• Roosevelt teacher Gillian Parkhurst received
a San Mateo County Reading Association
Literacy Award for her vocabulary skits.
• Trustee Dennis McBride was recognized by the
17th District PTA with an Honorary Service
Award for his volunteerism and tireless work on
behalf of public education.
• Trustee Shelly Masur was honored by the
Silicon Valley Business Journal as one of 100
Women of Influence.
Nearly 500 students were reclassified from English-language
learners to “fluent English proficient” for attaining levels of
proficiency equivalent to a native English speaker in listening,
reading, writing and speaking in English.
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